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A judge has barred Kanye West from appearing on Arizona’s Nov. 3 ballot.
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Voting by mail is starting in the presidential election as North Carolina begins sending out about 600,000 ballots to voters who have requested them.
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Joe Biden visited the restive Wisconsin town on Thursday, two days after President Trump did, as their competing messages — racial justice versus ‘law and order’ — roil the presidential campaign.
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Besides UAE, no other Arab nation has said it is willing to take the long-shunned leap to accept and recognize Israel as a legitimate Mideast neighbor.
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President Trump urged people in North Carolina to vote by mail and then again in person — which is a felony.
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With two months left until the presidential election, Facebook says it is taking additional steps to encourage voting and minimize misinformation.
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Security footage of the House speaker getting her hair styled inside a San Francisco salon without a mask created outrage.
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A U.S. Census Bureau document says some steps in the numbers-crunching phase of the 2020 census will need to be cut in order to meet an end-of-the-year deadline, and that could increase the risk for errors.
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Joe Biden criticized President Trump’s handling of reopening schools amid the coronavirus crisis and took questions on his coming trip to Kenosha, Wis.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden raised $364 million for his election effort in August, a record-shattering sum that will give the Democrat ample resources to compete in the final two months of the campaign
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Biden read a speech in Pittsburgh with more vigor that Trump’s low-energy RNC performance. He needs to get out a lot more, hold a press conference or two and show he deserves the support that is still largely anti-Trump.
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No Kennedy has lost an election in Massachusetts — until now. Sen. Edward J. Markey has beaten back a challenge from Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III in a bitter primary race. It’s the latest political dynasty to fade away.
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A spokesman said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was complying with the salon’s rules when she made a solo visit on Monday.
Politics and the Pandemic
The state signed a contract with software company OptumInsight Inc. for a database that will handle all COVID-19 testing results, replacing the troubled California Reportable Disease Information Exchange, or CalREDIE.
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Congressional investigators say they have identified possible fraud and abuse in the Trump administration’s coronavirus relief program.
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Protections against eviction are extended by five months for California renters facing financial hardship because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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At the end of a legislative session marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, legislators passed a series of bills to provide protections for those affected by the coronavirus.
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Joe Biden rejects the Republican National Convention mantra and asks: “Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is reelected?”
A look at where President Trump and Joe Biden stand on key issues in the 2020 election, including healthcare, immigration, racial justice and climate.
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The California Constitution requires that most legislative business in the second year of a two-year session be concluded before the first day of September. Which means the final act of the Legislature for 2020 has arrived.
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The president went into his convention trailing by a significant margin. The path to winning exists, but achieving it will require some lucky breaks.
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Failing to pass important housing and police reform bills, while forcing a legislator on maternity leave to return to Sacramento, is not a good look.
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California and the Trump administration issued protections this week that keep many tenants from losing their homes
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What happened in the California state Senate on the final night of the two-year legislative session Monday was a prime example of machines dispatching decorum and crippling civility.
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California lawmakers say there is growing evidence of possible widespread fraud in the state’s unemployment benefits system, which is overseen by the Employment Development Department. The news comes as Californians report stalled jobless benefits from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trump in his RNC speech skips a chance to promote racial healing and end police brutality.
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From Kimberly Guilfoyle’s loud speech to accusations of illegal politicking, here are notable moments from the 2020 Republican National Convention.
The convention ended in a blaze of fireworks, a burst of heated rhetoric, a battle over piety and a bit of questioning over whether any of it matters.
Rudolph W. Giuliani says rioting and looting will take over America if Joe Biden unseats President Trump
It’s the Republicans’ party. But it’s Donald, Melania, Ivanka, Tiffany, Eric and Donald Trump Jr.'s show.
At the RNC, Kevin McCarthy lauds Trump. The fate of California’s most prominent Republican may be tied to the president’s reelection.
U.S. battle against COVID-19 lags that of all other big wealthy nations, with more than 40,000 new cases and nearly 1,000 deaths per day
Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris delivers an advance rebuttal to President Trump’s RNC speech.
The last night of the RNC will feature President Trump, Ivanka Trump, Rudolph Giuliani, Mitch McConnell and others.
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Hugo Balta issues a video statement that calls exclusion of Latinos at the moderators’ table “preposterous.”
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A new report details multiple instances of President Trump making disparaging remarks about members of the U.S. military who have been captured or killed, including referring to the American war dead in a cemetery in France as “losers” and “suckers.”
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As Mexico struggles to pay a water debt to the United States, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he might appeal to President Trump for clemency, or invite United Nations experts to audit water payments.
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After Trump bypassed Jacob Blake’s family and praised police, Biden met with slain man’s family and called for the officers involved in the shooting to be charged.
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Fox’s Chris Wallace, C-SPAN’s Steve Scully, NBC’s Kristen Welker and USA Today’s Susan Page to moderate presidential and vice presidential debates.
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Despite weeks of rhetoric and numerous proposals, California ended its legislative session with only a handful of moderate police reforms. Here’s why.
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Speaker after speaker at last week’s Republican National Convention sought to soften President Trump’s hard edges on immigration, race, women and other issues. Since then, Trump has reasserted himself as a one-man political wrecking ball, comparing police brutality to missing a ‘three-foot putt.’
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Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks was on maternity leave before Monday’s constitutional deadline. She asked to vote remotely due to COVID-19 and was denied.
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California lawmakers embraced a plan to slightly loosen the state’s year-old law limiting the use of independent contractors.
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California could become the first state to develop its own line of generic drugs if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill approved by the legislature Monday.
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A federal appeals court blocked a N.Y. prosecutor from obtaining Trump’s tax returns while his lawyers continue to fight a subpoena for the records.
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Security footage of the House speaker getting her hair styled inside a San Francisco salon without a mask created outrage.
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A judge has barred Kanye West from appearing on Arizona’s Nov. 3 ballot.
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Besides UAE, no other Arab nation has said it is willing to take the long-shunned leap to accept and recognize Israel as a legitimate Mideast neighbor.
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Joe Biden visited the restive Wisconsin town on Thursday, two days after President Trump did, as their competing messages — racial justice versus ‘law and order’ — roil the presidential campaign.
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A spokesman said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was complying with the salon’s rules when she made a solo visit on Monday.
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Sen. Kamala Harris popped into Brandy and Monica’s highly anticipated Verzuz battle Monday, joining a slew of celebrity viewers such as Michelle Obama.
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With the conventions over, President Trump continues to trail Joe Biden. Trump has lost ground among some key blocs of his 2016 vote.
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Trump hopes violence at protests will generate a backlash against Democrats; opponents accuse him of inciting more violence with his rhetoric.
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Black grievances put Harris on the ticket; her’s is the face of leadership the country is demanding now.
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The U.S. Postal Service isn’t the only staid federal agency to be drawn into a political battle this year.
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President Trump and Democrat Joe Biden have emerged from their nominating conventions, with each candidate believing he has a head of steam.
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The 70-minute Republican convention speech was down significantly from 2016.
