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Officials ask for patience in waiting on election results
It’s Election Day in America.
Voters are heading to the polls in one of the most consequential elections in American history. In a politically polarized country, potential delays in reporting results might further fuel conspiracy theories that have spread widely.
Across the country, more than 77 million voters already cast their ballots ...Read more
Girl hospitalized after shooting self on school bus in St. Petersburg
A 13-year-old girl was hospitalized Tuesday after she shot herself on a school bus in St. Petersburg, police said.
The shooting happened when the bus was near the intersection of 49th Street North and 18th Avenue North, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.
Pinellas County’s 911 call site shows the call came in at 9:22 a.m.
The...Read more
Republicans vow to bar federal election monitoring in key states. What do monitors do?
Republican leaders in several key states are vowing to keep federal election monitors away from voting sites in the name of election integrity, spurring anger from many who say the party is doing the opposite of protecting voters’ rights.
In Texas, Democrats are calling for the involvement of federal election monitors as an added layer of ...Read more
Denver City Council rejects eight amendments to city's tight 2025 budget
DENVER — The Denver City Council voted down eight proposed amendments to the city’s 2025 budget on Monday night, including rejecting a request to give another $2.5 million to the Denver Basic Income Project, a program that is gauging the impact of providing direct cash assistance to homeless or formerly homeless Denverites.
The final vote ...Read more
How you can help veterans every day
As the nation celebrates our 16 million living veterans, it is also important to know that the chance these heroes will end their own lives prematurely is still higher than among civilians.
Among veterans with PTSD, suicide is the fourth most common cause of death. Among veterans younger than 35, it’s second.
Over the past ...Read more
Battlefields around the world are finding new purpose as parks and refuges
The horrors of war are all too familiar: lives lost, homes destroyed, entire communities forced to flee. Yet as time passes, places that once were sites of death and destruction can become peaceful natural refuges.
One of the deadliest battles fought on U.S. soil, for example, was the Battle of Gettysburg. Tens of thousands of men ...Read more
Is Miami-Dade's corruption watchdog getting quietly pushed out by county commissioners?
MIAMI — The top investigator in Miami-Dade County government, Inspector General Felix Jimenez, wants another four years on the job but says he can’t get a response from the County Commission.
In a memo last week, Jimenez said the commission’s chair, Oliver Gilbert, for months has not responded to Jimenez’s request for a vote on a four-...Read more
Illinois man arrested for punching 74-year-old election judge at polling station
A man was arrested at a polling station in Illinois after he tried to cut the line to cast his vote, then punched an election judge who ordered him to wait his turn, police said.
Approximately 100 people were waiting to cast an early ballot at the Orland Park Township Office when the chaos erupted Sunday morning, CBS Chicago reported. Officers ...Read more
Election Day 2024 has arrived. Here's what you need to know
FORT LAUDERDALES, Fla. — We’ve reached Election Day, the final day of voting in the 2024 presidential election after millions of Floridians already have cast their votes.
Neighborhood polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Those heading to the polls are less likely to face rain earlier in the day: The rain chances are ...Read more
Are famous people more likely to die at 27, or does dying at 27 make them more famous?
LOS ANGELES — Their deaths have fueled the notion that 27 is a lethal age for musicians and other notable artists.
Amy Winehouse, the iconoclastic singer-songwriter, was that age when she died of alcohol poisoning in 2011. So was grunge rocker Kurt Cobain when he died of suicide in 1994 and rock 'n' roll queen Janis Joplin when she succumbed ...Read more
How Native Americans guarded their societies against tyranny
When the founders of the United States designed the Constitution, they were learning from history that democracy was likely to fail – to find someone who would fool the people into giving him complete power and then end the democracy.
They designed checks and balances to guard against the accumulation of power they had found when ...Read more
Beefing up Border Patrol is a bipartisan goal, but the agency has a troubled history of violence and impunity
With U.S. voters across the political spectrum strongly concerned about border security, presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have been trying to one-up each other on who can reduce migration at the nation’s southern border fastest and most effectively.
Trump’s rhetoric is more extreme: He’s called the U.S. a �...Read more
Is the election making you feel adrift and wobbly? That’s ‘zozobra’ – and Mexican philosophers have some advice
Ever had the feeling that you can’t make sense of what’s happening? One moment everything seems normal, then suddenly the frame shifts to reveal a world on fire, struggling with war, climate change and political violence and upheaval.
That’s “zozobra,” the peculiar form of anxiety that comes from being unable to settle into ...Read more
Kristallnacht’s legacy still haunts Hamburg − even as the city rebuilds a former synagogue burned in the Nazi pogrom
Johanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed a mob of local citizens and Nazis vandalizing the Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg. They were “shouting and throwing stones at the marvelous glass windows,” as she later said in an oral history interview. Other students at the Jewish school nearby described a mountain of prayer books and Torah ...Read more
Voting while God is watching – does having churches as polling stations sway the ballot?
Houses of worship may be busier than usual come Election Day as Americans head to the polls rather than the pews.
A 2010 census of religious congregations identified nearly 350,000 churches, mosques, temples and other religious establishments attended by more than 150 million Americans, primarily for spiritual needs and social ...Read more
Lawyer seeks release of Haiti cop accused of police killing while protecting Blinken
The lawyer for a jailed senior Haiti policeman accused of planning the assassination of a motorcycle driver with alleged gang ties is demanding his release from jail.
Mario Delcy filed the request to Investigative Judge Brunet Salomon on Monday on behalf of Haiti National Police officer Livenston Gauthier, the former head of the police ...Read more
Tropical Storm Rafael forecast to become hurricane on path to Gulf of Mexico
ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center forecasts Tropical Storm Rafael to grow into the season’s 11th hurricane on Tuesday as it moves toward Cuba with winds and storm surge expected to only sideswipe Florida as it moves into the Gulf of Mexico.
As of the NHC’s 7 a.m. advisory, Rafael was located about 80 miles south-southwest of ...Read more
The issues facing school board candidates at a contentious time for CPS
CHICAGO — As Chicago voters this year make their picks for president and a host of statewide and local offices, voters will encounter a new section on the ballot: a slate of candidates vying for a spot on the Chicago Board of Education.
The new school board will soon triple in size from its current seven members to 21, making it one of the ...Read more
Boston city councilor blasts Mayor Wu for early opposition to elected School Committee bill
BOSTON — Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia has filed legislation that would move the School Committee from an appointed to elected body, but Mayor Michelle Wu, who vetoed a similar measure last year, is already indicating that she plans to block it.
A Monday statement from the mayor’s office reiterating Wu’s prior opposition to an “...Read more
Fed up with US politics, some Californians are making plans to move abroad
WASHINGTON — Mykel Dicus, 54, is finished with the United States.
In September, the Hayward, Calif., resident toured Spain with a company that specializes in scouting trips for Americans looking to move abroad. Now he's pursuing a specialized Spanish visa offered to remote workers, also known as a digital nomad visa, with a goal of moving ...Read more
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