WASHINGTON — President Trump pressed Senate Republicans on Saturday to confirm his choice to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “without delay,” setting up a momentous battle sure to inflame the campaign even as party leaders weighed whether they could force a confirmation vote before the election on Nov. 3. Mr. Trump appears likely to nominate […]

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The survey by Survation also found fewer than a third of Scots believe an independence referendum should be a priority for the Scottish Government. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced earlier this month that […]

WASHINGTON — Scores of people filled the steps leading up to the Supreme Court on Friday night, crowding the plaza outside and spilling across the street in a candlelight tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died earlier in the day. Many said that, to them, it was a solemn celebration of Justice Ginsburg’s legacy […]

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87. Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said. Ginsberg’s death just over six weeks before Election Day is likely to […]

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Ryan Scatterty, chairman of the Scottish Seafood Association which represents fish processors, said he was “highly disappointed” to hear that senior figures at Holyrood had called for the UK to backtrack on […]

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Members of the Holyrood’s Justice Committee are due to begin scrutiny of the new law after returning from October’s break and have urged Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf to clarify whether the Scottish […]

WASHINGTON — Christopher A. Wray, the director of the F.B.I., warned a House committee on Thursday that Russia is actively pursuing a disinformation campaign against former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and expressed alarm about violent extremist groups. “Racially motivated violent extremism,” mostly from white supremacists, has made up a majority of domestic terrorism […]

A statement by the president this week was an insight into how he views the country as composed of parts that either are for him or against him. By Peter Baker WASHINGTON — President Trump argued this week that the death toll from the coronavirus was actually not so bad. All you had to do […]

Amid the most unusual presidential election in decades, the Trump campaign is turning to a very familiar Republican line of attack in two new ads: that Joseph R. Biden Jr. will raise your taxes. The Message The ad is built around the message that President Trump had planned to run on before the virus struck: […]

Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Facebook and Instagram have placed a ”False Information” label on a post from the Fox News show "Tucker Carlson Tonight" in which Carlson interviews Li-Meng Yan, a Chinese virologist, who has previously claimed the coronavirus "is not from nature," on Wednesday. Why it matters: Facebook has made headlines in recent months […]