MADISON, Wis. — A years-long fight over voting rules in the swing state of Wisconsin sparked a criminal investigation this week after a mayor — wearing a hard hat and Department of Public Works jacket — carted off a ballot drop box the city clerk was about to make available to voters. The move by Wausau Mayor Doug Diny came ...
“All told, almost 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during his presidency, starting before the pandemic hit, making Trump one of the biggest losers ever on manufacturing.” — Vice President Kamala Harris, in an economic speech in Pittsburgh, Sept. 25 “Even before the pandemic, he lost manufacturing jobs, by most people’s estimates at least 200,000.” — Harris, a few hours later ...
Foreign leaders traveling to the United States to attend the U.N. General Assembly this week in New York have also been meeting with former president Donald Trump, as they hedge their bets in case of a Trump victory in the November election. Trump is scheduled to meet this week with the president of the United Arab Emirates, Mohamed bin Zayed ...
Republican Rep. Clay Higgins (La.) published racist comments about Haitians on Wednesday — only to delete them after being confronted by House colleagues. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Higgins called Haitians “thugs,” called Haiti the “nastiest country in the western hemisphere,” and repeated false and dehumanizing claims about pet-eating. The remarks were called out and he deleted the ...
Corrine Morse cast her vote in the 2016 presidential election from a glacially slow, often glitchy fax machine in Antarctica. For 20 minutes, Morse watched as the machine whirred and beeped eerily before finally printing the confirmation page she had been waiting for — her absentee ballot had been sent to Texas, where she was registered to vote. The fax ...
Democrat Angela Alsobrooks has pulled clearly ahead in Maryland’s unusually competitive U.S. Senate race with a double-digit lead among likely voters, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll, in a contest critical to deciding control of the chamber next year. Alsobrooks leads Republican Larry Hogan — a former governor elected twice in the deep-blue state — by 11 percentage ...
Barbara S. Jones took on plenty of high-profile cases as a prosecutor and then as a federal judge, but now she finds herself in what is, even for her, an extraordinary position: Appointed by a New York court, she is responsible for scrubbing the finances of the business empire belonging to Donald Trump, the once and maybe future president. The ...
OMAHA — Bored by politics until two months ago, Coral Meija said two things got her involved in this year’s election: Vice President Kamala Harris’s ascension to the top of the ticket and, more importantly, two abortion-related measures on Nebraska’s November ballot. “That is definitely No. 1,” said Meija, 23, gesturing to reveal that she is seven months pregnant, as ...
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff has made more than 30 campaign stops in the five weeks since the Democratic National Convention, stumping for his wife in over a dozen states. This week in Texas, he swung through three cities, ate at Whataburger and boosted other Democrats on the ballot. “It’s only been two months and a couple of days since President ...
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 should be illegal. And for ...