Elections officials in the critical swing state are being inundated with complaints from first-time and absentee voters having difficulty registering to vote or requesting a mail ballot, fueling anxiety just as today’s 5 p.m. deadline approaches.
Democratic voters, party officials and campaign aides are caught between optimism and dread, the residue of seeing Hillary Clinton’s expectations of victory dashed.
Joe Biden’s campaign has quietly built a multimillion-dollar operation with dozens of people monitoring the Web and deploying countermeasures.
The U.S. response is increasingly plagued by distrust, infighting and lethargy, as experts predict cases could surge this winter and deaths could reach 400,000 by year’s end.
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China reported third-quarter growth figures that will probably make it the only country to grow, rather than contract, in 2020.
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Saeb Erekat, the longtime public face of senior Palestinian leadership, tested positive for the coronavirus earlier this month. He is on a ventilator in an Israeli hospital.
In a nation that does not recognize the concept of joint custody, there is a growing push to assert that children have fundamental rights of their own to see both parents.
Shanghai Wildlife Park officials said they were “extremely heartbroken” following the deadly attack.
Exit polls showed MAS candidate Luis Arce, Evo Morales’s former finance minister, headed to victory in the presidential election.
A state is considered high-risk if its average number of new coronavirus cases is 10 or more per 100,000 people.
Candidates in school board races in Maryland are grappling with questions faced by school systems nationally about when and whether to open schools amid the pandemic and if online learning is sufficient.
African American students and alumni describe a hostile atmosphere at the state-supported military college, which was the last in Virginia to integrate.
Increasing sunshine to push temperatures through the 70s by midweek.
Child labor among agricultural households in cocoa-growing areas of Ivory Coast and Ghana, the two primary suppliers, increased from 31 percent to 45 percent between 2008 and 2019, according to the Department of Labor survey.
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