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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…
Georgia state House member hospitalized after seizure
CALHOUN, Ga. (AP) — Georgia officials say a Republican state lawmaker was hospitalized after a Thursday seizure.
Biden forges brand of liberal populism to use against Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden stood in a Pennsylvania metal works shop, just miles from his boyhood home, and pledged to define his presidency by a sweeping economic agenda beyond anything Americans have seen since t…
Serbia police detain 71 after 4th night of virus protests
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police detained 71 people after clashes during the fourth night of anti-government protests against the Serbian president that were initially sparked by his plans to reintroduce a co…
Delayed Louisiana presidential primary is settled Saturday
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana holds its presidential primary Saturday, an election that was postponed twice because of the coronavirus outbreak and pushed back so many months that it became irrelevant to the se…
AP FACT CHECK: If he's said it once, he's said it 100 times
WASHINGTON (AP) — If saying things 100 times could make them true, President Donald Trump's account of how the U.S. is doing with the coronavirus would be true.
Virus cases up sharply in Africa, India as inequality stings
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s confirmed coronavirus cases have doubled in just two weeks to a quarter-million, and
AP Deleg Count-Dem Regions, 5th Add,400
NORTHEAST Greenstein +- Haas +- Harris +- Hewes +-
Trump threatens to pull tax exemption for schools, colleges
In his push to get schools and colleges to reopen this fall, President Donald Trump is again taking aim at their finances, this time threatening their tax-exempt status.
AP Deleg Count-Dem Regions, 6th Add,400
NORTHEAST Koos +- Kraus +- Krichevsky +- Moroz +-
Storm clouds hang over Trump's attempted campaign reboot
MIAMI (AP) — Friday was supposed to be the day President Donald Trump's campaign reboot itself got a reboot. Instead, it hit another snag.
A look at the cases behind the Supreme Court rulings
The Supreme Court ruled in
AP Deleg Count-Dem Regions, 8th Add,400
NORTHEAST Steinman +- Steinman +- Steyer +- Thistle +-
Trump commutes longtime friend Roger Stone's prison sentence
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone, intervening in extraordinary fashion in a criminal case that was central to the Russia investigati…
AP Deleg Count-GOP Regions, 5th Add,400
NORTHEAST Others +- Total Write +- Uninstructe +-
AP Deleg Count-GOP Regions, 6 Takes,450
NORTHEAST Trump +- Weld +- Ardini +- Boddie +-