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AP News - Politics

Unions face a moment of truth in Michigan in this year's presidential race

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Jill Biden is out campaigning again — but not for her husband anymore. She's pumping up Harris

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Harris works to energize Black male voters while Trump continues to attack immigration policy

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US warns Israel to boost humanitarian aid into Gaza or risk losing weapons funding

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Biden says Harris will cut her own path as president, and her perspective will be fresh and new

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In battleground Pennsylvania, Trump ended his town hall with an impromptu concert

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Harris makes appearance in Pennsylvania, the largest battleground state

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Walz says Trump is wrong about Detroit

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Georgia judge blocks ballot counting rule and says county officials must certify election results

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Trump says it would be a 'smart thing' if he spoke to Putin, though he won't confirm he has

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RFK Jr. suggests he'll have a significant role on agriculture and health policy if Trump is elected

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Petitions for union representation doubled under Biden's presidency, first increase since 1970s

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Trump's town hall turns into impromptu concert after medical incidents

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Walz unveils Harris' plan for rural voters as campaign looks to cut into Trump's edge

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Israel assures US it won't strike Iranian nuclear or oil sites, US officials say

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AP VoteCast: How Americans voted in 2020, and what it could mean for 2024

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Biden admin to provide $750 million to North Carolina-based Wolfspeed for advanced computer chips

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From the pulpit, Harris calls out Trump for hurricane misinformation. Biden surveys Florida's damage

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Speaker Johnson lays out agenda for Republicans as they fight to hold House majority

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Japan's new Prime Minister Ishiba vows to push a strong defense under the Japan-US alliance

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Sophistication of AI-backed operation targeting senator points to future of deepfake schemes

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US lawmakers' concerns about mail ballots are fueled by other issues with mail service

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Supreme Court seems likely to give Oklahoma death row inmate a new day in court

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Oklahoma death row inmate had three 'last meals.' He's back at Supreme Court in new bid for freedom

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The Supreme Court opens its new term with election disputes in the air but not yet on the docket

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Supreme Court steps into a fight over plans to store nuclear waste in rural Texas and New Mexico

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Donald Trump has seized on an opening to sound his frequent argument that imposing huge tariffs on foreign goods would amount to an economic elixir — one he claims would raise enormous sums for the government, protect U.S. firms from overseas competition and prod foreign companies to open factories

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The Pentagon says more than 800 military personnel have seen their service records upgraded to honorable discharges after previously being kicked out of the military under its former "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

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The candidates for U.S. president and their allies want men to believe their vote says big things about their masculinity.

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A lot of political changes are coming to Portland, Oregon. The open mayoral race in the state's most populous city features 19 candidates and comes after years of growing frustration over homeless encampments and open drug use.

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An Associated Press survey finds that more than 63,000 Georgia voters have had their qualifications challenged since July 1.

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With the U.S. House narrowly divided, contests for Pennsylvania's seats will be critical to determine who will control the chamber.

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A campaign to enshrine abortion rights in the Missouri Constitution has raised close to $22 million.

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The Los Angeles city attorney's office says it does not plan to file criminal charges against two people who were investigated in connection with the unlawful recording of a racist conversation that rocked City Hall in 2022 and prompted the city council president to resign after the audio was leaked

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The president of one of the largest Native American tribes in the U.S. has removed responsibilities from his vice president.

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Hunter Biden is reviving a lawsuit that accuses Fox News of illegally publishing explicit images of him as part of a streaming series.

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The U.S. Justice Department will send election monitors to an Ohio county where a sheriff was recently accused of intimidating voters in a social media post.

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Voting rights advocates on Tuesday asked the state and federal departments of justice to investigate anonymous text messages apparently targeting young Wisconsin voters, warning them not to vote in a state where they are ineligible.

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A judge has rejected a request to require Arizona's 15 counties to verify the citizenship of about 42,000 voters registered to vote only in federal elections.

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The Small Business Administration has run out of money for its disaster assistance loans, delaying much needed relief for people applying for aid in the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved a one-year extension of housing help for Maui wildfire survivors.

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Officials say federal disaster workers have resumed door-to-door visits as part of hurricane recovery efforts in North Carolina.

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A campaign spot flooding TV airwaves in the Sacramento region this election season warns that the incumbent Republican Assemblymember is "backed by anti-abortion extremists" who "know he'll back their dangerous, anti-choice agenda."

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New Hampshire's candidates for governor are telling voters to reject each others' campaign promises when it comes to vetoes. Former U.S. Sen.

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The Supreme Court has tossed out a decision allowing 18-year-olds to legally carry guns in public. The justices on Tuesday sent back to a lower court for reconsideration a ruling that allowed people under 21 to carry guns during emergencies in Pennsylvania.

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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are both making pushes to energize key constituencies that their allies worry might be slipping away.

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U.S. Agriculture Department officials have launched an internal investigation into how the agency handled reports of serious problems tied to a deadly listeria outbreak at a Boar's Head deli meat plant in Virginia.

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The Supreme Court has ordered a federal appeals court to take a new look at the lawsuit filed by a Texas-based online citizen journalist who said she was wrongly arrested in a case that drew attention from national media organizations and free speech advocates.

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North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has sued CNN over its recent report that he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website's message board.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger David McCormick disagreed on clean energy policy, gun laws and abortion rights in a fast-moving debate Tuesday night, as they accused each other of lying and shared a stage for the last time before the election.

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Many states have laws designed to keep children away from convicted sexual offenders on Halloween night, such as curfews for those on offender registries and requirements to keep their porch lights off.

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Lawyers for 100 survivors and relatives of victims of the deadliest shooting in Maine history have begun the formal process of suing the U.S.

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California and Nevada voters will decide in November if they want to ban forced prison labor by removing language from their state constitutions rooted in the legacy of chattel slavery.

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Two men who were shot during the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump this summer say the U.S.

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Conservative politicians in states such as Oklahoma, Texas and Tennessee have been questioning whether immigrants without legal residency should have the right to a public education.

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Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Colin Allred have squared off for the only debate in the Texas Senate race this year.

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Pennsylvania voters will soon decide whether to keep Democrats in the majority in the state House and Republicans in control of the Senate.

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New Mexico authorities are grappling with a growing number of migrants dying in the state's border region, with the remains of more than 100 found in the first eight months of the year in the state.

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Donald Trump has vowed that if voters return him to the White House, "inflation will vanish completely."

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