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Swing state Arizona is getting a lot of attention on Primary Day

5:14am August 02, 2022

August is a busy month of statewide primaries. Five states hold primaries on Tuesday. In Arizona, there are key races for governor, Congress, attorney general and secretary of state.

What it was like in Kabul during the U.S. strike on al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri

1:03am August 02, 2022

by Steve Inskeep

The U.S. says it killed the leader of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was considered a planner of 9/11. President Biden told the nation this evening that the U.S. operation unfolded over some months.

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President Biden emerges from COVID isolation to announce death of Ayman al-Zawahiri

1:03am August 02, 2022

by Franco Ordoñez

President Biden briefly emerged from COVID isolation to announce that U.S. killed the top leader of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who took over as leader when Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011.

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In this Sept. 3, 2020, file photo, a worker prepares absentee ballots for mailing at the Wake County Board of Elections in Raleigh, N.C.

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North Carolina certifies the Green Party, which could allow it onto the Senate ballot

8:56pm August 01, 2022

by Steve Harrison

National Democrats have questioned the validity of the Green Party's signatures on a petition drive needed to get a spot on the state ballot.

A frame grab from a video aired in 2006 on Al-Jazeera television shows Al-Qaida second-in-command Ayman Al-Zawahiri.

The U.S. has killed top al-Qaida leader and key 9/11 plotter, Ayman al-Zawahiri

8:12pm August 01, 2022

by Ximena Bustillo

President Joe Biden said a strike carried out by the U.S. has killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, a top Al-Qaida leader and key plotter in the 9/11 attacks.

Tuesday elections will impact abortion rights in Kansas, Arizona and Michigan

6:40pm August 01, 2022

The right to an abortion is teetering in Arizona, Kansas and Michigan — all states with primary elections on Aug. 2. In each state, the decision may come down to a different election outcome.

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Music Midtown pulls the plug over Georgia's gun laws, highlighting a legal gray area

6:39pm August 01, 2022

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Music Midtown canceled the annual festival at Piedmont Park because of legal concerns over the organizers' ability to ban guns during the two-day event.

The race for Texas governor between Abbott and O'Rourke ramps up

4:58pm August 01, 2022

by Sergio Martínez-Beltrán | The Texas Newsroom

The race for governor between incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Democrat Beto O'Rourke is getting more competitive as Abbott tries to pull his base closer by laying into immigration.

UN kicks off nuclear nonproliferation conference as global fears fester

4:28pm August 01, 2022

by Michele Kelemen

The United Nations kicked off a conference on the status of a 50-year treaty on nuclear nonproliferation — as crises fester in the Middle East, the Korean peninsula and Ukraine.

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., speaks during a hearing on June 4, 2020. Herrera Beutler, one of 10 Republican House members who voted to impeach Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, faces a tough primary Tuesday.

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She voted to impeach Trump. Now Rep. Herrera Beutler tries to navigate a tough primary

2:12pm August 01, 2022

by Troy Brynelson

The Washington state congresswoman was one of just 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after Jan. 6. And she is one of three who are on the ballot Tuesday — in Washington and in Michigan.