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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…
The Latest: Biden in Florida, which went for Trump in 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the
NJ legal marijuana advocates beats rivals in fundraising
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey's ballot question on legalizing recreational marijuana has led to more than $2 million in campaign fundraising, mostly by groups in favor of cannabis, the state's Election Law Enforc…
In SC, Graham, Harrison near end of well-funded Senate fight
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — As they cast ballots for U.S. Senate, South Carolina voters are faced with a choice: Reelect a powerful incumbent with a senior legislative role who has helped place conservative justices on…
Trump officials tout progress on border wall before election
HOUSTON (AP) — Top Trump administration officials visited Texas five days before Election Day to announce they have nearly completed 400 miles of U.S.-Mexico border wall, trying to show progress on perhaps the pres…
Supreme Court issues flurry of last-minute election orders
WASHINGTON (AP) — North Carolina, yes. Pennsylvania, yes. Wisconsin, no. That’s how the Supreme Court has answered questions in recent days about an extended timeline for receiving and counting ballots in those sta…
Justice bets on economic promises in race against Salango
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice sat marveling at all the good news he argues he's delivered in the month before election day.
Court halts order requiring masks at Texas polling places
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court has suspended a judge's order requiring people in Texas to wear face masks inside polling stations.
8 years later, Sandy still costing transit systems billions
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — Once a gleaming symbol of early 20th-century ambition and prosperity, Hoboken’s grand rail terminal now sits as a somber reminder of the daunting challenges facing mass transit in the New York …
Judge backs Iowa's limits on absentee ballot drop box sites
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A judge has kept in place guidance from Iowa's secretary of state that county elections commissioners can only set up absentee ballot drop boxes at or outside their offices.
Clerks are starting to process absentee ballots in Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Absentee ballots continue to flood into clerk's offices in Maine, and the processing has started.
Florida, butt of election jokes, believes system is ready
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Even if the presidential election hinges on a Florida recount like 20 years ago, hanging chads and butterfly ballots won't be around to trip up voters and officials — changes to ballots…
In South, most Black Senate candidates since Reconstruction
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — In the battle for control of the U.S. Senate this year, the Deep South is fielding more Black candidates than it has since Reconstruction.
Polish PM calls for stop to mass protests as pandemic rages
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister appealed Thursday for a stop, amid a huge spike in the country’s coronavirus infections, to a week of angry protests against a high court ruling that tightens already s…
UK Labour leader says anti-Semitism brings shame on party
LONDON (AP) — Officials in Britain's opposition Labour Party failed to stamp out anti-Semitism and committed “unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination,” the U.K. equalities watchdog said Thursday in a scathin…
Suing governments, designated fees on the ballot in Georgia
Georgia voters will decide whether to make it easier to sue the state and local governments as well as whether it should be harder for the state to spend fees collected for designated purposes on other things.