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BOISE, Idaho — Idaho's Proposition 1 became a contentious ballot item in this election cycle, drawing huge donations from supporters and opponents.

A yes note on Prop 1 would expand abortion rights and protect certain ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Writing a column won't win you any popularity contests. At least, not if you do it correctly.

Yet, for the nearly 40 years that I've been expressing my opinion in print, I've held firm to one unpopular ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Tallying votes in the 2026 California general election Nov. 3 could take days — or even weeks.

By state law, county officials have up to 30 days to formally certify election results, the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court cleared the Trump administration to potentially resume pressuring state and local election officials to prevent voting by people it claims may be noncitizens as Americans go to the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court sided with the Trump administration in a fast-moving election fight, lifting a ruling that barred the Justice Department from threatening state and local election officials with ...Read more

NEW YORK — Westchester County and New York state officials Tuesday were scrambling to fix a voting machine malfunction on Election Day while insisting all ballots would be counted properly in the closely watched NY-17 ...Read more

DETROIT — Stevie Wonder is making a last-minute push for the Democratic Party in the midterm elections in a social media video released on Election Day, Tuesday.

The Motown legend appeared in a video posted by the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Celebrities including comedian Roseanne Barr, rocker Bruce Springsteen and funnyman Conan O’Brien are reminding Americans to vote Tuesday.

Polls show tight races in several states as Democrats appear poised...Read more

WASHINGTON — Americans are heading to the polls Tuesday in a historic set of midterm elections that will determine which party controls the chambers of Congress for the remainder of President Donald Trump's time in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Control of Congress hangs in the balance as Americans head to the polls Tuesday to vote in a historic set of midterm elections that will determine how power is divided for the rest of President Donald Trump...Read more

Sensitive, as he should be, to Americans' resentment of higher prices on staples in the run-up to the midterm elections, President Trump on Oct. 9 unveiled what he called "a great announcement on Russian energy," namely a ...Read more

Do Israel’s ascendant Arab parties — the Joint List and Ra’am — hold the key to a more peaceful Middle East or will they sow the seeds of Israel’s destruction?

That’s one big question to emerge from Israel’s...Read more

The uproar over the Dan Sullivans stunt in Alaska is this year’s most famous political dirty trick.

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American politics has become a test of allegiance. Candidates are expected to defend their party’s nominee, voters are urged to treat every election as an existential battle and dissent is quickly branded betrayal. That ...Read more

When Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived at the White House on Sept. 24, the U.S. welcomed him with an elaborate display of ceremony. The Army Herald Trumpets sounded a fanfare, the Chinese and American national anthems ...Read more

In July 2014, a man sick with Ebola flew from Liberia into Lagos, Nigeria, one of Africa’s largest and busiest cities. One imported case in a place like that could have sparked an urban epidemic. Instead, Nigeria stopped...Read more

President Donald Trump wants to change the name of Veterans Day. He recently announced on Truth Social that the holiday, observed each year on Nov. 11, should henceforth be called “Victory Day for World War I” Holidays...Read more

Courage in politics is rare. When it shows itself, we should celebrate it. But most often, it's vilified.

I thought that when Congresswoman Liz Cheney, a Republican blue-blood, joined nine other Republicans in voting to ...Read more

Thankfully, Donald Trump did not get his petulant way to make daylight saving time permanent and standard time returned when the clocks did their “fall back” and ended DST, which began on March 8. We averted a very ...Read more