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Fearful residents flee Tampa Bay region as Hurricane Milton takes aim at Florida coast

Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Fearful Florida residents streamed out of the Tampa Bay region Tuesday ahead of what could be a once-in-a-century direct hit from Hurricane Milton, as crews worked furiously to prevent furniture, appliances and other waterlogged wreckage from the last big storm from becoming deadly projectiles in this one. Tuesday marked

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What polling shows about Black voters’ views of Harris and Trump

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Black registered voters have an overwhelmingly positive view of Vice President Kamala Harris. That’s according to a recent poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. About 7 in 10 Black voters have a somewhat or very favorable view of Harris, with few differences between Black men and women voters on how they view the Democratic

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Votes are being counted in the election for a truncated government in Indian-controlled Kashmir

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Votes were being counted Tuesday in the recent election for a largely powerless local government in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the first since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government stripped the disputed region of its special status five years ago. Thousands of additional police and paramilitary soldiers patrolled roads and guarded 28 counting

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Local volunteers shine a light on how the state of California restores the voting rights of people with felony convictions

Local volunteers from the Courageous Resistance Voter Registration Team run a voter registration booth at the Mary Pickford Is D’Place Theater in Cathedral City four days a week. Becki Robinson, the coordinator for the group, is especially concerned with educating the public on how people with prior felony convictions can restore their voting rights. After

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Supreme Court rejects Republican-led challenge to Biden effort to ease voter registration

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away a challenge from Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania to a Biden administration executive order that is intended to boost voter registration. The justices did not comment Monday in rejecting an appeal from the Republicans, who claimed the order is an unconstitutional attempt to interfere in the

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