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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…
Utility: Winds too weak to cut power before California fire
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Facing extreme wildfire conditions this week that included hurricane-level winds, the main utility in Northern California cut power to nearly 1 million people while its counterpart in Southern Ca…
New Mexico building infrastructure for vaccine distribution
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It could be well into next year before a COVID-19 vaccine is widely available, but top health officials in New Mexico said Tuesday that they have submitted their plan to the federal governm…
Texas Supreme Court backs Abbott on limiting ballot drops
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday vacated a state court injunction against Gov. Greg Abbott’s order limiting counties to one drop-off site each for mailed ballots.
Pompeo brings anti-China roadshow to Indian Ocean islands
MALE, Maldives (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday brought the Trump administration’s anti-China campaign to two Indian Ocean island nations considered particularly at risk for what American off…
Ohio Supreme Court denies county party's election complaint
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court denied a complaint on Tuesday from a county Democratic Party that argued its party chairman was denied a vacant seat on the county elections board by Secretary of State Frank…
Biden vows to unify and save country; Trump hits Midwest
WARM SPRINGS, Ga. (AP) — Joe Biden traveled Tuesday to the hot springs town where Franklin Delano Roosevelt coped with polio to declare the U.S. is not too politically diseased to overcome its health and economic c…
Trump to appeal to Nevada voters -- from neighboring Arizona
LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Donald Trump is making a crunch-time appeal to voters in Nevada. But he's doing it from Arizona.
Mail-in absentee request deadline passing in North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The options to vote in North Carolina are dwindling as Election Day nears.
Court hears challenge to Minnesota mail-in ballots extension
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A challenge to Minnesota's seven-day extension for counting absentee ballots received after Election Day went before an appeals court panel Tuesday, as attorneys for the Republican plaintiffs arg…
Judge stops Election Day gun ban near Michigan polling sites
DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Tuesday blocked a
2 conservative hoaxers charged in Ohio for robocalls
CLEVELAND (AP) — Two conservative operatives facing criminal charges in Michigan were indicted in Cleveland on Tuesday for organizing tens of thousands of hoax robocalls — made to predominantly Black Midwestern cit…
Anxiety 2020: Voters worry about safety at the polls
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gary Kauffman says he does not scare easily. So when men waving President Donald Trump flags drive by his house in downtown Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, he stands on his front steps and waves a banne…
Important Minnesota high court race sits on back of ballot
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota voters may be fixated on the presidential race or other high-profile races, but there's an important race on the back of the ballot.
AP PHOTOS: Down the home stretch, the 2020 vote in images
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.
Biden faces challenges in quickly combating the pandemic
WILIMINGTON, Del. (AP) — If Joe Biden wins next week's election, he says he'll immediately call Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious-disease expert. He'll work with governors and local officials to instit…