Senators weigh COVID-19 risk for Barrett Supreme Court hearing

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett vows to be a justice “fearless of criticism" as the Senate charges ahead with confirmation hearings on President Donald Trump’s pick just weeks before Election Day and as the country struggles to contain the coronavirus.

Biden hits Trump on economic fallout amid COVID-19 pandemic in critical Pennsylvania county

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is blistering President Donald Trump as only pretending to care about the working-class voters who helped flip the Rust Belt to the Republican column four years ago.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg endorses Joe Biden

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in a tweet on Saturday.

The Issue Is: Pete Buttigieg and Jeff Mason

This week, as the march towards Election Day continues, another eventful week in politics.

Prominent GOP fundraiser charged in covert lobbying effort

Elliott Broidy, a fundraiser for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, has been charged in an illicit lobbying campaign aimed at getting the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund.

'I'm feeling great': Trump speaks to crowd at 1st in-person event since COVID-19 diagnosis

The event, scheduled Saturday on the South Lawn, is expected to have at least several hundred supporters in attendance, according to the Associated Press. Trump will address the group from the White House balcony, according to an official.

Amy Coney Barrett: 5 things to know about the SCOTUS nominee

If confirmed, the 48-year-old appeals court judge would fill the seat of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last month.

Ex-NJ governor Chris Christie says he's out of the hospital

Christie announced Oct. 3 that he had tested positive and said hours later that he had checked himself into the hospital after deciding with his doctors that doing so would be “an important precautionary measure," given his history of asthma.

Judge blocks Abbott's order limiting Texas ballot drop-off locations

Last week Abbott issued a proclamation that his office said will enhance ballot security protocols for the in-person delivery of marked mail ballots for the November 3 election.

Race for U.S. Senator in Texas heats up ahead of early voting

The latest UT and Texas Tribune poll shows U.S. Senator John Cornyn leads democratic challenger MJ Hegar by eight percentage points.

Fauci calls White House coronavirus outbreak a ‘super-spreader event’

The nation’s leading infectious disease expert called the White House event in which Trump announced Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court, a “super-spreader event.”

White House: Trump COVID-19 exposure 'unknowable question,' Gold Star families event not suspected

President Donald Trump said he “figured there would be a chance” he’d become infected with COVID-19 and discussed an indoor reception for Gold Star families as an example of possible exposure. A spokesman for the White House said Friday that the source of the coronavirus that has spread among the Trump administration was an “unknowable question.”