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US intelligence assesses Russian operatives behind fake video showing Pennsylvania ballots being destroyed

By Evan Perez, Sean Lyngaas, Paul P. Murphy and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — US intelligence has assessed that Russian operatives were behind a fake video purporting to show someone destroying mail-in ballots in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, that circulated on social media Thursday. “The IC (Intelligence Community) assesses that Russian actors manufactured and amplified a

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Rep. Anthony D'Esposito leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the US Capitol in September 2023.

NY Republican in critical House race spent huge sums of campaign cash on steakhouses, booze, Ubers and a foreign hostel

By Gregory Krieg and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — New York Rep. Anthony D’Esposito’s campaign spent tens of thousands of donor dollars at steakhouses and bars, a foreign hostel and on unaccountable payments to a close aide and friend, according to a review of federal filings. Campaign finance experts who spoke with CNN said that

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Former President Donald Trump leaves Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery after he attended a ceremony honoring the lives of those who died at the Abbey Gate Bombing

Military investigation into incident during Trump’s controversial Arlington Cemetery still ongoing, Army report says

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A military law enforcement investigation is still ongoing into the incident at Arlington National Cemetery when an employee was reportedly pushed by a member of former President Donald Trump’s campaign. An Army spokesperson previously said in August that the service “considers this matter closed.” The Army on Friday released

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The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

Trump-appointed appeals court judges say Mississippi is violating federal law with mail ballot deadline but don’t block it

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A panel of three Donald Trump-appointed judges said Friday that Mississippi was violating federal law by counting mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, but stopped short of blocking the policy before the election, in a ruling that could nevertheless impact voting-related lawsuits this fall. The ruling from the 5th US Circuit Court

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House Freedom Caucus chair suggests North Carolina Legislature could assign electors before votes are tallied

By Curt Devine, Lauren Fox, and Emily R. Condon, CNN (CNN) — The chairman of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus suggested that legislators in the battleground state of North Carolina could potentially allocate their state’s electoral votes to Donald Trump before votes are counted because of the possible disenfranchisement of voters in Western North Carolina,

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President Joe Biden speaks at the Gila River Crossing School in the Gila River Indian Community

Biden apologizes to Native Americans for abusive government-funded boarding schools

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for what he described as “one of the most horrific chapters in American history,” government-funded boarding schools that abused indigenous children and forced them to assimilate over a 150-year period. “Quite frankly, there is no excuse that this apology

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Republican presidential nominee former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a Turning Point PAC campaign rally at the Gas South Arena on October 23

Fact check: How Trump’s TV ads deceive viewers with misleadingly edited quotes

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s late-campaign television ads are littered with deceptively edited and misleadingly described quotations. Multiple Trump ads omit critical words from quotes by and about Vice President Kamala Harris on the subject of tax policy. One Trump ad misleadingly depicts comments about fracking from Trump’s campaign

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Federal judge halts Virginia’s pre-election voter roll purge aimed at suspected noncitizens

By Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday halted a Virginia program that purged the state’s voter rolls based on indications that a person might be a noncitizen and ordered officials to restore the registrations of roughly 1,600 people who had been removed under the process. The ruling, from US District Judge Patricia

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In Texas, Harris embraces Beyoncé and warns swing-state voters that ‘Trump abortion bans’ are coming for them

By Gregory Krieg, Priscilla Alvarez and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris, after being endorsed and embraced onstage in Houston by music superstar Beyoncé, warned voters across the country Friday night that Texas-style abortion bans would end up in their states if Donald Trump returns to the White House. Harris has leaned

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