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Pennsylvania election results may take days to count. And, ACLU fighting Louisiana law

As results roll in on election night, Pennsylvania's may take a while longer. Here's why that is. And, the ACLU challenges Louisiana's Ten Commandments law saying it harms children.

October 22, 2024
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
Voter leave a voting booth at The Barn at Bull Meadow in Concord, New Hampshire, during voting for the New Hampshire Primary on January 23, 2024.

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  • Elections

Local voter guides: Find candidate information and resources in your community

What you need to know about the races, issues and decisions being made in your community.

October 21, 2024
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By:
  • The NPR Network
The sun dawns on the state Capitol as lawmakers prepare for the first day of the 2022 legislative session in the General Assembly.

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  • Elections

Republicans favored to retain majorities in General Assembly

Georgia is among only seven “battleground” states this year, where the presidential election is too close to call and the campaigns of both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are spending most of their time.

October 21, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Elon Musk speaks as part of a campaign town hall in support of Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump in Folsom, Pa., on Thursday.

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  • Politics

Gov. Shapiro calls Musk's $1M offer to Pennsylvania voters 'deeply concerning'

Trump supporter Elon Musk says the daily prize money is meant to “support the Constitution,” but an election law expert calls it “clearly illegal.”

October 21, 2024
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By:
  • Luke Garrett
A man, identified as Ryan Kelley in a sworn statement by an FBI agent, gestures as supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump make their way past barriers at the U.S. Capitol during a protest against the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

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  • Elections

Law enforcement officials prepare for possible post-election violence in D.C.

The threat of political violence will likely hang over the nation’s capital in the weeks following Election Day, security experts say, despite intensive preparations by law enforcement officials determined to avoid another Jan. 6 insurrection.

October 21, 2024
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By:
  • Jennifer Shutt
Houses across the Monongahela River are seen from Braddock, Pa., on Oct. 16, 2024.

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  • National

Why Pennsylvania could be the key to the White House

Vice President Harris and former president Donald Trump are in a tight race in Pennsylvania. The state could go either way and it’s why both candidates are working so hard to appeal to voters.

October 21, 2024
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By:
  • Destinee Adams and
  • Obed Manuel
People wait in line to cast ballots during early voting at a polling station in Black Mountain, North Carolina, on Friday.

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  • Elections

The race is so close. Here's what happens if there's a 269-269 Electoral College tie

It’s very unlikely — but theoretically possible — that the presidential election ends with an Electoral College tie. If it did come to pass, here's how the next president would be determined.

October 21, 2024
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
A man registers to vote during parliamentary elections of Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region in Irbil on Sunday.

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  • World

Iraqi Kurds go to the polls with a flagging economy top of mind

Parliamentary elections were postponed several times amid disputes over the election law and procedures.

October 21, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport on Saturday in Latrobe, Pa.

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  • Politics

Trump's restless week on the trail ends with a rally riff about Arnold Palmer's manhood

Former President Donald Trump circuitously referenced golfer Arnold Palmer's genitalia but more directly insulted Vice President Harris at a winding rally in Latrobe, Pa., Saturday.

October 20, 2024
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event at Lakewood Amphitheatre, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, in Atlanta.

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  • Politics

Harris says Trump is 'cruel' at Georgia rally as she spotlights abortion restrictions

Kamala Harris has said former President Trump is “cruel” for how he talked about the family of a Georgia mother who died after waiting for treatment for complications from an abortion pill

October 20, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Monica Villalobos joined elected officials, business leaders and educators to speak in opposition to Proposition 314 in Phoenix on Oct. 10, 2024. The ballot measure would require police to perform immigration duties in addition to their regular enforcement duties.

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  • Politics

Arizona voters will soon decide if illegal border crossings should be a state crime

A ballot measure would give local law enforcement the right to question, arrest, detain and prosecute anyone suspected of having crossed the U.S.-Mexico border between legal ports of entry.

October 20, 2024
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Absentee ballots are prepared to be mailed at the Wake County Board of Elections on Sept. 17 in Raleigh, N.C.

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  • Elections

What to know about Republican challenges to overseas and military voting

In three swing states, GOP groups are suing to challenge the ballots cast by U.S. citizens living abroad, including military members. Many voting experts say these cases are likely to go nowhere.

October 20, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Vice President Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, campaigns in Waterford, Mich., on Friday. Harris made numerous stops in the state as former President Donald Trump held a rally in Detroit. Early voting begins on Saturday in Michigan.

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  • Politics

Harris and Trump hold competing rallies in Michigan

While the two candidates have been crisscrossing the swing states for weeks, this is the first time they are literally crossing paths, with each of them holding events in the suburbs north of Detroit.

October 19, 2024
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By:
  • Don Gonyea,
  • Asma Khalid,
  • and 1 more
Former President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a campaign rally in Atlanta on Oct. 15. With the election in its closing weeks, Trump and other Republican candidates have been  focusing many of their campaign ads around the issue of transgender rights.

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  • Politics

GOP ads on transgender rights are dominating airwaves in the election's closing days

The ad spending, which includes at least $17 million by the Trump campaign, is part of a broader Republican strategy casting the Democratic Party as taking transgender rights to extremes.

October 19, 2024
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By:
  • Susan Davis
Deanna Villanueva-Saucedo, associate vice chancellor at the Center for Excellence in Inclusive Democracy in the Maricopa Community College system, poses for a portrait on the South Mountain Community College campus in south Phoenix, Ariz., on Oct. 9, 2024.

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  • Elections

Barbed wire, high fences: some election spots in Arizona close, but others step up

Some election locations in Arizona are shutting their doors in the face of security threats — but others are expanding their footprint.

October 18, 2024
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
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