For four years, the world’s nations have watched as a very different American president engages with the international community — or doesn’t. Longtime alliances have been strained, agreements wiped away, tariffs erected, funding withdrawn. Some nations have been the objects of presidential derision. Others, like North Korea, have been on...
Huge Voter Turnout Expected Despite Virus, Political Rancor
The scourge of a global pandemic produced an election season like no other in the U.S., persuading record numbers of Americans to cast their ballots early, forcing states to make changes to long-established election procedures and leading to hundreds of lawsuits over how votes will be cast and which ballots...
Control of Senate at Stake as Trump’s Allies Face Democrats
WASHINGTON — Control of the Senate is a razor-close proposition in Tuesday's election, as Republicans fight to retain their majority against a surge of Democratic candidates confronting the president's allies across a vast political map. Both parties see paths to victory, and the outcome might not be known on election night....
Trump Promises Court Fight Over Pennsylvania Absentee Votes
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign are signaling they will pursue an aggressive legal strategy to try to prevent Pennsylvania from counting mailed ballots that are received in the three days after the election. The matter could find its way to the Supreme Court, especially if those...
Fresno Police Will Have Undercover Officers Near Polling Locations on Election Day
Fresno police will be in plain sight — but not easily identifiable — on Election Day as voters visit voting centers, a department spokesman said Monday. Police will be monitoring voting centers in plainclothes, said Sgt. Jeff LaBlue, to avoid concerns that uniformed officers could be viewed as intimidating to...
Legal Armies Ready if Cloudy Election Outcome Heads to Court
WASHINGTON — Signature matches. Late-arriving absentee votes. Drop boxes. Secrecy envelopes. Democratic and Republican lawyers already have gone to court over these issues in the run-up to Tuesday's election. But the legal fights could take on new urgency, not to mention added vitriol, if a narrow margin in a battleground state...
Ziplocked: Last Look at California’s Presidential Money Race, by Zip Code
Vertiginous blue spires on the urban coast and crimson plateaus stretching from the Central Valley to suburban SoCal — this is the presidential race for California cash, in 3D. In the map below, each zip code is colored according to the candidate who amassed more individual contributions from its residents. That’s blue...
Campaign Draws to a Close as Trump Threatens Legal Action
PHILADEPHIA — President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden have one last chance to make their case to voters in critical battleground states on Monday, the final full day of a campaign that has laid bare their dramatically different visions for tackling the nation’s pressing problems and for the office of...
Did School Board Candidate Violate ‘Clean Campaign’ Pledge?
In the waning days of the 2020 election, the two local school board candidates are sparring over accusations about a clean campaign pledge. All three candidates vying for the State Center Community College District Area 2 trustee seat signed a voluntary document pledging to campaign fairly. Administered by the Secretary...
How to Be a Good Digital Citizen During the Election – and Its Aftermath
The runup to the U.S. presidential election has been an unprecedented amount of misinformation about the voting process and mail-in ballots. It’s almost certain that misinformation and disinformation will increase, including, importantly, in the aftermath of the election. Misinformation is incorrect or misleading information, and disinformation is misinformation that is knowingly and...