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Falstad, Homesley outline approaches to election security, public trust
EPHRATA — As Election Day approaches, questions about election integrity, ballot security and public trust remain …
German far-right party laments isolation by rivals, media
BERLIN (AP) — The far-right Alternative for Germany called Monday for rivals to scale back their criticism of the party, saying the blackballing it is being subjected to could harm democracy in the country.
Indiana teacher gun training plan failing amid opposition
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A legislative proposal for requiring annual training for teachers who carry guns inside Indiana schools was scuttled amid a disagreement over whether it infringed on gun rights.
FBI official: Russia wants to see US 'tear ourselves apart'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia wants to watch Americans “tear ourselves apart" as the United States heads toward elections, an FBI official warned Monday.
Pennsylvania may tweak new law to avoid vote-counting logjam
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Lawmakers may change Pennsylvania's sweeping new election law to avoid a logjam of mail-in ballots that could extend vote counting in the presidential race for days afterward, a top lawmaker …
Judge to hear plan to move virus patients to California city
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge will hold a hearing Monday over a proposal to house former cruise ship passengers infected with a new virus at a Southern California complex that used to be for people with …
AP FACT CHECK: Trump hypes India modernization, US economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump overstated India's progress in achieving universal access to electricity, skirted facts about sanitation and exaggerated his own administration's record as part of
Generational split among black voters could hurt Biden
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — For James Felder, the question of which presidential candidate to support in the South Carolina primary has never been terribly complicated. The 80-year-old civil rights activist has always ba…
S. Dakota kills bill from survivors of Catholic school abuse
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Louise Aamot Charbonneau couldn't make her annual trip to the South Dakota Legislature this year to confront lawmakers with her story of surviving childhood rape and abuse at the hands of priest…
New Virginia sentencing law ends high court's DC sniper case
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lee Boyd Malvo, the Washington, D.C., area sniper, and Virginia agreed Monday to dismiss a pending Supreme Court case after the state changed criminal sentencing law for juveniles.
AP Deleg Count-Dem Regions, 6th Add,400
NORTHEAST Moroz +- Patrick +- Sestak +- Sloan +-
High Court sympathetic to embassy bombing victims in case
Washington (AP) — The Supreme Court suggested Monday that it's inclined to allow a bigger award of money to victims of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. No matt…
AP Deleg Count-Dem Regions, 3rd Add,400
NORTHEAST De La Fuent +- Delaney +- Dunlap +- Ellinger +-
AP Deleg Count-Dem Regions, 5th Add,400
NORTHEAST Hewes +- Koos +- Kraus +- Krichevsky +-
AP Deleg Count-Dem Regions, 1st Add,400
NORTHEAST Klobuchar +- Bennet +- Bloomberg +- Booker +-
Governor expects to sign ban on 3D guns and 'ghost guns'
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's governor said Monday she plans to sign legislation to ban 3D-printed guns and so-called ghost guns that are untraceable.