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Trump wants to narrow his deficit with women but he's not changing how he talks about them
GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — Donald Trump says he will be the “protector” of women, whether they like it or not. He’s campaigned with men who use sexist and crude language and who have expressed alarm at the idea that wives might vote differently from their husbands. ...
Debate over abortion rights leads to expensive campaigns for high-stakes state Supreme Court seats
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Abortion and reproductive rights have been central to the races for president and governor in North Carolina, a battleground state that has more moderate abortion restrictions than elsewhere across the South. That's been even truer in the fight for a seat...
Hakeem Jeffries chooses calm over chaos as Democrats work to win the House majority
PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) — This election, he has warned, is about the economy. Freedom. Stopping Project 2025 and the MAGA extremes. And, after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, it's about democracy. And yet, Hakeem Jeffries, in line to make history as the first...
Kamala Harris says Trump's comment on women 'is offensive to everybody'
PHOENIX (AP) — Kamala Harris said Thursday that Donald Trump’s comment that he would protect women whether they “like it or not” shows that the Republican presidential nominee does not understand women’s rights “to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies." ...
Democrat Ty Pinkins is outspent as he tries to unseat Republican Sen. Roger Wicker in Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Democrat Ty Pinkins has jogged along highways and past cotton fields to try to draw attention to his effort to unseat Mississippi's senior Republican U.S. senator, Roger Wicker. Pinkins acknowledges it's a tough campaign. Republican-dominated Mississippi...
Virginia citizens make plans to vote after finding they've been wrongly purged from rolls
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Phoebe Taylor was all ready to vote in Tuesday's election. She even knew her precinct number in the city of Richmond off the top of her head. So it came as a shock when a reporter informed the naturalized U.S. citizen, originally from Great Britain, that...
Abortion-rights groups outspend opponents by more than 6 to 1 in ballot measure campaigns
The groups promoting ballot measures to add amendments to the constitutions in nine states that would enshrine a right to abortion have raised more than $160 million. That's nearly six times what their opponents have brought in, The Associated Press found in an analysis of campaign...
Britain has banned protests outside abortion clinics, but silent prayer is a gray area
LONDON (AP) — A British ban on protesting outside abortion clinics went into effect on Thursday, though it left a question mark over whether anti-abortion demonstrators who pray silently will be breaking the law. The law, which applies to England and Wales, bars protests within 150...
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Nevada on Election Day
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nevada is once again home to competitive races that could determine control of the White House and the U.S. Senate. It is also one of 10 states where voters will decide a high-profile ballot measure on abortion in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning...
A to-do list, size matters and a 'petty tyrant': Key moments from Kamala Harris' speech
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris on Tuesday sought to remind Americans what life was like under Donald Trump and then offered voters a different path forward if they send her to the White House, in a speech billed as her campaign's closing argument. “I will always listen to you,...
