2020 Election

With fewer than 50 days until Election Day, President Donald Trump could get a chance to nominate a monumental third justice to the U.S. Supreme Court, following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Friday evening.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will introduce acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf at a Senate nomination hearing next week, with the aim of making Wolf's position permanent following reports that he has been illegally serving as acting secretary.

"I said to somebody yesterday, I hope they all die before the election," Professor Jennifer Mosher said. "That's the only saving hope I have right now."

Attorney Ven Johnson told Newsweek the 'racist' toddler video posted by Trump and his campaign, "was absolutely done to advocate for what I believe to be a racist, despicable message against two little babies."

"I don't trust the mail right now, that's why [I'm voting today]. If I got to stand here all day, I'm going to vote today," said Jim O'Conner, a voter in Fairfax County, Virginia.

By President Trump offering accolades to a bipartisan plan and urging Republicans to support more expensive legislation than their previous offers, GOP senators' leverage has severely dwindled.

"You'd be a very good president. You would have to be a good person, first," the mother tells her son, as the video fades to a black-and-white image of Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Trump has appointed far more federal judges than his predecessors. Data from Heritage.org shows former President Barack Obama appointed 158 federal judges among 188 nominees, while George W. Bush and Bill Clinton both appointed 203 judges, on 239 and 221 nominees, respectively.

"Blatant interference of senior HHS officials in the CDC guidelines is one of the most alarming things to have happened during this pandemic," the doctor wrote.

The suspect allegedly targeted homes that had Trump signs displayed on their front lawn.

President Donald Trump's peace team was awarded the top spot on the paper's annual list for its role in negotiating the Abraham Accords.

"A whole host of things happened that the polls would not have caught," said one pollster about the 2016 election.

An exclusive poll for Newsweek found that half of all registered voters believed Trump would be able to revive the U.S. economy.

A poll for Newsweek found that more than half of people would be in favor of a nationwide shutdown in the future to halt the spread of COVID-19.

"I think that a person in good conscience could vote for Mr. Biden," said Cardinal Joseph Tobin, archbishop of Newark. "I, frankly, in my own way of thinking have a more difficult time with the other option."

Former Homeland Security Department chief of staff says he heard the vice president praise former aide Olivia Troye, whom he later called a "disgruntled employee" when she criticized Trump.

TikTok restrictions start on September 20 but will initially apply to new downloads and software updates, meaning the app will continue to work as normal for existing users—at least until November 12.

There has been outrage at the death of Navid Afkari, 27, who took part in protests in 2018 and said he was tortured into confessing a murder.

There is a clear causal relationship that has been confirmed by science, and that's true regardless of which party you belong to.

The U.S. Commerce Department is set to issue an order that will bar people in the U.S. from downloading TikTok.

Arizona Sen. Martha McSally was 8 points behind Democratic candidate Mark Kelly in the same week he had to apologize for a racist joke.

The president's former communications director said his old boss had alienated a "tremendous" amount of voters.

The first volume of the former president's upcoming memoir is due to be released two weeks after election day.

Wisconsin is a crucial battleground state—one which Trump won only narrowly in 2016—but three recent polls put Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden in the lead.

"The Peace Prize is for peace, not for being a nice guy. Netanyahu brought peace," says one of the Israeli prime minister's supporters. Others—including the Palestinians—don't see it that way.

The Democratic nominee railed against the Trump administration and pledged to bring more troops home as he faced questions about his platform.

A group of former Republican officials formed REPAIR, which hopes to see Trump defeated in November's election.

"It's always the thing that they say first. That's what they're going to do," the president warned his supporters.

Federal Election Commission Chair James E. "Trey" Trainor III, an appointee of President Donald Trump who worked for his 2016 campaign, insisted that there is no separation between church and state while calling the upcoming election a "spiritual war" between "good and evil."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday accused Democrats of taking part in an "endless parade of partisan hysteria" by expressing security concerns about November's election.