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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,…

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The Latest: Trump casts election doubts, Biden urges voting

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential election (all times local):

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
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Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Judge blocks big fee hikes for citizenship, other benefits

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday halted major fee increases for citizenship and other immigration benefits three days before they were to take effect, saying the last two chiefs of the Homeland Security …

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
California governor vetoes bill that sought to give $600 to low-income immigrants to buy groceries

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California governor vetoes bill that sought to give $600 to low-income immigrants to buy groceries.

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Trump intel chief unveils unverified Russian info about Dems

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's top intelligence official said Tuesday that he has declassified Russian intelligence alleging damaging information about Democrats during the 2016 election even though h…

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Another GOP challenge tries to block absentee ballot order

DETROIT (AP) — Michigan's Democratic secretary of state was sued Tuesday by her two Republican predecessors after failing to challenge a major court decision that orders the state to count absentee ballots days aft…

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
California governor vetoes bill to aid low-income immigrants

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have authorized California to give low-income immigrants $600 to buy groceries.

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Federal appeals court upholds six-day extension for counting ballots in battleground Wisconsin, handing Democrats a win.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal appeals court upholds six-day extension for counting ballots in battleground Wisconsin, handing Democrats a win.

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Error leaves thousands in NYC with flawed absentee ballots

NEW YORK (AP) — Mail-in voting has gotten off to a rocky start in New York City, where election officials sent out nearly 100,000 absentee ballots with the wrong names and addresses printed on the return envelopes.

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Barrett tied to faith group ex-members say subjugates women

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court has close ties to a charismatic Christian religious group that holds men are divinely ordained as the "head” of the family and faith. Fo…

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Utah governor candidates debate virus response, mask mandate

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox went head to head with Democratic law professor Chris Peterson in Utah's gubernatorial debate Tuesday over the state's pandemic response and the viability of a …

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Trump chose Barrett days after Ginsburg's death, papers show

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump offered to name Judge Amy Coney Barrett his

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Salon owner who defied lockdown makes Texas Senate runoff

DENTON, Texas (AP) — A Dallas salon owner who was sent to jail for defying coronavirus lockdown orders and became a symbol of conservative angst over COVID-19 restrictions advanced to a runoff for a Texas Senate se…

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Debate veers from 'How you doing?' to 'Will you shut up?'

CLEVELAND (AP) — It started out civilly enough, with President Donald Trump striding deliberately to his lectern, and Democrat Joe Biden nodding to his opponent and offering a “How you doing, man?”