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News · IL
The proposal calls for abolishing all three federal bodies but is not directly connected to a candidate race or election.
News · AR
The financing is intended to help Delta Peanut continue work tied to Arkansas’ peanut harvest.
News · CA
The proposal would use a tax to discourage price gouging at gasoline pumps, with its impact depending on how lawmakers structure it.
News · AZ
Arizona’s secretary of state contest is renewing debate over election rules, but campaign arguments do not by themselves change voting procedures.
News · IL
The complaint alleges the Vernon Area Public Library District used taxpayer resources for polling connected to a referendum.
News · CA
The return order changes who holds ballots seized during a voter-fraud inquiry but does not establish that fraud occurred.
News · US
Trump’s national ratings have fallen to a record low, while Democrats are now favored in the contests for control of the House and Senate.
News · US
Trump and Xi held a short summit covering a broad agenda, the focus of an NPR conversation with Mary Louise Kelly and Emily Feng.
News · US
The U.S. is trying to recover unserviceable F-35 components diverted while being shipped from Australia to the United States.
News · US
Republicans stopped a Democratic war powers resolution as some in the party began distancing themselves from President Trump over the conflict.
News · US
The narrow vote came days after President Donald Trump threatened Iran in a United Nations address and as gas prices disrupted midterm politics.
News · US
The tracker focuses on which party voters want to hold the House majority, rather than any single congressional contest.
News · TX
Gov. Greg Abbott has proposed limiting screen time in Texas schools, placing classroom technology use on the state education agenda.
News · ID
The California Supreme Court directed the Riverside County sheriff to return 650,000 ballots that had been seized.
News · MT
The Montana Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that had blocked a proposed data center initiative in Butte-Silver Bow County.
News · IA
The case challenged a pre-election poll showing Donald Trump behind Kamala Harris, and the judge warned about effects on news reporting.
News · OH
A federal appeals panel reversed an order that had blocked Ohio’s citizenship-document rule for voter registration at BMV offices.
News · HI
Tropical Storm Nolo prompted closures Thursday and Friday on Hawaii Island and Friday across Maui County.
News · NV
The proposal would enlarge an existing attorney general’s office function focused on Medicaid fraud.
News · FL
The newly released footage captures an FHP trooper using a PIT maneuver during a Miami-Dade chase last month.
News · OK
The federal ruling allows Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School to continue seeking approval, though appeals could delay the case.
News · WA
An investigation is underway after human remains were discovered in a wooded area of Frederickson, Washington.
News · NE
Nebraska agricultural producers are set to receive a temporary, 90-day pause on diesel taxes under an announcement from Gov. Jim Pillen.
News · IL
The Illinois Supreme Court heard arguments over changes to the rules for Chicago police disciplinary hearings.
News · UT
The California Supreme Court directed the Riverside County sheriff to return 650,000 ballots that had been seized.
News · OH
A 2-1 ruling restores Ohio’s proof-of-citizenship requirement one month after a lower court temporarily blocked the voter ID law.
News · US
Rising diesel prices are straining businesses as Republican lawmakers press President Trump to consider banning diesel exports.
News · US
The leaders met as the United States and China extended a tariff pause and continued competing over advanced artificial intelligence.
News · US
The fish-centered dinner includes squash soup, sesame-crusted sea bass and a dessert made with White House honey.
News · US
Republican lawmakers are pressing the Pentagon to explain how sensitive F-35 parts were diverted to Hong Kong and ended up in China.