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Control of Congress is at stake and with it a president's agenda
WASHINGTON (AP) — Control of Congress is at stake Tuesday, with ever-tight races for the House and Senate that will determine which party holds the majority and the power to boost or block a president’s agenda, or if the White House confronts a divided Capitol Hill. The key...
Abortion is on the ballot in nine states and motivating voters across the US
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...
The final day of voting in the US is here, after tens of millions have already cast their ballots
WASHINGTON (AP) — Election Day 2024 arrived Tuesday — with tens of millions of Americans having already cast their ballots. Those include record numbers in Georgia, North Carolina and other battleground states that could decide the winner. The early turnout in Georgia, which has...
Empty seats become a more common sight at Trump's final rallies
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump has spent nearly a decade bragging about his crowds. Lately, he’s been making the same boasts to swaths of empty seats. In his third presidential bid, Trump for the first time is facing an opponent who stages her own massive rallies, calling...
On the night before Election Day, Kamala Harris brings in celebrities. Donald Trump is unimpressed
On the night before Election Day, at campaign events across the country, celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Lady Gaga and Jon Bon Jovi turned out in force for Kamala Harris ' presidential bid. The battleground state of Pennsylvania was particularly starry: In Pittsburgh, the vice...
Harris campaign spends final hours reminding Pennsylvania of a Trump ally's joke about Puerto Rico
READING, Pa. (AP) — The day before Election Day, 17-year-old girl Carmen Hernandez held a cardboard sign with the Puerto Rican flag outside Trump’s rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, a city that is two-thirds Hispanic. “What you call trash is our treasure,” the sign read. ...
Trump wants the presidential winner to be declared on election night. Why that's unlikely
Former President Donald Trump is stepping up his demands that the winner of the presidential race be declared shortly after polls close Tuesday, well before all the votes are counted. Trump set the pattern in 2020, when he declared that he had won during the early morning hours after...
Some Republican-led states refuse to let Justice Department monitors into polling places
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Republican-led states say they will block the Justice Department's election monitors from going inside polling places on Election Day, pushing back on federal authorities' decades-long practice of watching for violations of federal voting laws. Officials in...
About 24 states say they'll send National Guard troops to DC for vote certification and inauguration
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than two dozen states have indicated they would be willing to send National Guard troops to Washington if requested in the weeks following the presidential election and in the runup to the inauguration, Guard officials said Monday. The District of Columbia...
Harris and Trump set sights on Pennsylvania in final push before Election Day
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump closed out this year’s presidential race with a fierce battle for Pennsylvania on Monday, making their final pitch to voters across a state that could prove decisive in the campaign for the White House. Harris ended her night in...
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US Rep. Lauren Boebert will find out whether switching races worked in Colorado
DENVER (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert will soon find out whether her political gamble, abruptly switching congressional districts in Colorado mid-election, will cost the GOP or reinforce its position in the U.S. House. Boebert, a far-right standard-bearer whose...
Harris and Trump set sights on Pennsylvania in final push before Election Day
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump closed out this year’s presidential race with a fierce battle for Pennsylvania on Monday, making their final pitch to voters across a state that could prove decisive in the campaign for the White House. Harris ended her night in...
The Latest: All eyes on Pennsylvania as candidates spend final day campaigning there
The presidential campaign comes down to a final push across a handful of states on the eve of Election Day. Kamala Harris spent all of Monday in Pennsylvania, whose 19 electoral votes offer the largest prize among the states expected to determine the Electoral College outcome. Donald...
Stock market today: Asian shares are mostly higher after Wall Street drifts ahead of US election
Shares were mostly higher in Asia early Tuesday, with major benchmarks gaining more than 1%, after U.S. stock indexes drifted lower a day ahead of the U.S. presidential election. This week will bring various potential flashpoints, among them Election Day in the United States. But...
The final day of voting in the US is here, after tens of millions have already cast their ballots
WASHINGTON (AP) — Election Day 2024 arrived Tuesday — with tens of millions of Americans having already cast their ballots. Those include record numbers in Georgia, North Carolina and other battleground states that could decide the winner. The early turnout in Georgia, which has...
Puerto Rico holds general election that promises to be historic
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico is holding elections that will be historic regardless of which of the top two gubernatorial candidates wins. If Jenniffer González of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party wins Tuesday's election, it will mark the first time in the...
Voters deciding dozens of ballot measures affecting life, death, taxes and more
While electing officials to make and enforce laws, voters in dozens of states are also deciding on more than 140 ballot proposals affecting the way people legally live, work and die. As 10 states consider measures related to abortion or reproductive rights on Tuesday's ballots,...
Control of Congress is at stake and with it a president's agenda
WASHINGTON (AP) — Control of Congress is at stake Tuesday, with ever-tight races for the House and Senate that will determine which party holds the majority and the power to boost or block a president’s agenda, or if the White House confronts a divided Capitol Hill. The key...
North Carolina attorney general's race features 2 members of Congress
Two outgoing members of Congress who also served in the state legislature were vying Tuesday for the post of North Carolina attorney general, a closely watched race for a job that has gained increasing prominence in states across the country. Democratic U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson is an...
Federal agencies say Russia and Iran are ramping up influence campaigns targeting US voters
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s federal law enforcement and election security agencies are debunking two new examples of Russian election disinformation on the eve of Election Day, highlighting attempts by foreign actors to sow doubt in the U.S. voting process and warning that the efforts run...
