North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen requested a written COVID-19 safety plan Monday from the CEO of the Republican National Convention.
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Federal judge rules Florida can’t stop poor felons from voting
A law passed last year requires felons to pay all fines and other legal financial obligations before their sentences can be considered served.
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Trump threatens to move Republican National Convention from North Carolina
The president wants a guarantee that the party will be allowed to gather despite any virus outbreaks.
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Biden makes first appearance in more than 2 months
Joe Biden marked Memorial Day by laying a wreath at a veterans park near his Delaware home.
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Maine encourages absentee voting in July primary election
Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap urges people to vote via absentee ballot during the July primary election to limit the exposure that voters and polling workers have to the coronavirus.
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Jeff Sessions fires back at Trump in spat over Alabama Senate seat
The former attorney general tweets that his recusal over Robert Mueller ‘was required by law.’
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Time running out on the last U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty
Moscow has offered to extend New START, but President Trump insists China should have to sign on.
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Biden says he was too ‘cavalier’ about black Trump backers
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee suggested Friday that African Americans who back President Trump ‘ain’t black.’
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Republicans weigh unemployment aid cuts to urge Americans back to work
President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell huddled at the White House to consider next steps in coronavirus aid.
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Trump slams mail-in balloting promoted by his own campaign
The president claimed without any evidence that mail-in ballots lead to ‘total election fraud.’