In the end, it didn’t take all that long to declare that Donald Trump was returning to the White House. In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic and an unusual number of mail ballots complicated the counting process, Joe Biden was declared the winner by The Associated Press and other media outlets just before noon Saturday, […]
El expresidente Donald Trump ganó las elecciones presidenciales de 2024. La agenda política de Trump para un segundo mandato resucita algunas propuestas de su primer mandato, pero va más allá en muchos frentes. Las nuevas propuestas incluyen una política de deportación más agresiva, el aumento de los aranceles y prohíbir la cirugía de afirmación de […]
Former President Donald Trump’s election victory and looming return to the White House will likely bring changes that scale back the nation’s public health insurance programs — increasing the uninsured rate, while imposing new barriers to abortion and other reproductive care. The reverberations will be felt far beyond Washington, D.C., and could include an erosion […]
After two impeachments during his first term, a 2020 election loss, two assassination attempts and four criminal cases, Donald Trump has won back the presidency in 2024. The Associated Press officially called the race for Trump at 5:35 a.m. Wednesday after he won Wisconsin and secured 277 electoral votes. Polls had shown close margins between Trump […]
A social media user chronicled her mother’s early voting complication on Facebook. “My Mom voted early,” the user wrote in an Oct. 29 post. “This is what happened to her!” The poster said that a voting machine in Galesburg, Illinois, at the Knox County Courthouse flipped her mom’s vote. “When I cast my vote for […]
Confused about the most reliable sources to track as the election returns roll in the evening of Nov. 5? We’re here to help. News websites with results and analysis The best and most unbiased information will come from traditional media sources. The major broadcast and cable networks will have their own “decision desks” that sort […]
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Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on “Saturday Night Live” for only 90 seconds, but her cameo sparked hours of online debate over whether NBC had to offer former President Donald Trump “equal time.” Unlike many aspects of the 2024 presidential campaign, all sides worked together to address the issue quickly — and to the parties’ […]
Millions of immigrants are coming to the U.S. from foreign prisons and mental institutions. Immigrants are raising U.S. crime rates. Immigrants are ruining Social Security. Noncitizens are illegally voting in federal elections. Immigrants are taking U.S. jobs. That is just a sampling of the false and misleading immigration claims former President Donald Trump has repeated […]
Republicans are accusing U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson, the Democratic nominee for North Carolina attorney general, of embracing and praising a child sex offender. Jackson and Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop are in a tight race for attorney general, a position currently held by Democrat Josh Stein, who’s running for governor. Bishop’s campaign is airing a […]
On election night 2020, then-President Donald Trump prematurely declared hours after polls had closed, “We already have won.” He hadn’t, and we rated that Pants on Fire. When Trump began to speak in the early morning of Nov. 4, at 2:21 a.m. ET, states were still following normal procedures to count ballots. It was not […]
In the week before Election Day, former President Donald Trump repeatedly told his supporters that voter fraud and cheating is happening in Pennsylvania. “Pennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large scale levels rarely seen before,” Trump posted Oct. 30 on Truth Social. “REPORT CHEATING TO AUTHORITIES. Law Enforcement must act, NOW!” Law enforcement officials […]