By MAYA SWEEDLER and DAVID SHARP
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An uncommon system of voting could be central to which party controls the U.S. House this fall — or even the presidency.
In Maine and Alaska, voters in competitive congressional …
By MAYA SWEEDLER
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. general election on Nov. 5 will decide the country’s direction, but it is far from a nationally administered contest. The 50 states and the District of Columbia run their own elections, and …
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the American electorate so evenly divided, there will be elections in November close enough that officials will have to recount the votes. Just don’t expect those recounts to change the winner. They rarely …
By Shalina Chatlani, Stateline.org
State Sen. Victor Torres represents predominantly Hispanic Osceola County in central Florida. At Sunday Mass at his local church, immigrants often tell him they are scared to seek health care.
“They say, ‘My mother is ill, …
By ANITA SNOW and MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN, Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — On just one sweltering day during the hottest June on record in Phoenix, a 38-year-old man collapsed under a freeway bridge and a 41-year-old woman was found slumped …
By ALI SWENSON
NEW YORK (AP) — You’ve heard the horror stories: Someone casting multiple ballots, people voting in the name of dead relatives, mail-in ballots being intercepted.
Voter fraud does happen occasionally. When it does, we tend to hear …
By ERIC TUCKER
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new book’s assertion that former President Donald Trump may have had as many as seven private phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin since leaving the White House has refocused attention on their …
CARMEL VALLEY – The forward progress of the Piney Fire in Carmel Valley near Jamesburg has been stopped, as fire fighters continue to put out the flames that started Tuesday afternoon.
According to Cal Fire, the fire is currently holding …
MONTEREY – The advocating and marketing organization for Monterey County, See Monterey, recently released its strategic plan which aims to steer the county's hospitality and tourism industry through evolving changes between now and 2030.
The “Monterey County Tourism 2030 Roadmap” …
Jackie Fortiér | Kaiser Health News (TNS)
Nearly 90% of babies who had to be hospitalized with COVID-19 had mothers who didn’t get the vaccine while they were pregnant, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control …
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly a decade into the Trump Era of politics, less than a month from his third Election Day as the Republican candidate for president and there is still remarkably little …
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Humanity is hitting the upper limit of life expectancy, according to a new study.
Advances in medical technology and genetic research — not to mention larger numbers of people making …
CNN has set a deadline of noon on Thursday for former President Trump to pull a U-turn and agree to a second debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.
The network said it would need nearly two weeks to prepare for …
By RICHARD LARDNER and DAKE KANG
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible were printed in a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair …
By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer
Decades before he hosted “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump was … an apprentice.
His mentor: Roy Cohn, the ruthless attorney who was a prominent New York power broker in the ’70s and ’80s after famously …
California renters are twice as glum about their monetary picture than Golden State homeowners, a new survey shows.
The Public Policy Institute of California's statewide polling for September reinforces a key economic divide – renters vs. homeowners. Consider that 44% …
By CHRISTINE FERNANDO, Associated Press
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — On a table at the office of the Waukegan Township Democrats sits a box of postcards with Wisconsin addresses that were collected during a postcard-writing pizza party to help turn out …
By MAYA SWEEDLER
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the 2020 presidential election, Florida reported the results within a few hours of poll close of more than 99% of ballots cast.
In California, almost one-third of ballots were uncounted after election night. …
By MIKE CATALINI
Rows of folding tables and empty chairs appear on Ballot Processing View 2. Over on Tabulation View 2, a man in a black T-shirt and shorts is seen shuffling papers near a waist-high machine.
The livestream scenes …
By LEAH ASKARINAM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Election night in the United States is a bit like a jigsaw puzzle, except that only one piece appears at a time, and you don’t get to look at the picture on the box. …
