University of Michigan professor Justin Wolfers and dozens of other academics are leading a massive effort to have a senior faculty member at the University of Chicago removed from his position at the world's preeminent economics journal -- all because he criticized Black Lives Matter's push to defund police departments.

Election officials in New York finally declared winners late Tuesday in two congressional elections that were held on July 23, but were mired by thousands of missing and uncounted mail-in ballots..

Speaking at a relatively subdued White House press conference on Monday, President Trump urged New York to re-run its June 23 primary election in New York's 12th Congressional District, which still hasn't produced a winner as thousands of mail-in ballots have been tossed or remain uncounted.

President Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. government will again pursue the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, after a federal appeals court Friday threw out the death sentence because the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared Sunday that she has "no confidence" in top White House coronavirus adviser Deborah Birx, just days after Pelosi reportedly called Birx "the worst" and said the White House coronavirus team was in "horrible hands."

The Senate voted 47-42 to begin debate on a House-passed coronavirus stimulus bill next week, in a procedural move that makes it easier to reach a potential compromise next week that would extend the bonus unemployment benefit while talks on a broader relief measure grind on.

Joe Biden is preemptively doubting whether a coronavirus vaccine will be "real," and has cast doubt on whether the vaccine would be distributed  "any degree of equity and realization" -- contradicting public health experts even as the White House touts vaccine progress.

Claiming at Thursday's White House briefing that the 2020 elections could be "fixed" and "rigged," President Trump again highlighted the risks of nationwide, universal mail-in balloting in stark terms -- including by citing news articles and experts who have raised similar concerns.

Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., was reprimanded and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine by the bipartisan House Ethics Committee on Thursday, after the ethics panel concluded a two-year probe and unanimously found campaign finance violations and other issues.

Federal support for state and local law enforcement under the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program fell by hundreds of millions of dollars during the Obama administration despite a pledge to maintain full funding, records show -- a move leading Republicans to caution this week that Joe Biden may make a similar cutback.