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Where Trump and Harris stand on immigration and border security
Immigration is one of the key issues of the November election, with many voters concerned over the number of migrants who have entered the U.S. during the Biden administration.
CBS News says it will be up to Vance and Walz to fact-check each other in veep debate
When JD Vance and Tim Walz take the stage for next week's vice presidential debate, CBS News says it will be up to the candidates, not the moderators, to fact-check each other.
Top election official in Nevada county that is key to the presidential race takes stress leave
The top election official in a northern Nevada county, key to winning the presidential battleground state, is taking a stress-related leave of absence with just over a month to go before Election Day.
Iranian operatives charged in the US with hacking Donald Trump's presidential campaign
The Justice Department has announced criminal charges against Iranian operatives suspected of hacking Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and disseminating stolen information to media organizations.
Harris arrives at the US-Mexico border to try to show that her record is more than Trump criticisms
Vice President Kamala Harris is making her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.
Trump and Zelenskyy meet in New York as election holds high stakes for US support for Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met face-to-face with Donald Trump with public tensions rising between the two over Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams pleads not guilty to taking bribes and illegal campaign contributions
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has pleaded not guilty to federal bribery charges and other counts in a case that has roiled the nation’s biggest city after months of investigations, searches and subpoenas.
Jews and Catholics warn against Trump's latest loyalty test for religious voters
Former President Donald Trump recently reissued his loyalty test to religious Americans, declaring that he can best protect their freedoms while preemptively blaming some if he loses the presidential election in November.
Senate Democrats are making a late push in red-leaning states as they try to hold majority
Democrats looking to stay in the Senate majority are going on the offense in two U.S. Senate races in the Republican-leaning states of Texas and Florida.
Trump favors huge new tariffs. What are they, and how do they work?
Former President Donald Trump has proposed a 60% tariff on goods from China and a 20% tariff on everything else the United States imports.
Groups work to engage young voters in democracy as election processes come under scrutiny
The League of Women Voters of Ohio brought its statewide roadshow to Ohio State University Thursday in an effort to register and excite student voters.
Biden signs temporary funding bill that avoids a shutdown before the election
President Joe Biden has signed a temporary government spending bill that keeps agencies operating into December, after Congress punted key spending decisions until after the November election.
Republican-led group sues to block Georgia rule requiring hand count of ballots
A Republican-led group is challenging Georgia’s new requirement that poll workers count the total number of ballots by hand.
Top Haitian official denounces false claim, repeated by Trump, that immigrants are eating pets
A strange moment in American politics surfaced at the U.N. General Assembly, brought up by a top Haitian official.
Melania Trump calls her husband's survival of assassination attempts 'miracles'
In the first interview with Melania Trump in more than two years, the former first lady says she saw her husband's survival in two attempts on his life as “miracles."
Louisiana prosecutors drop most serious charge in deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene
Louisiana prosecutors have dismissed the most serious state charge in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene.
US lawmakers' concerns about mail ballots are fueled by other issues with mail service
A contentious congressional hearing has shown that lawmakers are uneasy about the U.S. Postal Service's readiness for a crush of mail ballots for the November election because some of them feel burned by other Postal Service actions.
Florida Gov. DeSantis warns time is ‘running out quickly’ for Hurricane Helene preparations
Gov. Ron DeSantis warned time is “running out quickly” for people to prepare for large, life-threatening Hurricane Helene, which was already a Category 2 storm Thursday morning as it raced toward making landfall on North Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Rudy Giuliani disbarred in DC after pushing Trump's false 2020 election claims
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred in Washington, months after he lost his law license in New York for pursuing false claims that then-President Donald Trump made about his 2020 presidential election loss.
Harris says the right to be safe is a civil right, as Biden signs order on gun technology
Vice President Kamala Harris says she believes the right to be safe is a civil right, and that means a right to live free from gun violence.
Appeals court signals it might be open to altering Donald Trump's $489 million civil fraud penalty
A New York appeals court panel appeared receptive Thursday to potentially overturning or reducing a civil fraud judgment that stands to cost Donald Trump nearly $500 million.
Harris makes Republican the star of her campaign to win North Carolina
There’s an unlikely star in Kamala Harris’ fight to make history in North Carolina: Mark Robinson, the state’s scandal-plagued candidate for governor.
Hearing on Trump assassination attempts says Pennsylvania failure was by Secret Service
Members of a bipartisan House task force investigating the Trump assassination attempts emphasized during their first hearing that the Secret Service, not local authorities, was responsible for failures in planning and communications that led to a gunman being able to open fire on former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.
Americans are more likely to see Harris' gender as a hurdle than they were for Clinton: AP-NORC poll
Americans are more likely to believe that being a woman will hurt Kamala Harris’ chances in the November election, compared to eight years ago when Hillary Clinton was running.
Utah Supreme Court crushes constitutional amendment deemed 'counterfactual' by lower court
Utah voters will not decide this November on a proposed constitutional amendment asking voters to cede power over ballot measures to lawmakers after the Utah Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision voiding the amendment.
Georgia court rejects counting presidential votes for Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz
Georgia's Supreme Court says presidential candidates Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz aren't qualified to be on the state's ballots and votes for them should not count.
Here’s what’s on the ballot in Volusia County for the Nov. 5 election
As the election approaches, get to know the candidates from federal down to the local level. Here is a breakdown of everything you will see on the ballot when voting in Volusia County.
Concerns linger after gunfire damages Arizona Democratic campaign office
Authorities are analyzing evidence collected from a Democratic campaign office in a suburban strip mall in Arizona that has twice been shot at over the last week.
House approves GOP resolution condemning Biden and Harris over Afghanistan withdrawal
House Republicans have voted to condemn President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Speaker Johnson demands Zelenskyy remove Ukraine's ambassador to US after Pennsylvania visit
House Speaker Mike Johnson is calling on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to fire his country’s ambassador to the U.S. The Republican speaker is criticizing Zelenskyy's visit to an ammunition plant in Pennsylvania, a swing-state, as a political stunt.
Trump says Ukraine is 'dead' and dismisses its defense against Russia's invasion
Former President Donald Trump says Ukraine should have made concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin instead of going to war with its invading neighbor.
The Secret Service is investigating a report that an agent groped a Harris staff member
A U.S. Secret Service agent has been accused of groping and sexually harassing a vice presidential staff member during a trip last week.
Overseas voters are the latest target in Trump's false narrative on election fraud
Donald Trump this week falsely accused Democrats of cheating their way to a win in November, using a bipartisan 1986 act to claim without evidence that anyone overseas can get a ballot emailed to them, even if they’re not eligible to vote.
Trump warns he'll expel migrants under key Biden immigration programs
Former President Donald Trump is warning that he would kick out hundreds of thousands of people who entered the country under two key Biden administration programs if he’s reelected.
Harris competing for a single electoral vote in Nebraska as Trump fails to get rules changed
The battle for the White House could come down to a single Electoral College vote from a single congressional district in Nebraska.
Harris will campaign on Arizona's border with Mexico in attempted show of strength on immigration
Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona on Friday as her campaign tries to turn the larger issue of immigration from a liability into a strength and hopes to counter a line of frequent political attacks from former President Donald Trump.
Intelligence officials have briefed the Trump campaign on Iranian threats. A look at what's known
U.S. officials briefed Donald Trump’s campaign this week on Iranian threats against the Republican presidential nominee, but the briefing centered on previously reported threats and not a new plot.
A Pennsylvania bakery known for its election cookie poll is swamped with orders
A suburban Philadelphia bakery’s cookie “poll” that started during the 2008 presidential campaign as a joke between the owners and their customers has grown into much more.
CrowdStrike executive apologizes to Congress for July global tech outage
An executive at cybersecurity company CrowdStrike apologized in testimony to Congress for sparking a global technology outage over the summer.
New York court is set to hear Donald Trump's appeal of his $489 million civil fraud verdict
A New York appeals court is set to hear arguments in former President Donald Trump’s fight to overturn a civil fraud judgment that could cost him close to half a billion dollars.
Top Muslim-voter organization endorses Harris as Middle East conflict escalates
One of the nation's largest Muslim voter-mobilization groups is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential bid.
A tale of crushing security lapses and missed chances to stop the man who shot Trump
Investigations into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in July have revealed striking security lapses.
Harris is making a 'capitalist' pitch to boost the economy as Trump pushes deeper into populism
Vice President Kamala Harris is pledging to build an economy that is both pro-business and helps the middle class as she pushes back against Republican nominee Donald Trump’s claims that she’s advancing “communist” ideas.
Secret Service failures before Trump rally shooting were 'preventable,' Senate panel finds
Multiple Secret Service failures ahead of the July rally for former President Donald Trump where a gunman opened fire were “foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day."
Trump tells women he 'will be your protector' as GOP struggles with outreach to female voters
From former President Donald Trump to Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, male Republican candidates are struggling to speak to female voters, using language criticized as tone-deaf and patronizing as they try to win support from women and speak to issues important to them.
What polls show about Tim Walz and JD Vance before Tuesday's VP debate
This year’s vice presidential candidates both entered the spotlight this summer as relative political unknowns — but as they prepare to address their biggest audience yet in next week’s debate, Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance is less popular among voters than his Democratic rival, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Court weighs Florida’s teacher pronoun restrictions
A federal appellate-court panel heard arguments Tuesday in a challenge to a Florida law requiring educators to use pronouns that align with their sex assigned at birth, in a case that has drawn national attention from the Biden administration, teachers unions and LGBTQ advocates.
Man who staked out Trump at Florida golf course charged with attempting an assassination
A man who authorities say staked out Donald Trump for 12 hours on his golf course in Florida and wrote of his desire to kill him has been indicted on charges that he attempted to assassinate the former president.
Trump praises Russia's military record in argument to stop funding Ukraine's fight
Donald Trump is again criticizing the Biden administration’s financial support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.
In effort to refute porn-site message report, Mark Robinson campaign hires a law firm
North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson says his campaign has hired a law firm to help investigate a CNN report stating he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s message board — something he denies.
A year ago Kevin McCarthy was booted as House speaker. Mike Johnson is trying to avoid that fate
One year since House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was booted from office after Congress voted to fund the federal government, the new House Speaker Mike Johnson finds himself courting, but so far avoiding, a similar fate.
GOP governor halts push to prevent Trump from losing one of Nebraska's electoral votes
An effort to prevent Donald Trump from losing a potentially crucial electoral vote from Nebraska appears dead.
Trump mixes up the name of Charlottesville, Virginia, during his speech in Georgia
Donald Trump has flubbed the name of Charlottesville, Virginia, while going off script during a speech otherwise focused on economic policy, slamming Vice President Kamala Harris for lying about “Charlottestown.”.
Haitian group in Springfield, Ohio, files citizen criminal charges against Trump and Vance
The leader of a nonprofit representing the Haitian community has invoked a private-citizen right to file charges against former President Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance.
Georgia court could reject counting presidential votes for Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz
Georgia Supreme Court justices are expressing skepticism that votes for presidential candidates Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz should count.
PHOTOS: Democrats are becoming a force in traditionally conservative The Villages
Energized Democrats are becoming a force in the conservative Florida retirement community known as The Villages.
Election 2024 Latest: Trump makes first campaign stop in Georgia since feud with Kemp ended
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is making his first campaign visit to battleground Georgia since a feud between the former president and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp ended last month with Kemp endorsing Trump.
House Republicans advance contempt charges against Secretary Blinken over Afghanistan testimony
Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee have advanced contempt of Congress charges against Secretary of State Antony Blinken following a contentious back-and-forth with the Cabinet secretary over an appearance to testify on the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
More women are charged with pregnancy-related crimes since Roe's end, study finds
A study has found that the number of women charged with crimes related to their pregnancies jumped in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for abortion bans across the country.
Trump calls for 100% tariffs on cars made in Mexico as part of US manufacturing plan
Donald Trump has pledged to stop U.S. businesses from shipping jobs overseas and to take other countries’ jobs and factories by relying heavily on sweeping tariffs.
Harris is more popular than Trump among AAPI voters, a new APIA Vote/AAPI Data survey finds
Vice President Kamala Harris is viewed more favorably by Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander voters than former President Donald Trump.
Several states are making late changes to election rules, even as voting is set to begin
Across the U.S., including in some of the nation’s presidential swing states, new or recently altered state laws are changing how Americans will vote, tally ballots and administer and certify November’s election.
Alsobrooks presses the case for national abortion rights in critical Maryland Senate race
Democrat Angela Alsobrooks is prioritizing abortion rights in a key U.S. Senate race in Maryland against Republican Larry Hogan.
Abortion advocates to go to court over Florida’s anti-Amendment 4 campaign
A Leon County circuit judge is slated Wednesday to hear arguments in a political committee’s request for a temporary injunction to block the state Agency for Health Care Administration from disseminating what the committee calls “misinformation” about a proposed constitutional amendment on abortion rights.
Florida officials pressure schools to roll back sex ed lessons on contraception and consent
Some Florida school districts are rolling back a more comprehensive approach to sex education in favor of abstinence-focused lessons.
Texas jury clears most 'Trump Train’ drivers in civil trial over 2020 Biden-Harris bus encounter
A federal jury in Texas has cleared a group of former President Donald Trump supporters and found one person liable in a civil trial over a so-called “Trump Train” that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus in 2020.
Jordan can stay on ballot in Lake property appraiser race, judge rules
The contentious race for property appraiser will continue in Lake County after a judge refused incumbent Carey Baker’s request to kick challenger Mark Jordan off the ballot, in a case that has angered Republican leaders in the county and left Baker to run for reelection as a write-in candidate.
A state senator has thwarted a GOP effort to lock down all of Nebraska's electoral votes for Trump
A Republican effort to lock down all of Nebraska’s electoral votes for former President Donald Trump appears doomed because one state lawmaker won't give backers his crucial support.
Trump will attend Al Smith charity dinner that Harris is skipping to campaign in battleground state
Donald Trump has confirmed he'll be the sole featured speaker at this year’s Al Smith charity dinner in New York.
Election 2024 Latest: Trump and Harris work to expand their coalitions in final weeks of election
The lines that have long defined each party’s policy priorities are blurring as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump seek to expand their coalitions in the final weeks of a fiercely competitive presidential election.
FBI finds violent crime declined in 2023. Here's what to know about the report
Violent crime in the US dropped again in 2023, according to FBI statistics that show a continued trend downward after a coronavirus pandemic-era crime spike.
Harris reaches agreement on transition planning with Biden administration, no word on Trump yet
Vice President Kamala Harris’ transition team has reached an agreement with the government to accept federal support to prepare for her potential presidency.
Trump listens during a farming event in rural Pennsylvania, then threatens John Deere with tariffs
Donald Trump sat in a large barn in rural Pennsylvania as farmers expressed concerns about losing their way of life, asking questions and offering jokes but mostly just listening.
US to seek attempted assassination charge against man accused of staking out Trump at golf course
The man accused in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump wrote a note months earlier saying that he intended to kill the former president.
Harris owns a gun? Trump wants to cap credit card rates? Party lines blur in campaign's last stretch
One presidential candidate is talking up gun ownership and promising tough new border security measures.
Trump allies make another push to change Nebraska's Electoral College law
A top Donald Trump ally is pressuring Nebraska Republicans to award all of their state’s Electoral College votes to the statewide winner, a late-stage rule change that would potentially help return Trump to the White House.
Spending deal averts a possible federal shutdown and funds the government into December
Congressional leaders have a deal on a short-term spending bill that will fund federal agencies for about three months.
Several Mark Robinson campaign staffers quit as fallout over online posts continues
Several top staffers working on North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's campaign for governor have quit their posts.
The Fed sees its inflation fight as a success. Will the public eventually agree?
With its larger-than-usual half-point cut to its key interest rate last week, the Federal Reserve underscored its belief that it’s all but conquered inflation after three long years.
Are Trump and Harris particularly Christian? That's not what most Americans would say: AP-NORC poll
Vice President Kamala Harris is a Baptist who was influenced by religious traditions in her mother’s home country of India.
Republicans in swing states say they see scant signs of groups door-knocking for Trump
Republican activists in swing states say they’ve seen little sign of the teams tasked with knocking on doors and turning out infrequent voters on behalf of Donald Trump.
More shelter beds and a crackdown on tents mean fewer homeless encampments in San Francisco
San Francisco's sidewalks were once notorious for sprawling tents belonging to homeless people but are now largely clear.
A historic but dilapidated Illinois prison will close while replacement is built, despite objections
The Illinois Department of Corrections has spent September moving hundreds of inmates from Stateville Correctional Center in suburban Chicago in preparation for replacing the century-old lockup.
Takeaways from AP's report on warning signs about suspect in apparent Trump assassination attempt
Chelsea Walsh was in Kyiv as a nurse and aid worker in the early days of the war in Ukraine.
Euphoric two years ago, US anti-abortion movement is now divided and worried as election nears
Just two years ago, leading anti-abortion activists were euphoric after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, thus ending the nationwide right to abortion.
Biden tells Quad leaders that Beijing is testing region at turbulent moment for Chinese economy
President Joe Biden has told Indo-Pacific allies that he believes China’s increasing military assertiveness is an effort to test the region at a turbulent moment for Beijing.