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Election means first test for changes to electoral vote process
WASHINGTON — In the coming months, the main legislative change Congress enacted in response to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol faces its first major test — and election experts expect it to pass.
Many of those experts think that the new law, the Electoral Count Reform Act, made enough changes to plug vulnerabilities exposed by ...Read more
Detroit officials outline 'rigorous' security plan for Election Day, counting votes
Determined to avoid the "shenanigans" that embroiled Detroit while absentee votes were being counted during the tumultuous 2020 presidential election, city officials on Thursday outlined the "rigorous" security plan they've developed this year to keep workers safe and ensure every vote is counted.
Speaking to reporters in Huntington Place's ...Read more
Hungarian leader Orban stirs up concerns he plans a Trump surprise for EU leaders
Viktor Orban held a phone call with Donald Trump on Thursday, raising concerns among some European Union officials that the Hungarian premier may be planning to invite him to dial into an upcoming E.U. meeting should he win next week’s U.S. election.
Orban, who posted on X that he’d spoken to the Republican presidential candidate to wish ...Read more
Bill Clinton is headed back to Georgia for a final weekend voter drive
ATLANTA — Former President Bill Clinton will campaign in east Georgia on Sunday to turn out votes for Vice President Kamala Harris in a part of the state where early voting has lagged other Democratic strongholds.
Clinton is scheduled to stump in Augusta, where roughly 40% of active voters have cast ballots. That’s below other deep-blue ...Read more
Former Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Danielle Allen eyeing 2026 election reform ballot question
BOSTON — A coalition that includes former gubernatorial candidate and Harvard professor Danielle Allen is staffing up in an attempt to field a ballot question during the 2026 election that would ask voters to approve a new preliminary election system and sign-off on campaign finance reforms.
The move by the Coalition for Healthy Democracy, ...Read more
Massachusetts man arrested for allegedly painting swastika on Trump campaign sign
BOSTON — A Cohasset man has been arrested for allegedly painting a swastika onto a Trump campaign sign sitting along a public road in town.
The defaced sign is the property of Kevin O’Donnell, the 77-year-old co-chair of the Republican Town Committee and a longstanding supporter of former President Donald Trump.
Police arrested 74-year-old...Read more
Sudan’s civil war has left at least 62,000 dead by our estimate − but the true figure could be far higher
The ongoing war in Sudan has often been overlooked amid higher-profile conflicts raging across multiple continents. Yet the lack of media and geopolitical attention to this 18-month-long conflict has not made its devastation in terms of human lives any less stark.
Since fighting broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed ...Read more
Watchdog group sues Georgia Election Board over private emails used for public business
ATLANTA — A government watchdog group has filed a lawsuit against the State Election Board and one of its members over emails the group says should have been disclosed under state open records law.
Earlier this year the left-leaning group American Oversight requested emails about an artificial intelligence system that conservative activists ...Read more
Philly DA Larry Krasner's legal bout with Elon Musk on hold, as tech billionaire seeks to move it to federal court
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's suit against Elon Musk and his political action committee has been placed on hold while the tech billionaire attempts to move the case to federal court.
Though the parties were scheduled to appear Thursday for an emergency hearing before Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo Foglietta, ...Read more
Elizabeth Warren's office: Biden-Harris and congressional Democrats saved 1.4 million union pensions
BOSTON — The Biden-Harris administration and congressional Democrats saved the pensions of more than a million union members, many of which could have become insolvent in the coming year, according to a new report out of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office.
Titled “Promises Made, Promises Kept,” the report explains how system shockwaves...Read more
Trump's plans to deport millions would have impact beyond the undocumented
ORLANDO, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump’s threat of “mass deportation” of millions of people is a key vow of his re-election campaign and one that resonates with his supporters.
But the consequences of such a roundup would be sweeping in Florida and elsewhere: Sprawling holding camps for those awaiting deportation. Struggles for ...Read more
Donald Trump is returning to Georgia this weekend for his final 2024 rally in the state
ATLANTA — Former President Donald Trump is returning to Georgia on Sunday for what’s expected to be his final stop in the battleground state before the election, as polls show the Republican in a tight race against Vice President Kamala Harris.
Campaign officials say the GOP nominee will travel to the Macon area to hold a rally after three ...Read more
'It didn't have to be this way': Beverly Hills settles investigation over abortion clinic battle
LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Rob Bonta blasted the city of Beverly Hills in a press conference Thursday, accusing city officials of colluding to keep out a third-trimester abortion clinic last year.
Bonta opened an investigation after DuPont Clinic accused Beverly Hills of conspiring with anti-abortion activists and pressuring ...Read more
Infants died from birth defects at higher rates after abortion ban was imposed in Florida
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Like most pregnant women, Deborah Dorbert of Lakeland went for a routine anatomy scan of her unborn baby at 23 weeks.
The results spiraled into a nightmare scenario and the eventual death of Dorbert’s son, Milo, only 94 minutes after he was born.
The anatomy scan in late 2022 showed Milo’s kidneys and lungs had ...Read more
5 Congressional races to watch that could flip the House and make history
PHILADELPHIA — With Election Day less than one week away, all eyes are on Pennsylvania. But it's not only in the presidential race where the state's swing voters are poised to influence partisan power on a national scale. And nearby in New Jersey and Delaware, voters will see history-making races on the ballot, too.
Moderate Democrats and ...Read more
With Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Republicans’ ‘strict father’ has become the creepy uncle
When Tucker Carlson, the reactionary pundit fired in 2023 from Fox News, preceded Donald Trump at the Turning Point rally in Duluth, Georgia, on Oct. 23, 2024, he roused attendees by tacitly likening Trump to a stern father and Democrats to a rebellious, “hormone-addled, 15-year-old daughter.” Carlson insisted, “there has to be a point ...Read more
'A pressure campaign': Beverly Hills settles after allegedly blocking abortion clinic
The city of Beverly Hills has agreed to train its employees on abortion clinic protections after local officials interfered with the opening of an abortion clinic in “blatant” violation of state law, according to a proposed settlement to be unveiled Thursday by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Bonta’s office said the city’s then-...Read more
Meat industry donates big to defeat Denver slaughterhouse ban, while sales tax campaigns build war chests
DENVER — Donors have dug into their pockets for a combined $1.9 million so far to defeat initiatives 308 and 309, the Denver ballot measures that would ban most fur sales and ban slaughterhouses in the city.
Those opposition committees — which so far have outraised and outspent the animal-rights group behind both initiatives several times ...Read more
Trump says he'll 'protect women' whether they 'like it or not'
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump has stirred fresh controversy by vowing to “protect women” whether they “like it or not” as a wide gender gap looms in the White House race with Kamala Harris.
Admitting his own advisers warned him to avoid the insensitive language, Trump insisted at a rally that he won’t back down on his ...Read more
We fact-checked some of Trump's most common claims on immigration
WASHINGTON — Migrants, according to former President Donald Trump, are violent criminals, voting illegally, eating your pets, draining emergency disaster funding and stealing your job.
These claims have elicited fear, hatred and anger among many voters.
We looked into the facts around some of his most frequent statements about immigration ...Read more
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