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Thursday, September 24, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday again declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses…
In the U.S., every vote counts equally, except in a presidential election.
COVID-19 cases eclipsed 1,000 in the five-county area of the Public Health – Idaho North Central District on Wednesda…
A firm that promised to quantify the number of potential airline passengers who are driving between cities in Idaho w…
BOISE — The transfer of IT employees from the State Department of Education to the State Board of Education went “smo…
EMMETT, Idaho — One person is dead after a single-engine airplane fighting the Schill Fire crashed to the ground outs…
OLYMPIA — Thurston County Sheriff John Snaza has asked the Washington Supreme Court to review a judge’s decision to O…
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington voters have elected a Republican secretary of state for more than five decades in a …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson, a Trump administration appointee who bucked the president…
Here’s what’s happening Thursday in Election 2020, 40 days until Election Day:
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Kathy Martin (left) goes through some of the various voting forms as Maxine Miller helps some people register to vote outside of the Lewiston City Library on Tuesday. The League of Woman Voters registered around 40 people from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, which was National Voter Registration Day. Election Day is Nov. 3.
HELENA, Mont. — Requiring Montana counties to open polling places for November’s election would be “absolutely catast…
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Elections officials in Idaho have said they are aiming for a million registered voters in the sta…
Here’s what’s happening Wednesday in Election 2020, 41 days until Election Day:
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump met Monday with Judge Amy Coney Barrett at the White House as the conservative ju…
Monday, September 21, 2020
PHILADELPHIA — Joe Biden on Sunday slammed President Donald Trump and leading Senate Republicans for trying to jam th…
BOISE — If you requested a ballot to vote in the November election but haven’t received it yet, don’t panic. They hav…
OLYMPIA — Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman is asking a court to declare that electronic signatures are not acc…
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Philadelphia's top elections official is warning of electoral chaos in the presidential battle…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from President Donald Trump's reelection campaign challengin…
Sunday, September 20, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday promised to put forth a female nominee in the coming week to fill the…
WASHINGTON — Republican senators weighing what to do about the vacancy on the Supreme Court are facing questions abou…
NEW YORK — A presidential campaign that was already tugging at the nation’s most searing divides has been jolted by t…
WASHINGTON _ Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Sunday portrayed President Trump's determination to lock in…
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg means eight justices would have to decide issues around what i…
Since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday night, President Donald Trump has largely winnowed a list of dozens of …
Democrats are ready to play hardball on the vacancy created by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, House Speaker Nan…
Vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris is expected to play a prominent role in the fight against President Donald Tr…
HARTFORD, Conn. _ The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has galvanized supporters of abortion rights, who fear the liberal…
A presidential contest that had largely been a referendum on President Trump and, in particular, his handling of the …
Friday, September 18, 2020
SEATTLE — A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked controversial Postal Service changes that have slowed mail nationwide, cal…
Thursday, September 17, 2020
For people trying to wrap their minds around the my-way-or-the-highway mindset of American politics in the lead-up to…
BOISE — Rap star Kanye West can stay on Idaho’s presidential ballot as an independent candidate, an Idaho 4th Distric…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota has backed Democratic presidential candidates for nearly half a century and rarely recei…
NEW YORK _ Eric Trump says he's willing to be questioned under oath by New York state lawyers in a civil probe of the…
Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have "ample opportunity" to interfere in the U.S. presidential campaig…
Sep. 17--Latah County voters received their first glance -- albeit virtual -- at the District 2 county commissioner c…
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that it is impractical for Michigan to try to e…
Monday, September 14, 2020
Vote early and vote absentee are the two main requests local elections officials have for people intending to cast ba…
WASHINGTON — A whistleblower’s allegation that he was pressured to suppress intelligence about Russian election inter…
Sunday, September 13, 2020
WASHINGTON — The leaked recordings were hardly a political bombshell: The apparent phone conversations between Joe Bi…
BILLINGS, Mont. — Vice President Mike Pence has canceled plans to attend a Trump campaign fundraiser in Montana follo…
A federal judge ordered the U.S. Postal Service to stop sending a notice advising Colorado residents to request mail-…
MIAMI — Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire former New York mayor whose self-funded presidential bid fell short this year…
NEW YORK (AP) — The images were vivid: President Donald Trump brandishing a Bible outside an Episcopal church in Wash…
Friday, September 11, 2020
Idaho congressional candidate Rudy Soto didn’t show up in Lapwai as originally planned Thursday evening because of a …
Thursday, September 10, 2020
SEATTLE (AP) — A group of states suing over service cuts at the U.S. Postal Service is asking a federal judge to imme…
BOSTON (AP) — The same Russian military intelligence outfit that hacked the Democrats in 2016 has attempted similar i…
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Twitter said Thursday that starting next week it will label or remove misleading claims that t…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Attorneys for President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign are urging a federal judge in Las Vegas t…
