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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…
Obama criticizes Trump in scathing, personal terms
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Barack Obama is hitting President Donald Trump right where he thinks it’ll hurt most: His ego.
Dems keep focus on public lands despite GOP legislative win
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Democrats seeking to pick up U.S. Senate seats in Montana and Colorado are falling back on a party playbook now familiar for the U.S. West: Paint their opponents as a threat to the public lan…
US citizen kidnapped in Niger rescued in military operation
WASHINGTON (AP) — An American citizen kidnapped in the West African nation of Niger this past week has been rescued in a U.S. military operation in neighboring Nigeria, U.S. officials said Saturday.
EXPLAINER: What's 270? The math game behind the US election
WASHINGTON (AP) — What’s all this hubbub about 270?
SC Republicans face well-funded Democrats in US House races
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's $175 million U.S. Senate race has received much of the attention this election cycle, but every incumbent in the state trying to return to Congress has a major party challenge…
'We need you': GOP hunts for new voters in Trump territory
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s campaign has a bold theory for how he will win reelection: It can tap a universe of millions of supporters who did not vote for him
Governor urges New Mexicans to avoid Halloween gatherings
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Saturday said the spread of coronavirus is out of control in New Mexico as she urged residents to stay home and avoid gathering with others to celebrate Hallowee…
AP PHOTOS: Race enters final weekend before Election Day
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.
After year of disruption, America set to choose a path ahead
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a year of deep disruption, America is poised for a presidential election that renders a verdict on the nation's role in the world and the direction of its economy, on its willingness to cont…
GOP says conflict continues on vote count in Dona Ana County
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Clashes continued Saturday between Republican election challengers and an absentee-ballot counting board in a southern New Mexico county at the center of a congressional swing district race.
Minority US contact tracers build trust in diverse cities
SAN DIEGO (AP) — When a contact tracer called the Iraqi woman to say her 18-year-old daughter tested positive for the coronavirus and could quarantine for free in a hotel, the woman panicked — recalling the family'…
Top of the Vermont ticket is governor, US representative
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The races for governor and the U.S. House top the ballot in Vermont, where voting concludes Tuesday on Election Day.
Amid pandemic, in-person voting underway in California
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In-person voting started for most California counties this weekend as local election officials — many for the first time — opened polling places days early in hopes of avoiding crushing cr…
Abortion rights protest held for 10th day in Poland
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Demonstrators held anti-government protests across Poland for the 10th straight day Saturday in response to the tightening of one of Europe’s strictest abortion laws.
EXPLAINER: Election unprecedented some ways, in others not
The election of 2020 has been called many things: extraordinary, bizarre, unprecedented.