Former president Donald Trump certainly recognizes that he’s in a tricky position on abortion. Running for president in 2016 and seeking to bolster his support among religious conservatives, he promised to nominate justices to the Supreme Court who would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade’s protection of access to abortion. He did; they did. And […]Read More

Temperatures have cooled, a new school year has started and the national political spotlight is trained Tuesday on the first debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump — but there are still states holding primaries. Voters in Delaware, New Hampshire and Rhode Island will cast their ballots in a slate of […]Read More

LONDON — Iran has sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday, threatening sanctions for a move that pulls Tehran more deeply into the Russia-Ukraine conflict as Kyiv seeks U.S. permission to strike more deeply into Russian territory. Blinken said new sanctions would be announced later Tuesday, including measures against […]Read More

When Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump share the debate stage Tuesday night, voters will have their first and possibly only chance to view both candidates side-by-side in a matchup that started just about seven weeks ago, when President Joe Biden dropped out of the race. The stakes are high as Harris […]Read More

When Pennsylvanians vote by mail, they must seal their ballots inside secrecy envelopes and place them into outer envelopes that they are required to sign and date. The ballots must be received before 8 p.m. on Election Day. Local election workers track when ballots arrive. In recent elections, if a voter misdated or forgot to […]Read More

North Carolina’s Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can have his name removed from election ballots in the key swing state, denying an appeal from the State Board of Elections that would have kept him on the ballot. Local election officials estimate that designing, printing and preparing new ballots without Kennedy’s […]Read More

Sen. Tommy Tuberville has blocked the promotion of an Army general who is a senior aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, people familiar with the matter said, threatening a confrontation between the Republican firebrand and the Pentagon just weeks before the presidential election while reviving a months-old furor over the military chief’s medical secrecy. Tuberville […]Read More

Some Republicans, including Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance, on Monday amplified the false and dehumanizing claim that immigrants in Ohio who came into the country during the Biden-Harris administration are injuring and eating Americans’ pets. The baseless and bizarre belief drew Republicans’ attention Monday after Vance — who has long claimed that immigrants are […]Read More

NEW YORK — Justice Elena Kagan on Monday brushed aside concerns about whether lower-court judges could effectively enforce the Supreme Court’s new ethics rules, saying those on the federal bench are more than capable of holding justices to account. “I just think judges are not so afraid of us,” Kagan said. “I think there are […]Read More