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The U.S. election system has safeguards. But human nature is a vulnerabilityOct 31, 2024 1:27 pm - Hacking a local election system in the United States wouldn't be easy, and secretly altering votes on a scale massive enough to change the outcome of the presidential race would be impossible, election officials have said, thanks to decentralized systems, paper records for nearly all ballots, exhaustive reviews, legal due process and decades of work by American election officials, volunteers and citizens.
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Kamala Harris says Trump’s comments on women ‘are offensive to everybody’Oct 31, 2024 1:25 pm - Kamala Harris said Thursday that Donald Trump’s comment that he would protect women whether they “like it or not” shows that the Republican presidential nominee does not understand women’s rights “to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies."
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As America votes, these big energy projects hang in the balanceOct 31, 2024 8:53 am - The outcome of next week’s US presidential election is poised to have profound implications for a handful of multi-billion-dollar energy projects.
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Supreme Court’s conservative justices allow Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrationsOct 30, 2024 1:24 pm - The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Wednesday allowed Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting.
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White House, Trump campaign clash over whether Biden called Trump supporters ‘garbage’Oct 30, 2024 8:37 am - A single apostrophe — or lack thereof — caused an uproar in the presidential race Tuesday night after President Joe Biden criticized former President Donald Trump during ...
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Jobs report on eve of election will be among the most distorted in yearsOct 30, 2024 7:50 am - Four days before Election Day, the government will issue its final snapshot of hiring and unemployment in the United States after a presidential race in which voter perceptions of the economy have played a central role.
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The first presidential election since the Jan. 6 attack will test new guardrails from CongressOct 29, 2024 11:58 am - This presidential election, the first since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, will be a stress test of the new systems and guardrails that Congress put in place to ensure America’s long tradition of the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
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Trump says his New York rally marked by crude and racist insults ‘was like a lovefest’Oct 29, 2024 11:54 am - Donald Trump on Tuesday called his rally at New York's Madison Square Garden, an event marked by crude and racist insults by several speakers, a “lovefest.”
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Ballot drop box fires highlight concerns that election conspiracy theories are making them a targetOct 29, 2024 9:53 am - Two ballot drop boxes in the Pacific Northwest were damaged in a suspected arson attack just over a week before Election Day, destroying hundreds of ballots at one location in Vancouver, Washington.
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Harris reaches for a big moment in her closing argument for ‘turning the page’ on TrumpOct 29, 2024 8:08 am - Vice President Kamala Harris will pledge to Americans that she'll work to improve their lives while Republican Donald Trump is only in it for himself as she delivers her campaign's closing argument Tuesday from the same site where the former president fomented the Capitol insurrection in 2021.