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Thompson leads 13th District race, plans focus on costs, access
EPHRATA — Joshua Thompson led Deanna Martinez by 3,278 votes for the 13th Legislative District’s state representat…
Trump shifts on Puerto Rico, releases aid as election nears
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced the release Friday of $13 billion in assistance to repair years-old hurricane damage in Puerto Rico and pledged to restore its economy, setting aside his past bitt…
State attorneys defend law allowing universal voting by mail
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for the Delaware Department of Elections are asking a Chancery Court judge to reject the state Republican Party’s challenge to a new law allowing universal voting by mail in the Novembe…
Trump's list of possible Supreme Court nominees
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death Friday, just six weeks before Election Day, is expected to unleash a pitched battle over whether President Donald Trump should nominate — and the Republican-led…
Hawaii high court mulls e-signatures in impeachment petition
HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu officials arbitrarily rejected electronic signatures in an impeachment petition, a lawyer for a businessman who wants the city's embattled prosecutor impeached argued before the state Supre…
Mississippi justices: No broad absentee voting amid COVID-19
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi law does not allow absentee voting by all people who have health conditions that might make them vulnerable to COVID-19, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.
5 charged with damaging US courthouse during Vegas protests
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Five people are facing felony charges of damaging a downtown U.S. bankruptcy courthouse during protests May 30 following the death of a Black man in police custody in Minneapolis, federal officials…
Stopgap bill to prevent shutdown held up over farm funding
WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to fashion a temporary spending bill needed to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month ran aground Friday amid a fight over farm bailout funding that's a key priority of Presid…
Trump calls Justice Ginsburg an 'amazing woman,' does not mention filling her vacant Supreme Court seat
BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) — Trump calls Justice Ginsburg an 'amazing woman,' does not mention filling her vacant Supreme Court seat.
Dems drop Pompeo contempt threat after records turned over
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Foreign Affairs Committee has dropped a threat of contempt against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after the State Department turned over 16,000 pages of records related to a Senate inves…
China sends more warplanes as Taiwan honors late leader
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China sent more warplanes toward Taiwan for the second day Saturday as the island's leader, senior government officials and a high-level U.S. envoy paid tribute to the man who led Taiwan's tra…
Rural, Native American schools seek more in-person learning
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Colton Holian’s dog didn’t eat his homework, the Wi-Fi did.
Donor cash surges to Harrison, the Democrat taking on Graham
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — It won't be known until Election Day if a poll showing a tightening contest between Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democrat Jaime Harrison portends an upset — but the gains are real enough…
Trump looks to keep a changing Arizona in his column
LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Six days before the 2016 election, a confident Hillary Clinton landed in Phoenix in an audacious play to flip a longtime Republican stronghold into the Democratic column.
US sends troops, armored vehicles to Syria to counter Russia
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has deployed additional troops and armored vehicles into eastern Syria after a number of clashes with Russian forces, including a recent vehicle collision that injured four American servi…
Arizona high court to weigh incentive for university project
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to review a lower court's ruling that upheld a Phoenix suburb's payment of $2.6 million to a private Indiana university to open a branch site in the city.