The Justice Department on Friday moved to dismiss its own lawsuit that sought to stop California from counting roughly 20,000 ballots it alleged went to noncitizens until their immigration status could be verified. The request to dismiss the case comes days after Republicans’ significant losses in the midterm elections and about a week before a…
Washington — Ace Parsi describes himself as “personally pretty against AI.” The Democrat is running an uphill race against Republican Rep. Riley Moore in ruby-red West Virginia and has drafted a legislative proposal to block new data centers that don’t have buy-in from constituents. But after what he said was probably the most complicated decision…
“There’s a lot of pissed-off farmers right now at Trump and Marshall,” said Kansas farmer Jeff Preisser, “because you see the situation we’re in.” In the final stretch of Kansas’ unexpectedly competitive Senate race between Republican Sen. Roger Marshall and Democrat Adam Hamilton, the Preisser family laid out their situation for CBS News, handing over…
The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, conceded defeat on Sunday in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government. It was a seismic political shift in the Balkan country where Vucic, who had been endorsed by Russian President Vladimir…
Lewiston, Maine — Republican Sen. Susan Collins is campaigning on a simple idea: She can sit across the table from anyone. On Wednesday, she did it literally, sharing breakfast sandwiches with Democrat-turned-independent Joe Manchin and a roomful of Maine voters as she makes her case to people of every political stripe. “She’s not a Trump…
The National Football League is urging the Supreme Court to decide whether the federal government or U.S. states should have legal authority to set the rules for prediction markets. In an amicus brief filed in support of a September petition by the New Jersey attorney general’s office, the NFL expressed support for prior court rulings…
U.S. and world health officials are calling on Russia to share more information after Russian media reports said a scientist at an infectious disease research facility in Siberia died after possibly contracting plague during a lab accident. The reports have caused concern, even as the World Health Organization says “the public health risk to the general…
Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, received two doses of a lethal drug in a Nashville execution chamber Wednesday night. But she didn’t die. Although her survival was “unparalleled,” as one expert said, it was the latest example of a botched execution attempt involving lethal injections in Tennessee and elsewhere around the…
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco violated the state’s election law by ordering his deputies to seize more than 650,000 ballots tied to the Proposition 50 special election. The justices ruled unanimously in two cases against Bianco, stating that he violated the law when he seized the ballots and also ignored…
South African police said Monday they had arrested three people over the killing of one of nine women found dead in a neighborhood east of Johannesburg in a series of murders that have alarmed the nation. The discovery of the nine bodies in Kempton Park over two months has fueled fear and anger, as authorities…
