In key Kentucky House race, healthcare anxieties loom large

BEREA, Kentucky (Reuters) - Andy Barr, a Republican lawmaker representing central Kentucky, won his last three elections promising to repeal and replace Obamacare. This year, his Democratic challengers for Congress in Kentucky's sixth district are betting that message will ring hollow.

Exclusive: As elections near, many older, educated, white voters shift away from Trump's party

(Reuters) - Older, white, educated voters helped Donald Trump win the White House in 2016. Now, they are trending toward Democrats in such numbers that their ballots could tip the scales in tight congressional races from New Jersey to California, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll and a data analysis of competitive districts shows.

Arizona election database targeted in 2016 by criminals, not Russia: source

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hack on an Arizona election database during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign was carried out by suspected criminal actors and not the Russian government, a senior Trump administration official told Reuters on Sunday.

Stormy Daniels' attorney wants Trump questioned about hush money

(Reuters) - The lawyer for adult film star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had an affair with U.S. President Donald Trump, filed court papers Sunday demanding that Trump submit to questions about the $130,000 hush money paid just before the 2016 presidential election.

Signs of struggles on big cases as U.S. Supreme Court pace slackens

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to be struggling over how to resolve a key case recently when Justice Stephen Breyer suggested that the best course might be to put off a decision altogether.

Cosby returns to Pennsylvania court for retrial on sex assault charges

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - Comedian Bill Cosby returns to a Pennsylvania court on Monday for the start of his retrial on charges of sexually assaulting a one-time friend who had thought of him as a mentor, almost a year after a jury reached a deadlock in the case.

One killed in apartment fire at Trump Tower in New York

NEW YORK (Reuters) - One man was killed and six firefighters received minor injuries in an apartment fire on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in New York on Saturday, in a blaze that was quickly extinguished, fire officials said.

Bus carrying students hits Long Island overpass, at least six injured

(Reuters) - A bus carrying high school students hit a Long Island highway overpass late on Sunday, tearing the roof off the vehicle and injuring at least six people, New York State Police said.

Comic children's actor, voice for Cocoa Puff's cuckoo, dies

(Reuters) - The goofy voice behind the "I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs" call for breakfast cereal fell silent Sunday, as comedian and voice actor Chuck McCann died, his publicist said.

Keystone pipeline leak in South Dakota about double previous estimate: paper

(Reuters) - The Keystone crude oil pipeline leak in November in rural South Dakota was nearly double the original estimate, making it one of the largest U.S. inland spills since 2010, a newspaper report on Saturday said.

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