Supreme Court won’t block counting of certain provisional ballots in Pennsylvania

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday declined to freeze a decision from Pennsylvania’s highest court that required election officials to count provisional ballots cast by people whose mail ballots are invalid because they lacked mandatory secrecy envelopes. The order from the justices means that election officials in the key battleground state must tally provisional

Illegal border crossings remain low amid concerns that election could end lull

Nogales, Arizona — The lull in illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border continued in October, according to preliminary Customs and Border Protection figures obtained by CBS News. But officials worry that could be upended by the presidential election on Tuesday.  Border Patrol agents recorded nearly 57,000 apprehensions of migrants between legal entry points along the

Harris campaign pounces on Trump rally ” garbage” remarks in push for Latino vote

Going into the final weekend before Election Day, the Harris campaign is continuing to remind voters of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke at a Trump rally last Sunday that referred to Puerto Rico as an “island of garbage.”  A senior Harris campaign official says internal data shows the vice president is winning over battleground voters “who

In Elon Musk’s “election integrity” community on X, false claims proliferate

Elon Musk’s political action committee has created a group on his platform X that has become a repository for election misinformation, galvanizing more than 58,000 members to report instances of “voter fraud or irregularities” that are often unsubstantiated, misleading or flat-out fabricated. The “Election Integrity Community,” which launched in late October, has hundreds of new

How Trump and Harris’ stances and policy plans on marijuana legalization compare

Legalizing marijuana at the national level is generally popular with Americans — 57% of people say marijuana should be legal for both medical and recreational purposes, while 32% say it should be legal for medical use only, according to a January Pew survey. Only 11% of Americans said it shouldn’t be legal at all. The issue