Nov 04 Campaigns make final push to galvanize voters for midterms By Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press Democrats are counting on wresting control of the House from Republicans and hoping for a longshot series of wins to take back the Senate as well. But Republicans are optimistic they can gain seats in a Senate map heavy on… Continue reading
Nov 04 Brent Taylor, mayor of North Ogden, Utah, killed in Afghanistan insider attack By Associated Press The mayor of a Utah city was killed during an attack in Afghanistan while he was serving with the state’s National Guard, authorities said. Continue reading
Nov 04 Legal decisions and a racist robocall in Georgia gov. race By Bill Barrow, Ben Nadler, Associated Press A robocall apparently from a white supremacist group is injecting racism directly into the Georgia race for governor, which has already been fraught with a race-laden debate over ballot access and voter suppression. Continue reading
Nov 04 Voters don’t like ‘Big Pharma.’ But they could soon elect a Senate that includes two pharma lobbyists and a CEO By Lev Facher, STAT If Republicans prevail in just two races on Tuesday, the Senate’s ranks would suddenly include two former drug industry lobbyists and a pharma CEO. Continue reading
Nov 03 Watch 4:00 Half of female executives have faced workplace harassment By PBS News Hour An annual survey of more than 64,000 workers across nearly 300 companies on issues about gender gaps recently found that one third of women overall and more than half of women in senior roles have been harassed in their careers. Continue watching
Nov 03 Watch 1:51 What can be done to motivate young voters? Students answer By Student Reporting Labs From focusing on local issues and making voting a requirement to lowering the voting age, middle and high school students from PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs got ideas from teenagers across the country about how to motivate young people to… Continue watching
Nov 03 In Florida, a bitter and personal clash for US Senate By Gary Fineout, Associated Press Floridians could help determine control of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. Continue reading
Nov 03 ‘We are not killers:’ Migrants in caravan respond to Trump By Sonia Pérez D., Associated Press President Trump said he told the U.S. military at the southwest border that if they face rock-throwing migrants, they should react as though the rocks were “rifles.”… Continue reading
Nov 03 Parkland survivors vote for 1st time, months after massacre By Kelli Kennedy, Mike Schneider, Associated Press The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student activists set their sights on the 4 million U.S. citizens turning 18 this year. Continue reading
Nov 03 Trump stumps in cities that don’t look that much like US By Josh Boak, Associated Press President Trump in his 44-city blitz for midterm elections has visited areas that are whiter, less educated and have lower incomes than the rest of the United States, according to Census Bureau data. Continue reading