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Voting rights advocates fear a Thursday federal appeals court ruling could prevent thousands of mail-in votes from counting in Minnesota. Five days before the 2020 presidential election, the US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled Thursday evening that late absentee ballots must be separated from those received by…

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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has promised to make passing the LGBTQ rights legislation known as the Equality Act a top priority, hoping to sign what would be a landmark civil rights law within 100 days should he win Tuesday's election. Biden, a leading voice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender…

Dean Obeidallah writes that while Americans have many reasons to vote Donald Trump out of office, former President Barack Obama came up with another compelling argument to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: It won't be so exhausting.Read Full Article »Read More

With Joe Biden leading the race to secure the White House, Democrats are daring to dream that their party might also take control of the Senate.And given that the Democrats are likely to maintain their majority in the House of Representatives, victory in the Senate would give a Biden administration…

Roy Cooper will be the next governor of North Carolina.That’s exactly the kind of declarative boast that would never come from the careful Cooper. Yet, as of the fourth week of October, the Democratic chief executive of the Tar Heel State has all but cemented a second four-year stay in…

| Published: Sunday, October 25, 2020, 22:46 Washington, Oct 25: US President Donald Trump is seeking a second term to help himself and his wealthy friends, Barack Obama has alleged, as he tore into his successor for not having a plan to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and walking out of…

In an effort to win over the working-class voters in Pennsylvania who voted for Trump in 2016, Joe Biden assured the crowd on Saturday that he is going to protect Pennsylvania jobs, including fracking. Former President Barack Obama also held a Biden campaign event in Miami.Oct. 25, 2020Read More

11.03pm BST23:03 Evening summary It’s been a lively day on the election trail. We’re closing this blog now but will be back with all the developments in US political news, as it happens, tomorrow. Here are the main events of the day: Alaska’s Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski has hopped off…

Former President Barack Obama delivered searing attacks against President Donald Trump on Wednesday at a Philadelphia drive-in rally for the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden. The former president criticized the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, noted The New York Times' bombshell reports on Trump's tax records, and accused…