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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,…
N. Carolina elections office previews Election Day count
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's elections office is predicting that at the end of Election Day it will be able to tally and report at least 97% of all ballots cast.
Poland sees Day 11 of abortion, anti-government protests
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Anti-government protests triggered by the tightening of Poland's strict abortion law took place for an 11th day in the predominantly Catholic nation.
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…
AP PHOTOS: As virus cases grow, voting reaches home stretch
Election Day is Nov. 3, but the nation has been teeming with voting activity for weeks as the 2020 campaign barrels down the home stretch.
Texas high court denies GOP effort to reject Houston votes
DALLAS (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Sunday denied a Republican-led petition to toss nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-thru voting places in the Houston area.
The Latest: Harris stresses Georgia's big role in 2020 race
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the
Fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh region drags on into 6th week
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Fighting over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh entered a sixth week Sunday with Armenian and Azerbaijani forces blaming each other for new attacks.
Election win by Georgia's governing party triggers 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…
The Latest: Harris seeks to boost Black support for Biden
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the
Election officials: Early voting turnout passes 2M in NY
NEW YORK (AP) — At least 2.2 million people have cast in-person ballots in New York ahead of Election Day, election officials announced Sunday, the state's ninth and final day of early voting.
Police fire warning shots as thousands protest in Belarus
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 firing wa…
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…
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.
Trump noticeably absent from key US Senate race in Montana
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — As Republican leaders fearful of losing the majority in the U.S. Senate parade through Montana to rally behind embattled incumbent Steve Daines, one has been conspicuously absent: President D…
Moldovans vote for president, pro-EU or pro-Russia visions
CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Voters in Moldova cast ballots Sunday in a presidential election that is perceived as a referendum on two divergent visions for the future of the small Eastern European nation.