Tag Archives: Politics

A major misconception about the vote for U.S. president is that it is a national election. It's not. Instead, it consists of 51 elections - one in each state and in the District of Columbia. And that'...

WASHINGTON - Every four years at the stroke of noon on Jan. 20, the president-elect or the reelected president of the United States takes the oath of office for a four-year term. The inaugural ceremon...

Five times in U.S. history, candidates have lost the popular vote but won the presidency - most recently in 2016. Could Donald Trump be the first to do it twice? A look at an American political anomal...

WASHINGTON - What's all this hubbub about 270? It's not about the 270 whales stranded this fall on Australia's island state of Tasmania. It's not about congestion on Interstate 270 feeding commuters i...

WASHINGTON - Americans won't know the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election until well into Wednesday - if not beyond that. The main reason? Many states made it easier to request a mail ballot...

CHICAGO - A federal judge in Chicago struck down a key immigration rule Monday that would deny green cards to immigrants who use food stamps or other public benefits, a blow to the Trump administratio...

WASHINGTON - A veteran Republican operative who got his start in politics by helping to persuade a judge to throw out hundreds of mail-in ballots is organizing an "army" of volunteers for President Do...

PITTSBURGH - In the closing hours of a campaign shadowed by a once-in-a-century pandemic, President Donald Trump charged across the nation Monday delivering an incendiary but unsupported allegation th...

WASHINGTON - The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local): 12:20 a.m. President Donald Trump declared he would win Michigan "so easily" as he rallied supporters in a midnight gathering th...

MONTREAL - For Mohamed Labidi, the deadly attack in Quebec City Saturday night brought back memories of that cold January night in 2017. Back then, he was president of the mosque in the provincial cap...