The DOJ argued that Trump was acting in his capacity as a government employee when he said E. Jean Carroll was lying and motivated by money in claiming he raped her.
Amy Coney Barrett took her constitutional oath as a Supreme Court justice in a nighttime ceremony outside the White House, swinging the nation's highest court to a conservative 6-3 majority.
Investors are better off staying the course through the stock market's latest downturn than trying to predict what could happen or time their trades, says Burton Malkiel, one of the pioneers of passive investing.
The 2016 election exposed how social media could be used by a foreign adversary to sow dissent and distrust within American borders. In 2020, the fight against those threats rages on, and the number of players has expanded, abroad and domestically. At the center of the fight against misinformation and polarization on social media are bots and trolls. Understanding how they operate could be the key to fighting their influence.
NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports on the growing number of Covid-19 cases in South Dakota and the difficulty the state is having in its attempts to deal with it.
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