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GOP state Rep. John LaHood speaks in favor of election bill SB 189 at the Georgia House of Representatives in Atlanta on Thursday, the last day of the legislative session. LaHood is the sponsor of the bill in the House.

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  • Elections

Georgia lawmakers pass new election rules that could impact 2024 presidential contest

Republicans in Georgia have repeatedly floated election changes in the wake of false claims by former President Donald Trump and other Republicans that he lost Georgia in 2020 because of fraud.

March 29, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton clap for President Biden during a campaign fundraising event at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Thursday.

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  • Elections

Biden touts a $25M haul from fundraiser featuring Barack Obama and Bill Clinton

A star-studded cast appeared with the former presidents and Biden, including Mindy Kaling, Ben Platt and Stephen Colbert hosting the event.

March 29, 2024
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By:
  • Jeongyoon Han and
  • Franco Ordoñez
Vice President Kamala Harris disembarks Air Force 2 at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport in St. Paul, Minn., on March 14, as part of a series of events on protecting reproductive rights.

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  • Elections

Why VP Harris is seen as critical to Biden's reelection campaign

The vice president has been traveling across the country, giving increasingly higher-profile remarks to key voting groups.

March 28, 2024
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By:
  • Asma Khalid
A local election official organizes mail-in ballots to be sorted for the 2020 general election in West Chester, Pa.

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  • Elections

An appeals court says 'undated' Pennsylvania ballots don't count

A federal appeals panel says mailed ballots arriving on time but in envelopes without dates handwritten by Pennsylvania voters shouldn't be counted. This case is expected to reach the Supreme Court.

March 27, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Former President Donald Trump speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition's Annual Leadership Summit on October 28, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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  • Politics

Trump seeks to capitalize on Biden's frustration with Israel's Netanyahu

Support for Israel's war in Gaza has fractured along political and religious lines. But Trump's own remarks about Jewish Americans have been sharply criticized.

March 27, 2024
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
The Reach app, as seen on volunteer Sarah Harrison's phone, allows Biden supporters to share content directly with their contacts, and is connected to a national Democratic party voter database.

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  • Elections

It's easy to tune out politics. Biden's campaign is using an app to get around that

Biden volunteers will still knock on doors and try to get voters on the phone. But they're also using an app to connect with hard-to reach voters this year.

March 27, 2024
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  • Tamara Keith
Nicole Shanahan waves from the podium during a campaign event for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tuesday in Oakland, Calif. The California attorney is now RFK's running mate.

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  • Elections

Robert Kennedy Jr. taps a wealthy California attorney as his running mate

Kennedy, who's known for anti-vaccine advocacy and as a promoter of conspiracy theories, picked Nicole Shanahan, a political novice, as his running mate for his independent presidential campaign.

March 26, 2024
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  • Stephen Fowler
A New York judge on Monday set April 15 as the new start date in former President Donald Trump's  hush money case.

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  • Law

Appeals court has lowered Trump's bond in civil fraud case to $175 million

The New York court also gave the former president 10 more days to post it. Separately, a judge set April 15 as the new start date in Trump's hush money case.

March 26, 2024
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  • Andrea Bernstein and
  • Ximena Bustillo
Georgia voters in line to vote.

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  • Politics

Georgia lawmakers could still tinker with election rules in waning days of 2024 legislative session

Georgia’s lawmakers head into the final week of the 2024 legislative session with pending legislation designed to add a new security feature to paper ballots, provide online access to ballots, change the way votes are tabulated and a bill intended to provide more clarity on voter eligibility challenges.

March 25, 2024
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  • Stanley Dunlap
J.J. Holmes was recognized this year among the News Service of Florida's 40 under 40 for his advocacy work for people with disabilities. The News Service's Dara Kam hosted the ceremony.

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  • National

A push is underway for voters to make Florida the next state to expand Medicaid

For a decade, Florida lawmakers have debated whether to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Advocates are trying to circumvent the legislature and take the issue directly to voters.

March 24, 2024
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By:
  • Regan McCarthy
Trump supporters hold images of Laken Riley before he speaks at a rally in Rome, Ga., on March 9.

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  • Politics

Like a Phish concert but with more grievance, this is what it's like at a Trump rally

Many Americans won't experience a rally for former President Donald Trump in person, instead witnessing these events through viral clips. But for the faithful, a Trump rally is so much more than that.

March 24, 2024
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By:
  • Danielle Kurtzleben
Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday spoke at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., about gun safety measures after meeting with families whose loved ones were killed during the 2018 shooting at the school.

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  • Politics

In Parkland, VP Harris urged greater use of red flag laws to prevent shootings

Florida passed a red flag law after the 2018 school shooting in Parkland. During a visit to that site, Harris announced a new White House effort designed to get more states to put those laws to work.

March 23, 2024
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  • Deepa Shivaram and
  • Brian Mann
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Oct. 27, 2016 at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

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  • Elections

Ohio has been a bellwether and a battleground: What is it telling us now?

Ohio was the model bellwether state until 2020. In that year, Ohio gave a solid majority of its vote to then-incumbent President Donald Trump, but he still lost the White House to Joe Biden.

March 23, 2024
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By:
  • Ron Elving

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  • Elections

Here are Louisiana's 2024 presidential primary results

Voting concludes Saturday in Louisiana's presidential primaries. President Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive nominees, are on their party's primary ballots. View live results.

March 23, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Supporters celebrate the release of Senegal's top opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and his key ally Bassirou Diomaye Faye outside Sonko's home in Dakar, Senegal, Thursday, March 14, 2024.

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  • Africa

Senegal heads to the polls after delayed elections - here's what you need to know

Senegal will finally go to the polls this weekend, in a vote that was delayed, then reinstated. A beacon of relative stability in a restless region, its democratic resilience has been sorely tested.

March 22, 2024
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  • Emmanuel Akinwotu and
  • Ayen Deng Bior
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