Month: November 2022

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker will meet in a Dec. 6 runoff in Georgia after neither reached the general election majority required under state law. That sets up a four-week blitz that again will test whether voters are more concerned about inflation under

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A Northrop Grumman capsule delivered several tons of supplies to the International Space Station on Wednesday despite a jammed solar panel. The shipment arrived two days after launching from Virginia. Only one of the cargo ship’s two round solar panels opened following liftoff. Flight

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Kathy Hochul has become the first woman elected New York governor, winning the office outright that she took over in 2021 when former Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned. She defeated Republican congressman Lee Zeldin, an ally of Donald Trump who ran a campaign focused on

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A judge has ordered former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to testify before a special grand jury in Atlanta that’s investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and Republican allies illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia. Gingrich lives in Virginia and has argued he shouldn’t have

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the arrest of a neo-Nazi website publisher accused of ignoring a $14 million judgment against him for orchestrating an anti-Semitic harassment campaign against a Montana woman’s family. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen issued a bench warrant Wednesday for the arrest of Andrew Anglin, founder and operator

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine officials say Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden will need to survive a ranked choice runoff to hold onto his seat. The moderate Democrat leads Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin, who held the seat from 2014 to 2018. The national Republican Party focused heavily on flipping the

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — For some Democrats, losing South Florida’s Miami-Dade County was unthinkable. The state’s largest county in population and a Democratic stronghold, home to 1.5 million Latinos of voting age, has been a staging ground for virtually every successful statewide Democratic campaign for the last

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Visitors to Argentina are still not receiving the more favorable exchange rate for credit and debit cards despite last week’s government announcement of it. Numerous visitors have reported that has not been made effective. A high-ranking Central Bank official says the system will take a