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A spokesman for the Franklin County Board of Elections, the agency responsible for recruitment and training of poll workers for all elections within the county, is confident the board will meet its obligations to assist voters who show up at their polling places Tuesday. The message came in response to data from the state’s online [...]
WASHINGTON — A bill to boost semiconductor production in the United States has managed to do nearly the unthinkable — unite the democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and the fiscally conservative right. The bill making its way through the Senate is a top priority of the Biden administration. It would add about $79 billion to [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Elections officials from across the country have been warned to prepare for supply-chain issues that could lead to shortages in paper used for everything from ballots to "I voted" stickers for years to come. The summer meeting earlier this week of the National Association of State Election Directors brought together nearly [...]
SEATTLE (AP) — Dominique Davis was inside a Seattle-area church one day in March 2021 when a man with a handgun opened fire during a meeting of Community Passageways, a group he founded that works to curb gun violence. The gunman shot 19-year-old Omari Wallace several times before fleeing. Wallace, who was attending an orientation [...]
LOS ANGELES — Leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to explain the impact of potential legislation stripping the sport’s antitrust exemption from covering the sport’s relationship with minor league players. Sen. Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who chairs the committee, and Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican who is the [...]
ATLANTA — The expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020 election did not lead to any widespread problems, according to an Associated Press survey of state election officials across the country that revealed no cases of fraud, vandalism or theft that could have affected the results. Drop boxes are considered by [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Management of the government's only underground nuclear waste repository will be taken over later this year by a company created by one of the largest engineering, construction and project management firms in the world. The U.S. Energy Department last week announced that the new contract with the Bechtel company to oversee the [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate this week confirmed Steve Dettelbach, a former federal prosecutor, to run the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, making him the agency's first confirmed director since 2015. Dettelbach takes the reins of the agency as the Biden administration and the Justice Department are fighting to combat a surge [...]
A pair of Columbus Democrats in the Ohio House of Representatives believe a law to expand tuition support for veterans and their families that was passed during the previous session of the Legislature didn’t go far enough. Reps. Dontavius Jarrells and Adam Miller want to expand the in-state tuition support established in House Bill 16 [...]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Election officials preparing for the upcoming midterms face myriad threats, both foreign and domestic, as they look to protect voting systems and run a smooth election while fighting a wave of misinformation that has been undermining public confidence in the nation’s elections. While a top concern heading into the 2020 [...]