The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that election officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots are rejected. read more
A former model who says she met Donald Trump through the late sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein has accused the former president of groping and sexually touching her in an incident in Trump Tower in 1993, in what she believed was a "twisted game" between the two men. read more
Tom Nichols: The belief that at some point Trump voters will have finally had enough is an ordinary human response to seeing people you care about - in this case fellow citizens - associate with someone you know to be awful. For millions of the GOP faithful, however, Trump's daily attempts to breach new frontiers of hideousness are not offensive but reassuring. They want Trump to be awful - precisely because the people they view as their political foes will be so appalled if he wins. read more
Donald Trump wanted his Nazi-style rally at Madison Square Garden, in New York City, the media capital of the world. And then he let out his MAGA movement's ugly all-out bigotry. read more
In early September 2020, wildfires tore through eastern Washington state, obliterating tens of millions of dollars of property, displacing hundreds of rural residents and killing a 1-year-old boy. But then-President Donald Trump refused to act on Gov. Jay Inslee's request for $37 million in federal disaster aid because of a bitter personal dispute with the Democratic governor, an investigation by POLITICO's E&E News shows. Trump sat on Inslee's request for the final four months of his presidency, delaying recovery and leaving communities unsure about rebuilding because nobody knew if they would get federal help. Trump ignored Inslee's 73-page request even after the Federal Emergency Management Agency found during weeks of inspection that the wildfires easily met the federal damage threshold for disaster aid. read more
President Joe Biden plans to formally apologize Friday for the U.S. government's role in running hundreds of Indian boarding schools for a 150-year period that stripped Native American children of their language and culture in a systematic effort to force them to assimilate into White society, according to administration officials. read more
Jamelle Bouie: Donald Trump's inroads - however large or modest they might be - with young men are less striking than Kamala Harris's enormous lead with young women. The gender gap among young voters is as large as it has ever been. According to the Harvard poll, 70 percent of likely voters among young women of color favor Harris, as against 15 percent for Trump. read more
A day after the New York Liberty topped the Minnesota Lynx in a fierce battle for the WNBA title, another fight is brewing in women's professional basketball. read more
Wetter, more destructive hurricanes, like the back-to-back storms that pummeled Florida this fall, are pushing the state's homeowners insurance market to the brink of collapse. [I]t was then-governor Republican Rick Scott, now a U.S. senator, who lured low-quality insurance companies to the state and left Florida's publicly owned insurer-of-last-resort agency struggling to provide for more homeowners as private insurers went bust or refused to renew policies in hurricane-prone areas. read more
Tony Hinchcliffe Called Puerto Rico a 'Floating Island of Garbage': His Hate Disguised as Comedy Wasn't Funny or a Joke read more
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