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With just three days left until the election, President Trump's enemies are seeing new opportunities in staunchly red states.

31 Oct 2020 10:31pm GMT

This week's fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. has again raised questions about the effectiveness of police procedures when engaging individuals with mental health issues. Officers, like the public at large, have varying opinions.

31 Oct 2020 3:10pm GMT

The letter by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former Vatican ambassador to the U.S. and outspoken adversary of Pope Francis, hit many of the favorite themes of the pro-Trump conspiracy theory.

31 Oct 2020 1:40pm GMT

QAnon relies mostly on exaggerated figures and misinformation, combining real cases, like that of Jeffrey Epstein, with blatantly false ones, like an alleged pedophile ring run from the basement of a Washington pizza restaurant (which has no basement).

31 Oct 2020 9:00am GMT

Joe Biden has been vague about his plans for the military if he wins the election, but one specific promise he has made is to roll back the Trump administration policy that effectively bars transgender service members from serving openly in accord with their gender identity.

30 Oct 2020 8:00pm GMT

President Trump is looking to the courts to prevent states from counting mail-in ballots that don't arrive until after Election Day.

30 Oct 2020 6:27pm GMT

A Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that only 27 percent of Black Americans plan to get a coronavirus vaccine if and when one becomes available. Dr. Uché Blackstock, a Yahoo News Medical Contributor and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, says this distrust is not unique to COVID-19. "It's preexisting," she says, "just like the health inequities are preexisting."

30 Oct 2020 6:26pm GMT

A Louisville, Ky., police sergeant who was shot and injured by Breonna Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, during the botched raid that left Taylor dead is suing Walker on allegations of assault, battery and intentional emotional distress.

30 Oct 2020 6:09pm GMT

President Trump has signaled that he expects the new 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court to play a role in deciding the election. Will he be proven right?

30 Oct 2020 3:13pm GMT

Amid rising crime rates, a polarizing election and the continued high-profile police killings of Black Americans, some police veterans say they can't recall a tougher time to be an officer.

30 Oct 2020 9:00am GMT

With just five days left until the election, President Trump and his rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, spent Thursday focused on the key battleground state of Florida, holding dueling rallies there.

29 Oct 2020 11:57pm GMT

The president's optimistic claims that a vaccine for COVID-19 would be ready before the end of the year seem increasingly unlikely to be fulfilled.

29 Oct 2020 6:45pm GMT

Although nobody fell seriously ill, the scope of the outbreak - an exceptionally high 76 percent infection rate - suggests the intensity with which the airborne pathogen can proliferate in the absence of appropriate measures.

29 Oct 2020 5:14pm GMT

Polling is tight in the Peach State as tens of millions of dollars have been spent in the battle for Perdue's seat.

29 Oct 2020 2:39pm GMT

Two grand jurors in the Breonna Taylor case said Wednesday that they believed three Louisville, Ky., police officers acted with negligence when they fired into Taylor's apartment during a botched raid that left the 26-year-old woman dead.

29 Oct 2020 1:10am GMT

A worsening pandemic and fears about losing their protections as civil servants amid political chaos is leading many intelligence officers in the U.S. government to consider leaving their agencies, according to current and former intelligence officers who spoke to Yahoo News.

28 Oct 2020 10:13pm GMT