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

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s election police unit is investigating alleged fraud in signature gathering for the state’s upcoming abortion referendum in a move that critics say is designed to intimidate voters. In the past week, two people reported that an agent from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrived at their homes and asked them […]Read More

When House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) visited former president Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year, one of his desired outcomes was to bolster his wavering leadership position. He didn’t exactly get what he wanted; soon after Johnson touted Trump’s support, the former president told reporters that Johnson’s fate was still up in the air. […]Read More

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has expressed support for loosening federal restrictions on marijuana, aligning himself with the Biden administration’s ongoing efforts to do exactly that. In a social media post Sunday, Trump also said he would vote “yes”on a Florida ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana for adults in his home state. “As President, […]Read More