A year after promoting passports for the COVID-19 vaccines he helped fund as a way to reopen the global economy, philanthropist Bill Gates complained about their lackluster performance against infection and transmission starting with the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. He even called Omicron “a type of vaccine” whose natural immunity could protect unvaccinated groups.
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The Nevada Supreme Court ruled on Monday that mail-in ballots received up to three days after Election Day without a postmark must be counted, rejecting a Republican challenge.
State law requiring mail-in ballots to be counted even with a postmark that “cannot be determined” applies to mail-in ballots that do not have postmarks at all, the state Supreme Court decided.
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A group of at least six advisers to Donald Trump are reportedly circulating a memo that proposes the GOP presidential nominee, if elected, be allowed to issue security clearances to his appointees without the normal FBI background-check process.
The advisers include Boris Epshteyn, a legal adviser to Trump who is involved in his 2024 campaign, sources told The New York Times, which reported the story on Sunday.
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Two more members of the Washington Post’s editorial board resigned on Monday, after the paper declined to endorse a presidential candidate in the 2024 elections. Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos reportedly told his editorial board last week that the paper would not endorse a presidential candidate for next week’s election, or in future presidential elections, departing from recent elections when the board endorsed the Democratic candidates. One editor resigned over the order at the time.
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Ballot drop boxes in both Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, were set on fire early Monday morning, destroying hundreds of ballots.
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The Biden administration’s Department of Justice is suing states and towns across the country in an effort to thwart election integrity measures ahead of the presidential election, resulting in pushback from election integrity advocates.
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Rising in the polls and exuding confidence, Republican Donald Trump filled New York City‘s iconic Madison Square Garden with cheering MAGA supporters Sunday night in an historic effort to compete in blue territories and sweep control of the White House and Congress just 10 days from now.
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During a visit to Portugal, a senior U.S. official claimed that China is flooding the market in lithium as a “predatory” tactic to drive down global prices and beat back competition. If prices are low, the theory goes, it’s hard to attract investors and make mine development in the West economically attractive.
Reuters reported Jose Fernandez, undersecretary for economic growth, energy and the environment at the U.S. Department of State said at a briefing earlier this month that China was looking at the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, which provides government funding for the development of critical minerals and domestic manufacturing, and responding to the competition it may create.
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As Republicans warn of long lines on Election Day in Maricopa County, Ariz., local election officials also expect election results to be delayed. Republicans in both Arizona and on the national level are claiming that Maricopa County has not sufficiently prepared for Election Day, which may result in long lines and persuading eligible voters to avoid voting.
The possible Election Day issues are in addition to the announcement by Maricopa County election officials that it will take 10-13 days to completely tabulate all ballots, meaning that some races may not be called on election night.
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Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Thursday announced that at least a dozen mail ballots have been stolen, filled out, and sent in so far in the 2024 general election.
The blue-leaning state has been sending mail-in ballots to every registered voter for years, and has served as an example for other liberal states during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to NBC News.
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A recent of 2.3 million Iowa voter records showed that thousands of self-identified noncitizens registered have to vote, resulting in potential prosecution.
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The FBI and the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday announced an investigation into a Chinese cyber-espionage effort that reportedly includes hacking the phones of former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance.
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The Washington Post newspaper will endorse a presidential candidate this year, the publisher announced Friday.
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A federal judge in Virginia on Friday ordered the commonwealth to place non-citizens back on its voter rolls.
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Education Secretary Miguel Cardona censored a Rhode Island mother who responded to his criticism of efforts to remove sexually graphic books from public school libraries by posting images from those books on his X account, a First Amendment lawsuit claims.
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Early voting in Wisconsin has been delayed due to label printing problems, causing voters to wait hours in line to vote in some cases.
The state began early voting on Tuesday, with voters waiting up to three hours to cast ballots in West Bend, a city 40 miles northwest of Milwaukee with a population of about 32,000, The Washington Post reported. After state election officials said late Tuesday that the computer issues causing the label printing problems were resolved, they acknowledged on Wednesday that they had occurred again. Voters waited about 90 minutes to vote on Wednesday.
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that voters may cast provisional ballots after their mail ballots are rejected for failing to follow procedural directions.
The commonwealth’s Supreme Court made the decision on Wednesday, which will likely affect thousands out of the millions of mail ballots cast, The New York Times reported.
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The North Carolina government on Wednesday released an estimate that Hurricane Helene caused at least $53 billion in damage, particularly in the western part of the state.
The state budget office calculated the preliminary amount which also includes potential investments to avoid similar expensive damages during hurricanes in the future.
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Attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Thursday asked a judge to dismiss the January 6 case against him, arguing that special counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutionally appointed, according to The Hill.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday shared a website, dubbed “checkmydonation.com” on which Americans can check whether their name has been used for any political donations without their permission amid scrutiny of the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue.
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A Detroit Muslim leader was removed from a Kamala Harris rally and says a campaign organizer told him to leave without providing a reason.
“She took me to the door, and she closed it, and I found two police officers waiting there, and she said, ‘You have to leave right now,’” Ghanim told the Metro Times on Tuesday. “I asked why she was kicking me out. She wouldn’t answer. I was very calmly asking why I was being kicked out.”
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Gaining momentum two weeks from Election Day, Donald Trump is laser focused on voters’ top priority of making America safe and affordable again. But after spending hours comforting families victimized by murder, rape and other border crimes, the former president told Just the News he also is open to creating a federal compensation fund for Americans harmed by illegal immigrants let into the country under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
The idea of a border crimes reparations fund like the one created for the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks has been floating around conservative circles for months, including in Congress where Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., even introduced the concept before it stalled.
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Nearly 11 million illegal immigrant encounters have occurred nationwide since Biden-Harris took office, according to GOP lawmakers who cited the latest data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
In September, there were 101,790 illegal crossings at the southern border, including migrants who made asylum appointments at ports of entry through the CBP One app.
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Georgia election officials conducted one of the most sophisticated ever audits of a state election database, identifying at least 20 foreigners who made it onto the voters rolls for the 2024 election and removing them before they could cast ballots, according to an internal memo obtained by Just the News.
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GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is expected to appear on popular podcaster Joe Rogan’s show on Friday, according to reports.
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Infant mortality increased 7% over the last 18 months, which included abortion limits enacted in some U.S. states, according to a new study.
The Supreme Court Dobbs decision about a year-and-a-half ago eliminated the federal right to an abortion, allowing each state to handle the issue.
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Back during the 2008 presidential race, then-Sen. Barack Obama paid a heavy political price when he mocked Americans he claimed were clinging to “guns and religion.”
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by Kevin Killough Local opposition has become a formidable force in resisting the growth of wind and solar power. Opponents have concerns including the impact on whales by offshore wind development, the gobbling up of limited agricultural land by solar companies, the degradation of grid reliability and the high costs of renewable energy. As the projects spread across rural America and along the nation’s coasts, residents of communities are forming grassroots opposition to the projects. In response to the growing opposition, some researchers and media outlets are engaged in a campaign to portray these grassroots efforts as being funded by oil companies who are trying to stop competition from other energy sources. Opponents of wind and solar projects say the effort is a smear campaign that is itself connected to the renewable energy industries. “What they do is they take the information we’re getting to people, and they spin it. And then they give their own little explanation, which is verbatim what the wind companies say,” Mandy Davis, president of the National Offshore-wind Opposition Alliance (NOOA), told Just the News. Hit pieces A study by Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law published in June concluded that local opposition is becoming the primary impediment to the…
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As Elon Musk ramps up his $1 million-a-day support for Donald Trump, what appears to be a record of progressive harassment of his many companies may explain how the world’s richest man went all-in for Republicans.
Musk’s transformation from a politically unengaged tech billionaire to mega-donor and avid campaigner has earned him the ire of Democrats who have derided “disinformation” on his X platform and suggest he is violating the law in his support for Trump.
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A federal judge in Michigan on Monday blocked a Republican-led effort to limit the votes of certain adult children and spouses of military servicemembers and other personnel who are stationed overseas.
The Republican National Committee and the Michigan Republican Party sued Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson earlier this month, questioning the constitutionality of allowing voters who were born to military service members or diplomatic staff stationed overseas to vote in the state if they never actually resided there.
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A new poll shows former President Trump, 2024 GOP presidential nominee, up by 3 points against Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, in the battleground state of Pennsylvania,
According to the AtlasIntel poll conducted Oct. 12-17, Trump leads Harris 50% to 47%.
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The bipartisan House task force on the first assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump released its interim report Monday morning, finding “an unclear chains of command” in the security at site of the incident, a July 13 campaign rally.
The rally, in Butler, Pennsylvania, was for Trump’s GOP presidential bid. The gunman, Thomas Cooks, fired 10 shot from a rooftop in the American Glass Research complex, a series of buildings about 150 yards from the rally stage and outside to the hard security perimeter.
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While there are dozens of ongoing election integrity issues, a newly released report from a watchdog group lists the top 50 election threats that the U.S. is facing with less than three weeks until the presidential election.
Election integrity has has a spotlight shined on it since the contentious aftermath of the 2020 presidential election and although some states have made improvements, many issues still remain.
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The bipartisan House task force on the first assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump released its interim report Monday morning, finding “an unclear chains of command” in the security at site of the incident, a July 13 campaign rally.
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House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan on Monday released the transcript of closed-door testimony from Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor hired by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to help manage her office’s Donald Trump election interference case before coming under scrutiny for his romantic-financial relationship with Willis.
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CBS News’ program “60 Minutes” responded on Sunday night to former President Trump accusing the show of deceitfully editing the interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Trump campaign had pointed out that Harris’ answer to a question about Israel in the promotional clip the show used differed from the full segment.
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A congressional investigation into whether Democrats have been using the ActBlue online donation platform to cheat at fund-raising has expanded into possible foreign funding as House and Senate investigators join forces to demand the Biden administration provide them access to classified intelligence and secret money-laundering reports filed by banks.
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The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Georgia Republican Party on Thursday appealed a judge’s decision that invalidated seven election rules passed by the state’s election board.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox on Wednesday determined that the new rules are “illegal, unconstitutional and void,” because the state board did not have the authority to create such orders.
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U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump’s federal Jan. 6 election interference case, on Friday unsealed nearly 1,900 pages of documents from special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation for the public to view.
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Florida is suing the Biden administration, alleging that it has not done its duty by verifying immigration records so the Sunshine State can get illegal migrants off the voter rolls.
In the lawsuit obtained by Fox News Digital, Florida alleges that the Department of Homeland Security isn’t following the law by not verifying immigration records.
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Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday night urged Georgia residents to turn their ballots in early, after the state counted a record-breaking 300,000 votes cast during the first day of early voting and a state court blocked a hand-counting ballot rule.
Georgia Secretary of State Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling confirmed the number in a social media post, saying the number was “123% higher than the old record for the 1st day of voting.” Tuesday was the first day of in-person early voting in the Southern state, and the first day voters could return absentee ballots.
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis late Tuesday asked the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate three election subversion charges against former President Donald Trump, and three against his allies.
Judge Scott McAfee dismissed six charges against Trump and his allies over their alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in March. McAfee determined at the time that there was not enough evidence of an underlying crime that that the group was soliciting from a public officer.
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The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the secretary of state’s directive preventing ballot harvesting, ruling that its challengers filed their suit too late.
In August, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) issued a directive stating that ballot drop boxes outside county boards of elections can only be used by voters dropping off their own ballots, Dayton Daily News reported. Anyone returning a ballot for a family member or disabled voter is required to enter county boards of elections offices and fill out an attestation form stating that they are following the law.
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The federal government this week began fortifying Washington, D.C., for Inauguration Day, which is roughly three months away.
The effort has begun with crews erecting fencing around the White House, including nearby Lafayette Park, the National Park Service, which is leading the effort, said Tuesday.
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With federal authorities recognizing the plunge in COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness as early as four months after each jab, which may actually increase the risk of subsequent infection, the public health establishment is trying to rekindle Americans’ interest in a so-called layered mitigation strategy to keep COVID infections at bay.
While it leans into one-size-fits-all vaccination as the best way to avoid severe outcomes from an increasingly mild virus with near-total natural immunity nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still recommends wearing any kind of mask and social distancing as an “additional prevention strategy.”
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Mark Block has been consulting for Republicans for years. So when he discovered an old email account he used for the 2012 Herman Cain presidential campaign was receiving receipts for donations to Democrat candidates like Kamala Harris, he became alarmed.
The discovery led Block — a stalwart Republican — and his lawyers on a journey that escalated Monday evening when he filed a groundbreaking lawsuit in the Wisconsin state courts under civil racketeering laws, alleging he is a victim of identity theft in a conspiracy to abuse the massive ActBlue fundraising platform.
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Local election officials in Georgia cannot delay or refuse to officially certify election results, according to a state court ruling on Monday.
“Election superintendents in Georgia have a mandatory fixed obligation to certify election results,” wrote Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney in the ruling. “Consequently, no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance.”
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Certain Senate seats in swing states are in play for Republicans as the election gets closer, according to internal polling numbers from the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
An NRSC memo exclusively obtained by Politico, shows that Senate contests in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan are competitive for the GOP. Republican Senate candidates are trailing in Maryland, Arizona, and Nevada. Montana leans towards the GOP. In order to obtain a majority in the Senate, Republicans must flip two seats.
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is seeking to block former special prosecutor Nathan Wade from testifying before Congress, arguing he might “improperly divulge confidential information.”
In a letter released Monday to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio., the Georgia attorney said that Wade’s testimony could violate protected privileges that are upheld by the Fulton County District Attorney’s office.
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Nasir Ahmed Tawhedi, the Afghan refugee charged last week in Oklahoma with plotting an Election Day terror massacre was previously flagged by U.S. Customs Border and Protection this summer, weeks before his arrest, during a re-evaluation of his 2021 entry into the country, immigration records reviewed by Just the News show.
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