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Clashes over voting rights in two states this past week have renewed focus on the issue less than four weeks from the midterm elections. In Georgia, a coalition of civil rights groups is suing Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp after an Associated Press report found 53,000 people - nearly 70% of them black - had their registrations put on hold because minor mismatches on documents like their driver's licenses violate the state's new "exact match" requirement.
The national midterm elections are coming up in less than a month. One race getting attention in north Alabama is for the 5th district seat in the U.S. Congress.
In this Aug. 17, 2018 file photo, candidates for Minnesota governor, Democrat Tim Walz and Republican Jeff Johnson shake hands at the beginning of their first debate at Grand View Lodge, Nisswa, Minn. While Democrat Tim Walz pushes for a public health care option and Republican Jeff Johnson aims to pare back parts of the Affordable Care Act, Minnesota's next governor will face a basic math question next year: How will the state keep paying for its programs? On the first year of the job, Walz or Johnson and a new Legislature will consider the fate of a 2 percent tax on medical providers that expires at the end of the year.
"Look, nobody goes lower than Donald Trump. I mean that's a bottomless pit. No one's competing with that," Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Sunday during an interview with CBS News' "Face the Nation."
In this Oct. 10, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Erie Insurance Arena, in Erie, Pa. President Donald Trump's campaign rallies once had the feel of angry, raucous grievance sessions.
Margaret Workman, chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, made state history by being elected as the first woman justice. She might history again if the Senate takes up the trial on the articles of impeachment adopted by the House of Delegates.
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez first ran for the U.S. House in 1992 and has been raising money for his campaigns ever since. He has brought in more than $50 million during that time, according to the Center for Responsive Politics , a Washington research group.
The body of a newlywed was discovered in Costa Rica on Saturday, bringing to an end a short search for the groom after he was swept away by floodwaters on his honeymoon in Costa Rica earlier this week. Josh Byrne, a native of Hudson, Massachusetts, was married just last weekend to wife Bianca on a farm in New Hampshire, according to Boston ABC affiliate WCVB.
Mitt Romney came to Arizona to help out a fellow Senate hopeful and he ended up getting in a jam himself. The former presidential candidate and governor headlined a rally for Rep. Martha McSally on Friday in Gilbert, Arizona, to help boost her campaign to fill the Senate seat being left open by Sen. Jeff Flake's departure, but comments Romney made after the event have drawn some criticism.
Before they were relegated to the domain of children, books with movable mechanisms explained anatomy, astronomy, and more to adults. An Object Lesson .
President Donald Trump favors building a wall on the Mexican border and has cracked down severely on illegal immigration, but has yet to propose his own comprehensive plan. A one-page memo his administration sent to congressional Republicans in January proposes a wall, a 10- to 12-year path to citizenship for about 1.8 million illegal immigrants, allowing immigrants to bring with them only spouses and minor children and replacing the visa lottery system with one that chooses immigrants whose arrival suits the national interest.
Calls for politicians to "grow a pair of ovaries" and digs about how many shoes a candidate have might sound like lines out of "Mean Girls," but instead they're attack lines being used in one of the most hotly contested midterm Senate races. The gender dynamics at play in the Arizona Senate race may be surprising to some since the race is one of six this cycle that involve two female candidates, but it's the only one where the two women are facing off for an open seat rather than an incumbent fighting against a threat.
With just over three weeks remaining until November's midterm election s, it is becoming increasingly clear that both Washington and statehouses around the country could be in for major changes. No one race can tell the tale of this year's elections, but some common themes have emerged, including the backlash against President Donald Trump , the "pink wave" of female candidates running for office, a upswing in youth activism and engagement on key issues that could swing the balance of power, and an influx of veterans attempting to parlay their military experience into legislative roles.
Audience members cheer as President Donald Trump takes the stage at a rally at Alumni Coliseum in Richmond, Ky., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018. Audience members cheer as President Donald Trump takes the stage at a rally at Alumni Coliseum in Richmond, Ky., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018.
In one ad, a smiling toddler stacks toy blocks as an aspiring governor hovers behind her, shouting "Build the wall!" The Trump administration's sweeping efforts to crack down on immigration aren't on the ballot November 6. But in the leadup to a key election that will either reinforce the President's agenda or hinder it, the issue is playing a defining role. Candidates and committees have shelled out more than $150 million on campaign ads dealing with immigration so far this year, a major increase over recent election cycles.
It's that time of year. We are just over three weeks until Election Day and all kinds of stuff is going on, including a lot of interesting speculation.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer says there are glaring gaps in safety data about limousines because federal officials haven't done enough to investigate limo wrecks. The Senate's top Democrat says Saturday that the National Transportation Safety Board hasn't thoroughly investigated a single limousine crash since 2015.
But Sen. Cory Booker, sitting in the passenger seat of Scholten's campaign Winnebago, had other ideas. Armed with his iPhone, Booker turned it on Scholten as the Iowa landscape flashed by.