WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday mostly reinstated a South Carolina law that requires absentee ballots to be accompanied by a witness’s signature. Lower courts had blocked the law, saying it interfered with the right to vote during a pandemic. The Supreme Court made an exception for ballots cast …...Read More

Three workers were killed and one was injured after a stairwell collapsed on Monday afternoon in a building that was under construction in Houston, the authorities said. The Houston Fire Department’s technical rescue team responded to the accident, the department said in a statement. The injured worker was taken to …...Read More

A former police chief in Bridgeport, Conn., and another former top city official pleaded guilty on Monday to rigging the hiring process to ensure that the chief got his job in 2018. The former chief, Armando J. Perez, and David Dunn, a former acting personnel director, each pleaded guilty to …...Read More

The last time Kamala Harris stepped onto a debate stage, her Democratic primary campaign was sputtering to a close — running out of money, trailing badly in the polls and fading as a force on policy issues. She ranked sixth in speaking time at that November 2019 debate; she dropped …...Read More

Mr. Trump pressured his doctors to release him from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in suburban Maryland, but it did not indicate that he had escaped jeopardy, only that he could be treated at the White House, where he has 24-hour medical care. Dr. Sean P. Conley, the White …...Read More

[Read our live updates on President Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis.] WASHINGTON — Top White House officials are blocking strict new federal guidelines for the emergency release of a coronavirus vaccine, objecting to a provision that would almost certainly guarantee that no vaccine could be authorized before the election on Nov. 3, …...Read More

WASHINGTON — The Republican “super PAC” American Crossroads plans to pump about $7 million over the next month into a bid to secure Senator Thom Tillis’s North Carolina re-election and save the party’s Senate majority, raising fresh questions about partisanship at the United States Postal Service, where one of the …...Read More

[Read our live updates on President Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis.] On Friday, even as President Trump had trouble getting enough oxygen and aides prepared to move him to the nation’s top military hospital, some of his campaign advisers saw a potential opportunity. If Mr. Trump recovered quickly from his bout with …...Read More

There is just so much we don’t know: When did the president get sick and how sick did he get? How many people did he interact with after receiving his diagnosis or showing symptoms of the virus? And what is the administration’s plan if his condition deteriorates? It’s not clear …...Read More

After Mr. Trump revealed early on Friday that he had tested positive for the virus, Mr. Barr took a rapid test each day and took an additional diagnostic test called a PCR test, and made their results public. Through the weekend, his tests came back negative, Ms. Kupec said. Mr. …...Read More