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Updated: 10 hours ago
|By Associated Press
President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are participating in a number of events in the final weekend of the presidential campaign.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By Jacqueline Policastro
President Trump’s record in the White House is on the ballot. That’s what the national parties are saying just a few days before Election Day.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By Associated Press
With four days until the election and more than 80 million votes already cast, time is running out for Trump and Biden to change the shape of the race.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By WILL WEISSERT and PAUL J. WEBER
More than 9 million ballots had been cast as of Friday morning in the nation’s second most-populous state, exceeding its 8.9-plus million votes four years ago, according to an Associated Press tally of Texas early vote data.
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Updated: 20 hours ago
|By Associated Press
The equivalent of as many as 1,300 plastic grocery bags per person is landing in places such as oceans and roadways, according to a new study of U.S. plastic trash.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2020 at 8:12 AM EDT
|By DAVID CRARY
A tweet by the Girl Scouts congratulating new Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett drew such outrage from Barrett’s critics that the youth organization swiftly deleted it – only to draw a new backlash from Barrett’s supporters.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2020 at 8:56 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Philadelphia police are facing rebuke from both City Hall and the family of Walter Wallace Jr. as the city reexamines the department’s response to a year of sometimes violent civil unrest.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2020 at 8:22 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Pelosi lobbed her latest public relations volley with a letter to Mnuchin that blames Republicans for the failed talks.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2020 at 7:14 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Both nominees are now focusing on encouraging voters to turn out on Election Day, next Tuesday.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2020 at 4:47 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The U.S. Department of Interior announcement just days ahead of the Nov. 3 election could lead to a resumption of wolf hunts in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Updated: Oct. 29, 2020 at 12:29 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The plea by David Correia came Thursday to charges of making false statements to the Federal Election Commission and wire fraud conspiracy.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2020 at 11:38 AM EDT
|By SCOTT BAUER
The party chairman said the stolen money would have been used in the final days of the campaign to make snap spending decisions based on the state of the presidential race.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2020 at 10:24 AM EDT
|By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 751,000, the lowest since March, but it’s still historically high and indicates the viral pandemic is still forcing many employers to cut jobs.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2020 at 9:10 AM EDT
|By Jacqueline Policastro
Could the outcome of the presidential election impact our food supply?
Updated: Oct. 29, 2020 at 4:32 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
China is a central theme in President Donald Trump's campaign to win a second term.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2020 at 4:03 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
Combined with early, in-person voting, at least 71.5 million votes have already been cast, more than the total number of advance votes four years ago.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2020 at 8:06 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
With less than a week until Election Day, Trump is trailing Democratic rival Joe Biden in most national polls. Biden also has an advantage, though narrower, in the key swing states that could decide the election.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2020 at 6:53 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
New Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not take part in the vote “because of the need for a prompt resolution of it and because she has not had time to fully review the parties' filings,” court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2020 at 5:27 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff, has announced that he is “Anonymous,” the senior White House administration official who claimed to be part of a “resistance” working “from within” to thwart President Donald Trump’s “worst inclinations.”
Updated: Oct. 28, 2020 at 3:33 PM EDT
|By MARCY GORDON
Lawmakers of both parties are assessing the companies' tremendous power to disseminate speech and ideas, and are looking to challenge their long-enjoyed bedrock legal protections for online speech.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2020 at 1:57 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Election nights always have surprises, but the worry this year is being driven by the large number of people voting early or by mail, in part driven by the coronavirus.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2020 at 11:54 AM EDT
|By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER
The 103-year-old is proud of her lengthy voting record, saying it’s every citizen’s “civic duty” to take part in the process.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2020 at 11:51 AM EDT
|By Anna Helhoski, NerdWallet
The results of the election are very likely to change the way you repay student loans, whether debt forgiveness is in your future and even how you or your children pay for college.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2020 at 11:22 AM EDT
|By Kyle Midura
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Democratic challenger Lt. Col. Amy McGrath discuss coronavirus, racial justice, and national influence.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2020 at 7:17 AM EDT
|By LAURIE KELLMAN
After months filled with disease, disruption and unrest, Americans are worried that Election Day could become a flashpoint.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2020 at 1:42 AM EDT
|By Gray News staff
The Trump campaign says it is working with law enforcement to investigate the source of the attack.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2020 at 12:25 AM EDT
|By WILL WEISSERT, ALEXANDRA JAFFE and AAMER MADHANI
While Biden worked to expand the electoral map in the South, Trump focused on the Democrats’ “blue wall” states that he flipped in 2016 — Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 at 7:19 PM EDT
|By Kyle Midura
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Democratic challenger Lt. Col. Cal Cunningham discuss coronavirus, racial justice, and health care reform.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 at 6:11 PM EDT
|By CNN staff
For most states, the deadline to receive mail-in ballots is Election Day.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 at 6:06 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
That is raising concerns about heavy crowds on Nov. 3 amid a renewed spread of the coronavirus.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 at 5:54 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The Senate Commerce Committee has summoned Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai to testify for a hearing Wednesday.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 at 2:52 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The court is weighing a plea from the president to prevent the Manhattan district attorney from acquiring his tax returns as well as appeals from his campaign to shorten the deadline for receiving and counting absentee ballots in the battleground states of North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 at 2:30 PM EDT
|By LARRY NEUMEISER
The decision by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan came after the Justice Department argued that the United States — and by extension the American people — should replace Trump as the defendant in a lawsuit filed by the columnist E. Jean Carroll.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 at 12:19 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The census is used to determine how many congressional seats each state gets, in a process known as apportionment, as well as the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal spending annually.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 at 12:06 PM EDT
|By STEPHEN GROVES and PIA DESHPANDE
The slow-moving nature of mail on large reservations puts the people who live there at a disadvantage to getting their votes counted, advocates say.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 at 8:55 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
The statement also urges leaders to heed the verdict of “legitimate election results” regardless of who wins in November.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2020 at 11:43 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Amy Coney Barrett is headed to the Supreme Court. The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee by a 52-48 vote, with Republicans overpowering Democratic opposition a week before Election Day.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2020 at 10:24 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Since 2017, the president and Republican National Committee have held several fundraisers at the president’s Washington hotel in the historic Old Post Office building, which the president’s company leases from the federal government.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2020 at 5:52 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Worldy Armand, a 39-year-old Boston resident, was taken into custody late Sunday after drug control unit officers on patrol saw a man who matched the description of the suspect authorities were looking for in the ballot box fire, police said.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2020 at 5:21 PM EDT
|By STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE
Stocks are slumping sharply in afternoon trading on Wall Street Monday and deepening last week’s losses, as a troubling climb in coronavirus counts threatens the global economy.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2020 at 12:52 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
It’s possible, if unlikely that a small economic-relief package will be approved in a post-election “lame duck” session of Congress. More likely, a broad rescue measure could be enacted early next year.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2020 at 10:07 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
Skirmishes broke out between supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump as a Jews For Trump convoy of hundreds of cars draped with American flags and Trump 2020 banners rolled slowly through Manhattan and Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2020 at 7:12 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
With a bit of rejiggering, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump played host Sunday to hundreds of super-heroes, unicorns, skeletons and even a miniature version of themselves as part of a Halloween celebration at the White House.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2020 at 12:04 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
The NYPD prohibits officers from “endorsing political candidates or publicly expressing personal views and opinions” about candidates while on duty or in uniform.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2020 at 11:33 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Pacific Gas & Electric started cutting power Sunday to tens of thousands of California residents and planned outages for many more to prevent the chance of sparking wildfires due to extreme fire weather.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2020 at 11:27 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Close to 8.6 million Americans have contracted the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and about 225,000 have died; both totals are the world’s highest.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2020 at 8:57 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Massachusetts election officials say a fire was set in a Boston ballot drop box holding more than 120 ballots in what appears to have been a “deliberate attack."
Updated: Oct. 25, 2020 at 7:35 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The number of people casting an early ballot in the presidential election now surpasses those who voted early during all of 2016.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2020 at 2:17 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Senate Republicans voted overwhelmingly Sunday to advance Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett toward final confirmation despite Democratic objections, just over a week before the presidential election.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2020 at 11:42 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
The vice president's office says Pence does not have to quarantine because he is considered an essential worker.