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After a chaotic Congress, lawmakers head home to ask voters: How about another term?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is off for the campaign season, as lawmakers from one of the most chaotic and unproductive legislative sessions in modern times try to persuade voters to keep them on the job. The House Republicans led the tumult — painstakingly electing their speaker...
Jimmy Carter at 100: A century of changes for a president, the US and the world since 1924
Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as U.S. president, Jimmy Carter is about to reach the century mark. The 39th president, who remains under home hospice care, will turn 100 on Tuesday, Oct. 1, celebrating in the same south Georgia town where he was born in 1924. ...
Walz has experience on a debate stage pinning down an abortion opponent's shifting positions
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz knows how to lean into abortion rights on the debate stage. He's done it before. Just ask his Republican opponent in the 2022 Minnesota governor's race, Dr. Scott Jensen, who was on the receiving end of Walz’s...
North Carolina appeals court blocks use of university's digital ID for voting
RALEIGH, N.C, (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court on Friday blocked students and employees at the state’s flagship public university from providing a digital identification produced by the school when voting to comply with a new photo ID mandate. The decision by a three-judge...
The State Fair of Texas opens with a new gun ban after courts reject challenge
DALLAS (AP) — The State Fair of Texas opened Friday under a new firearms ban, having withstood weeks of pressure from Republicans who had charged into a public rift with one of the state's most beloved institutions and have spent years championing looser gun laws. Organizers put...
Ohio's fall redistricting issue sparked a fight over one word. So what is 'gerrymandering,' anyway?
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — All the political wrangling over Ohio's Issue 1, a statewide ballot issue aimed at changing the way the state draws its political maps, has landed voters in a fix. While they are hearing from the campaign behind the constitutional amendment that it would prevent...
Wisconsin city's mailing of duplicate absentee ballots raises confusion, questions over elections
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — When the elections clerk in Wisconsin's heavily Democratic capital city of Madison announced on Monday that duplicate absentee ballots had mistakenly been sent to around 2,000 voters, it ignited concerns about election integrity from a Republican congressman and others on the...
Senate Democrats are making a late push in red-leaning states as they try to hold majority
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats looking to preserve their Senate majority in the face of a difficult election cycle announced Thursday they were making a “multi-million dollar investment” in television advertising in Texas and Florida races with the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign...
Editorial Roundup: United States
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Sept. 20 The Washington Post on what to expect on election night and advises patience In 2020, the United States did not have election night so much as election week....
Trump warns he'll expel migrants under key Biden immigration programs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump, who has made anti-immigration rhetoric a key part of his reelection campaign, warned Wednesday that he would kick out hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have entered the country under two key Biden administration programs if he's reelected. ...
