Tag: election
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Amazon makes first foray into live news with election night special hosted by Brian Williams
Amazon said Thursday it plans to host an election night special anchored by Brian Williams, marking the company’s first foray into live news coverage. The one-night special will provide election results and analysis on Prime Video starting at 5 p.m. ET on Nov. 5, the company said. Amazon emphasized it will be a “non-partisan presentation” pulling…
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Election 2024 live updates: Harris to stump in Wisconsin; Trump to attend Al Smith dinner
Election 2024 live updates: Harris to stump in Wisconsin; Trump to attend Al Smith dinner
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Trump’s legal team tried to keep Stormy Daniels quiet ahead of 2024 election, MSNBC reports
Former President Donald Trump this summer offered a financial incentive to adult film star Stormy Daniels if she agreed to keep quiet about Trump — including about the relationship that became the center of the hush money payments that ended up the subject of a New York criminal trial — ahead of this November’s election,…
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Judge invalidates Georgia election rules crafted by Trump allies
A Georgia judge invalidated several new election rules on Wednesday, calling the measures approved by the state’s Republican-controlled election board “unconstitutional” and in violation of state law. The ruling, handed down by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox, applies to a hand-count rule for Election Day ballots and rules tied to the certification of…
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Federal judge blocks Alabama’s voter purge program ahead of election
A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked Alabama’s voter removal program that flagged thousands of registered voters and accused them of illegally registering in the state. The Justice Department had filed a lawsuit against the state of Alabama challenging the program aimed at removing voters from its election rolls, arguing it was too close to…
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Fulton County DA Fani Willis asks appeals court to reinstate six charges in Trump election case
Fulton County prosecutors asked a Georgia appeals court this week to restore six charges that were tossed in former President Donald Trump’s indictment over attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. In a court filing, prosecutors from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office requested that the state’s Court of Appeals reinstate…
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Judge in Trump’s Jan. 6 case rejects ‘strained’ argument about his false 2020 election claims
WASHINGTON — A federal judge overseeing the federal election interference case against Donald Trump rejected the former president’s claim that he was actually concerned about foreign influence and interference in the 2020 election — rather than the false claims about domestic voter fraud he continuously repeated in the weeks before the Jan. 6 attack. There…
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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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Will Biden cost Harris the election?
For a country that seems evenly divided over politics and polarized about many cultural issues, a durable majority does agree about one thing: They don’t like the Biden presidency. And despite the machinations that resulted in President Joe Biden’s not being on the ballot this election season, his unpopularity is still the mood music of…
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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…