Tag: day
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Trump team readies a flurry of executive actions for Day 1
WASHINGTON — Within hours of taking office as president, Donald Trump plans to roll out a flurry of executive actions aligned with his campaign promises, imposing more socially conservative health care policies on the U.S. military and setting in motion the large-scale deportation of people living in the country illegally. NBC News spoke with more…
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Mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day in Mississippi shouldn’t be counted, appeals court says
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted if they are postmarked before election day — but received up to five days after Election Day — is preempted by federal law. The ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals does not have any immediate impact…
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Far-right congressman suggests N.C. legislature should consider handing electors to Trump on Election Day
WASHINGTON — The newly elected chairman of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, Rep. Andy Harris, suggested that North Carolina’s Republican-controlled state legislature should consider awarding the state’s electors to Donald Trump before all votes are counted, according to a video of his remarks posted on social media on Friday. Citing North Carolina counties hit by…
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Congregation Mikveh Israel synagogue in Philadelphia targeted by vandals three times in one day
One of the oldest synagogues in the United States was targeted by vandals three times Tuesday, including by attempted arson, officials said. Congregation Mikveh Israel, which was first founded in the 1740s in Philadelphia, was damaged after a dumpster was lit on fire around 2 a.m. Tuesday morning. According to the Philadelphia Police Department, a…
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Battleground states flooded with voting lawsuits weeks out from Election Day
Political parties and groups have filed nearly 100 lawsuits across seven battleground states that could shape how votes are cast and counted ahead of Election Day and the legal battle that’s expected to follow. The majority of suits were brought by Republicans and allied groups who are focused on rooting out alleged voter fraud, despite…
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For the second time in a day, Trump resorts to false personal attacks on Harris
Former President Donald Trump slammed Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday night as a “lunatic” and “stupid” and questioned whether she had a problem with alcohol or drugs — the second time over the course of the day that he made false personal attacks on his Democratic opponent. During a rally Tuesday night in Greensboro, N.C.,…
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Kamala Harris has no current plans to campaign with Biden before Election Day
WASHINGTON — With just two weeks left in the 2024 campaign, there currently are no plans for Vice President Kamala Harris to appear on the trail with President Joe Biden before Election Day, according to three Harris campaign officials and three White House officials. Instead, Biden plans to try to help Harris this week by…
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Trump once called Jan. 6 a ‘henious attack.’ Now he calls it a ‘day of love.’
WASHINGTON — The day after thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters who believed his lies about the 2020 election laid siege to the U.S. Capitol, with many assaulting police officers, the then-president tried to distance himself from the mob, saying “intruders” had “infiltrated the Capitol” during the “heinous attack” and “defiled the seat of American democracy.”…
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GOP donors pour hundreds of millions into pro-Trump super PACs before Election Day
Republican megadonors are opening up their checkbooks — and not being shy about the number of zeros they write — to help former President Donald Trump and other Republicans as Vice President Kamala Harris’ fundraising operation breaks records. Major pro-Trump super PACs pulled in more than $200 million from major Republican donors over the summer,…
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Georgia judge blocks rule requiring counties to hand-count Election Day ballots
A Georgia judge on Tuesday blocked a new rule from the state’s election board that would have required counties to count ballots cast on Election Day by hand, a provision critics had said would cause delays in reporting results in the battleground state. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his decision that…