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The suit, which legal experts said has little chance of prevailing, argues that elections officials improperly accepted more than 200,000 votes but does not allege fraud.
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If there was a conspiracy to use the systems to throw the election, it didn't work very well.
At least 15 people were injured, four severely, in the southwestern city of Trier. Authorities said they arrested the suspected driver, a 51-year-old German who lived in the area.
The approach contrasts sharply with the prevailing wisdom in the United States, where public health officials have focused on low rates of positive coronavirus tests in the broader community as a prerequisite for in-person schooling.
The financial toll of the pandemic has caught up with transit agencies across the nation. The outlook is grim without federal assistance.
The controversial Education secretary denounced calls for student debt cancellation as "insidious ... government gift giving," while calling the free college movement a "socialist takeover of higher education."
The rare federal seaman’s manslaughter charges against Jerry Boylan were brought under a pre-Civil War law aimed at holding steamboat captains and crew responsible for watery disasters that were far more frequent at the time.
A free, public clearinghouse that debuted Tuesday will for the first time allow anyone from academic historians to amateur family genealogists to search for individual enslaved people around the globe in one central online location.
The president and three of his adult children — Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric — were sued two years ago on allegations of promoting a marketing program that allegedly duped plaintiffs.
Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said the number of people hospitalized in the state has increased 51 percent in the past two weeks, while modeling shows “the worse part of this entire crisis is still ahead of us.”
In a critical year for the young students, the achievement gaps are widening.
Color of MoneyPerspective
Even though Black families have been hard hit by the covid-19-related recession, they were better prepared because of the increase in their savings, a new report finds.
Human rights advocates are seeking to hold the companies responsible for the mistreatment of six Malians who say they were trafficked as children to work on cocoa farms.
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The sides agreed to some policies that place the women’s team on level terms with the men’s team, the U.S. Soccer Federation said, but the deal is unrelated to claims of wage discrimination.
Ohio State remained in the top four even though it called off a game last week and has played only four games this season.
The clip sparked fierce debate in a country not accustomed to discussing such issues.
Perspective
The Spiders men’s basketball team’s first road victory against a top-10 team in 26 tries came two years after a turbulent season led to unrest in the fanbase.