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Election officials brace for federal interference but expect to persevere
As concerns rise about the potential for federal influence over the results of next week's midterm elections, many voting experts and advocates remain confident that the nation's highly localized systems of administering ...Read more
From 18th-century false ballots to the second JFK and double Dan Sullivans, a brief history of spoiler candidates and the unsuccessful legal challenges to them
Less than a week before Election Day, The New York Times reported that people with links to Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola’s U.S. Senate campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee had recruited a ...Read more
Trump un-cancels weekend rallies just hours after scrapping them
President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course Friday said he would address weekend campaign rallies backing Republican congressional candidates in red states just hours after scrapping them amid grim midterm polls.
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Virginia Beach election board votes to deny DOJ election monitors
NORFOLK, Va. — Virginia Beach’s Electoral Board voted unanimously Friday to deny all neutral observers access inside of polling locations.
The three-person board had received requests from both the U.S. Department of ...Read more
Union challenges Trump administration threat of 'prison time' for California election workers
The Trump administration’s threats of “prison time” for California election workers who process ballots cast by people it says may not be U.S. citizens were illegal and should be halted, a union representing the ...Read more
Election groups, Democrats dig in on midterm prep
WASHINGTON — Amid concerns about President Donald Trump interfering in the midterm elections, a number of groups have stepped up their preparations, including setting up poll observers and preparing a range of legal ...Read more
Commentary: Freedom isn't automatic -- Each generation must fight to keep it
President Ronald Reagan’s famous warning that “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction; it has to be fought for and defended by each generation” is even more relevant today than when he first ...Read more
Senate, House GOP set leadership elections
WASHINGTON — Republicans in both the Senate and House will hold their leadership contests on Nov. 10, just a week after a high-stakes Election Day that will determine whether they keep their majorities.
The top ...Read more
Feds say Supreme Court should deny Illinois ex-Speaker Madigan's petition to review corruption conviction
Lawyers for the federal government told the Supreme Court in a brief this week that former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s corruption conviction was on solid ground, saying he was “not a low-level or novice ...Read more
Democrats are the wild card in House race between 2 SoCal Republicans
LOS ANGELES — Democratic and independent voters could play the spoiler in a battle between two Republican incumbents vying for a solidly red congressional seat in Orange and Riverside counties.
Thanks to redistricting...Read more
Presidents of both parties defended libraries as allies of democracy for a century – until Trump
On March 31, 2026, President Donald Trump was asked about plans for his presidential library, the archive that presidents build to house their administration’s records.
His was most likely going to be a hotel,...Read more
Fascism mixed into cringey online content is easy to mock – but no less dangerous
Against the backdrop of an unpopular war in Iran, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on July 15, 2026, that the Pentagon would begin testing male service members 30 and older for low testosterone. That, the ...Read more
Maine lobster bill gets an assist from key Texas ally
WASHINGTON — Senate Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz said his panel will take up legislation next month to extend a moratorium on new North Atlantic right whale protections, a move the Texas Republican credited to Maine GOP ...Read more
Chrissy Teigen joins Idaho women who needed abortions in final push for ballot initiative
It took two years for Chrissy Teigen to realize she’d had an abortion and not a miscarriage, longer to understand what went wrong in her pregnancy, and not until this week to realize she hadn’t fully grappled with it ...Read more
Jackie Calmes: There is no opposition leader. The American people are standing against Trump
Early this year, I lamented that the nation's former presidents had not come forward, forcefully and ideally as one bipartisan unit, to condemn the utterly condemnable incumbent.
At the time I wrote, armed and masked ...Read more
Commentary: RFK Jr. is committing 'statistical murder'; he should be held accountable
Most Americans are probably familiar with homicides from TV shows such as the “Law & Order” franchises, which have run for decades. They know that murder can be accomplished with a variety of weapons, poisons and even ...Read more
Editorial: The voters' verdict must be respected -- and upheld
The most important outcome in next week’s midterm elections may not be whether Democrats or Republicans come out on top. It may be whether both parties accept the results.
Judging by the most recent polls, Democrats are...Read more
Editorial: The Statue of Liberty must be free from illegal hawkers
Today is the birthday of the Statue of Liberty, dedicated in New York Harbor 140 years ago, Oct. 28, 1886. Lady Liberty was a gift from the people of France to the United States, but she belongs to the whole world.
Her ...Read more
Editorial: Pulitzer Prize announcement has to be fully transparent
When the Pulitzer Prize Board has its autumn business meeting on Friday (October 30, 2026) in the World Room in Columbia University’s Pulitzer Hall, the members must put transparency at the top of the agenda and restore ...Read more
The Lonesomest Dove
In the room where you watch football, what you call your "man cave," there's a painting on the wall.
Well, it's not really a painting. It's one of those pictures that looks like a painting. You bought it out of an ...Read more
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