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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,…
Scalia 'heir' Barrett may be open to reversing Roe v. Wade
CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court has expressed unease with some landmark rulings, including ones that established a right to abortion, and has suggested in her academic writing t…
Edwards keeps current Louisiana virus restrictions in place
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards said Thursday he's keeping Louisiana's current
Trump, Barr at odds over slow pace of Durham investigation
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is increasingly at odds with Attorney General William Barr over the status of the Justice Department's investigation into the origin of the Russia probe, with the president …
Shaheen, Messner debate in Senate race in New Hampshire
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Preexisting conditions, both medical and political, played a role Thursday in the first debate between Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Republican challenger Corky Messner.
Prominent GOP fundraiser charged in covert lobbying effort
WASHINGTON (AP) — Elliott Broidy, a prominent fundraiser for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, has been charged in an illicit lobbying campaign aimed at getting the Trump administration to drop an in…
Arizona lawmaker off ventilator amid coronavirus fight
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona lawmaker who was on a ventilator at a Maryland hospital's intensive care unit ill with COVID-19 is now breathing on his own, his wife announced Thursday.
House leaders call for lawmaker to resign over videos
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican leaders in Pennsylvania's House of Representatives called Thursday for one of their members to resign after a newspaper disclosed the existence of videos posted to a since-deleted …
Fresh off debate, Pence rallies in Nevada, Arizona
PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence applauded President Donald Trump on Thursday for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, his opposition to abortion and his support for police, during a pair of camp…
Party-switching congressman, challenger spar over COVID-19
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew and Democratic challenger Amy Kennedy clashed — albeit mostly politely — Thursday during a televised debate in their race for the 2nd District Hou…
Law enforcement preps for potential election-related unrest
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal and state law enforcement officials have begun expanded preparations for the possibility of widespread unrest at the polls on Election Day, a response to extraordinarily high tensions amon…
California braces for potential disruption, threats at polls
LOS ANGELES (AP) — With a divided nation on edge as Election Day approaches, California is warning local officials to prepare for disruption at polling places and potential cases of voters being intimidated or bloc…
Ohio county still can't say how many wrong ballots sent
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Officials with the elections board in the county that is home to Ohio’s capital still could not say Thursday how many voters received the wrong absentee ballots while promising corrected repla…
Feds sue Yale, allege discrimination against applicants
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department sued Yale University on Thursday, weeks after prosecutors found the university was illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants, in violation of fede…
Politics has way of finding Supreme Court eager to avoid it
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court might prefer to avoid politics, but politics has a way of finding the court.
Former deputy charged with thefts from dead man's home
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A former Orange County sheriff's deputy has been charged with burglarizing the home of a dead man, prosecutors said Thursday.