Mailers meant to help voters with the absentee voting process amid the ongoing pandemic are instead sowing confusion for voters and leading some officials to levy allegations of attempted voter suppression ahead of the November election. In New Hampshire, Democrats have called for a full investigation into the state’s Republican party mailing of absentee registration…… MORE
Rep. Joe Kennedy rejected the initial calls for him to run for Senate more than a year ago, saying in an interview that the “thought literally never crossed my mind to jump into a Democratic primary” against his friend, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, who has served in Congress since before he was born and has…… MORE
The Trump campaign is working to dispatch tens of thousands of election monitors to battleground states in what is shaping up as the Republican Party’s largest-ever poll-watching operation. The party’s aggressive plans for poll-monitoring have sparked charges from Democrats and voting-rights groups that Republicans are gearing up to suppress voting in key states as President…… MORE
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney on Friday cast doubt on President Donald Trump’s baseless claim that universal vote by mail would lead to widespread voter fraud. “I don’t know of any evidence that voting by mail would increase voter fraud,” the Utah Republican said during an online interview with the conservative think tank Sutherland Institute. Romney’s…… MORE
Former Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson died Friday night at the age of 84, CNN affiliate WLS reported. Citing the family, WLS reported that Thompson was receiving treatment and recovering at a rehabilitation center in downtown Chicago when “he suddenly was stricken and passed Friday evening.” The Republican governor was the longest-serving governor in the…… MORE
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday continued her blame of Republicans for the stalemate in negotiations over another round of coronavirus relief funding for Americans. In a letter to her Democratic colleagues on Saturday, the Democratic leader said that progress on the negotiations is “complicated by the complete disarray on the Republican side — as…… MORE
Two senior Trump political appointees departed the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a senior official at the agency confirmed to CNN. Kyle McGowan, the chief of staff, and Amanda Campbell, the deputy chief of staff, resigned effective Friday, leaving to start a consulting firm, the official said. Both left voluntarily, the official added.…… MORE
After Sen. Kamala Harris made her campaign debut as Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick on Wednesday, she posed for pictures with her husband, Douglas Emhoff, who would also make history if the ticket is elected in November. While Harris has shattered political barriers by becoming the first Black and Indian American woman joining a major…… MORE
After losing 3-0 to Roma in 2018, Barcelona fans might’ve thought it was the club’s lowest ebb. After losing 4-0 to Liverpool in 2019, they might’ve thought it was actually the club’s lowest point. However, for the third season in a row, Barcelona found an increasingly more humiliating and painful way to be dumped out…… MORE
A pair of weekend games between the Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates have been postponed after a Reds player tested positive for the coronavirus, Major League Baseball said Saturday. Reports about the positive test surfaced after the Reds beat the Pirates 8-1 Friday night at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. MLB postponed the…… MORE
