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Future voting rights, marijuana laws at stake in states

A proposal intended to diminish partisan politics in redistricting was ahead in Virginia and legal marijuana was leading in New Jersey as voters across the country decided scores of ballot measures on...

Nov 03, 2020

EXPLAINER: Postal Service, judge at odds over ballot search

WHAT HAPPENED: The U.S. Postal Service says it can't meet a federal judge's order to sweep processing centres for undelivered mail-in ballots. It is arguing that doing so would be disruptive to its El...

Nov 03, 2020

GOP’s Tuberville defeats US Sen. Jones, flips Alabama seat

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Former college football coach Tommy Tuberville has recaptured a U.S. Senate seat for Republicans by defeating Sen. Doug Jones in Alabama. Jones had widely been considered the Senate...

Nov 03, 2020

Georgia Republican who supports QAnon wins US House seat

ATLANTA - Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who expressed racist views and support for QAnon conspiracy theories in a series of online videos, has won a U.S. House seat representing northwest Georgia...

Nov 03, 2020

UK raises terror threat level to severe after Europe attacks

LONDON - Britain raised its terror threat level to severe on Tuesday, its second-highest level, following recent attacks in Austria and France. The threat level of severe means an attack in the United...

Nov 03, 2020

Cruise industry throws in the towel on 2020, looks to 2021

SILVER SPRING, Md. - The cruise industry has jettisoned hopes of restarting operations this year. Days after both Carnival and Norwegian extended a halt on cruises through the end of the year, the gro...

Nov 03, 2020

Appeals court declines to ban drive-thru voting in Houston

NEW ORLEANS - A panel of federal appeals court judges has rejected an eleventh hour Republican effort to bar Election Day drive-thru voting in Houston. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orl...

Nov 03, 2020

Market debut of Chinese e-finance giant Ant postponed

HONG KONG - The planned stock market debut of the world's biggest online finance company, Ant Financial was suspended in Shanghai and Hong Kong, disrupting a record-setting $34.5 billion initial publi...

Nov 03, 2020

'Vote and get home': Anxious voters say on Election Day

She carefully planned a five-hour drive to the polling place in her Tennessee hometown to vote on Election Day. She considered the traffic, the weather, the surging coronavirus pandemic and - somethin...

Nov 03, 2020

Democrats push to extend control of House for two more years

WASHINGTON - Democrats pushed to seal control of the House for two more years Tuesday as they banked on their health care focus, dominant fundraising and broad suburban indignation with President Dona...

Nov 03, 2020