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Editorial: Election results may take time. That's a fact, not grounds for conspiracy theories

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Election day is almost here, and the end of this tumultuous campaign season cannot come soon enough. But it may not come Tuesday night.

Given that the race for president is expected to be close, it’s quite possible that Americans will have to wait days to learn whether Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump will be the ...Read more

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Commentary: Why Trump's mass deportation plan is a lost cause

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Immigration, especially that of undocumented migrants, is a key issue — perhaps the key issue — in the presidential race.

Despite the Biden administration's efforts to strengthen border security, the Trump campaign has taken a more extreme stance. Former President Donald Trump has spent months on the campaign trail pushing for mass ...Read more

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Vote-counting rules in battleground states complicate when a winner is likely to be named

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LOS ANGELES — Unless polling that portends a paper-thin margin between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump is completely wrong — a possibility because of dizzying changes in how voters cast ballots as well as a pandemic-prompted overhaul of election laws — Americans should plan on going to bed Tuesday night without ...Read more

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Commentary: When every election is the 'most important election of our lives'

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Another election cycle, another round of hysteria. Let me guess: This is the “most important election of our lives.”

Brush this article off and reread it in a few years, and that will be the new “most important election of our lives,” when half the nation pretends to know precisely what’s best for the nation.

When was the last time ...Read more

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After campaigning outside California, Newsom spends final days of election in home state

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Throughout this election cycle, California Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled the country campaigning for the Democratic presidential ticket, making stops in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Hampshire, Georgia, South Carolina, Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Nevada.

He ran his own campaign to raise money for Democrats in red states, became the...Read more

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Why California voters will see 2024 election results a bit later this year

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A new state law gives California voters more time to fix their ballot if it has a missing or mismatched signature — but that means official election results may be a bit delayed this year.

Signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September, the new law sets a statewide ballot signature challenge cure deadline.

In other words, it gives voters ...Read more

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Herschel Walker attends Trump rally in Macon

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MACON — University of Georgia football icon and former U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker has kept a relatively low profile this election season as he finishes up classes toward a bachelor’s degree.

But in a rare interview he said he couldn’t resist attending former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally on Sunday since it was ...Read more

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Moldova's pro-EU President Sandu declares reelection victory

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Moldovan President Maia Sandu declared victory in a crucial election on Sunday, a win that would bolster her ambition to steer the former Soviet republic into the European Union by the end of the decade.

The ex-World Bank official’s reelection bid was a test of the resilience of pro-EU sentiment in Europe’s eastern periphery. A string of ...Read more

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Close polls, likely legal challenges: How TV networks will handle another election week

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Ever since network television started covering presidential election nights in 1948, there have been only two occasions when viewers had to wait more than a day to learn the outcome.

The first was in 2000, when the country was on hold for five weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court put an end to the vote recounts in Florida and gave George W. Bush...Read more

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Trump ditches the teleprompter and calls the Democratic party 'demonic' cheaters in raving closing pitch in Lancaster County

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LITITZ, Pa. — In one of his final rallies in the most critical battleground of the presidential election, former President Donald Trump ranted off-script about unproven election fraud in the state and called the Democratic Party “demonic,” and “cheaters.”

In what appears to be a neck-and-neck race in the state, Trump spent his 22nd ...Read more

Harris narrowly ahead in Nevada, North Carolina, NYT poll shows

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Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump remain deadlocked in key battleground states days before the U.S. presidential election, according to a New York Times/Siena poll published on Sunday.

The survey shows Harris narrowly ahead of Trump in Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin, while the Republican retained his advantage in ...Read more

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Controversial comments from Harris and Trump campaigns fail to move needle in run-up to election, experts say

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With polls predicting a photo finish between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on Election Day, Democrats and Republicans alike have been going on the offensive over bombshell comments they believe could help them open up an edge as the last undecided voters make up their minds.

But were any of the remarks enough to...Read more

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Taxes, tariffs and more: 5 key economic stakes of the US election

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The U.S. election on Tuesday will have far-reaching economic consequences, ranging from how Americans are taxed to how the country trades with the rest of the globe.

Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump present starkly different policy visions that will also shape the flow of immigrants into the labor market and make-up of the ...Read more

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Presidential betting odds closer to toss-up as election day nears

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Presidential election betting markets moved dramatically Saturday night and into Sunday morning as Vice President Kamala Harris continues to close the gap on former President Donald Trump.

Trump was as low as a -123 favorite Sunday at Betfair Exchange in London to win the election over Harris, a +120 underdog. Trump was as high as -210 on ...Read more

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Harris, Trump hit battlegrounds as polls signal tight finish

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A flurry of polls released Sunday show Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remain poised for a photo finish in this week’s presidential election, with voters narrowly split both nationally and across the pivotal swing states that will decide the election.

There were some encouraging signs for the Democratic nominee,...Read more

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All eyes on Pittsburgh as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump make final pitches to voters on eve of election

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As Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump make their final pitches to voters at the end of a contentious and tumultuous campaign that is effectively deadlocked, according to the polls, both have chosen Pittsburgh as crucial to their final Monday push.

Though hosting both candidates on the same afternoon is new, ...Read more

The racist ‘one-drop rule’ lives on in how Trump talks about Black politicians and whiteness in America

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Americans who heard former President Donald Trump claim that Vice President Kamala Harris previously identified as “not Black” in a July 2024 interview may wonder why he continuously emphasized former President Barack Obama’s blackness during his first presidential campaign.

As a scholar focused on race and gender issues, I ...Read more

China’s ‘one-child policy’ left at least 1 million bereaved parents childless and alone in old age, with no one to take care of them

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A child’s death is devastating to all parents. But for Chinese parents, losing an only child can add financial ruin to emotional devastation.

That’s one conclusion of a research project on parental grief I’ve conducted in China since 2016.

From 1980 to 2015, the Chinese government limited couples to one child only. I ...Read more

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Noticias Telemundo anchor Julio Vaqueiro on why the Latino vote matters more than ever

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There is no Spanish word for "swing state."

But there are many Latinos living and voting in the seven battlegrounds that will help determine the outcome of race for the White House between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. So Spanish-language network Telemundo came up with a term: "El Péndulo."

"El Péndulo," or ...Read more

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More Kansans are donating to Harris than Trump: 'Whatever she needs to do to win'

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WICHITA, Kan. — Presidential elections in Kansas usually don’t offer much in the way of suspense.

The last Democratic nominee to carry the state was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and Republicans have enjoyed double-digit margins of victory each of the last seven cycles.

But by at least one metric, Kansans are coming up big for Vice President ...Read more

 

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