Fires damage ballots in Portland and Vancouver as voters are urged to check ballot status; officials emphasize election security amid ongoing investigations. Two fires at ballot drop boxes in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, led to police responses early on Monday morning, Oct. 28, with one fire resulting in the destruction of potentially hundreds of
A higher percentage of Americans said they were at least ’somewhat’ concerned about violence directed at election officials or political figures. A new poll shows that the vast majority of Americans are at least somewhat worried about a possible outbreak of violence following the fast-approaching Nov. 5 presidential election. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public
‘People see me as an independent voice,’ Altman said two weeks before the Working Families Party’s spending spree started Sue Altman (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for MoveOn) Democratic New Jersey congressional candidate Sue Altman claimed in September that she had “broken” with the Working Families Party on a range of issues—part of her effort to distance
Some of the most closely watched races in the nation are down to a few percentage points with Election Day fast approaching. New York’s highly competitive House and Senate races continue to attract national attention as Election Day draws near. The latest polls suggest that the margins of victory in some of the races will
A Democratic staffer who has campaigned for Sen. Sherrod Brown and other vulnerable Ohio Democrats was caught on video demanding open borders and claiming that voters’ opposition to illegal immigration stems from “pure racism,” Fox News reported Monday. “Open the f—ing border, I don’t give a s—t who comes in here,” the staffer, identified as
‘In response to the aggressor Zionist regime … the defense and nuclear doctrine of our country should be revised,’ says Mohammad Reza Sabbaghian Ali Khamenei delivers speech, Oct. 4 (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) Iranian officials are seeking to openly pursue nuclear weapons following Israel’s weekend attack on a host of military installations, publicly acknowledging work that
Although the number of countries projected to spend at least 2 percent on defense has doubled, nearly one third are still falling short of their commitments. The United States would stay in NATO if former president Donald Trump is reelected, said his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), but he added that other members of