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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…
Ducey appoints 6 new members to state nominating commission
PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Doug Ducey has appointed six new members to a state commission that nominates applicants for appointment to fill appellate court vacancies and that this year will also help fill the ranks of a p…
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…
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…
Arizona AG asks Supreme Court to decide Tucson election date
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to weigh in on a dispute between Tucson and the state Legislature over the city’s plans to hold elections in 2021 …
Panel OKs sending ballot request forms to all Iowa voters
A legislative panel voted unanimously Friday to approve the plan by Iowa's top election official to send absentee ballot request forms to all registered voters before the November election, following a similar acti…
Nursing home evacuated during virus outbreak reopens
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California nursing home that was evacuated after staff failed to show up for work amid a coronavirus outbreak reopened Friday, officials said.
Despite COVID-19 spike, Kansas faces push to reopen schools
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' Republican-controlled state school board is facing pressure from conservatives to scuttle Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's plan to delay the reopening of K-12 schools, even as a resurgence …
Potawatomi Hotel & Casino laying off 1,600 employees
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Potawatomi Hotel & Casino is laying off 1,600 employees from its Milwaukee facility due to a decline in tourism business due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Federal court restores DACA after Supreme Court ruling
PHOENIX (AP) — A federal court in Maryland on Friday ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program must be restored fully, meaning it must open up to new applicants for the first time in three years…
Kentucky high court blocks efforts to suspend COVID-19 rules
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s highest court on Friday put a temporary stop to efforts by a top Republican to rein in the Democratic governor’s ability to control the coronavirus outbreak with restrictions on pub…
Craven appointed to fill out Tillman's term in N.C. Senate
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A banking executive was appointed on Friday to the North Carolina Senate, succeeding the retired Sen. Jerry Tillman.
N.C. elections chief orders minimum early vote sites in fall
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
Pence casts Biden as socialist bent on ruining America
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence stepped up attacks on Joe Biden with an aggressive speech Friday in the birthplace of the Republican Party, casting the election in under four months as a choice “betw…
Group seeking redistricting question withdraws petition
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group that wants a bipartisan commission, instead of state lawmakers, to redraw Oklahoma’s legislative districts announced Friday they are withdrawing their initiative petition, citing legal …
Border agency fires 4, suspends 38 for social media posts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Border Patrol's parent agency said Friday that it fired four employees and suspended 38 without pay for inappropriate social media activity following revelations of a secret Facebook group tha…