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Former president Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday included divisive language and racist insults.

Louisiana legislators will meet for a special session beginning Nov. 6 to consider Republican Gov. Jeff Landry’s ambitious attempt to overhaul the state’s tax structure

Authorities in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, said they've opened investigations after two ballot boxes went up in flames early Monday morning.

In Portland, an incendiary device was placed inside the ballot box and used to set it on fire, the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement. Police said a suspicious device was found next to the ballot box in Vancouver, which is just over the state line and about 20 minutes from Portland by car.

Officers in Portland responded to reports of a ballot box on fire at around 3:30 a.m. Pacific...

Known for insult-style comedy, he took aim at Latinos, African Americans, Palestinians and Jews at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, and called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”

Karim Khan also asks for an immediate investigation into the allegations against him.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is suing Elon Musk and his super PAC to block their million-dollar giveaway to registered voters, seeking to halt the lottery-style stunt that election experts, and the Justice Department, have warned might violate federal law.

Krasner is seeking an injunction: He argued in a filing Monday that the effort is an illegal, unregulated lottery, sidestepping the question of whether it violates laws against buying votes.

“America PAC and Musk are lulling Philadelphia citizens — and others in the Commonwealth...

There are 10 states with abortion rights initiatives in the 2024 election.

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe came under fire for comments made about Latinos and Puerto Rico at former President Donald Trump’s Sunday campaign rally.

Former actor on the cartoon "Bob's Burgers" who was convicted for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Monday to a year in prison.

A Louisiana trooper has pleaded no contest to significantly reduced charges for his role in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene

“I do believe Donald Trump poses a threat,” the billionaire entrepreneur backing Kamala Harris told ABC “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl.

Donald Trump's anticipated interview with Joe Rogan turned into a long-winded conversation where the former president again pushed false claims about the 2020 election.

Hurricane Helene, North Carolina's deadliest storm in modern times, ravaged communities in the westernmost corners of the state, but it has not deterred resilient residents from early voting. In fact, turnout is shattering records in a battleground state that could determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.

"What most of the affected counties are seeing is tremendous turnout," said Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections. "We have seen a large outpouring just from the voters themselves...

At first glance, an initiative called "Progress 2028" appears to be a progressive version of "Project 2025," the conservative blueprint spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation that includes policy proposals for the next president.

However, Progress 2028 is not linked to Vice President Kamala Harris or any progressive group, according to an analysis by CBS News; rather, it is a campaign funded by conservatives with the goal of linking Harris to policy ideas she has not supported in her presidential campaign.

According to Virginia State Corporation...

While still cautious, advisers and allies believe that casting Donald Trump as a fascist is working, and that their expansive ground game and appeals on abortion rights may carry the day.