NEW YORK — A new poll shows Kamala Harris romping to a 19% landslide win over former President Donald Trump in New York, a result that would refute suggestions of a rightward drift in the nation’s second-biggest blue state.

The Democratic nominee scores a 58%-to-39% lead over Trump in the Empire State, a Siena College survey released ...Read more

ATLANTA — Every month since Vice President Kamala Harris joined the presidential race, her campaign collected more contributions from large-dollar donors in Georgia than former President Donald Trump.

Last month, Harris raised more than $2.4 million compared with Trump’s $1.6 million, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis of...Read more

ATLANTA – An Atlanta City Council member wants city employees to be able to take paid sick leave to access reproductive care, including abortions.

Councilmember Liliana Bakhtiari introduced legislation Monday that would allow city employees to take paid leave for pregnancy and childbirth including “the loss or termination of a pregnancy ...Read more

In September 2024, authorities in Benin detained the country’s former sports minister and a prominent businessman for allegedly plotting a coup against the West African nation’s president, Patrice Talon. Had a putsch materialized, Benin would have joined a growing list of African countries to have experienced a military coup over the past...Read more

The U.S. presidential election isn’t drawing eyes only at home – Moscow and Kyiv are watching closely, too.

Regardless of who wins in November, there will be significant implications for Ukraine as it continues to resist Russia in a war heading toward a fourth year.

Washington’s continued support is seen by some as no ...Read more

You’ve probably seen them: alarming columns or stories with alarming headlines about how somebody is going to exploit an obscure provision in election law to undo the 2024 presidential election and toss it to the House of Representatives. Your vote won’t count, and democracy will go to hell.

Election law scholar Justin Levitt ...Read more

White signs emblazoned with a big blue dot are going up in yards across Omaha, Nebraska, in an unusual political statement of support for Democratic candidates.

Nebraska splits its electoral votes, giving Omaha’s congressional district a single electoral vote out of the state’s total of five. If enough of Omaha’s metropolitan ...Read more

As the U.S. presidential election approaches, news reports and social media feeds are increasingly filled with data from public opinion polls. How do pollsters know which candidate is ahead in what swing state or with which key demographic group? Or what issues are most important to as many as 264 million eligible voters across a vast country...Read more

Polls opened in North Carolina on Oct. 17, 2024, as about 14,000 people in Asheville and surrounding areas remain without power in their homes following Hurricane Helene. In Florida, which started early voting in some counties on Oct. 21, about 400,000 residents are still without power after Hurricane Milton.

Some experts have said ...Read more

Perhaps you’ve heard: Menopause is having a moment. Celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and Drew Barrymore have begun speaking out about coping with symptoms and self-worth. Halle Berry shouted from the steps of the Capitol: “I’m in menopause, OK?!”

As menopause advocates, we have long seen this “moment” as overdue, spurring necessary...Read more

Former President Donald Trump has made it clear what he’d like to do with the Department of Justice if he’s reelected: go after his political opponents. As he has posted on social media, “WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED” — Democrats, in his dark fantasy of election fraud — “will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law,...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ top deputies directed a Florida health department lawyer to threaten Florida television stations with criminal prosecution for running political advertisements that support enshrining abortion rights in the state’s Constitution, according to new court records.

Florida Department of Health general ...Read more

The polling agency that accurately predicted his victory in 2016 says former President Donald Trump now stands a point ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in his second attempt at a second term, though the race for the White House in its final two weeks remains locked in a statistical tie.

Trump’s small lead, according to TIPP Insights, is ...Read more

Sarah McBride is set to make American history as the first openly transgender lawmaker in Congress. She also steps onto the national stage in a country deeply divided over trans rights — a rupture set to widen if Donald Trump wins the presidency next month.

In the first half of October, Trump and his supporters released a barrage of ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump continued his push Monday to persuade "60 Minutes" to release an unedited transcript of its interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump, on Monday, took to his Truth Social media platform to demand, yet again, that CBS release the entire transcript of Harris’ sit-down with the nation’s longest running ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump spent nearly all of Monday in battleground North Carolina as he surveyed Hurricane Helene destruction, spoke with faith leaders and urged people to vote as Election Day looms just two weeks away.

The Republican nominee began in Swannanoa in Western North Carolina to see the destruction caused by Hurricane Helene ...Read more

Two years ago, Republican Congressman Andy Barr notched the largest victory margin of his career in Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District, stacking up a 29-point win.

This year, there isn’t much of a question if Barr will be re-elected to a seventh term; it’s only if he’ll achieve another personal best margin.

Democrat Randy Cravens, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, who rose to political power fueled by grassroots contributors giving in small increments, is now reliant on wealthy backers, including billionaires Elon Musk and Miriam Adelson, to underwrite his third White House bid.

The former president’s political operation has raised nearly twice as much money — $514.7 ...Read more