Corrine Morse cast her vote in the 2016 presidential election from a glacially slow, often glitchy fax machine in Antarctica. For 20 minutes, Morse watched as the machine whirred and beeped eerily before finally printing the confirmation page she had been waiting for — her absentee ballot had been sent to Texas, where she was […]Read More

Democrat Angela Alsobrooks has pulled clearly ahead in Maryland’s unusually competitive U.S. Senate race with a double-digit lead among likely voters, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll, in a contest critical to deciding control of the chamber next year. Alsobrooks leads Republican Larry Hogan — a former governor elected twice in the deep-blue […]Read More

Republican Rep. Clay Higgins (La.) published racist comments about Haitians on Wednesday — only to delete them after being confronted by House colleagues. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Higgins called Haitians “thugs,” called Haiti the “nastiest country in the western hemisphere,” and repeated false and dehumanizing claims about pet-eating. The remarks were called […]Read More

“All told, almost 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during his presidency, starting before the pandemic hit, making Trump one of the biggest losers ever on manufacturing.” — Vice President Kamala Harris, in an economic speech in Pittsburgh, Sept. 25 “Even before the pandemic, he lost manufacturing jobs, by most people’s estimates at least 200,000.” — […]Read More

Foreign leaders traveling to the United States to attend the U.N. General Assembly this week in New York have also been meeting with former president Donald Trump, as they hedge their bets in case of a Trump victory in the November election. Trump is scheduled to meet this week with the president of the United […]Read More

Amid onlinebacklash over her recent criticism of the Democratic and Republican parties ahead of the presidential election, singer Chappell Roan said on TikTok on Wednesday that she’ll vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. However, Roan said she wouldn’t endorse Harris, criticizing the Democratic Party’s views on transgender rights and the Israel-Gaza war. “I’m not settling […]Read More

MADISON, Wis. — A years-long fight over voting rules in the swing state of Wisconsin sparked a criminal investigation this week after a mayor — wearing a hard hat and Department of Public Works jacket — carted off a ballot drop box the city clerk was about to make available to voters. The move byWausau […]Read More

Donald Trump suggested without evidence Wednesday that Iran might have been involved in two recent attempted assassinations against him, as he called for threatening to blow the country to “smithereens” if it harmed a presidential candidate. During campaign remarks in North Carolina, Trump said the two attempted assassinations “may or may not involve, but possibly […]Read More

A few months ago, the 2024 presidential election was on course to be an inverse popularity contest. Polls consistently showed that both President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump were unpopular and, often, that voters wished neither candidate would actually be on the ballot. A Pew Research Center analysis found that a quarter of […]Read More

Republicans in 2022 suffered a second straight disappointing election — and a second straight drubbing in mail and absentee voting. So some of their leaders began to push harder for the party to embrace these methods. Then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) compared the GOP’s pre-Election Day vote deficit to “starting a race where you’re 30 […]Read More