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

PHILADELPHIA — With Election Day less than one week away, all eyes are on Pennsylvania. But it's not only in the presidential race where the state's swing voters are poised to influence partisan power on a national scale. And nearby in New Jersey and Delaware, voters will see history-making races on the ballot, too.

Moderate Democrats and ...Read more

When Tucker Carlson, the reactionary pundit fired in 2023 from Fox News, preceded Donald Trump at the Turning Point rally in Duluth, Georgia, on Oct. 23, 2024, he roused attendees by tacitly likening Trump to a stern father and Democrats to a rebellious, “hormone-addled, 15-year-old daughter.” Carlson insisted, “there has to be a point ...Read more

The city of Beverly Hills has agreed to train its employees on abortion clinic protections after local officials interfered with the opening of an abortion clinic in “blatant” violation of state law, according to a proposed settlement to be unveiled Thursday by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

Bonta’s office said the city’s then-...Read more

DENVER — Donors have dug into their pockets for a combined $1.9 million so far to defeat initiatives 308 and 309, the Denver ballot measures that would ban most fur sales and ban slaughterhouses in the city.

Those opposition committees — which so far have outraised and outspent the animal-rights group behind both initiatives several times ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Migrants, according to former President Donald Trump, are violent criminals, voting illegally, eating your pets, draining emergency disaster funding and stealing your job.

These claims have elicited fear, hatred and anger among many voters.

We looked into the facts around some of his most frequent statements about immigration ...Read more