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Ballot processing continues as certification approaches
EPHRATA — Election officials in Grant and Adams counties are nearing the finish line of the 2026 general election,…
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 …
Thousands protest in Belarus amid continued crackdown
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of protesters in Belarus swarmed the streets of the capital to demand the resignation of the country's longtime president for the 13th straight Sunday and encountered police using stu…
More US patients to have easy, free access to doctor's notes
More U.S. patients will soon have free, electronic access to the notes their doctors write about them under a new federal requirement for transparency.
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…
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…
Louisiana to have a 2-day sales tax holiday in November
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana shoppers will see state sales taxes suspended for two days in November, under a bill passed by lawmakers in their latest special session and signed into law by Gov. John Bel Edward…
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…
Texas' factory of conservative legislation may be at risk
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Win or lose in Texas on Tuesday, Republicans will still run plenty of America's state capitols. Maybe even most of them.
The Latest: Trump says he may fire disease specialist Fauci
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the
Graham and Harrison wrap up expensive race with bus tours
HOLLYWOOD, S.C. (AP) — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democratic candidate Jaime Harrison crisscrossed South Carolina on closing-argument bus tours this weekend, the incumbent pointing to his ability to get thi…
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's errant final pitches on virus, energy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Making final arguments before Tuesday’s election, President Donald Trump asserted the U.S. was shaking off a coronavirus pandemic that is only getting worse, falsely claimed Democrat Joe Biden wou…
New Zealand's new deputy leader first gay man to hold role
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's new Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson will be the country's first openly gay man to hold the role and is among a team of top lawmakers announced Monday that is remar…
Analysis: La. session yields no unemployment fund solution
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Before they wrapped up their special session, Louisiana lawmakers gave a short-term infusion of cash to the state's bankrupt unemployment trust fund, while sidestepping any decisions on how …
Biden works to push Black turnout in campaign's final days
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joe Biden was spending the final days of the presidential campaign appealing to Black supporters to vote in-person during a pandemic that has disproportionally affected their communities, bettin…
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…