LOS ANGELES — With just 23 days left until election day and voters already casting ballots, former President Donald Trump rallied supporters in the California desert while railing against the state’s Democratic leadership, notably his presidential rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump blasted California for having “the highest ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The two front-runners for Alaska's sole U.S. House seat met in a televised debate Thursday evening and discussed topics ranging from resource development to abortion access and whether President Joe Biden fairly won the 2020 election.

The hourlong debate featured Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola and Republican businessman...Read more

NEW YORK — A real estate developer who calls himself “Turkish Trump” was among a group of businessmen who gave money to Mayor Eric Adams’ reelection campaign as part of a 2023 fundraiser that’s emerging as a focus in the federal corruption case against the mayor, the New York Daily News has learned.

Mukemmel Sarimsakci, a Turkish-born...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With just 23 days left until election day and voters already casting ballots, former President Donald Trump is returning to California on Saturday for a rally in the Coachella Valley.

The event is scheduled to take place at 5 p.m. on a polo field at Calhoun Ranch, located just outside the desert city of Coachella.

Trump’s ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Vice President Kamala Harris has maintained a narrow lead against former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, a state whose importance continues to loom large and where the margin of victory looks like it will be razor thin.

A Philadelphia Inquirer/New York Times/Siena College poll released Saturday shows Harris with a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Asked at a candidate debate this week about President Joe Biden’s border policies, Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez didn’t hesitate.

“My seriousness in taking on the Biden administration’s failed border security policies” has been key to congressional action on the subject, she said. “It’s not racist to want...Read more

Even before special counsel Jack Smith submitted his extensive and revealing recent brief in the Jan. 6 case, it was evident that Donald Trump’s statements to then-Vice President Mike Pence would become a crucial legal battleground.

The brief plows through every snippet of the evidence Smith proposes to use to prosecute Trump for his efforts ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Emily Moskaitis voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. But eight years later, she’s voting for former President Donald Trump, and she’s spent dozens of hours each week over the last 10 months working to convince her Bucks County neighbors to do the same.

Moskaitis, 37, said she’s encountered a “tremendous amount of support�...Read more

AURORA, Colo. — Addressing thousands of supporters in a cavernous Aurora ballroom, former President Donald Trump on Friday described the migrant challenges faced by his host city in near-apocalyptic terms.

His solutions to what he portrayed as lawlessness amid a national crime wave by undocumented immigrants — by exaggerating the “limited...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In what was said to be Elon Musk’s very first time at a Trump rally, the X CEO jumped for joy on stage in Butler wearing his “dark MAGA” hat before delivering a tactical message to the Pennsylvania audience:

“Register to vote,” he said to cheers on Oct. 5.

But that was just the tip of Musk’s involvement in 2024 ...Read more

MIAMI — As Floridians braced for Hurricane Milton this week, Donald Trump was focused on other things.

At a rally in Pennsylvania, he railed against Vice President Kamala Harris and Sunny Hostin, the co-host of ABC’s “The View.” In a string of posts on his social media site Truth Social, he claimed that Harris’ interview on “60 ...Read more

A Texas man’s first-of-its kind lawsuit against three women who he alleged helped his ex-wife obtain pills to induce an abortion in 2022 has been settled, according to court documents.

A notice to dismiss the lawsuit was filed on Oct. 10 by Jonathan Mitchell, a notable anti-abortion attorney, on behalf of the plaintiff Marcus Silvia. There ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Donald Trump is headed to Montgomery County on Monday.

The visit to Oaks for a town hall is the first public campaign event Trump has held in the Philadelphia suburbs of his 2024 campaign. It also marks the fourth event he’ll have done in Pennsylvania since going to Butler, the site of his assassination attempt, on Oct. 5.

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ATLANTA — Former President Donald Trump will take part in a Fox News town hall Tuesday in Forsyth County that will focus on women’s issues as he tries to narrow a gender gap in the race against Vice President Kamala Harris.

The town hall, which coincides with the start of early in-person voting in Georgia, will be before an audience made up...Read more

DETROIT — Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign plans to air TV commercials this weekend, spotlighting a negative remark Republican former President Donald Trump made about Detroit while speaking in the city on Thursday.

The Harris campaign crafted the ad, which features the voice of Detroit native and actor Courtney B. Vance, ...Read more

Abortion has emerged as the most important issue in the November election for women under 30, according to a survey by KFF — a notable change since late spring, before Vice President Kamala Harris entered the presidential race.

Nearly 4 in 10 women under 30 surveyed in September and early October told pollsters that abortion is the most ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — They are sprawling lands of seemingly endless vistas and soaring plateaus. The red canyons are sprinkled with ancient rock art and historic Indigenous settlements. Normally nonconfrontational paleontologists were so wowed by their fossils that they sued to try to protect the land.

Two Democratic presidents moved to preserve this...Read more