JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Even after the last votes were counted from Alaska’s primary election, the final slate of candidates was far from settled. Late withdrawals shook up the races for governor, U.S. Senate and U.S. House, leaving many voters upset with candidates who dropped out after winning a spo
DETROIT (AP) — Mike Rogers stood outside Cody High School on Detroit’s west side on a recent drizzly morning and decried Michigan’s decline in reading achievement. “This is the civil rights issue of our lifetime,” said the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in the open-seat race in November. It had
Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday, as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary elections. Moscow’s mayor described the wave of drones as the “largest ever” drone
(SRN NEWS) – Republicans are heading into the final stretch of the midterm election campaign with a historic financial advantage—and party leaders say that momentum could help them expand their majority in the House of Representatives. The National Republican Congressional Committee announced Friday
Russia’s liberal opposition Yabloko party said that one of its election observers lost consciousness while being arrested by police at a St. Petersburg polling station on Saturday, the second day of a tightly controlled parliamentary election. The voting to elect members of the State Duma is Russia’
YARDLEY, Pa. (AP) — Mary Ryan may be a registered Republican but she has never voted for President Donald Trump, turned off by his crass style of politics and chaotic approach to governing. But the 60-year-old medical writer from the Philadelphia suburbs has consistently backed her party’s congressm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Several of the nation’s largest left-leaning voter engagement and racial justice organizations are facing steep funding shortfalls and staffing cutbacks just as voting is getting underway in an election that will determine control of Congress for the final two years of President Do
By Valerie Volcovici Sept 19 (Reuters) – No company has announced plans for a data center in Defiance, a city of 17,000 people surrounded by soybean fields in northwestern Ohio. But people in the aptly named community are not taking any chances. After learning the county’s economic development group
Russia’s parliamentary election for the first time includes residents of regions that Moscow illegally annexed from Ukraine after the start of its full-scale invasion more than 4 1/2 years ago, part of Kremlin efforts to cement its gains. Officials in Kyiv vigorously denounced the action as illegal,
MASON, Mich. (AP) — Emerson Hyde and Dan Ewart, both Republicans, stood outside a contentious city council meeting earlier this week in the central Michigan town of Mason and grappled with the fact that the most prominent person to stand with them against a possible artificial intelligence data cent
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Seventy-five absentee in-person ballots cast by voters in rural western Alaska communities arrived too late to be counted in last month’s primary election, officials said. The Alaska Division of Elections blamed a “mail delivery delay” that affected voters in seven communities,
By Jacob Bogage and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Friday he is engaging with Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune about bringing to the floor a bill aimed at protecting households from electricity cost increases tied to the expansion of data ce
By Jacob Bogage and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump said on Friday his son, Donald Trump Jr., has told him he would pay back a Russian oligarch who bankrolled wedding celebrations for him in the Bahamas in May. Democrats in the US Congress launched an investig
By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – The Republican chair of the US congressional committee on China on Friday urged President Donald Trump to take a tough line in his summit with Xi Jinping next week, warning against concessions and calling for tighter technology restrictions and con
By Jacob Bogage and David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump said on Friday he is banning three major news outlets – CNN, MS NOW and Politico – from the White House in his latest threat to the independent press. The move is almost certain to face legal challenges as
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – Major automakers, suppliers and dealers on Friday urged President Donald Trump to keep Chinese automakers out of the US market, ahead of his meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping next week. Last week, Trump told Fox News he would accept Chinese
WASHINGTON — (AP) The U.S. Postal Service has halted development of a controversial election-mail computer system after the Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order from taking effect in the 2026 federal election. Postmaster General David Steiner told The Associated Press that
By Ernest Scheyder Sept 18 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump’s goal of building a large aluminum smelter in Oklahoma passed a major hurdle in late August when Republican voters nominated a candidate for governor who supports its construction after an unusually tough primary battle. The project m
Russians on Friday began three days of voting in the country’s first wartime parliamentary election, which features virtually no opposition and is all but certain to secure the Kremlin’s political dominance. Authorities spread the election over the weekend, ending Sunday, in a bid to boost turnout a
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s attorney general said Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security may have violated several state laws after a whistleblower accused its employees of misrepresenting themselves on voter lookup tools to hunt for noncitizen voters. In a letter obtained by The Asso
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top official at the U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that the agency has stopped work on developing a controversial computer system that was central to President Donald Trump’s effort to limit mail voting after the Supreme Court rejected his executive order this week. “There’s
Sept 17 (Reuters) – The White House withdrew on Thursday its nomination of former Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, issuing a brief statement that did not provide a reason. ICE, which has been at the forefront of President Donald Trump’s immigrat
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal appeals court panel on Thursday was considering an attempt to resurrect new Missouri congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump, even though the U.S. Supreme Court blocked those districts from being used in the November election. A three-judge panel
By David Hood-Nuño WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – A Latina Republican lawmaker facing a competitive reelection race in Florida warned US President Donald Trump on Thursday that his signature immigration enforcement agenda had overreached. “Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts
By Sriparna Roy Sept 17 (Reuters) – US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday named eight new members to the advisory panel that decides which preventive medical care, such as routine cancer screening or HIV prevention, should be provided at no cost under health insurance plans. The Prev
WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday voted along party lines to advance President Donald Trump’s nomination of Capital One executive Brian Johnson to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, setting up a vote by the full Senate. The Republican-led Senate Banking Comm
By Katharine Jackson and Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday to provide at least 30 days’ notice before taking any steps to demolish the Kennedy Center, the landmark performing arts venue that has become a flashpo
By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Dan Levine WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – The Pennsylvania health department said it was requesting emergency support from the US CDC as it grapples with one of the country’s largest and most deadly measles outbreaks, according to a document reviewed by Reuters on Thursday.
(SRN NEWS) – The Trump administration says its border strategy is delivering a result that eluded the previous administration: for 16 consecutive months, no person apprehended while illegally crossing into the United States has been released into the country, according to the Department of Homeland
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – A key Senate Democrat has asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio to ensure that U.S. diplomats are involved in a Pentagon-led review of America’s military presence in Europe that has alarmed NATO allies. In a letter addressed to Rubio, who is also the n
