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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,…
2020 Watch: How long will Trump be quarantined?
NEW YORK (AP) — Presidential politics move fast. What we’re watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign:
Trump greets supporters following new details of his illness
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Infected and contagious, President Donald Trump briefly ventured out in a motorcade on Sunday to salute cheering supporters, a move that disregarded precautions meant to contain the deadly viru…
Trump's defender: Pence's campaign role grows at key moment
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence is in a familiar spot: standing by President Donald Trump.
Record-breaking California wildfires surpass 4 million acres
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a year that has already brought apocalyptic skies and smothering smoke to the West Coast, California set a grim new record Sunday when officials announced that the wildfires of 2020 have now…
Drubbed in 2018, California GOP looks to regain House seats
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s tarnished Republican Party is hoping to rebound in a handful of U.S. House races but its candidates must overcome widespread loathing for President Donald Trump and voting trends tha…
2 big Michigan counties require masks after court ruling
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The health departments in Michigan's second-and seventh-largest counties issued orders requiring residents to wear masks when they leave their homes, after the state Supreme Court struck down …
West Virginia delegate resigns after slurs appear online
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia House delegate has resigned after homophobic messages attributed to him were circulated online, House Speaker Roger Hanshaw said.
Delays in verifying mail-in ballots will slow election tally
Voters awaiting results in some of the key presidential battleground states on election night should be prepared to keep waiting, thanks to obstacles that will slow the count for what is expected to be a crush of m…
NJ officials contact 206 people at Trump event at Bedminster
State health officials in New Jersey have contacted more than 200 people who attended a campaign fundraiser at the Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster on Thursday, hours before the president announced he had C…
UK government says it will reform 'broken' asylum system
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s interior minister vowed Sunday to stop people entering the country clandestinely and to fix what she called a “broken” asylum system, echoing commitments that have been made and broken by U.…
One month out, battered Trump campaign faces big challenges
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s long-hidden tax returns leaked out. His first debate performance ignited a firestorm over white supremacy. He was hospitalized for COVID-19 after months of playing down th…
UK’s Johnson defends virus strategy as infections soar
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday despite weeks of rising infections, but warned that the country faced a “bumpy” winter ahead.
Iowa absentee ballots go out Monday, early voting begins
Iowa election officials will begin mailing out absentee ballots Monday, and it's the first day voters can go to their county auditor's offices or a satellite locations to vote early in person.
Trump seizes on small election issues to spread concern
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nine ballots discarded in Pennsylvania. A mail carrier who altered a handful of affidavit ballot applications. People being sent double ballots.
Appeals court upholds ban on holding migrant kids in hotels
HOUSTON (AP) — An appeals court refused Sunday to allow the Trump administration to resume detaining immigrant children in hotel rooms before expelling them under rules adopted during the coronavirus pandemic.