The ruling excoriates the state’s incompetence but concludes that an extension would cause too much chaos.
Category: Politics
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Trump got a $21 million tax break for saving the forest outside his NY mansion. Now the deal is under investigation.
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is investigating whether the Trump Organization improperly inflated the value of Seven Springs estate.
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In VP debate, Trump is again the issue as Pence tries to change the focus
Both candidates ducked direct questions in a debate that was far more civil than the Trump-Biden encounter.
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The problem with grand juries
What grand jury recordings can tell us about why there was no indictment in the Breonna Taylor case. How the pandemic is scrambling college students’ voting plans. And, how Boris Johnson was affected by contracting covid-19.
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Election live updates: Campaigns to focus on Western battleground states following VP debate in Utah
Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala D. Harris, are both headed to Arizona. Vice President Pence will touch down in the state as well, following a planned appearance in Nevada.
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The Trailer: What went unsaid in Wednesday’s vice-presidential debate
In this edition: A wrap of a normal-yet-strange debate, a new PAC that’ll offer raises if Trump wins, and new polls that explain the increasingly frazzled state of things.
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Kamala Harris’s critics fell into the ‘Is she likable?’ trap
It’s an easy way to dismiss a woman, particularly a Black woman
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Both parties prepare for possibility of contested election as chaotic White House race hurtles to a close
This week, House Democrats privately discussed the potential of neither candidate attaining the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency, according to people familiar with the meeting.
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Both sides on abortion certain Barrett would restrict, if not overturn, landmark court decision
In the heat of the election season, top Republicans, including Trump, appear to be playing down the impact the Supreme Court nominee’s confirmation would have on a woman’s right to abortion.
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Wisconsin election officials go from famine to feast with a swell of poll workers
‘You do feel like you’re contributing to democracy,’ says a woman ready for duty on Nov. 3.
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Michigan kidnapping plot, like so many other extremist crimes, foreshadowed on social media
Online declarations, brimming with hatred and potentially violent intent, have become staples of extremism-fueled crime, from police killings to synagogue massacres to bombing plots. Before they become real, these plots percolate online, courtesy of a social media ecosystem that’s ubiquitous, barely moderated and well suited to helping aggrieved people find each other.