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(WASHINGTON) — As election season gets underway, officials in a key battleground state said they are prepared to handle the task of counting and certifying ballots despite a rise in threats. Nearly four years ago, the staff at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix was hounded by former President Donald Trump’s supporters, […]
(NEW YORK) — New York City has become a focal point in the national debate on immigration. City officials have stated that more than 180,000 asylum-seekers have passed through the city’s intake system since spring 2022, in some cases bused in by officials from cities along the U.S. southern border. New York has struggled to […]
Ohio’s GOP Senate primary is heading for a fierce finish Tuesday night as three Republicans bludgeon each other for the chance to run in one of the country’s marquee races this year. Businessman Bernie Moreno and state Sen. Matt Dolan are duking it out in polling, with Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose lagging as […]
(ATLANTA) — Former President Donald Trump and some of his co-defendants in the Fulton County election interference case on Monday kicked off the process to appeal the judge’s disqualification ruling that ultimately kept District Attorney Fani Willis on the case, asking the court in a new motion to grant a certificate of immediate review. “A […]
(WASHINGTON) — The presidential nominations are locked up — but the primaries remain, along with any tea leaves they may provide. Ohio’s GOP Senate primary is the headliner Tuesday, with car salesman Bernie Moreno considered by several strategists to be the slight favorite, running with former President Donald Trump’s endorsement against state Sen. Matt Dolan […]
(NEW YORK) — The New York City Department of Education is investigating claims that hundreds of new books — many that were about people of color and LGBTQ identities — were thrown in the trash at a Staten Island school after the NYC news outlet The Gothamist first reported the discovery. The outlet reported that […]
(WASHINGTON) — Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney has shrugged off Donald Trump’s suggestion on social media that she and other members of the bipartisan House committee that investigated Jan. 6 should be jailed. The former president attacked Cheney and the others on social media this week. He also questioned whether Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide […]
(NEW YORK) — Six former Rankin County, Mississippi, law enforcement officers are set to be sentenced beginning Tuesday morning after pleading guilty to federal charges stemming from the racially motivated torture of two Black men during an incident that took place on Jan. 24, 2023. Former Rankin County sheriff’s (RCSO) deputies Brett McAlpin, Christian Dedmon, […]
(NEW YORK) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s criminal prosecution in New York has denied Trump’s attempts to exclude evidence related to the Access Hollywood tape and testimony from key witnesses from his upcoming criminal trial, but prosecutors will not be permitted to play the infamous tape to jurors. The defense argued Michael […]
(WASHINGTON) — Ahead of President Joe Biden making campaign stops on Tuesday in Arizona and Nevada, advisers are laying out why they still place him in a better position than former President Donald Trump to win those two key battlegrounds, despite Biden’s mediocre polling in the early lead-up to the long general election fight. On […]
