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Voting groups sound alarm on funding shortfalls that they say could affect midterm turnout

Saturday, September 19 by SRN News

WASHINGTON (AP) - Several of the nation's largest left-leaning voter engagement and racial justice organizations are facing steep funding shortfalls and staffing cutbacks just as voting is getting underway in an election that will determine control of Congress for the final two years of... Read More.

Democrats try to ride data center backlash to election victory in rural US Midwest

Saturday, September 19 by SRN News

By Valerie Volcovici Sept 19 (Reuters) - No company has announced plans for a data center in Defiance, a city of 17,000 people surrounded by soybean fields in northwestern Ohio. But people in the aptly named community are not taking any chances. After learning the county's economic... Read More.

Lingering feuds threaten Democrats’ bid to reclaim US Congress

Saturday, September 19 by SRN News

By Nolan D. McCaskill WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Democrats are seeking to reclaim Congress, but lingering divisions from a bruising run-up to the November election threaten to imperil the party's attempt to claw back power from President Donald Trump's Republicans. With control of both chambers... Read More.

AI fears are fueling progressive Democrat’s campaign in Michigan battleground district

Friday, September 18 by SRN News

MASON, Mich. (AP) - Emerson Hyde and Dan Ewart, both Republicans, stood outside a contentious city council meeting earlier this week in the central Michigan town of Mason and grappled with the fact that the most prominent person to stand with them against a... Read More.

Russian holds parliamentary vote in areas it seized from Ukraine in the war

Friday, September 18 by SRN News

Russia's parliamentary election for the first time includes residents of regions that Moscow illegally annexed from Ukraine after the start of its full-scale invasion more than 4 1/2 years ago, part of Kremlin efforts to cement its gains. Officials in Kyiv vigorously denounced the action... Read More.

State blames mail delivery issues for dozens of ballots from rural Alaska not counting in primary

Friday, September 18 by SRN News

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Seventy-five absentee in-person ballots cast by voters in rural western Alaska communities arrived too late to be counted in last month's primary election, officials said. The Alaska Division of Elections blamed a "mail delivery delay" that affected voters in seven communities,... Read More.

Trump is talking with Senate’s Thune about bill to cut data-center electricity costs

Friday, September 18 by SRN News

By Jacob Bogage and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday he is engaging with Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune about bringing to the floor a bill aimed at protecting households from electricity cost increases tied to... Read More.

Trump says his son told him he will pay back Russian oligarch for wedding contribution

Friday, September 18 by SRN News

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his son, Donald Trump Jr., had told him he would pay back a Russian oligarch who bankrolled a wedding party for him earlier this year. Democrats in the U.S. Congress launched an investigation... Read More.

Republican China committee chair urges tough Trump line with Xi

Friday, September 18 by SRN News

By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The Republican chair of the US congressional committee on China on Friday urged President Donald Trump to take a tough line in his summit with Xi Jinping next week, warning against concessions and calling for tighter technology... Read More.

Trump says he is banning media outlets CNN, MS NOW, Politico from White House

Friday, September 18 by SRN News

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday he was banning three major news outlets - CNN, MS NOW and Politico - from the White House, in his latest move to crack down on the independent press. He wrote that he was... Read More.

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