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The chairman of the Surry County Board of Elections was charged after Wilmington police said they found evidence he placed illegal narcotics in his granddaughters’ ice cream. On Aug. 8, James Edwin Yokeley Jr. told an officer that his two juvenile granddaughters found two pills in ice cream purchased from Dairy Queen on Oleander Drive. Investigators discovered video footage that …

A prominent Pennsylvania election denier who led an unsuccessful effort to cancel the votes of hundreds of Pennsylvanians last year and who spread inaccurate data in an effort to prove false claims of voter fraud is now a top staffer at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Heather Honey, who cofounded PA Fair Elections, is now the deputy assistant secretary …

NEW YORK (AP) — A conservative election researcher whose faulty findings on voter data were cited by President Donald Trump as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss has been appointed to an election integrity role at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Pennsylvania activist Heather Honey is now serving as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in …

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin talks about the economy and immigration in East Los Angeles on July 30. Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin says President Trump is a “dictator-in-chief” whose agenda is “fascism …

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Legislature will need to rapidly redraw the state’s congressional boundaries after a judge ruled Monday that the Republican-controlled body circumvented safeguards put in place by voters to ensure districts aren’t drawn to favor any party. READ MORE: Texas Senate passes redrawn congressional map favoring GOP, sends to governor The current map, adopted in …

Gov. Josh Shapiro said Tuesday that President Trump’s promise to end mail-in voting before the 2026 midterm elections won’t affect elections in Pennsylvania.  On Monday, Mr. Trump said he planned to sign an executive order “to end mail-in ballots, because they’re corrupt,” but Shapiro said his comments were unconstitutional.  “Donald Trump can sign whatever executive order he wants; it will …

President Donald Trump has made clear in recent weeks that he’s willing to use the vast powers of his office to prevent his party from losing control of Congress in next year’s midterm elections. Some of the steps Trump has taken to intervene in the election are typical, but controversial, political maneuvers taken to his trademark extremes. That includes pushing …

President Donald Trump on Monday vowed more changes to the way elections are conducted in the U.S., but based on the Constitution there is little to nothing he can do on his own. Relying on false information and conspiracy theories that he’s regularly used to explain away his 2020 election loss, Trump pledged on his social media site that he …

President Trump promised Monday to work to end mail-in voting and said work is already underway on an executive order to ban it before the 2026 midterm elections, although the Constitution does not give him this power. “We, as a Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots,” he said during an Oval …

That was the moment he knew it was true love. Donald Trump turned to gaze at Vladimir Putin as the Russian president publicly endorsed his view that, had Trump been president instead of Joe Biden, the war in Ukraine would never have happened. “Today President Trump was saying that if he was president back then, there would be no war, …