ATLANTA — Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones sent a series of texts critical of fellow Republicans as he worked to help former President Donald Trump overturn his narrow defeat in the weeks following the 2020 election, according to documents obtained through a public records request first reported by The New York Times.

The texts by Jones, who was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the Federal Reserve’s decision to lower its benchmark interest rate by a half percentage point was a “political move” and that a smaller cut would have been preferable.

“It really is a political move. Most people thought it was going to be half of that number, which ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump vowed to reinstate his travel ban that barred people from some predominantly Muslim countries and expand it to prevent refugees from war-torn Gaza from entering the United States.

“I will ban refugee resettlement from terror-infested areas like the Gaza Strip, and we will seal our border and bring ...Read more

A new report from CNN uncovering a series of offensive and alarming comments allegedly made by North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson on online forums years ago jolted the governor’s race Thursday.

The newly unearthed comments, which Robinson denied making and called “salacious, tabloid trash,” prompted a flurry of speculation about ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A bevy of new polls released in the last 24 hours have Kamala Harris either leading or tied with Donald Trump in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania — though none shows the former president ahead, as he was before President Joe Biden dropped out.

Polls from the New York Times/Siena College/Philadelphia Inquirer, ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A 76-year-old Anchorage man was arrested this week on federal charges accusing him of threatening to kidnap and kill six U.S. Supreme Court Justices and their relatives in scores of messages beginning last year.

Panos Anastasiou was arrested Wednesday at his Spenard home on 22 charges tied to more than 465 messages sent ...Read more

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Top election officials from Georgia and other swing states met Thursday to assure the public their elections are fair and accurate.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger outlined a host of measures the state takes to ensure voting is secure. Election officials from Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris leads former President Donald Trump, 50% to 45%, in a nationwide Florida Atlantic University poll released Thursday.

There has been little change in the last three weeks despite momentous events, including the Harris-Trump debate last week and the thwarted assassination attempt against Trump on Sunday.

In FAU’s ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After more than a month of checkpoints and sheriff’s patrol cars snaking around the perimeter of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, Palm Beach County officials are calling for help to fit the bill.

In a letter signed by County Mayor Maria Sachs, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and Town of Palm ...Read more

DETROIT — Democratic leaders of the national Uncommitted Movement said Thursday they won't be endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president, citing her "unwillingness" to shift away from the administration's "unconditional" support for arming Israel with weapons.

But the group's three leaders from Michigan said they do intend to ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are neck and neck in the swing state of Nevada, with less than two months to go until the November election.

A new survey from Emerson College Polling/The Hill of swing states showed the candidates tied each with 48% support in the Silver State, a marginal change from...Read more

ATLANTA — The Georgia Election Board will decide on sweeping rule changes Friday — less than a month before early voting begins — including proposals to hand-count ballots and require absentee ballot tracking that could cost $4 per voter.

All 11 proposals come from right-wing activists, voters or local election board members, and they’...Read more

ATLANTA — Support for independent and third-party presidential candidates in Georgia has dropped since June as the state’s Democrats and Republicans battled to tip the scales in the tightened race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s latest poll released ...Read more

Voting will begin in many states in just a few weeks – Alabama became the first state to begin sending out mail-in ballots on Sept. 11, 2024. It’s one of 10 states that send mail-in ballots to voters more than 45 days before Election Day.

Every state’s regulations and procedures are different, so it is vital that you understand ...Read more

After several tumultuous weeks in Israel, mass demonstrations increasingly depict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as directly responsible for the fate of the hostages still held by Hamas. Despite mounting internal and international pressure to negotiate a deal with Hamas for the hostages’ release, Netanyahu remains steadfast in his ...Read more

The threat of violence was in the air at the TCF Center in Detroit on Nov. 5, 2020, after former President Donald Trump claimed that poll workers in the city were duplicating ballots and that there was an unexplained delay in delivering them for counting.

Both claims were later debunked.

Emboldened by Trump’s rhetoric, ...Read more

The operation that used pagers and walkie-talkies to kill members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was ingenious – but was it legal?

Certainly, there are those who will argue that it was. That thinking goes like this: Hezbollah has been attacking Israel with rockets, and the pagers and radios purchased by Hezbollah could be ...Read more