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Bills Would Curtail Objections At Future Jan. 6 Vote Counts

WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress have officially objected to the results in four of the last six presidential elections, a partisan practice that has been legal for over a century but became much more fraught after a violent mob of then-President…

3 Things To Know: Early Voting In Minnesota Started Friday

(FOX 9) - It's election season in Minnesota. Early voting started Friday, 46 days before the Nov. 8 midterm election. This year, all four statewide offices, 201 seats in the state Legislature, and eight congressional districts are up for grabs. Voters who had already…

White House Hosts Local Officials, Touts Impact Of Policies

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has a new effort to show local governments what it can do for their communities, hosting North Carolina officials to highlight funding opportunities and hear firsthand how coronavirus relief, infrastructure dollars and other policies are faring locally.…

NY Attorney General Sues Donald Trump And His Company

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general sued former President Donald Trump and his company Wednesday, alleging business fraud involving some of their most prized assets, including properties in Manhattan, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit,…

Biden: US Would Defend Taiwan Against Chinese Invasion

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government on Monday criticized President Joe Biden’s statement that American forces would defend Taiwan if Beijing tries to invade as a violation of U.S. commitments about the self-ruled island, but gave no indication of possible retaliation.…

Griner, Whelan Families To Meet Biden Amid US-Russia Talks

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, both of whom remain jailed in Russia, the White House announced Friday. “He…

What’s Left As Jan. 6 Panel Sprints To Year-End Finish

WASHINGTON (AP) — With only three months left in the year, the House Jan. 6 committee is eyeing a close to its work and a final report laying out its findings about the U.S. Capitol insurrection. But the investigation is not…

Trump Team Takes Aim At Records Probe; Calls It ‘Misguided’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers dismissed as a “storage dispute” the former president’s retention of top-secret documents at his Florida home, urging a judge Monday to keep in place a directive that temporarily halted key aspects of the Justice…

In A Nod To JFK, Biden Pushing ‘Moonshot’ To Fight Cancer

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to channel John F. Kennedy on the 60th anniversary of JFK’s moonshot speech, highlighting Biden administration efforts aimed at “ending cancer as we know it.” The president was traveling to Boston on Monday to…

Duluth Labor Day Picnic Brings Laborers Together

DULUTH, Minn. - Labor Day means different things to different people across the country. Here in the Northland, there is no Labor Day without the word labor. That solidarity was on full display Monday…

Biden Seeks $47B For Ukraine, COVID-19, Monkeypox, Disasters

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide more than $47 billion in emergency dollars that would go toward the war in Ukraine, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing monkeypox outbreak and help for recent…

Biden’s Prime-Time Speech: Trumpism Threatens Democracy

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will sound an alarm Thursday night about what he views as “extremist” threats to American democracy from the restive forces of Trumpism, aiming to reframe the November elections as part of an unceasing battle…