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An Ohio jury reached a verdict in the murder trial of former Columbus police officer Adam Coy in the 2020 fatal shooting of Andre Hill.

Because Election Day isn't a U.S. holiday, many American adults are at work on the Tuesday following the first Monday of November, the day designated for federal, state and local general elections. But 28 states and several thousand companies guarantee workers time off to vote.

Without a federal law guaranteeing voting leave, some workers may take a financial hit if they need to leave work to cast their ballots, depending on the state in which they live and work.

Making Election Day a federal holiday has been proposed multiple times, with the most...

Exit polls are surveys conducted as voters leave their polling places.

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are heading into Election Day with razor-thin margins separating them in the handful of states that will ultimately decide the winner.

The 2024 election map bears some similarities to the landscape that Trump encountered in 2020, when he was defending the White House from a challenge by Joe Biden.

Trump is hoping to win back states that he captured in 2016, when he punctured the Democratic "blue wall" en route to the presidency. Harris is hoping to retain the states that Mr. Biden...

The tightly contested 2024 presidential election could be defined by the gender gap with Vice President Kamala Harris polling better among women, according to a CBS News poll from late October.

Recent CBS News polling shows the race between Harris and former President Donald Trump is a toss-up in seven battleground states as more than 78 million Americans have already voted ahead of Election Day on Tuesday.

Harris is counting on suburban women to help her win the presidential election. She received unexpected help from some longtime Republicans...

Vice President Kamala Harris crisscrossed Michigan, as her running mate Gov. Tim Walz hit North Carolina and Georgia over the weekend. High-profile surrogates such as former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, along with first lady Jill Biden and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, also campaigned for Harris just ahead of Election Day. Her closing message is about unity, collaboration and freedom. Harris will be in Pennsylvania Monday for her closing rally in Philadelphia.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump have framed the presidential race as an existential battle. Voters are heeding their warnings.

Desperate to compete with other growing cities, Nashville’s leaders are trying once again to convince voters that a sales tax increase is worth the price.

The platform is accused of exposing seven children to videos promoting self-harm, and suicide.

The presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is dominating the 2024 debate, but control of both chambers of Congress is also very much up for grabs — and a series of fluid races may produce surprises on election night, NBC News reports.

These sleeper races could determine which party wins a majority in the House or Senate, which will have a substantial impact on the next president’s agenda. They will be decided by a mix of factors, including voter turnout and whether the candidates have a unique ability to defy the broader political...

A majority of Americans say they're feeling stressed by the presidential election, and emotions and tensions continue to mount in the final countdown to Election Day.

"Like everybody else, there's a lot of nervousness and angst," California voter Kay Hanley told CBS News.

"Democrats and Republicans tell us that they feel that democracy is under threat. So all of that, at the very least, puts high stakes into this election," CBS News Elections and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto said, noting that people are feeling the pressure no matter their...

Vice President Kamala Harris' wealth comes from her decades in public service, book royalties and investments.

Harris, 60, and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, also 60, are worth about $8 million, according to an estimate by Forbes.

The Democratic nominee for president spent most of her adult life in government, starting out as district attorney in San Francisco, before serving as California's attorney general and then as a U.S. senator before becoming President Joe Biden's running mate in 2020.

Harris was San Francisco's district attorney from...

Waukesha County, a suburban area that was long the heart of Wisconsin Republican politics, has moved left. Kamala Harris is trying to accelerate that shift, and Donald Trump needs it to slow.

Despite their concerns, some farm operators still support the former president and prefer his overall economic plan.

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