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Missouri voters to decide whether to legalize abortion in a state with a near-total ban

Nov. 05, 2024 01:06 AM EST

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters will decide Tuesday whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution and undo a near-total ban on the procedure. The measure would guarantee people's right to make decisions about their reproductive health, such as whether to...

Wisconsin Senate race pits Trump-backed millionaire against Democratic incumbent

Nov. 05, 2024 00:27 AM EST

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race pits two-term Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin against Republican Eric Hovde, a millionaire businessman backed by former President Donald Trump who poured millions of his own money into the contest. A win by...

Abortion is on the ballot in nine states and motivating voters across the US

Nov. 05, 2024 00:05 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in nine states are deciding whether their state constitutions should guarantee a right to abortion, weighing ballot measures that are expected to spur turnout for a range of crucial races. Passing certain amendments in Arizona, Florida, Missouri, Nebraska...

Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren seeks third term in US Senate against challenger John Deaton

Nov. 05, 2024 00:04 AM EST

BOSTON (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is hoping to brush back a challenge from Republican John Deaton on Tuesday as she seeks a third term representing Massachusetts. Deaton, an attorney who moved to the state from Rhode Island earlier this year, tried to portray the...

Trump wants to narrow his deficit with women but he's not changing how he talks about them

Nov. 03, 2024 22:28 PM EST

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

Nov. 02, 2024 11:16 AM EDT

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

Nov. 01, 2024 10:08 AM EDT

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'

Nov. 01, 2024 04:13 AM EDT

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

Oct. 31, 2024 17:32 PM EDT

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

Oct. 31, 2024 16:44 PM EDT

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...