Decision 2024

The leader of a nonprofit representing the Haitian community invoked a private-citizen right to file charges against former President Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, over the chaos and threats experienced by Springfield, Ohio, since Trump first spread false claims about legal immigrants there during a presidential debate.

Police are investigating what appears to be gunfire damage overnight at a Democratic Party-coordinated campaign office for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Across the U.S., including in some of the nation’s presidential swing states, new or recently altered state laws are changing how Americans will vote, tally ballots and administer and certify November’s election.

A Nebraska Republican state lawmaker said Monday that he remains opposed to switching how the state allocates its electoral votes, effectively blocking a bid by President Donald Trump and his allies to change the system in a bid for an extra electoral vote this fall.

With the presidential election just over a month away, voters will have another debate left to witness, this time between the two vice presidential candidates.

A small Ohio city has been inundated with hoax bomb threats since last week’s presidential debate, when former President Donald Trump falsely accused members of Springfield’s Haitian community of abducting and eating cats and dogs.

A top Donald Trump ally is pressuring Nebraska Republicans to award all of their state’s Electoral College votes to the statewide winner, a late-stage rule change that could potentially help return Trump to the White House.

If he is re-elected, though, he didn’t rule out the possibility of appointing former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, tech billionaire Elon Musk or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to his Cabinet.

Vice President Kamala Harris is a Baptist who was influenced by religious traditions in her mother’s home country of India. Former President Donald Trump grew up a mainline Presbyterian but began identifying as a nondenominational Christian near the end of his presidency. Despite that, few Americans see the presidential candidates as particularly Christian, according to a new survey conducted in...

Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat, allegedly took advantage of tax breaks she didn’t qualify for on properties in Maryland and D.C., according to a CNN review. The CNN review reportedly showed a homestead tax exemption that Alsobrooks claimed for more than a decade is meant to only apply to a...

The clerical error might have seen the roughly 98,000 Arizonans unable to participate in state legislature, county, school board, and city elections, including ballot measures.

The pro-Trump majority on the battleground state’s election board approved the move, which critics from both parties warn could lead to delays in reporting results.

Generative artificial intelligence is playing a major role in the presidential campaign, even if the greatest fears about how it could threaten the U.S. presidential election haven’t materialized yet.

The Senate has the potential for history-making this fall. Two Black women could be elected to the chamber, a situation never seen before.

Donald Trump is facing calls both from his allies and from within his own campaign to pull his endorsement from scandal-plagued North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson, according to four people familiar with the discussions. 

It’s a recipe for disaster. In much of the country, the US Postal Service is falling far short of its own on-time delivery standards – and NBC’s Noah Pransky found the slowest mail in the country happens to be in a few key swing states. Now, both Democratic and Republican election officials tell him they’re concerned legit votes will...

Voters lined up to cast their ballots in Minnesota, South Dakota and Virginia, the states with the first early in-person voting opportunities.

Vice President Kamala Harris joined Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities for a livestream rally event in a Detroit suburb.

Vice President Kamala Harris looked for a boost with persuadable and less-motivated voters as she participated in a livestream Thursday evening with former talk show host Oprah Winfrey to focus on her plans to cut costs for the middle class, restore a national right to abortion and address gun violence.

As Republicans in Nebraska consider changing state law to give Donald Trump an extra Electoral College vote this fall, their Democratic counterparts in Maine have little recourse to even the score.