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Judge upholds income tax ballot disclosure, sparks sponsor outrage
(The Center Square) – A Thurston County Superior Court judge on Friday upheld the government-drafted financial dis…
Judge won't order immediate switch to hand-marked ballots
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Sunday expressed serious concerns about Georgia's new election system but declined to order the state to abandon its touchscreen voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballo…
McConnell set to debate Democratic rival McGrath in Kentucky
Kentucky voters will get their first, and potentially only, chance to see a debate between Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic challenger Amy McGrath when they meet Monday evening for a socially…
2,262 new COVID-19 cases in Texas as state nears 800,000
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas on Sunday reported 2,262 new cases of the coronavirus as the state's total since the pandemic began nears 800,000.
Democrat's praise of strict gun law roils Kansas Senate race
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republicans on Sunday circulated a video of the Democrats' candidate for an open U.S. Senate seat in Kansas praising strict Australian gun laws that she said “took them all away” to undercut her…
GOP US. Rep. Bost of Illinois tests positive for COVID-19
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Mike Bost of Illinois has tested positive for COVID-19, the latest lawmaker now confirmed to have the virus.
Supreme Court nominee Barrett says courts aren't designed to 'right every wrong in our public life'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Barrett says courts aren't designed to 'right every wrong in our public life.'
Precedent, recusal, Roe: A court nomination viewer's guide
WASHINGTON (AP) — A scant two weeks after her nomination, Judge Amy Coney Barrett goes before a Senate committee that's bitterly split along partisan lines over whether the Supreme Court vacancy created by
French police station attacked with fireworks, metal bars
PARIS (AP) — Dozens of people attacked a police station outside Paris early Sunday with blasts of fireworks and metal bars, damaging several police cars, officials said. No one was injured.
Virus Outbreak-New England
BOSTON (AP) — A look at coronavirus-related developments in New England on Saturday:
Azerbaijan, Armenia report shelling of cities despite truce
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Azerbaijan on Sunday accused Armenia of attacking its cities and villages in violation of the cease-fire deal brokered by Russia that seeks to end the worst outbreak of hostilities in the se…
Center-left wins Vienna election, no comeback for Strache
BERLIN (AP) — Austria's main center-left party has won a regional election in Vienna that saw the far-right Freedom Party lose more than two-thirds of its support and its former leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, app…
Trump insists he's free of virus, ready for campaign trail
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Biden harnesses history to describe urgency of 2020 campaign
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Presidential hopefuls tend to declare every upcoming election the most important one that voters have faced in their lifetime. Joe Biden goes bigger.
Her words: Amy Coney Barrett on faith, precedent, abortion
Some notable quotes from Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a former Notre Dame law professor and current judge on the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Her confirmation hearings begin Monday a…
Trump claims he's free of virus, ready for campaign trail
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday declared he was ready to return to the