WASHINGTON — The Biden administration wants more health care providers to talk to parents about keeping their kids safe around firearms, as data shows kids are increasingly dying by suicide, accidents and homicides involving guns.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has given states the green light to allow Medicaid providers to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Monday it will decide the future of Louisiana’s congressional map in a pair of cases about whether the state unconstitutionally discriminated in its second attempt to draw district lines.

The justices will review the two cases challenging a lower-court ruling that found that the state likely violated...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Election officials in Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties will tabulate hundreds of thousands of California ballots starting Tuesday night in what looks like a too-close-to-call election — one that will result in either the return of Donald Trump as President of the United States, or usher in Vice President ...Read more

DENVER — When ballots are tallied Tuesday night, a handful of House and Senate seats will determine whether the imbalance of partisan power in Colorado reaches a level not seen since World War II.

Democrats, who already hold trifecta control of both legislative chambers and the governor’s office, stand one seat shy of a two-thirds ...Read more

On the campaign trail, both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are eager to portray themselves as guardians of Medicare. Each presidential candidate accuses the other of backing spending cuts and other policies that would damage the health insurance program for older Americans.

But the election’s outcome could ...Read more

“Right To Try” experimental drug program saved “thousands and thousands of lives”

Former President Donald Trump on Aug. 30

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Former President Donald Trump has boasted in recent months about “Right To Try,” a law he signed in 2018. It’s aimed at boosting terminally ill patients’ access to potentially lifesaving medications ...Read more

Election day is almost here, and the end of this tumultuous campaign season cannot come soon enough. But it may not come Tuesday night.

Given that the race for president is expected to be close, it’s quite possible that Americans will have to wait days to learn whether Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump will be the ...Read more

Immigration, especially that of undocumented migrants, is a key issue — perhaps the key issue — in the presidential race.

Despite the Biden administration's efforts to strengthen border security, the Trump campaign has taken a more extreme stance. Former President Donald Trump has spent months on the campaign trail pushing for mass ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Unless polling that portends a paper-thin margin between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump is completely wrong — a possibility because of dizzying changes in how voters cast ballots as well as a pandemic-prompted overhaul of election laws — Americans should plan on going to bed Tuesday night without ...Read more

Another election cycle, another round of hysteria. Let me guess: This is the “most important election of our lives.”

Brush this article off and reread it in a few years, and that will be the new “most important election of our lives,” when half the nation pretends to know precisely what’s best for the nation.

When was the last time ...Read more

Throughout this election cycle, California Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled the country campaigning for the Democratic presidential ticket, making stops in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Hampshire, Georgia, South Carolina, Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Nevada.

He ran his own campaign to raise money for Democrats in red states, became the...Read more

A new state law gives California voters more time to fix their ballot if it has a missing or mismatched signature — but that means official election results may be a bit delayed this year.

Signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September, the new law sets a statewide ballot signature challenge cure deadline.

In other words, it gives voters ...Read more

MACON — University of Georgia football icon and former U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker has kept a relatively low profile this election season as he finishes up classes toward a bachelor’s degree.

But in a rare interview he said he couldn’t resist attending former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally on Sunday since it was ...Read more

Moldovan President Maia Sandu declared victory in a crucial election on Sunday, a win that would bolster her ambition to steer the former Soviet republic into the European Union by the end of the decade.

The ex-World Bank official’s reelection bid was a test of the resilience of pro-EU sentiment in Europe’s eastern periphery. A string of ...Read more

Ever since network television started covering presidential election nights in 1948, there have been only two occasions when viewers had to wait more than a day to learn the outcome.

The first was in 2000, when the country was on hold for five weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court put an end to the vote recounts in Florida and gave George W. Bush...Read more

LITITZ, Pa. — In one of his final rallies in the most critical battleground of the presidential election, former President Donald Trump ranted off-script about unproven election fraud in the state and called the Democratic Party “demonic,” and “cheaters.”

In what appears to be a neck-and-neck race in the state, Trump spent his 22nd ...Read more

With polls predicting a photo finish between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on Election Day, Democrats and Republicans alike have been going on the offensive over bombshell comments they believe could help them open up an edge as the last undecided voters make up their minds.

But were any of the remarks enough to...Read more

The U.S. election on Tuesday will have far-reaching economic consequences, ranging from how Americans are taxed to how the country trades with the rest of the globe.

Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump present starkly different policy visions that will also shape the flow of immigrants into the labor market and make-up of the ...Read more

Presidential election betting markets moved dramatically Saturday night and into Sunday morning as Vice President Kamala Harris continues to close the gap on former President Donald Trump.

Trump was as low as a -123 favorite Sunday at Betfair Exchange in London to win the election over Harris, a +120 underdog. Trump was as high as -210 on ...Read more