WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress confirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the presidential election winner early Thursday after a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a stunning attempt to overturn America’s presidential election, undercut the nation’s democracy and keep …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress confirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the presidential election winner early Thursday after a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a stunning attempt to overturn America’s presidential election, undercut the nation’s democracy and keep …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona Democrat and former astronaut Mark Kelly was sworn into the Senate on Wednesday, narrowing Republican control of the chamber and underscoring his state's shift from red to blue.
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin finished a recount of its presidential results on Sunday, confirming Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump in the key battleground state. Trump vowed to challenge the outcome in court even before the recount concluded.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nostalgia was in and jokes were out Tuesday as President Donald Trump offered a reprieve to a pair of meaty turkeys at the traditional Thanksgiving turkey pardon ceremony at the White House.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The General Services Administration ascertained Monday that President-elect Joe Biden is the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election, clearing the way for the start of the transition from President Donald Trump’s administration and allowing Biden to coordinate with federal…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona Democrat and former astronaut Mark Kelly was sworn into the Senate on Wednesday, narrowing Republican control of the chamber and underscoring his state's shift from red to blue.
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin finished a recount of its presidential results on Sunday, confirming Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump in the key battleground state. Trump vowed to challenge the outcome in court even before the recount concluded.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nostalgia was in and jokes were out Tuesday as President Donald Trump offered a reprieve to a pair of meaty turkeys at the traditional Thanksgiving turkey pardon ceremony at the White House.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The General Services Administration ascertained Monday that President-elect Joe Biden is the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election, clearing the way for the start of the transition from President Donald Trump’s administration and allowing Biden to coordinate with federal…
Voter turnout in Frederick County finished higher than the 2016 presidential general election, but not as much as the prior two election cycles in 2012 and 2008.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden has won Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, an extraordinary victory for Democrats who pushed to expand their electoral map through the Sun Belt.
ATLANTA (AP) — A top Georgia elections official says a hand tally of the presidential race in Georgia is complete, and the results affirm Democrat Joe Biden’s lead over Republican President Donald Trump. Gabriel Sterling released the information to The Associated Press on Thursday. The hand …
WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden met Thursday with governors from both parties and criticized President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to block the peaceful transition of power, saying it was hindering the flow of information about programs to develop a vitally important co…
WASHINGTON — Getting nowhere in the courts, President Donald Trump’s scattershot effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory is shifting toward obscure election boards that certify the vote as Trump and his allies seek to upend the electoral process, sow chaos and perpetuate unsub…
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Donald Trump's refusal to cooperate with his successor is forcing President-elect Joe Biden to seek unusual workarounds to prepare for the exploding public health threat and evolving national security challenges he will inherit in just nine weeks.
strengthened Monday into a Category 5 storm that is likely to bring catastrophic damage to the same part of Central America already battered by a powerful Hurricane Eta less than two weeks ago.
Voter turnout in Frederick County finished higher than the 2016 presidential general election, but not as much as the prior two election cycles in 2012 and 2008.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden has won Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, an extraordinary victory for Democrats who pushed to expand their electoral map through the Sun Belt.
ATLANTA (AP) — A top Georgia elections official says a hand tally of the presidential race in Georgia is complete, and the results affirm Democrat Joe Biden’s lead over Republican President Donald Trump. Gabriel Sterling released the information to The Associated Press on Thursday. The hand …
WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden met Thursday with governors from both parties and criticized President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to block the peaceful transition of power, saying it was hindering the flow of information about programs to develop a vitally important co…
WASHINGTON — Getting nowhere in the courts, President Donald Trump’s scattershot effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory is shifting toward obscure election boards that certify the vote as Trump and his allies seek to upend the electoral process, sow chaos and perpetuate unsub…
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Donald Trump's refusal to cooperate with his successor is forcing President-elect Joe Biden to seek unusual workarounds to prepare for the exploding public health threat and evolving national security challenges he will inherit in just nine weeks.
strengthened Monday into a Category 5 storm that is likely to bring catastrophic damage to the same part of Central America already battered by a powerful Hurricane Eta less than two weeks ago.
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden on Monday warned of dire consequences if President Donald Trump and…
ATLANTA (AP) — Masked election workers in teams of two began counting ballots Friday in counties across Georgia, a ha…
World leaders spoke to President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday about cooperating on the coronavirus pandemic, climate c…
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump refuses to allow President-elect Joe Biden to receive intelligence briefings —…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of federal and state officials said Thursday that they have no evidence that votes were…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has won the state of Alaska.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden feels at home on Capitol Hill, but the place sure has changed since he left.
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s secretary of state on Wednesday announced an audit of presidential election results that he …
Sue Johnson is expected to be one of three candidates joining the Board of Education in December, pending certificati…
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Vowing “to get right to work,” President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday shrugged off President Do…
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t congratulate President-elect Joe Biden until legal challenges to…
WASHINGTON (AP) — At least three top Trump administration or campaign officials have tested positive for COVID-19 aft…
WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden signaled on Sunday he plans to move quickly to build out his government,…
As news organizations were calling the presidential race Saturday in favor of Democratic nominees Joe Biden and Kamal…
Days before he left the White House in 2017, President Barack Obama surprised Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal o…
As Election Day ground on into “election week,” it became increasingly clear that Democrat Joe Biden would oust Presi…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump, who defied political gravity with his extraordinary rise from reality star and busine…
The most turbulent and norm-breaking presidential election of a lifetime has led to an extraordinary spectacle in the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump won support from about 8 in 10 white evangelical Christian voters in his rac…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judges in Georgia and Michigan quickly dismissed Trump campaign lawsuits Thursday, undercutting a c…
Since the presidential election on Nov. 3, the rule of law has held.
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I have a thought after reading the letter from Steve Hough that was printed in the News-Post on Thursday, Nov. 12. In his letter, he states, “…
There has never been an election containing more bad news for the party that won the White House than the one that just happened.
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The “blue wave” prognosticators saw coming broke a mile from shore as voters rendered a split decision. The numbers so far tell the story: Joe…
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President-elect Joe Biden, the clear winner in a cliffhanger race against President Donald Trump that took nearly four days to resolve, is mov…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Control of the Senate hung in the balance Thursday, a cliffhanger after Republicans trounced Democr…
Police arrested dozens of people in New York, Portland, Oregon, and other cities overnight at protests demanding all …
Election officials in key battleground states pushed back on claims by the Trump campaign that Republican poll watche…
WASHINGTON (AP) — With votes still being counted across the nation, President Donald Trump on Thursday sought to unde…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The election scrambled seats in the House and Senate but ultimately left Congress much like it bega…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The fate of the United States presidency hung in the balance Wednesday as Democratic challenger Joe…
NEW YORK — Across the nation, LGBTQ candidates achieved milestone victories in Tuesday’s election, including the firs…
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign long maintained there were thousands of new supporters tucked into rural…
PHILADELPHIA — They clung to their cocktails and proclaimed themselves sick with dread. They relentlessly checked the…
WASHINGTON — Election Day came and went without any overt signs of foreign interference affecting the vote, but that …
Thousands of mail-in ballots still need to be counted in Frederick County — a process that will likely continue into …
Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) retained his seat for Maryland's 6th District in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesda…
For four years, the world’s nations have watched as a very different American president engages with the internationa…
The 2020 race for the White House has been perhaps the most contentious in generations. With polls closed in the race between Republican nominee and President Donald J. Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden campaign, attention turns to ballot counting in key battleground states that will decide the presidency.
Latest news:
- With presidency in reach, Dems grapple with disappointment
- Trump team says it's suing to stop Pennsylvania vote count
- Trump sues for Michigan ballot access, asks for Wisconsin recount
- Former GOP stronghold of Arizona hands big wins to Democrats
- 2020 Latest: Biden wins Wisconsin, flipping state from 2016
- How Joe Biden can still win Pennsylvania
With thousands of ballots still to be counted, the Frederick County Board of Education race is far from over. But the…
Ahead of the election, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube promised to clamp down on election misinformation, including uns…
President and Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden take center stage on Election Day Tuesday, but several competitive races are also up for grabs that will determine the power structure of the Senate and House of Representatives as well as governor seats.
Latest news:
- Georgia's Loeffler, Warnock set for Senate runoff in January (11:42 p.m.)
- US Sen. Shelley Moore Capito wins 2nd term in West Virginia (11:35 p.m.)
- Incumbent governors, including North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, fare well (10:45 p.m.)
- NJ approves recreational cannabis, elects Biden, Booker (10:25 p.m.)
- Georgia Republican who supports QAnon wins US House seat (9:22 p.m.)
- Pennsylvania emerges as online misinformation hotspot (9:13 p.m.)
County residents streamed into polling places as Election Day began Tuesday, capping off an historically busy year for early and absentee voting period. News-Post reporters and photographers will be filing updates throughout the day and into the early morning hours as this story develops.
Latest news:
- BOE candidates await poll closures, results
- Maryland Elections Board debunks false rumors
- Steady but light stream of voters at Frederick High
- Large turnout near Golden Mile
- Middletown quiet as day begins
- Brunswick voters turn out in swaths
The 2020 race for the White House has been perhaps the most contentious in generations. As Republican nominee and President Donald J. Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden campaign on this final day of voting, here are some of the latest stories about that race from around the country.
Latest news:
- Razor-thin margin separates Biden, Trump in Wisconsin race
EXPLAINER: A long night, or more, before president is known
Trump takes Indiana, Kansas; Biden takes Connecticut
AP: Trump wins, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Louisiana
- AP: Biden wins New York, New Mexico and Rhode Island
- AP: Trump wins Oklahoma and Tennessee
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — A team of volunteer health professionals has been deployed to polling stations around the state…
America's fight over masks has reached a new front: polling places.
Frederick County voters cast nearly 14,000 ballots by 1 p.m. Tuesday, pushing overall voter turnout to approximately …
A massive swath of mail-in ballots for Democratic nominee Joe Biden had him with a healthy lead over President Donald…
Thousands of Frederick County voters turned out Tuesday to cast their ballots on Election Day.
It was similar to a typical Sunday at Sue Johnson’s farm on election night. Her neighbors and friends came over, the …
WASHINGTON — Signature matches. Late-arriving absentee votes. Drop boxes. Secrecy envelopes.
WASHINGTON — Even before Election Day, the 2020 race was the most litigated in memory. President Donald Trump is prom…
Election Director Stuart Harvey believes Frederick County could hit 85 percent turnout for the presidential general e…
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland — Maryland elections officials are encouraging the use of ballot drop boxes as the mail-in dea…
BOSTON — Russian interference has been minimal so far in the most tempestuous U.S. presidential election in decades. …
Election Day on Tuesday marks the last opportunity for Frederick County voters to head to the polls, drop off their b…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hackers have stolen $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party's account that was being us…
WASHINGTON (AP) — North Carolina, yes. Pennsylvania, yes. Wisconsin, no. That’s how the Supreme Court has answered qu…
TAMPA, Fla. — Pressing against stiff headwinds from the pandemic, President Donald Trump steered toward what he hoped…
WASHINGTON — This year has been a parade of unprecedented events, and the early voting in the general election is pro…
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s campaign has a bold theory for how he will win reelection: It can …
ATLANTA (AP) — Just days before the presidential election, millions of mail ballots have yet to be returned in key ba…
WILIMINGTON, Del. (AP) — If Joe Biden wins next week's election, he says he'll immediately call Dr. Anthony Fauci, th…
Ahead of its special by-mail election to fill a vacant city council seat, Brunswick reaffirmed its commitment to cond…
WARM SPRINGS, Ga. — Joe Biden traveled to the hot springs town where Franklin Delano Roosevelt coped with polio on Tu…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — With coronavirus cases spreading rapidly across her state, Samantha Allen laments that Missouri …
LITITZ, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump embarked Monday on a final-week charge through nearly a dozen states ahead …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Nancy Pelosi once predicted she’d have the 2020 House Democratic majority secured by Novemb…
More than a third of Frederick County’s registered voters have requested mail-in ballots, as early voting starts at f…
Hundreds of voters arrived to cast their ballots at Gov. Thomas Johnson High School Monday morning as early voting ki…
High School sports could once again begin sooner than anticipated after the Maryland State Board of Education voted M…
ANNAPOLIS — Maryland voters lined up on Monday for a busy, record-breaking first day of in-person early voting in the state.
WASHINGTON — Their final debate behind them, President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden are packaging their diverg…
As a teenager in Ireland, Jim McDonnell put five shillings down on a pair of race horses he liked because their names…
