The Portage County, Ohio, elections board has barred its sheriff’s office from providing security during early voting after Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski (R) urged people to collect the addresses of residents displaying yard signs for Vice President Kamala Harris. The board’s decision Friday, which affects in-person absentee voting, came a week after Zuchowski said in public […]Read More

A panel of federal judges heard arguments Tuesday in a case that could upend the rules for counting a sliver of mail ballots in Mississippi just weeks before Election Day, with possible ramifications for all states. At issue is a Mississippi law that allows mail ballots to be counted if they arrive up to five […]Read More

In the wake of an apparent second attempt on his life earlier this month, former president Donald Trump began once again amplifying the idea that the twin threats were a function of Democratic rhetoric. He and his allies had done the same thing in the wake of his being grazed by a bullet in Butler, […]Read More

In her first six weeks on top of the Democratic presidential ticket, Kamala Harris surpassed the total number of campaign contributors that President Joe Biden had acquired in his 15 months of campaigning. Harris has received contributions from 3.8 million individual donors, more than 70 percent of whom were unique to her and did not […]Read More

For someone who has so strongly objected in recent weeks to the idea that he’s an authoritarian or a threat to democracy, Donald Trump has a funny way of showing it. At a rally Monday in Pennsylvania, the former president said for at least the fourth time that criticizing judges and justices either is or […]Read More

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) announced Tuesday that he does not plan to a call a special legislative session before the November election to overhaul the way his state awards its electoral votes, a change sought by former president Donald Trump and his allies. Pillen’s announcement came a day after a key holdout vote, Republican […]Read More

For those who’ve tracked Donald Trump’s speeches over the past decade, the patter that unfolded in Pennsylvania on Monday evening was very familiar. An attack on a Democrat that shifted into a discussion of television ratings that ended at praise for an icon of the 1980s. We could create a slot-machine-style Trump Speech Generator with […]Read More

When Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), amplified baseless, false claims about Haitian immigrants earlier this month, threats to those immigrants and the Ohio community in which they lived spiked. Some of the threats reportedly originated in foreign countries, but many didn’t. Local leaders in the city of Springfield and in […]Read More

NEW YORK — President Joe Biden on Tuesday forcefully touted his record of rebuilding alliances and defending democracy around the globe, as Israeli strikes in Lebanon and the growing threat of a regional war in the Middle East cast a pall over his final United Nations address. Biden reflected on the arc of his five-decade […]Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris voiced support Tuesday for eliminating the Senate filibuster to pass a law to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade and secure abortion rights nationwide. “I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe,” Harris told Wisconsin Public Radio. “To actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom, and […]Read More