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Democracy Dies in Darkness
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Numerous studies have found no evidence of large-scale voter fraud in the United States, but Republican officials across the country are going after what they describe as threats to voting integrity — moves that critics see as attempts to keep some Americans from casting ballots in November's elections.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that enthusiasm is up across almost all demographic groups. But the increases are greater among younger adults, nonwhite voters and those who say they favor Democrats for the House.
Hurricane Michael delivered misery to one of the poorest regions of Florida, where a large percentage of people live in mobile homes and other vulnerable structures, and where many of the homes have no insurance. Without water and electricity, residents are fending for themselves and, in some cases, fearing they've been forgotten.
By Patricia Sullivan, Luz Lazo, Frances Sellers and Joel Achenbach • Read more »
Power Ploys | Understanding Russia's global influence
Thirty years after the Soviet Union's humiliating defeat in Afghanistan, Moscow is trying to reassert itself there in an initiative that has included discreet contacts with Taliban leaders and a military buildup along the country's northern edge.
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The former vice president unleashed some of his fiercest criticism yet of the president during a campaign stop for Lt. Col. Amy McGrath, a former fighter pilot seeking to unseat Rep. Garland "Andy" Barr (R-Ky.).
Recently, "Saturday Night Live" has essentially reenacted popular news clips with a slight bit of commentary, a trend that continued with Saturday's cold open.
The second-ranked Bulldogs were thumped at Lousiana State in a game that seemed a recurrence of its emphatic loss when it was the No. 2 team heading to Auburn last year.
In the fall of 1957, as the world was moving on from World War II and the extermination of 6 million Jews, Sylvia Hermann knocked on the door of a modest home in Buenos Aires.
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