Harris makes pitch to union voters in ‘blue wall’ states
DETROIT — Vice President Kamala Harris sought to shore up the support of organized labor in so-called “blue wall” states at the end of the holiday weekend, stressing that union…
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Paxton’s election fraud charges upend lives but result in few convictions
SAN ANTONIO — Leticia Sanchez was a church deaconess, teacher’s aide and an activist in her majority-Latino community helping register people to vote before she was arrested in 2018 for…
Trump aims to drag down Harris as he scrambles to keep up in tight race
Donald Trump’s team is approaching the final nine weeks of the presidential campaign as a race to drag Kamala Harris down. Americans’ views of the Republican nominee have barely budged…
RFK Jr. fought to get on N.C. ballots. Now he’s suing to get off them.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the third-party presidential candidate who suspended his campaign and endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump, is suing the North Carolina State Board of Elections to get his…
American family’s quest to save son held captive in Gaza ends in heartbreak
When Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin took to the stage at the Democratic National Convention in their hometown of Chicago last month, their son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, had been held hostage…
With boost from grieving families, Trump sharpens attacks on Harris
Donald Trump’s campaign aimed to turn the controversy over his actions last week at Arlington National Cemetery into an attack on Vice President Kamala Harris this weekend, after she said…
U.S. plans to present ‘take it or leave it’ Israel-Gaza cease-fire deal soon
U.S. officials said President Joe Biden’s months-long push for a cease-fire and hostage-release deal faced renewed urgency on Sunday after Israeli forces recovered the bodies of six hostages, including Israeli…
As China’s power grows, candidates use it as attack line
Dark insinuations that one candidate might have been recruited as a spy by Chinese leaders as a younger man. Attacks accusing another would-be senator of profiting off a Chinese fentanyl…
Trump, Vance and GOP struggle to address abortion issues
Republicans from Donald Trump down, facing the first presidential election since the fall of Roe v. Wade, are still struggling to find their footing on the issue, caught between a…
In red district Walz once held, a stark urban-rural divide over his record
NICOLLET COUNTY, Minn. — The political divide in the congressional district Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz once represented is now so stark that it’s hard to imagine one person representing…