U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey said Tuesday that he is on board with the Senate considering President Donald Trump's forthcoming nominee to the Supreme Court right away. HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S.

Sen. Pat Toomey said Tuesday that he is on board with the Senate considering President Donald Trump's forthcoming nominee to the Supreme Court right away, despite having endorsed waiting eight months until after the 2016 election to fill a vacancy under President Barack Obama.The difference now, Toomey said, is that the Senate and White House are controlled by the same party, so there is no reason now to wait until after the Nov.

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The Latest: Trump in debate prep before faceoff with Biden

WASHINGTON – The Latest on the 2020 presidential election (all times local):12:30 p.m.President Donald Trump spent Tuesday morning in informal preparations for the first debate with Joe Biden. A longer, more formal preparation session was set for the afternoon once he arrives in Cleveland.Trump’s prep team includes former New Jersey Gov.

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Trump gets third 2020 Nobel Peace Prize nomination

President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at Central Wisconsin Airport on September 17, 2020 in Mosinee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) President Trump received his third 2020 Nobel Peace Prize nomination in September, this time from a group of Australian law professors.“What he has done with the Trump Doctrine is that he has decided he would no longer have America involved in endless wars, wars which achieve nothing but the killing of thousands of young Americans and enormous debts imposed on America," Australian legal scholar David Flint told Sky News Australia on Sunday.

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Presidential Debate: Trump, Biden face off in 1st of 3 debates

CLEVELAND - First, the primaries. Then, the conventions.

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U.S. election: Biden, Trump set to face each other in first presidential debate

Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden Tuesday as the two square off during the first presidential debate of 2020.The event will be livestreamed at 9 p.m. ET from the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Trump dismisses report he paid little to no income taxes

The New York Times is reporting U.S. President Donald Trump avoided paying federal income taxes for 10 of the past 15 years, partly because he lost more money than he made.

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Trump’s reported debts raise national security issues for possible 2nd term: experts

Donald Trump is personally liable for more than $400 million in debt are casting a shadow over his presidency that ethics experts say raises national security concerns he could be manipulated to sway U.S. policy by organizations or individuals he’s indebted to.New scrutiny of Trump, who claims great success as a private businessman, comes after The New York Times reported that tax records show he is personally carrying a staggering amount of debt — including more than $300 million in loans that will come due in the next four years.

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Democrats try to stick to health care in Supreme Court fight

WASHINGTON – Democrats are confronting the limits of their power as they fight against the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett with a strategy aimed at avoiding costly mistakes that could hurt the party's candidates in November.Unable to block President Donald Trump’s pick on their own, they are arguing to voters that Barrett’s nomination threatens the protections of the Affordable Care Act — a focus that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has embraced and many Democrats see as a winning message.

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Ethics experts see national security concern in Trump's debt

WASHINGTON – Revelations that President Donald Trump is personally liable for more than $400 million in debt are casting a shadow over his presidency that ethics experts say raises national security concerns he could be manipulated to sway U.S. policy by organizations or individuals he’s indebted to.New scrutiny of Trump, who claims great success as a private businessman, comes after The New York Times reported that tax records show he is personally carrying a staggering amount of debt -- including more than $300 million in loans that will come due in the next four years.

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5 questions heading into Trump and Biden's first debate

NEW YORK – President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, will meet on the debate stage for the first time Tuesday night in Cleveland. Millions of voters will get their first opportunity to compare the candidates' policies and personalities side by side on national television for 90 minutes just five weeks before Election Day and as early voting is already unfolding in some states.Here are some of the biggest questions heading into the night:HOW DOES TRUMP HANDLE BEING ON THE DEFENSIVE?In his first formal debate since taking office, Trump has a lot to answer for.

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Trump, Biden prepare to debate at a time of mounting crises

CLEVELAND – In an election year like no other, the first debate between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, could be a pivotal moment in a race that has remained stubbornly unchanged in the face of historic tumult.The Tuesday night debate will offer a massive platform for Trump and Biden to outline their starkly different visions for a country facing multiple crises, including racial justice protests and a pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans and cost millions of jobs.The health emergency has upended the usual trappings of a presidential campaign, lending heightened importance to the debate.

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Woman pleads not guilty, denied bail over Trump ricin letter

BUFFALO – A woman charged with making threats against President Donald Trump by mailing a package containing ricin to the White House was ordered held without bail Monday by a judge in Buffalo who cited “a very strong case" against her based on an indictment in Washington, D.C.Pascale Ferrier, 53, of a Montreal suburb, was arrested a week ago as she tried to enter the U.S. through a border crossing between Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo.

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GOP takes Pennsylvania court’s ballot deadline to high court

(Photo By Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) HARRISBURG, Pa. - Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania on Monday asked the U.S.

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U.S. to ship millions of coronavirus tests in effort to reopen schools through 12th grade

Donald Trump planned to announce Monday that the federal government will begin distributing millions of rapid coronavirus tests to states this week and urging governors to use them to reopen schools for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.The move to vastly expand U.S. testing comes as confirmed new COVID-19 cases remain elevated at more than 40,000 per day and experts warn of a likely surge in infections during the colder months ahead.

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Supreme Court vacancy likely to inflame presidential debate

WILMINGTON, Del. – President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, were already set to fight when they share a stage Tuesday in Cleveland, but the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg means things may get tenser even faster. Moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, the 90-minute debate will feature segments on the Supreme Court, the coronavirus, the economy, race and policing, election integrity and the candidates' records.

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Strongly predict the malarkey of Trump-Biden debate for cash

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Will “Sleepy Joe” be the first derisive nickname President Donald Trump bestows upon Joe Biden?Will either candidate wear a mask onstage? How many times will Biden say “Barack Obama?”Will Trump say “fake news” or “China” more often? And will there be a “malarkey” anywhere?Some of the country’s largest sports betting companies are offering free-to-play contests in which viewers predict what will happen at Tuesday’s presidential debate for a chance to win real money or prizes.It’s the latest example of how the fast-growing sports betting industry is making inroads into mainstream popular culture.

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President Trump's former campaign manager hospitalized amid threat to harm self

Brad Parscale, former campaign manager for U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks before a rally at the target center on October 10, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Federal judge postpones Trump ban on popular app TikTok following emergency hearing

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Pandemic overwhelms Trump's message in critical N. Carolina

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – WINSTON-President Donald Trump is fighting to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, howling with unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud and warning that violent mobs are infiltrating the suburbs.But on a recent morning along Arbor Street, a peaceful tree-lined road with stately brick Colonials and Tudors near Winston-Salem, the women who are the targets of Trump's messages were confronting much more tangible threats.As conservative activists canvassed the neighborhood, one young mother, a baby in her arms, shouted through a closed window that she was in quarantine.

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Biden urges pause on Trump court pick until after election

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is pushing for quick confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett while his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, implored the Republican-led Senate to hold off on voting on her nomination until after the Nov.

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Trump claims New York Times report on his tax returns is ‘fake news’

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Trump dismisses report alleging he paid no income tax during 10 of last 15 years

Donald Trump paid just US$750 in federal income taxes in both 2016 and 2017, after years of reporting heavy losses from his business enterprises to offset hundreds of millions of dollars in income, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing tax-return data.In a report that Trump dismissed as “fake news,” the Times said the Republican president also paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the previous 15 years through 2017, despite receiving US$427.4 million through 2018 from his reality television program and other endorsement and licensing deals.The disclosure of previously private tax information came little more than a month before the Nov. 3 election between Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.

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Trump ex-campaign boss hospitalized amid threat to harm self

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale was hospitalized Sunday after he threatened to harm himself, according to Florida police and campaign officials.Police officers talked Parscale out of his Fort Lauderdale home after his wife called police to say that he had multiple firearms and was threatening to hurt himself. Police Sgt.

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Trump's tax revelation could tarnish image that fueled rise

WASHINGTON – The bombshell revelations that President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for office and paid no income taxes at all in many others threaten to undercut a pillar of his appeal among blue-collar voters and provide a new opening for his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, on the eve of the first presidential debate.Trump has worked for decades to build an image of himself as a hugely successful business mogul — even choosing that moniker as his Secret Service code name. But The New York Times on Sunday revealed that he paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, the year he won the presidency, and in 2017, his first year in office.

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Trump says he wants ‘very friendly transition’ but he doesn’t ‘want to be cheated’

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U.S. election: What happens if Trump loses to Biden, but refuses to concede?

Donald Trump is doubling down on claims that the upcoming election could be rigged, leading experts to sound the alarm over what could be the country’s first non-peaceful transition of power.Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Trump would not commit to a peaceful transfer, should he lose to Democratic candidate Joe Biden on Nov. 3.“Well we’re going to have to see what happens,” he said.

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Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017, NY Times reports

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media prior to departing from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, September 21, 2020, as he travels to Ohio. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) President Donald J.

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Appellate court halts Wisconsin ballot-counting extension

MADISON, Wis. - A federal appeals court on Sunday temporarily halted a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin's presidential election, a momentary victory for Republicans and President Donald Trump in the key presidential battleground state.As it stands, ballots will now be due by 8 p.m. on Election Day.

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Trump: "Definitely time for a woman” on Supreme Court

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Sunday that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death and the two men he’s named to the Supreme Court meant “it was definitely time for a woman," adding that it will be hard for opponents of judge Amy Coney Barrett to “dispute her qualifications or anything about her.”Trump announced Saturday that he has settled on Barrett for the vacancy.But Democrats and others who recoil at the idea of the conservative Barrett replacing the liberal Ginsburg began lining up against the federal appeals court judge even before Trump formally introduced her at the White House on Saturday.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats on Sunday criticized Barrett's nomination as an ill-considered and hasty decision that will

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Dennis Quaid Fires Back After Participating in Trump's COVID-19 Ad: 'It Was in No Way Political'

Dennis Quaid is firing back at reports that he took part in a $300 million Donald Trump ad about the Coronavirus pandemic.

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Biden to Dems: Focus on health care, not court expansion

WILMINGTON, Del. – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wants voters to see Republicans’ push for a speedy Supreme Court confirmation as an end-run of Congress and the 2010 health care law.In remarks on Sunday, the former vice president sidestepped any talk of expanding the court to counter conservative gains should he defeat President Donald Trump in November and Democrats regain a Senate majority.

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Sanders says there ‘will be a number of plans’ to make sure Trump leaves office if he loses election

President Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders (Chip Somodevilla/Win McNamee/Getty Images)Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., couldn't nail down a plan for what lawmakers should do if President Trump refuses to concede the White House if he loses in November, but said there will be a "number of plans" if that scenario were to take place.During an interview on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" that aired Friday, Maher pressed Sanders on the specific plan that lawmakers have in place in the event Trump refuses to concede, telling the senator, “I still don’t know what the plan is.”"There are things that we have to do now to make sure that Biden wins," Sanders said.

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Who is Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s latest nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court?

Donald Trump to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.Trump announced on Saturday that he had chosen the staunchly conservative Barrett, who has spent the past three years on a federal appeals court — a position she was also nominated to by Trump.Trump called her “a woman of remarkable intellect and character” who is “eminently qualified.”If confirmed by the Senate, Barrett, 48, would become the youngest justice on the country’s highest court, where she could likely sit for decades.

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Trump caps judiciary remake with choice of Barrett for court

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effort.Barrett, a former clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, said Saturday that she was “truly humbled” by the nomination and quickly aligned herself with Scalia's conservative approach to the law, saying his “judicial philosophy is mine, too." Barrett, 48, was joined in the Rose Garden by her husband and seven children. If confirmed by the Senate, she would fill the seat vacated by liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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How it happened: From law professor to high court in 4 years

WASHINGTON – Four years ago, Amy Coney Barrett was a little-known law professor in Indiana. Within weeks, she is likely to be the newest associate justice on the U.S.

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Trump approves Alberta-Alaska rail line project; line would move oil, other resources

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he was issuing a presidential permit for the A2A Cross-Border Rail project.The project — which would see a 2,570-kilometre rail track running from near Anchorage, Alaska, through Yukon and the Northwest Territories into northern Alberta — will cost about C$22 billion.Trump’s approval is just the first step in the regulatory process on the U.S. side.Based on the strong recommendation of @SenDanSullivan and @repdonyoung of the Great State of Alaska, it is my honor to inform you that I will be issuing a Presidential Permit for the A2A Cross-Border Rail between Alaska & Canada.

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Bio highlights of Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's high court pick

WASHINGTON – Here’s a bio box on President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.Amy Coney Barrett, age 48- A judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals nominated by President Donald Trump in 2017 and considered once before by Trump for a high court seat; her three-year judicial record shows a clear and consistent conservative bent.

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GOP invests $10M in boosting Trump with Barrett confirmation

WASHINGTON – The Republican National Committee is putting Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation fight front and center with voters just weeks before Election Day.The confirmation battle will be featured in a new $10 million RNC digital ad campaign to encourage battleground state voters to return vote-by-mail ballots or go to the polls.

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Majority of Americans think election winner should pick SCOTUS nominee, poll finds

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House on Aug. 11, 2020 in Washington, D.C., alongside an image of former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaking at Philadelphia A majority of Americans think the next president should select Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's successor, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows.Americans are not in favor, however, of increasing the number of Supreme Court seats to give the next president more influence over the court should the Senate approve President Trump's current nominee before Nov.

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Dennis Quaid to Appear in Trump's COVID-19 Ad Campaign, Which Will Reportedly Cost $300 Million

Donald Trump‘s health department is reportedly launching an advertising campaign to to “defeat despair” about the coronavirus and Dennis Quaid is one of the celebrities who will appear in the ads.

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Former member of White House coronavirus task force blasts Trump over response

A former member of the White House coronavirus task force and adviser to Vice-President Mike Pence on Thursday came out with a video criticizing President Donald Trump over his response to COVID-19.

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Amy Coney Barrett, likely high court pick, is Scalia's heir

CHICAGO – Though Amy Coney Barrett is the expected replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she is more aptly described as heir to another departed Supreme Court justice: conservative hero Antonin Scalia. Like Scalia, for whom she once clerked, she is a committed Catholic as well as a firm devotee of his favored interpretation of the Constitution known as originalism.

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Trump shifts focus to Pennsylvania to shore up reelection effort

NEWPORT NEWS, VA - SEPTEMBER 25: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport on September 25, 2020 in Newport News, Virginia.

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How Trump, Biden are preparing for first presidential debate

WASHINGTON – Ahead of the first debate-stage matchup between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden, each campaign is promising a stark contrast in policy, personality and preparation.Trump has decided to skip any formal preparation. And while Biden's team believes the significance of the debate may be exaggerated, the Democratic nominee has been aggressively preparing to take on the president.Biden's campaign has been holding mock debate sessions featuring Bob Bauer, a senior Biden adviser and former White House general counsel, playing the role of Trump, according to a person with direct knowledge of the preparations granted anonymity to discuss internal strategy.

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Reality check: A look at claims by Trump, Biden ahead of the first presidential debate

Donald Trump painted a fantastical portrait of a coronavirus that affects “virtually nobody” among the young as he faced a grim U.S.

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‘Now or never’: Former Trump staffers press others to speak out ahead of election

Donald Trump deployed Homeland Security agents to Portland, exacerbating tensions there. She decided it was worth the risk to speak out against Trump, whom she had come to view as a threat to the country.

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It's 'now or never' for ex-Trump aides weighing speaking out

WASHINGTON – Elizabeth Neumann wrestled with the decision for weeks. She worried about the backlash, the impact it would have on her career, potential threats to her family.

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Trump shifts focus to Pennsylvania to shore up reelection

HARRISBURG, Pa. – President Donald Trump's campaign has grown increasingly focused on making inroads in Pennsylvania to offset potential vulnerabilities in other battlegrounds. The president will travel to the state for the second time in a week on Saturday, hoping to attract the same rural and white working-class voters who delivered him a narrow victory here in 2016.

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Trump expected to announce conservative Barrett for court

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is expected to announce Saturday that he is nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court as he aims to put a historic conservative stamp on the high court just weeks before the election.Trump said Friday he had made up his mind and it was “very exciting,” without giving away the name, aiming to maintain some suspense around his personal announcement.

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Toomey supports Senate voting on Trump high court nominee

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