By Douglas Mackinnon

Hard numbers suggest that the fight over the nomination of the conservative Catholic judge Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court is over before it begins. The 53-47 Republican majority in the Senate is solidly in favor of Donald Trump’s preferred replacement for the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg – and according to the Constitution, it is the Senate, not the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, that decides. There appears to be little the Democrats can do. But is that true?

Judy Cashner admits being mildly amused when her “estate” received a letter from her bank claiming she had died.

Protests over a grand jury’s decision to not charge any police officers for Breonna Taylor’s death continued for a third straight night in Louisville on Friday, with several demonstrators arrested for violating the city’s 9 p.m. curfew.

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins told The Associated Press that she plans to cast her next vote from space — more than 200 miles above Earth.

Top Republicans and Democrats pushed back hard Thursday against President Donald Trump's suggestion he might not accept defeat in the November election.

A bank manager discovered a 9.07-carat diamond at a state park in southwestern Arkansas, the US, after thinking the precious gem was a piece of glass.

The number of people seeking US unemployment aid rose slightly last week to 870,000, a historically high figure that shows that the viral pandemic is still squeezing restaurants, airlines, hotels and many other businesses six months after it first erupted.

A group of mountain bikers on a North Carolina trail spotted a dog trapped 30 feet (nine meters) down in a sinkhole — and it took a salty snack and some straps to lift him to safety.

By Paul Waldman