Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap urges people to vote via absentee ballot during the July primary election to limit the exposure that voters and polling workers have to the coronavirus.
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Jeff Sessions fires back at Trump in spat over Alabama Senate seat
The former attorney general tweets that his recusal over Robert Mueller ‘was required by law.’
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Time running out on the last U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty
Moscow has offered to extend New START, but President Trump insists China should have to sign on.
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Biden says he was too ‘cavalier’ about black Trump backers
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee suggested Friday that African Americans who back President Trump ‘ain’t black.’
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Republicans weigh unemployment aid cuts to urge Americans back to work
President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell huddled at the White House to consider next steps in coronavirus aid.
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Trump slams mail-in balloting promoted by his own campaign
The president claimed without any evidence that mail-in ballots lead to ‘total election fraud.’
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Trump visit Michigan Ford plant, but skips the mask
The state’s top law enforcement official warns that if Trump refused to wear a mask Thursday, ‘he’s going to be asked not to return to any enclosed facilities inside our state.’
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Sharply divided Senate confirms Ratcliffe as intelligence chief
He is the first director of national intelligence to be installed on a partisan vote since the position was created in 2005.
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More legislators call for oversight of secretive state police unit
Two lawmakers call for an investigation into allegations about practices of the Maine Information and Analysis Center.
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Supreme Court blocks House from seeing Mueller grand jury material, for now
Its order keeps previously undisclosed details from the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election out of the hands of Democratic lawmakers at least until early summer.