U.S. Senate hopeful Tiffany Bond has 2,500 of the 4,000 voter signatures she needs to get on the ballot, but securing the rest in a time of social distancing will be tricky.
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Memorial Day offers contrasts as Biden and Trump, with and without masks, salute war dead
The conflicting approaches to the pandemic played out across the country as the reported death toll edged closer to 100,000.
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Jeff Sessions fires back at Trump in spat over Alabama Senate seat
The former attorney general tweets that his recusal over Robert Mueller ‘was required by law.’
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Time running out on the last U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty
Moscow has offered to extend New START, but President Trump insists China should have to sign on.
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Biden says he was too ‘cavalier’ about black Trump backers
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee suggested Friday that African Americans who back President Trump ‘ain’t black.’
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Trump slams mail-in balloting promoted by his own campaign
The president claimed without any evidence that mail-in ballots lead to ‘total election fraud.’
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More legislators call for oversight of secretive state police unit
Two lawmakers call for an investigation into allegations about practices of the Maine Information and Analysis Center.
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Supreme Court blocks House from seeing Mueller grand jury material, for now
Its order keeps previously undisclosed details from the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election out of the hands of Democratic lawmakers at least until early summer.
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Trump allies lining up doctors to prescribe rapid reopening
Republican operatives are recruiting ‘extremely pro-Trump’ doctors to go on television to promote reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible, without waiting to meet safety benchmarks proposed by public health experts.
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Maine senators split votes on Trump’s pick to lead national intelligence
Susan Collins votes in committee to endorse U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe, the nominee for director of national intelligence, while Angus King opposes the pick.