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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's suit against <em>The New York Times</em> is expected to put a spotlight on the balance of free speech and defamation claims.

Sarah Palin tests positive for COVID, delaying trial against 'New York Times'

A federal judge pushed back opening arguments to Feb. 3 in the former Alaska governor's case. A 2017 Times editorial wrongly connected an ad from her PAC to a lethal mass shooting in Arizona.

Lawmakers have a narrow window to approve a stopgap funding measure and avoid a possible government shutdown beginning in October. Leaders of the House and Senate say a temporary spending bill is needed to work on yearlong bills.

Senate returns and faces deadline to avoid shutdown and questions about McConnell

Congress faces a tight deadline to pass a short term spending bill and avoid a shutdown. Also Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell faces questions about his health following a second public episode.

Mike Johnson and the troubled history of recent Republican speakers

Johnson is the sixth Republican elevated to the speakership since 1994. The five who preceded him all saw their time in the office end in relative degrees of defeat or frustration.

Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appeared to encourage Russia to continue hacking Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's emails at a press conference on July 27, 2016, in Doral, Fla.

Timeline Of Trump And Russia In Mid-2016: A Series Of Coincidences Or Something More?

The June 2016 email chain released by Donald Trump Jr. puts what happened in the spring and summer of that year in a new light.

'Consumer Reports' Director Offers An Inside Take On The Car Testing Process

Jennifer Stockburger runs the Consumer Reports"test track," where the magazine takes stock of hundreds of cars, trucks and SUVs. She says more than 50 tests drive each vehicle's rating.

Voting trainers prepare to instruct poll workers in preparation for early voting at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 19.

NBA Arenas Are Becoming Voting Centers. Will They Draw The Same Crowds?

After NBA players stopped play to protest racial justice issues over the summer, they resumed with a commitment from owners: to turn their arenas into voting precincts. Go inside one of them.

Amanda Hocking is the best-selling author of the<em> Trylle</em> trilogy and six additional self-published novels.

A Self-Published Author's $2 Million Cinderella Story

No one wanted to publish Amanda Hocking's novels, so she put them online. For a long while, she'd sell one or two books a day. Then, in June, it exploded. She's now part of an elite literary club: authors who have sold 1 million books on the Amazon Kindle.

Summit County Board of Elections distributed sanitizing kits to more than 170 polling locations in advance of Election Day.

Polling Locations Prep for Tuesday Primary. Coronavirus Forces Summit, Cuyahoga to Make Changes

Concerns about the spread of COVID-19 have led Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose to order that voting locations in retirement living or senior care...

FILE - Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, speaks during a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 2, 2023.

OH's Kaptur and CA's Calvert's collective time in Congress totals more than seven decades

The list of competitive House races in next month's election is filled with freshmen and two-term representatives who are hoping to survive for another term so they can build their credentials and gain a measure of seniority for plum committee assignments. Reps. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, and Ken Calvert, R-Calif., are the opposite of that.

A gunman stole his twin from him. This is what he's learned about grieving a sibling

About 60,000 children a year in the U.S. lose a sibling. Zion Kelly joined that unlucky group in 2017 when his twin, Zaire, was killed. Zion has learned a lot about grief, and himself, since then.

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