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A voter fills out a ballot in Jackson, Miss., on Tuesday. Federal and local officials have worked closely with researchers to track rumors and conspiracy theories in recent elections but that cooperation is fading under pressure from conservatives.

Politics & Government

Why the fight to counter false election claims may be harder in 2024

5:00am November 10, 2023

Experts say a right-wing campaign has cast efforts to combat rumors and conspiracy theories as censorship. As a result, they say, the tools to tamp down on election falsehoods have been scaled back.

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The FBI and postal inspectors are investigating letters — some containing fentanyl — sent to election offices in at least five states.

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Envelopes with fentanyl or other substances were sent to several elections offices

9:11pm November 09, 2023

by The Associated Press

The letters were sent to elections offices in the presidential battlegrounds of Georgia and Nevada, as well as California, Oregon and Washington, with some being intercepted before they arrived.

An election resolution board counts absentee ballots Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, at the Hinds County Courthouse in Jackson, Miss.

Ballot shortages created democracy problems during Mississippi governor's election

6:46pm November 09, 2023

by The Associated Press

People in Mississippi's largest county are demanding answers about why some polling places ran out of ballots and voters had to wait for them to be replenished on election day.

Colleagues are fed up with Sen. Tommy Tuberville blocking military appointments

5:45pm November 09, 2023

by Lauren Hodges

Republican Sen. Tuberville of Alabama has been blocking nearly all nominations since February — in protest of Pentagon abortion policy. Senators are getting creative with solutions.

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Sen. Joe Manchin will not seek reelection

4:55pm November 09, 2023

by Deirdre Walsh

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin announced Thursday that he will not run for re-election. Losing him in that seat is a major blow to Democrats' efforts to retain control of the senate.

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The House has a speaker, but infighting continues among the House GOP

4:55pm November 09, 2023

by Claudia Grisales

House Republicans say they want to unite under a new speaker, but ongoing bickering and personal feuds threaten that goal.

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An exit interview with Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon

4:55pm November 09, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., about his retirement from Congress and how urban transportation policy has evolved throughout his almost three decades in Congress.

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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks at the U.S. Capitol in June.

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Sen. Joe Manchin announces he won't seek reelection in 2024

3:33pm November 09, 2023

by Deirdre Walsh

West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin will not seek reelection to the Senate in 2024, Democrats have a narrow majority and face and uphill battle to retain his seat.

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Bo Hines, who lost a close 2022 election in North Carolina, announces another Congress run

3:26pm November 09, 2023

by Associated Press

Republican Bo Hines on Thursday filed candidacy papers with federal elections officials and released a video for his bid in the 6th Congressional District. The district covers all or part of a half-dozen Piedmont-area counties, including portions of Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Concord.

A demonstrator holds a sign reading "From the river to the sea" at a Freedom for Palestine protest in Berlin on Nov. 4.

How interpretations of the phrase 'from the river to the sea' made it so divisive

10:11am November 09, 2023

by Joe Hernandez

It's a nod to the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea and the tensions between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews who live there. But what does it actually mean?