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Several satellite election offices opened in the state on Tuesday.

Three people, including an 11-year-old boy, were killed Monday during an apparent hostage situation inside an  Oregon home, authorities said. 

The Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit against Harris County, Texas, to prevent noncitizens from successfully registering to vote.

A leading outside group backing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s is going up this week with a new $4 million ad blitz criticizing President Trump key general election battleground states.

President Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the November election has brought into national focus a handful of contested congressional races that would ultimately determine who our next president will be.

Theresa Greenfield, the Democratic challenger to Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, says racial bias is built into American law enforcement, but that she doesn’t fault individual officers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened to slash state funding if New York City does not increase efforts to tamp down on crime and clean up the city's trash in the midst of a pandemic, even offering to send in the National Guard to help. 

Four men in Arkansas just secured the state’s unofficial record for longest gator after dragging out a specimen measuring 13 feet, 11.5 inches.

After finding out about the Sept. 26 event, Katie Sermersheim, associate vice provost and dean of students, issued suspensions to 14 students, including 13 athletes, for violating the school's Protect Purdue Pledge.

The attorney representing an anonymous grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case said Tuesday his client believes “certain questions were left unanswered” after one of three police officers involved in the fatal police raid were indicted, adding that “accountability and a sense of public trust” drove a motion to force Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to release a recording of the proceedings.