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News Articles: Elections

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrives for a meeting with Senators in the Russell Senate Office Building on December 17, 2024 in Washington, DC.

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  • Health

How much power would RFK Jr. have at HHS? A former health secretary weighs in

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is making the case with senators that he should lead Health and Human Services. Kathleen Sebelius, who had the job under Obama, explains the power and limits of the role.

December 18, 2024
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By:
  • Dan Gorenstein
Nevada Republican Party Chair Michael McDonald, one of the 2024 presidential electors facing felony charges related to the 2020 "fake electors" scheme, speaks during the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee in July.

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  • Elections

'Fake electors' from 2020 are casting 2024 votes for Trump while facing felony charges

Eight of the Republicans set to cast Michigan and Nevada's 2024 Electoral College votes for President-elect Donald Trump still face felony charges related to efforts to reverse Trump's 2020 loss.

December 17, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after being named Time's "Person of the Year" for the second time on Thursday in New York.

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  • Politics

As Time's 'Person of the Year,' Trump outlines his top priorities in lengthy interview

In a wide-ranging and long interview, President-elect Donald Trump tells TIME Magazine his priorities for the first days of his second time at the presidency.

December 12, 2024
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Voters take a selfie after casting ballots at Edsel Ford High School on Nov. 5 in Dearborn, Mich.

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  • Elections

Election confidence among Republicans surges after Trump's win, a new poll finds

Almost 9 in 10 U.S. voters felt the November election was run well, according to new survey data. That's a jump compared with 2020 — an increase driven exclusively by Republican voters.

December 07, 2024
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By:
  • Miles Parks
A visitor looks at an exhibition on voting rights in the U.S. at the International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., in January.

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  • Elections

With the Voting Rights Act facing more threats, advocates renew a push for state laws

With efforts to bolster the federal Voting Rights Act unlikely under Republican control of the new Congress, advocates are refocusing on state protections against racial discrimination in elections.

December 06, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
People line up to vote at a polling station at Greater Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Charlotte on Nov. 5.

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  • Politics

North Carolina's voter ID law just got its first big test

For more than a decade, North Carolina has seen a bitter back-and-forth over voter identification rules. The requirement finally got its first major test in last month's presidential election.

December 04, 2024
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By:
  • Steve Harrison
Author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza addresses the Republican Sunshine Summit on June 29, 2018, in Kissimmee, Fla.

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  • Elections

Creator of '2000 Mules' apologizes to man falsely accused of ballot fraud in the film

Filmmaker and conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza has issued a statement saying "inaccurate information" was provided to him about ballot box surveillance videos featured in the film.

December 03, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during an election overnight event at the West Palm Beach Convention Center in Florida on Nov. 6.

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  • Elections

Trump falls just below 50% in popular vote, but gets more than in past elections

This year's popular-vote margin is the second-closest since 1968 and still tightening. It shows just how closely divided the country is politically, and that any shift to the right is marginal.

December 03, 2024
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
Paramilitary soldiers stand guard along roadside to ensure security in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday.

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  • World

Pakistani security forces push Imran Khan supporters out of capital in overnight raid

The operation came hours after thousands of Khan supporters broke through a barrier of shipping containers blocking off Islamabad and clashed with security forces.

November 27, 2024
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid
Former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press after being formally charged by the federal police with attempted coup, at the airport in Brasilia, Brazil on Monday.

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  • World

Brazil police report: Bolsonaro planned and participated in a 2022 coup plot

The document describe the former president as one of the key leaders of the plot, and not a mere observer.

November 27, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
The White House, as seen on Election Day on Nov. 5, 2024.

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  • Politics

Trump team signs a key transition agreement with Biden White House

This is one of two agreements that was supposed to have been signed by Oct. 1. The Trump team has decided to forgo the second one, saying it has its own systems in place.

November 26, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
Supporters of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, burn bushes to reduce the impact of tear gas shells fired by police officers to disperse them during a rally demanding Khan's release, at a motorway in Ghazi in Attock district, Pakistan on Sunday.

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  • World

Supporters of ousted Pakistani leader clash with police, at least six people killed

Police used tear gas to disperse the crowds and at least one person has died in clashes.

November 26, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press

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  • Elections

In this election, demographics did not determine how people voted

Groups that Democrats believed would always turn out in their favor did not do so this year. Here's how the vote shook out in the seven swing states.

November 25, 2024
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro,
  • Elena Moore,
  • and 3 more
Supporters of Donald Trump, carrying flags and signs, march through a crosswalk in Virginia on Nov. 8, expressing their excitement after his 2024 presidential election win.

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  • Politics

Anti-Trump Republicans find themselves in a political no man's land after Trump's win

With some contacting attorneys and others looking to move out of the country, anti-Trump Republicans are trying to figure out what's next after betting against the president-elect.

November 25, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
Yamandu Orsi, candidate for the Broad Front (Frente Amplio) and running mate Carolina Cosse, right, celebrate after polls closed in the presidential run-off election in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Sunday.

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  • World

Uruguay's leftist opposition candidate becomes country's new president

The election was free of the anti-establishment fury that has vaulted populist outsiders to power elsewhere, like the United States and neighboring Argentina.

November 25, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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