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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…
Vermont House to debate state budget amid virus uncertainty
The Vermont of Representatives is expected to continue debating the 2021 budget this week without knowing whether the federal government will help state and local governments make up budget losses caused by the cor…
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's errant views on voting, Biden miscues
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has been putting forth convoluted guidance to his supporters on submitting double votes in the
AP FACT CHECK: Trump on McCain; Biden's stretch on virus
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he never called John McCain a loser — he did — and denigrated the record of the late Republican senator on veterans affairs despite routinely appropriating one of McCai…
Pandemic turns summer into European tourism's leanest season
BRUGES, Belgium (AP) — Bruges mayor Dirk De fauw first realized something was desperately wrong with European tourism when on a brisk March morning he crossed the Burg square in front of the Gothic city hall and th…
Trump out to build 'permission structure' to win back voters
NEW YORK (AP) — Showcasing Black Americans at the Republican National Convention to allay white voters' fears that President Donald Trump is a racist. Sharing touching stories about the president's concern for the …
States plan for cuts as Congress deadlocks on more virus aid
Spending cuts to schools, childhood vaccinations and job-training programs. New taxes on millionaires, cigarettes and legalized marijuana. Borrowing, drawing from rainy day funds and reducing government workers' pa…
Excessive heat in Southwest poses added threat amid pandemic
PHOENIX (AP) — As people around them sat and napped, some sipping water in an air-conditioned shelter on another sweltering day in a summer of record-breaking heat, Gary Goodman and Lena Stewart spoke of the fatal …
US Senate hopefuls in New Mexico release 1st attack ads
RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — Candidates for New Mexico’s open U.S. Senate seat have released their first slate of attack ads in a race expected to draw millions of outside Super PAC spending.
Vermont House to debate state budget amid virus uncertainty
The Vermont of Representatives is expected to continue debating the 2021 budget this week without knowing whether the federal government will help state and local governments make up budget losses caused by the cor…
In battlegrounds, absentee ballot rejections could triple
ATLANTA (AP) — Thousands of absentee ballots get rejected in every presidential election. This year, that problem could be much worse and potentially pivotal in hotly contested battleground states.
AP Explains: US debt will soon exceed size of entire economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government's war against the coronavirus is imposing the heaviest strain on the Treasury since America's drive to defeat Nazi Germany and imperial Japan three-quarters of a century ago.
Sheriff: Five boats sank in Texas Trump parade, no injuries
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Five boats sank in a Texas lake during a nautical parade in support of President Donald Trump as tightly packed boats created large waves, officials said Sunday.
Trump looms large over campaigns for control of Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — The battle for control of Congress
Jill Biden drawing on classroom time for case against Trump
WAUWATOSA, Wis. (AP) — When
Voting in person Nov. 3? Expect drive-thrus, sports arenas
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Voting will look a little different this November. States are turning to stadiums, drive-thrus and possibly even movie theaters as safe options for in-person polling places amid the coronaviru…