PHILADELPHIA — Another statue of former President Donald Trump appeared in Philadelphia Thursday — the second in as many days — except larger and more obscene.

The detailed 40-foot naked Trump effigy hung by crane on Kensington Avenue to the curiosity, disgust, and delight of passersby.

The statue looks like one that went up in Madison, ...Read more

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office said Thursday that it is sending a cease-and-desist letter to a pair of Washington D.C.-based nonprofits for threatening to expose individuals’ voting history.

The Center for Voter Information and the Voter Participation Center sent “voting report cards” to Marylanders that described whether they ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris seized on a remark from Donald Trump that he would “protect” women if elected — whether they “like it or not” — to assail her Republican rival’s stance on reproductive rights and other freedoms in an appeal to suburban and independent women.

“It actually is, I think, very offensive to women in terms ...Read more

Swing-state campaign events will be in in full swing Friday for Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, with stops scheduled in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina.

Harris campaign events

While Harris won't be in Pennsylvania personally on Friday, plenty of the vice president's surrogates will. Among ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Former President Bill Clinton will campaign for the Democratic ticket in Orlando on Sunday, according to the Kamala Harris presidential campaign.

Clinton will join U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., at a noon event on the final day of early voting in most Central Florida counties, often known as “Souls to the Polls” day for ...Read more

A number of states will vote on ballot measures related to substance use, insurance and other health-related issues on Nov. 5 — in addition to the 11 abortion-related measures before voters.

The health-related initiatives cover a range of topics.

California, South Dakota and Illinois voters will be asked about changes to insurance programs, ...Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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