ALANNA DURKIN RICHER | The Seattle Times

October 28, 2020 at 9:44 pm

Taking a stand has new meaning in heavily litigated election

In the most litigious presidential election in memory, court fights are even happening over where poll watchers may stand as the votes as tallied. Lawsuits... Updated 10:12 pm

October 26, 2020 at 1:32 pm

Longtime federal appeals court Judge Juan Torruella dies

BOSTON (AP) — Judge Juan Torruella, the first Puerto Rican to sit on a U.S. federal appeals court, died Monday at the age of 87,...

October 26, 2020 at 9:43 am

Man charged in burning of ballot drop box in Boston

BOSTON (AP) — A man was charged with setting a Boston ballot drop box on fire and damaging dozens of ballots, police said Monday. Worldy...

October 25, 2020 at 1:47 pm

FBI investigating fire set in Boston ballot drop box

A fire was set Sunday in a Boston ballot drop box holding more than 120 ballots in what Massachusetts election officials said appears to have...

FILE – In this Oct. 5, 2020 file photo, the White House is shown Monday afternoon, Oct. 5, 2020, in Washington. President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Bidenâ€™s campaigns are assembling armies of powerful lawyers as they prepare for the possibility that the race for the White House is decided not at the ballot box but in court. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) WX101 WX101

October 23, 2020 at 7:06 am

Trump, Biden lawyer up, brace for White House legal battle

The campaigns of President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden are assembling armies of powerful lawyers for the possibility that the race for the...

October 22, 2020 at 10:06 pm

400 years on, Mayflower’s legacy includes pride, prejudice VIEW

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Four centuries after white Europeans stepped off the Mayflower and onto America’s shores, some descendants of the colonists are wrestling with...

October 20, 2020 at 2:36 am

AP finds most arrested in protests aren’t leftist radicals

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump portrays the hundreds of people arrested nationwide in protests against racial injustice as violent urban left-wing radicals. But an...

FILE – In this May 30, 2020, file photo, protesters demonstrate as a Salt Lake City police vehicle burns, in Salt Lake City. Investigators studied video footage to find Jackson Stuart Tamowski Patton, 26, who is accused of tossing a combustible substance into the patrol car, feeding the flames that destroyed it, prosecutors said in court documents. The Department of Justice is using aggressive tactics against those it has charged in the civil unrest over racism. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) WX201 WX201

October 20, 2020 at 2:30 am

AP finds most arrested in protests aren’t leftist radicals

Contrary to portrayals by the Trump administration, an analysis of protest-related arrests found that very few of those charged appear to be affiliated with highly...

October 10, 2020 at 9:00 pm

‘We can’t lose our momentum:’ Louisiana vows to rebuild VIEW

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Back-to-back hurricanes in the space of six weeks left parts of Louisiana blanketed Sunday with tarpaulins, mangled metal and downed...

October 9, 2020 at 11:02 pm

Delta adds insult to injury in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana VIEW

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — The day after Hurricane Delta blew through besieged southern Louisiana, residents started the routine again: dodging overturned cars, trudging through...