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Updated 8 hours, 5 minutes ago

Falstad, Homesley outline approaches to election security, public trust

EPHRATA — As Election Day approaches, questions about election integrity, ballot security and public trust remain …

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
AP Deleg Count-Dem States, 5th Add,400

Hewes +- Koos +- Kraus +- Krichevsky +-

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Judge halts plan to move virus patients to California city

COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — A court temporarily blocked the U.S. government from sending up to 50 people infected with a new virus from China to a Southern California city for quarantine after local officials argued …

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Analysis: Sanders' path has echoes of Trump's 2016 campaign

WASHINGTON (AP) — A burn-it-down candidate is topping a splintered field of more moderate contenders and setting the party’s establishment wing on edge.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Nev. union support for Sanders shows limits of labor warning

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Members of Nevada’s most politically powerful labor group were warned by union leaders that Bernie Sanders’ plan would doom their prized health care, but they voted for him anyway.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
TSA halts employees from using TikTok for social media posts

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration said Sunday it has stopped allowing employees to use the China-owned video app TikTok to create social media posts for the agency after the Senate’s top …

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Trump express optimism for US peace deal with Taliban

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday he’s ready to sign a peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan if a

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Sanders on top: Key takeaways from the Nevada caucuses

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders cruised to victory in the Nevada caucuses, heartening his supporters and stoking alarm among moderates who fear he is too liberal and would lose to President Donald Trump.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Passage to India: Trump ready for warm embrace, adulation

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the Trumpiest of offers.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Buttigieg questions 3rd place finish in Nevada, cites errors

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Pete Buttigieg’s campaign has questioned his third-place finish in Nevada’s caucuses and called for the state’s Democratic party to release a more detailed breakdown of votes and address reports of…

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
AP Deleg Count-Dem States, 8th Add,400

Wells +- Williamson +- Yang +- Others +-

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
AP Deleg Count-Dem States, 9th Add,400

Total Write +-

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
PC-Dem-Pres-All,100

2,018 of 2,097 precincts - 96 percent

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Sanders' 2016 movement now has political machine to push it

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — By the fall of 2018, when Democrats were promoting a slate of centrist candidates to topple Republicans in Congress, Bernie Sanders was seeing a very different picture.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Victims of 2 African embassy bombings await US court case

WASHINGTON (AP) — Doreen Oport was pulled from the rubble of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1998 covered in blood. Her hair was burned from the bombing. Pieces of metal and glass were embedded in her skin.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Moderates hustle to blunt Sanders' momentum after Nevada win

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Bernie Sanders’ commanding Nevada caucus victory made him a top target for his Democratic rivals and a growing source of anxiety for establishment Democrats worried that the nomination of an…