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(T.A. DeFeo, The Center Square) Some Georgia counties will be offering early voting this weekend following confusion over what state law allows. Georgia voters will return to the polls for a U.S. Senate runoff between Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker. According to the state, early voting for...

(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska has taken a slight lead over fellow Republican Kelly Tshibaka, according to the latest report from the Alaska Division of Elections. Murkowski had trailed Tshibaka initially in the state's first general election using ranked-choice voting. Tshibaka has the backing of former...

(Headline USA) Trailing badly in his Arizona Senate race as votes poured in, Republican Blake Masters went on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program and assigned blame to one person: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. “You know what else is incompetent, Tucker? The Establishment. The people who control the purse strings,”...

(Headline USA) One is an ordained pastor in Brooklyn, the other a single mother and children’s book author in New Jersey. Both drive for Lyft. Both share the word of God as roving preachers. Pastor Kenneth Drayton and Tomika Reid try to inspire passengers through spiritual guidance on the road...

(Headline USA) The Walt Disney Company has tapped its former CEO Bob Iger to return to head the company for two years, firing his successor Bob Chapek in a move that stunned the entertainment industry. “The Board has concluded that as Disney embarks on an increasingly complex period of industry...

(Headline USA) Persistent efforts by North Carolina's legislature to protect children from genital mutilations promises hope for parents trying to save their kids. After Republicans swept most state-level elections this month, North Carolina gender benders are bracing for the possibility of new or reintroduced legislation seeking to prevent gender mutilation....

(Headline USA) The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said his panel is reviewing “serious allegations” in a report that a former anti-abortion leader knew in advance the outcome of a 2014 Supreme Court case involving health care coverage of contraception and after the 2022 leak of the Dobbs...

(Headline USA) A Pennsylvania judge has recommended the state's high court impose civil contempt penalties against a Republican-majority county government that this summer secretly allowed a third party to copy data from Dominion voting machines used in the 2020 election. Commonwealth Court President Judge Renee Cohn Jubilee's 77-page report issued...

(Headline USA) Fresh off his commanding reelection, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Saturday campaigned for the first time alongside Senate hopeful Herschel Walker. The joint appearance reflects how important Kemp’s broad coalition will be in determining whether Walker can unseat Sen. Raphael Warnock in a Dec. 6 runoff. “We cannot rest...

(Headline USA) People in their 80s lead countries, create majestic art and perform feats of endurance. One entered the record books for scaling Mount Everest. It's soon time for Joe Biden, 80 on Sunday, to decide whether he has one more mountain to climb — the one to a...

(Headline USA) Elon Musk reinstated President Donald Trump’s account on Twitter on Saturday. Musk reversed the cancel culture ban that has kept president Trump off the social media site since 2021. Musk made the announcement in the evening after holding a poll that asked Twitter users to click “yes” or...

(Headline USA) Idaho will add a new position of solicitor general to challenge federal government actions and policies when Republican Raul Labrador becomes the state’s new attorney general in early January. Labrador on Thursday announced two staff positions to be filled by former members of President Donald Trump’s administration: David...