By PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURN Associated Press BEATTYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — John Ross worries about his children returning to their classrooms this fall with coronavirus cases rising in Kentucky, but he feel…
Postal Service warns states across US about mail voting
By BRIAN SLODYSKO and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service is warning states coast to coast that it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail for the November ele…
Watchdog: Homeland Security officials were wrongly appointed
By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The two most senior officials in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were improperly appointed to the posts under federal law by the Trump administra…
Ex-cop’s video captures crowd’s horror during Floyd arrest
By JEFF BAENEN Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Newly released body-camera video from a third officer involved in George Floyd’s arrest captures for the first time the growing horror of onlookers w…
Study hints, can’t prove, survivor plasma fights COVID-19
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Mayo Clinic researchers reported a strong hint that blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors helps other patients recover, but it’s not proof and some experts worry i…
Ex-FBI lawyer to plead guilty in Trump-Russia probe review
By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former FBI lawyer plans to plead guilty to making a false statement in the first criminal case arising from U.S. Attorney John D…
‘Impossible’: School boards are at heart of reopening debate
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — Helena Miller listened to teachers, terrified to reenter classrooms, and parents, exhausted from trying to make virtual learning work at home…
Trump admits he’s blocking postal cash to stop mail-in votes
By DEB RIECHMANN and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump frankly acknowledged Thursday that he’s starving the U.S. Postal Service of money in order to mak…
Trump’s suggestion to eliminate payroll tax doesn’t add up
By AAMER MADHANI, JOSH BOAK and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s push to cut Social Security payroll taxes for the rest of the year — and even arguin…
Trump’s EPA dumps methane emissions rule for oil, gas fields
By MARC LEVY and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is undoing Obama-era rules designed to limit potent greenhouse gas emissions fro…