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Grant County primary turnout slips from 2022 levels as officials look ahead to November election
EPHRATA — Grant County's voter turnout in the 2026 primary election finished at nearly 34%, a figure county electi…
Democratic Party launches hotline on voting procedures
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Democratic Party of New Mexico hopes to broaden participation in the Nov. 3 election as it launches a daytime telephone hotline and online resources about balloting.
2020 Watch: Can Trump ignore reality as Election Day nears?
NEW YORK (AP) — Presidential politics move fast. What we’re watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign:
Official tally confirms close call in Montenegro election
PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A preliminary official tally Monday of Montenegro’s weekend parliamentary election has confirmed that the pro-Western party that has ruled the country for 30 years has won the most vote…
Gov. Cooper, Republican lawmakers back at NC Supreme Court
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Republican legislators are returning to North Carolina's highest court for their latest push and pull over powers held by state government branches.
Lyon County settles lawsuit over false arrest at festival
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A rural Nevada fire captain is getting some compensation for a night in the country that turned into a nightmare.
California Senate OKs state reviews for police shootings
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is close to requiring independent investigations any time police kill an unarmed civilian, a move that would strip authority from local prosecutors at a time of heightened distr…
Voting groups scramble to reach college students in pandemic
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Chase Gaines wishes he could get more young people in North Carolina to answer their front doors and take his GOP flyer.
Trump's intel chief ends election security briefings to Hill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top intelligence official has informed Congress that his office will no longer give in-person election security briefings on Capitol Hill, a move that raised concern among lawmakers S…
Huge protest on Belarus leader's birthday demands he resign
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied Sunday in the Belarusian capital of Minsk to begin the fourth week of daily protests demanding that the country's authoritarian president resign.
Uncertainty dominates presidential campaign's final stretch
NEW YORK (AP) — Within President Donald Trump’s campaign, some privately feared the worst heading into the national conventions.
When Trump talks law and order, some Wisconsin voters listen
DE PERE, Wis. (AP) — Alexis Arnold says she's sympathetic toward protesters who have peacefully fought racial injustice this summer. But as some demonstrations spiral into violence, her anxiety is building.
Trump seizes on protests as Dems blame him for tensions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats accused President Donald Trump of trying to inflame racial tensions and incite violence to benefit his campaign after he praised supporters who clashed with protesters during a deadly ni…
Nurses on NY's front lines call for minimum staffing ratios
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Nurses on the front lines of New York’s COVID-19 pandemic are calling for the state to enact minimum staffing standards ahead of another wave of infections.
Montenegro opposition claims election victory in tight vote
PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro's pro-Serb and Russian opposition groups claimed victory against the ruling pro-Western party in a tense parliamentary election that could see a change in the course of the s…
Biden, aiming at Trump, says he won't use military as 'prop'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden said on Saturday that as president, he would never use the military “as a prop or private militia” and accused President Donald Trump of employing U.S. forces to settle “personal vendett…