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Election Day shadowed by threats of legal challenges
WASHINGTON - Even before Election Day, the 2020 race was the most litigated in memory. President Donald Trump is promising more to come. The candidates and parties have enlisted prominent lawyers with...
Nov 02, 2020
Supreme Court to hear case about juvenile life sentences
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is to hear arguments in a case that could put the brakes on what has been a gradual move toward more leniency for children who are convicted of murder. The court has con...
Nov 02, 2020
Huge voter turnout expected despite virus, political rancour
The scourge of a global pandemic produced an election season like no other in the U.S., persuading record numbers of Americans to cast their ballots early, forcing states to make changes to long-estab...
Nov 02, 2020
EXPLAINER: A long night, or more, before president is known
WASHINGTON - There's a good chance Americans won't know the winner of Tuesday's presidential election when they go to bed that night. The main reason? Many states have made it easier to request a mail...
Nov 02, 2020
EXPLAINER: What's 270? The math game behind the US election
WASHINGTON - What's all this hubbub about 270? It's not about the 270 whales stranded this fall on Australia's island state of Tasmania. It's not about congestion on Interstate 270 feeding commuters i...
Nov 02, 2020
Asia Today: New Delhi sees worst wave as India's cases drop
NEW DELHI - India's capital is seeing its worst wave of coronavirus infections since the start of the pandemic, even as the nation's overall cases fall. New Delhi has averaged more than 5,200 newly co...
Nov 02, 2020
EXPLAINER: Pandemic to factor into inauguration planning
WASHINGTON - Every four years at the stroke of noon on Jan. 20, the president-elect or the reelected president of the United States takes the oath of office for a four-year term. The inaugural ceremon...
Nov 02, 2020
EXPLAINER: They lost the popular vote but won the elections
Five times in U.S. history, candidates have lost the popular vote but won the presidency - most recently in 2016. Could Donald Trump be the first to do it twice? A look at an American political anomal...
Nov 02, 2020
Tax penalty bylaw sent back to drawing board as doubling rate too much to stomach for council
MEDICINE HAT, AB - A bylaw that would see the city's municipal tax penalties reach parity with other jurisdictions landed with a thud Monday night as what some councillors and staff called an "invisib...
Nov 02, 2020
US judge blocks Trump immigration rule on public benefits
CHICAGO - A federal judge in Chicago struck down a key immigration rule Monday that would deny green cards to immigrants who use food stamps or other public benefits, a blow to the Trump administratio...
Nov 02, 2020