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Ballot paper shortage could cause problems on Election Day
ABC News(PHOENIX) -- A paper supply crunch is testing the preparedness of U.S. election officials and exposing a key vulnerability in America's democratic process as midterm voting gets underway. The ...
Oct 27, 2022
Poll workers and voting sites could be targets of extremists, NYPD warns, urging 'vigilance'
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- With the midterms just 13 days away, the New York City Police Department is warning that amid a "complex" threat environment, both racially motivated and a...
Oct 27, 2022
Biden doubles down on midterms message that Republicans would make economy worse
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- With less than two weeks until midterm Election Day, President Joe Biden is doubling down on the message that a Republican-run Congress would ...
Oct 27, 2022
Gun reform on the ballot after string of devastating mass shootings
Emily Fennick / EyeEm/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Amid a disturbing uptick in gun violence across the country, the political power of gun reform will be put to the test this election cycle. There have...
Oct 27, 2022
Does Fetterman's rough debate against Oz matter in Pennsylvania?
KRISTON JAE BETHEL/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Republicans and Democrats are sifting through the aftermath of the first and only debate in Pennsylvania's marquee Senate race to determine if De...
Oct 27, 2022
Fetterman and Oz debate highlights ableism in politics, advocates say
BRANDEN EASTWOOD/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- In the Pennsylvania race for a seat in the U.S. Senate, Democratic candidate John Fetterman has had to continuously defend his ability to serve as ...
Oct 27, 2022
Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows ordered to testify in Georgia election probe
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A judge has ordered former President Donald Trump's last chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to travel to Georgia to appear before the grand jury investigating ef...
Oct 27, 2022
Herschel Walker denies 2nd woman's claim that he paid for her abortion: 'Lie'
Jesse McGowan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker on Wednesday denied an unnamed woman's new claim that in Dallas in 1993 he paid for and strongly encouraged her to ha...
Oct 26, 2022
Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez under federal investigation: Sources
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is under federal criminal investigation, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News and confirmed by an adviser to the sena...
Oct 26, 2022
Biden vows 'breathing room' for families going into midterms
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden, highlighting his administration's war on rising costs less than two weeks ahead of the midterm elections, announced new initiatives Wednesd...
Oct 26, 2022
