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The Supreme Court cleared the way for Arizona Republican leaders to enforce a new state law that makes it felony for anyone other than family members and caregivers to deliver mail-in ballots to polling places. The court in a brief order with no listed dissents blocked a ruling of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of […]

From rap stars to the first black US president, high-powered supporters of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton launched a final bid Friday night to bring out the black vote as one of America’s most divisive presidential campaigns draws to a close. Hip-hop power couple Beyoncé and Jay Z stumped for Clinton Friday night in a last-minute

President Obama took the unusual step Saturday of criticizing Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania for the endangered incumbent’s use of the president’s image in a campaign ad. Mr. Obama objected to the Toomey campaign’s use of video of the president praising the senator in 2013 for his support for expanded background checks on gun

One of Washington state’s Democratic presidential electors is vowing not to cast his Electoral College vote for Hillary Clinton, even if she wins the state on Election Day. Another elector says he is considering withholding his vote. “No, no, no on Hillary. Absolutely not. No way,” said Robert Satiacum, a member of Washington’s Puyallup Tribe

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama extolled the virtues of Hillary Clinton and warned of the dangers of Donald Trump, and then he boiled it down to a personal appeal: “I need you to go out and just nag the heck out of folks who aren’t voting,” Obama said Friday. “I need you to tell them that Barack

The end of a wild campaign happily near, her presidential prize tantalizingly close, Hillary Clinton took the stage in Pembroke Pines, Fla., Saturday afternoon in torrential rain to ask voters one more time to stick with her. “Boy, is this a hardy group,” she said, overlooking an outdoor crowd sheltering under umbrellas and makeshift ponchos.

WASHINGTON — Even before they elect a new president, voters are signaling a continued stalemate post-election on major issues such as health care, immigration and the Supreme Court. Hillary Clinton’s supporters are eager for compromise on such issues. Donald Trump’s backers want the government to stand on principle even if it means continued paralysis, a

Previously: A 103-Year-Old Feminist Critiques the 2016 Presidential Candidates Ruth Littman has lived through 26 presidential elections. She’s been voting since 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt clobbered Herbert Hoover. She is as old as one Ted Cruz plus one Marco Rubio plus five North “Nori” Wests. Littman is 105. (Last week, she celebrated her birthday

Miami DJ Scott Melker took to his Facebook on Thursday to tell some stories about Donald Trump Jr. According to Melker, he attended the University of Pennsylvania with Trump Jr. and was witness to some his poor behavior and alleged resentment of his father. Melker wrote that he hopes to shed “a bit of light

As a middle-class, white Ashkenazi Jew living in California in 2016, I’ve been privileged to avoid the systemic, cultural and interpersonal racism faced by many Muslims, immigrants and people of color across the U.S. today. However, my uncle was not as fortunate. He was a Holocaust survivor who saw his entire family killed in front

Some people get angry when I and others compare Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to George Wallace. What they’re forgetting, or perhaps never knew if they’re too young, is that Wallace didn’t run for president in 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976 as a segregationist, though he was one; he ran as a populist defender of