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Preliminary primary results set stage for November races across Columbia Basin
EPHRATA — Initial results from Washington's Aug. 5 primary election show several closely watched races beginning t…
Pre-election virus spike creates concerns for polling places
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A surge in coronavirus cases across the country, including in key presidential battleground states, is creating mounting health and logistical concerns for voters, poll workers and political …
Election could move California further left on taxes, race
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tuesday’s election will test the boundaries of California's left-leaning politics as a new generation of state voters is being asked to roll back affirmative action and property tax laws put in p…
Under Trump, citizenship and visa agency focuses on fraud
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The head of the agency handling citizenship and visa applications was surprised when he faced blowback for cutting a reference to the U.S. being a “nation of immigrants” in its mission statement. T…
US vote to shape how world warms as climate pact exit looms
What happens on election day will to some degree determine how much more hot and nasty the world’s climate will likely get, experts say.
Algeria votes on new constitution amid opposition boycott
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerians voted Sunday on whether to approve a revised constitution that imposes term limits, promises new freedoms and is aimed at answering demands from pro-democracy protesters who pushed…
The Latest: Fauci says `whole lot of hurt' for US from virus
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the
Georgia's ruling party wins vote; opposition urges protests
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia's ruling party won the ex-Soviet nation's highly contested parliamentary election, according to preliminary results announced Sunday that the opposition refused to recognize as valid…
Election 2020 Today: Trump leans into rallies; TV lawyers up
Here’s what’s happening Sunday in Election 2020, two days until Election Day:
Clerks: While historic, absentee ballots short of forecast
While town clerks across Connecticut have so far received roughly 460,000 more absentee ballots than they did in the 2016 presidential election, hundreds of thousands of residents are still expected to go to the po…
In campaign's final days, Trump hopes rallies mean big votes
WASHINGTON, Mich. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday launched one final test of whether the large crowds at his rallies will translate into votes as he races through the final 48 hours of the 2020 campaign wit…
Democrats, GOP brace for legal action in Florida election
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Democrats and Republicans in Florida have engaged legions of lawyers ready to rush to court at any sign of voter suppression, fraud or other political shenanigans in this year's election…
In final blitz, campaigns storm through battleground Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A final flurry of campaigning whipped through the crucial state of Florida in the waning days of the election season, including another visit by President Donald Trump, as beleaguered voter…
UK says 4-week coronavirus lockdown may have to last longer
LONDON (AP) — A new national lockdown in England may have to last longer than the planned four weeks if coronavirus infection rates don’t fall quickly enough, a senior government minister said Sunday.
GOP tries to save its Senate majority, with or without Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans are fighting to save their majority, a final
Fighting over separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region in 6th week
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Fighting over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh entered sixth week on Sunday, with Armenian and Azerbaijani forces blaming each other for new attacks.