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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…
Trump's trouble in suburbs key to suddenly competitive Ohio
CINCINNATI (AP) — During a background briefing with reporters in December, President Donald Trump's reelection campaign team gave only passing mention of Ohio. Certainly no one suggested a full-scale fall advertisi…
FBI to review LA deputy killing of 18-year-old shot in back
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The FBI said Friday it will review the death of an 18-year-old man who was shot and killed by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy.
Cost, hassle of stamps questioned as mail-in voting surges
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Even if it weren't for her disability and fear of catching COVID-19, Delinda Bryant said getting the necessary postage to cast a ballot this year will be a struggle.
Justice Ginsburg says cancer has returned, but won't retire
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, but has no plans to retire from the Supreme Court.
Trump joins Hagerty in tele-town hall as early voting begins
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday once again threw support behind his former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty, a Republican running in the primary for an open U.S. Senate seat in Tenness…
Bill to cap mining tax break fails for 2nd time in 3 days
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Even after amendments were made to address concerns, a proposal to limit mining tax deductions failed to pass the Nevada Senate on Saturday night.
John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80
ATLANTA (AP) — John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated care…
San Francisco mayor frustrated as virus cases rise statewide
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco, one of the nation's first cities to fully shut down and one of the slowest to reopen, joined California's coronavirus watch list on Friday, and the mayor expressed frustration th…
Bill to cap mining tax break fails for 2nd time in 3 days
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Even after amendments were made to address concerns, a proposal to limit mining tax deductions failed to pass the Nevada Senate on Saturday night.
Lawmakers go back to the drawing board on mining taxes
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers revived a proposal Saturday to collect an additional $54 million in mining tax revenue per year to avoid making cuts to education amid the coronavirus pandemic and econ…
Trump talks less about virus, states look inward for answers
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has taken an increasingly hands-off approach to the
UN chief: World 'at the breaking point' due to inequalities
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Saying “we are at the breaking point,” the U.N. secretary-general made a sweeping call Saturday to end the global inequalities that sparked this year’s massive anti-racism protests and have been…
Trump's trouble in suburbs key to suddenly competitive Ohio
CINCINNATI (AP) — During a background briefing with reporters in December, President Donald Trump's reelection campaign team gave only passing mention of Ohio. Certainly no one suggested a full-scale fall advertisi…
Nevada's 3 US House Democrats outraising GOP challengers
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada's three incumbent Democrats in Congress are outraising their Republican opponents as they seek reelection this year, according to campaign finance reports filed this week.
N.C. elections order could mean more early voting sites
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's top elections administrator on Friday ordered that counties open a minimum number of early in-person voting sites this fall as a way to buttress ballot access during