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They doubted Joe Biden’s win in 2020. Now, they’re poised to help run November’s elections in Nevada
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Two counties in the crucial swing state of Nevada have appointed officials who have cast doubts about the 2020 election to oversee their elections this fall -- raising alarms among voting rights advocates less than ...
France President Macron’s centrist party poised to keep majority in parliamentary elections
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Projections based on partial election results showed that at the national level, Macron's party got about 25-26% of the vote, making them neck-in-neck with a new coalition comprising hard-left candidates. ...
Dream move up in WNBA Draft, now poised to make No. 1 pick
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The leading candidates are Rhyne Howard from Kentucky and NaLyssa Smith of Baylor. And on Monday night, players, families and friends will attend the draft in person for the first time since 2019. "Rhyne is a pro. Sh...
Catarina Macario poised for breakout in second year with US
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So far, she's off to a fine start. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE . Macario started all three games of the team's SheBelieves Cup tournament at center forward, scoring a pair of goals in the final match aga...
Senate poised to pass sweeping overhaul of workplace sexual misconduct law
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The Senate is poised to pass one of the largest workplace reforms in decades, freeing victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault to seek justice in court when they had previously been bound to a closed, often-s...
This Silicon Valley city is poised to take a step closer to first-in-the-nation gun ownership requirements
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San Jose, California, is getting closer to adopting a first-in-the-nation law to address gun violence by requiring all gun owners to pay a fee and carry liability insurance. The Silicon Valley city's council is due ...
Supreme Court poised to decide limits of Biden vaccine mandates for businesses, health care workers
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The justices will hear separate oral arguments over federal vaccine and testing rules for larger businesses and vaccine mandates for health care workers at facilities receiving Medicaid and Medicare funding. Enforcem...
Winsome Sears poised to become Virginia’s first Black female lieutenant governor: ‘I’m representing everybody’
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WINSOME SEARS, VIRGINIA GOP LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR CANDIDATE: WHAT TO KNOW SEARS WINSOME: I think what has happened with the progressives is that they have pitted all of us against each other so that they can swoop in a...
Defending AL champ Rays poised to open ALDS against Red Sox
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The AL East rivals meet in a best-of-five Division Series that begins Thursday night at Tropicana Field, with the defending league champion Rays looking to take the first step toward a return to the World Series, whe...
Brady’s Bucs poised to end Saints’ 4-year run atop NFC South
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The former doormats of the division are now envied by every other NFL team. "I’ve been waiting for this for seven years now," said Evans, a first-round pick in 2014. "That’s what we want. When we went to Pittsburgh m...
Press unloads on Larry Elder as Republican may be poised to oust Gavin Newsom
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Ordinary folks weren’t chattering about it. I didn’t see anything on local TV news. The papers were covering it, but the campaign seemed as remote as a Malibu mountaintop. In fact, the only political passion I saw wa...
North Carolina poised to raise minimum marriage age from 14 to 16
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Washington North Carolina is one step away from raising the minimum age at which children in the state can wed from 14 to 16 after lawmakers there approved a measure that would change several key rules around child m...
Taliban poised to impose Sharia law in Afghanistan, threatening people Biden professes to fight for
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As the Taliban's aggressive offensive across Afghanistan is now in the capital city of Kabul, the group has promised to declare the new Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace. The Taliban ruled t...
Ingraham: Biden seeks ‘masks and mandates forever’, as WH poised to guide ‘the science’ wherever they need
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The immunological science on the coronavirus hasn't changed, Ingraham said, adding that the government and its experts have established a system where they can cite COVID-19 to justify any political decision and esse...
Biden poised to nominate Caroline Kennedy as US ambassador to Australia
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Washington President Joe Biden is poised to nominate Caroline Kennedy to serve as ambassador to Australia, three people familiar with the search process told CNN, in one of the highest-profile envoy selections yet by...
Alvin Bragg poised to win Manhattan DA Democratic primary, setting him up to lead probe into Trump Organization
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Alvin Bragg is set to win the Democratic primary for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, after his top challenger conceded Thursday -- setting the former state and federal prosecutor up to eventually lead the ...