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Trump Administration Again Asks Supreme Court to Allow Mail Voting Restrictions

Par : Abbie VanSickle
The filing puts the legality of the president’s push to impose limits on mail voting squarely before the justices even as states begin sending out ballots.

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Lawyers for the Trump administration urged the justices to clear the way for new U.S. Postal Service rules to go into effect before the midterm elections.
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Trump Administration Again Asks Supreme Court to Allow Mail Voting Restrictions

Par : Abbie VanSickle
The filing puts the legality of the president’s push to impose limits on mail voting squarely before the justices even as states begin sending out ballots.

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Supreme Court in Washington last week.
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As Midterms Approach, Republicans Find There Is No Escape From Trump

Par : Annie Karni · Reid J. Epstein and Luke Broadwater
The president’s strategy, message and spending have left the G.O.P. in a difficult spot as lawmakers try to outrun his sagging approval ratings.

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President Donald Trump walks on stage for a rally supporting Darline Graham’s Senate candidacy last month.
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Trump’s War on Mail-In Ballots Has Voters Baffled. That May Be the Point.

Par : Anna Griffin · Rebecca Fairley Raney · Kendal Asbury and David Iversen
From Oregon to Florida, officials are at once reassuring voters that their ballots are safe and encouraging them to use drop boxes or vote in person.

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Mail-in votes being processed by officials at the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Office in Largo, Fla., last month.
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For Fired DeSantis Campaign Staff Member, a Second Chance at State Dept.

Par : Andrea Fuller · Ken Bensinger and Edward Wong
The hiring of Nate Hochman, who lost his job amid an uproar over a video containing a Nazi symbol, underscores the administration’s willingness to overlook past transgressions.

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Nate Hochman is a deputy director in the State Department’s policy planning office, according to documentation reviewed by The New York Times.
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The Battle to Save General Donahue From Hegseth’s Army Purge

Par : Adam Entous and Greg Jaffe
Gen. Christopher T. Donahue’s vision for fighting future wars won him powerful supporters around the world. Could they save his career?

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Gen. Christopher T. Donahue greeted service members before the 2023 renaming of Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The general had extensive combat experience and strong support in the Army.
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In Germany, Ulrich Siegmund Is Bringing the AfD to the Cusp of Power

Par : Christopher F. Schuetze
Ulrich Siegmund, 35, once sold air fresheners. Now his far-right party is the favorite to win a state election in eastern Germany on Sunday.

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Ulrich Siegmund, center, is the lead candidate for the far-right party Alternative for Germany in a state election in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday. The party is projected to finish first.
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Trump’s Super PAC Will Spend $10 Million on Texas Senate Race

Par : Theodore Schleifer
A financial filing announcing the TV and digital ad buy is the first general election spending by MAGA Inc. The group intends to boost the Republican nominee, Ken Paxton.

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Ken Paxton at a campaign rally in McAllen, Texas, in July.
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Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones

Par : Coral Davenport
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.

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About 80 percent of the 870,000 families that currently get child care subsidies from the Health and Human Services Department have single working parents, most of them mothers, according to department data.
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Is Work Starting for Trump’s Arch? It Depends Who’s Asking.

Par : Emily Badger
The Justice Department told a court the government would only conduct archaeological excavation, a day after a Trump official announced the project was in motion.

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A view along Memorial Bridge toward Arlington National Cemetery, which is expected to be blocked by President Trump’s planned arch.
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Ossoff and Talarico to Share Fund-Raising Event in Hollywood

Par : Theodore Schleifer
The event with the Georgia and Texas Democrats will be hosted by Shonda Rhimes.

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Missouri Asks Supreme Court to Allow Voting Map Benefiting Republicans

Par : Mitch Smith and Ann E. Marimow
Missouri’s Supreme Court said a map redrawn to help Republicans could not be used in November and said voters should decide on the new boundaries.

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The emergency request came after the Missouri Supreme Court said that the map used in last month’s primary election was invalid, and that voters should have had a chance to weigh in on new district lines.
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The Fall of James Orr, the Man Called Farage’s Brain

Par : Stephen Castle and Michael D. Shear
James Orr, who has ties to Peter Thiel and JD Vance, was suspended from Reform U.K. after he was filmed apparently arranging contributions from a man posing as a foreign donor.

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James Orr was the head of policy for Reform U.K. until his suspension on Friday.
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What the War in Iran Has Cost One Gold Star Family

Par : Katie Rogers
First Lt. Tyler James Feehan, who was 25, had been deployed to an air base in Jordan when enemy missiles and drones lit up the sky. He is among the 18 Americans who have died since the war began.

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Stephen and Shari Feehan have stayed in close touch with their son’s fiancée, Claire Fletcher, whom he was supposed to marry right after returning from his deployment to Jordan.
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In Red States, Law-and-Order Republicans Turn Against Flock Cameras

Par : Jesus Jiménez and David Ovalle
The governors of Texas and Florida have taken steps to curtail the use of license-plate readers, even as the police say they help with solving crime.

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Vehicles driving past a Flock license-plate reading camera in Farmers Branch, Texas, north of Dallas.
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Appeals Court Maintains Block on Federal Voter Identification Tool

Par : Zach Montague
A federal appeals court panel declined to let Homeland Security reopen access to a voter-screening tool that incorporated Social Security data.

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Voting machines in West Columbia, S.C., last month. The Trump administration has launched a legal effort to put in place new restrictions on voting before the midterm elections in November.
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German Far-Right Surges, in Threat to Postwar Taboo on Extremists in Power

Par : Jim Tankersley · Tatiana Firsova and Christopher F. Schuetze
Sunday’s vote in the state of Saxony-Anhalt could produce the strongest showing in the history of the Alternative for Germany party, and potentially a far-right government in the statehouse.

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Ulrich Siegmund, the Alternative for Germany party’s main candidate in Saxony-Anhalt. Surveys suggest the far-right party could be the first to win a German state election since World War II.
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Former Kentucky Governor Is Arrested Amid Child Support Battle

Par : Ishani Desai
Matthew Bevin, the former Republican governor, was held in contempt for failing to abide by court orders to file financial disclosure documents, a lawyer said.

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Matt Bevin, a former Kentucky governor, was arrested amid a legal dispute over child support.
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In Major Leak Hunt, Pentagon Gives Polygraph Tests to Joint Staff Members

Par : Jonathan Swan · Adam Entous · Maggie Haberman and Eric Schmitt
About 50 people were tested, an unparalleled inquiry that comes in the wake of news reports about the war with Iran and the U.S. military’s diminished stocks of munitions.

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U.S. government investigators are subjecting up to 50 members of the military’s Joint Staff to polygraph tests, according to officials briefed on the move.
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Postal Service Internal Watchdog Opens Inquiry After Whistle-Blower’s Complaint

Par : Eileen Sullivan
The Trump administration’s effort to screen mail-in ballots for the midterms is facing numerous challenges.

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Workers in City of Industry, Calif., outside Los Angeles, sort through ballots cast during a statewide special election last November.
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Trump’s Latest Clemency Grants Benefit Drug Offenders, Union Boss

Par : Kenneth P. Vogel
The president issued pardons or commutations to 30 people on Thursday, continuing his unorthodox and unpredictable use of clemency power.

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President Trump issued a clemency grant on Thursday to Emory Clash Jones, an executive who served a decade in prison for selling crack.
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Judge Once Again Blocks Trump Administration’s Plans to Restrict Mail-In Ballots

Par : Zach Montague
The ruling arrived before the Supreme Court could decide whether to intervene but appeared certain to set off yet another round of appeals.

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Sorting mail-in ballots in Largo, Fla., last month.
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Trump Says He Will Spend Some of His War Chest on Republicans

Par : Luke Broadwater
President Trump said he intends to hold some money back, even as Republican candidates ask for financial support.

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Senator Darline Graham with supporters in Myrtle Beach, S.C. President Trump has spent campaign money only to help Ms. Graham, a Republican of South Carolina who was appointed to her brother’s seat after his death.
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The Tetris Company Denounces Trump White House Clone of Tetris

Par : Chris Cameron
Responding to Build the Wall, an apparent copy of the retro video game, the Tetris Company said “we take copyright infringement very seriously.”
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What to Know About Trump’s Efforts to Block Mail-in Ballots

Par : Reid J. Epstein
We sort through the proposed changes and court challenges, less than two months from Election Day.

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President Trump
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Judge Orders Trump Officials to Divulge Names of Those Who Set Up $1.8 Billion Fund

Par : Alan Feuer
The plan to create a fund that could have funneled taxpayer money to the president’s allies drew repeated scrutiny, including a rare rebuke from Senate Republicans.

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President Trump supports compensating people like the rioters who were prosecuted for attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Prosecutors Won’t Try to Reinstate Key 9/11 Confession Taken After Torture

Par : Carol Rosenberg
The military’s lawyers said they feared an appeal could delay the trial of the man accused of masterminding the attacks, which is scheduled to start in mid-2028.

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The U.S. government had spent years defending the statements to F.B.I. agents at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2007 as untainted by the brutal treatment and isolation of Mr. Mohammed in secret overseas C.I.A. prisons, including 183 rounds of waterboarding.
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Supreme Court Sides With Republicans in TV Ad Fight

Par : Abbie VanSickle
Republican groups had asked the court to clear the way for political parties to pay the same low-cost ad rates as candidates, a move that could undercut a Democratic advantage in the midterms.

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National Republican groups had filed an emergency application to the Supreme Court asking the justices to step in and clear the way for them to get the lower TV ad rates.
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Homeland Security Dept. Asks for Inquiries Into Voting Machines

Par : Alan Feuer · Nick Corasaniti and Alexandra Berzon
Critics of ballot-marking devices have claimed that hackers could manipulate digital codes on ballots. Election experts say the systems are safe to use.

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Voters used electronic ballots at a polling location in Kansas in August.
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RFK Jr. Hires Army Doctor Who Opposed Covid Shots to Investigate if They Killed 2,500 Troops

Par : Apoorva Mandavilli and Jan Hoffman
In a legal deposition, the doctor, Theresa Long, compared immunizing service members against Covid to Nazi doctors experimenting on concentration camp prisoners.

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More than 96 percent of service members were vaccinated against Covid before a mandate that they receive them was rescinded.
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Pentagon Agreement With N.I.H. on Biodefense Draws Alarm From Democrats

Par : Catie Edmondson and Carolyn Y. Johnson
Under a new partnership, the Defense Department would play a larger role in biodefense and pandemic preparedness. Democrats warned it could allow a Pentagon cash grab.

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The agreement, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, is focused on chemical and biological defense research.
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Gloria Steinem Stayed Positive, Even as the Manosphere Took Hold

Par : Julie Bosman and Ruth Graham
The feminist icon thought many women would carry on her legacy. But at an unsteady time for feminism, how will the movement carry on?

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Gloria Steinem hosting a discussion at her home last year, focused on women’s health.
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Trump Plans to Use Qatari Jet for Another Overseas Flight Despite Security Concerns

Par : Maggie Haberman
The president intends to travel to Ireland on the plane, the first time he will have used it overseas since questions were raised about its defensive capabilities.

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President Trump deplaning from Air Force One in Las Vegas last month. He said weeks ago that the Boeing luxury jet donated by Qatar would be “maxed out” for security.
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A More Confident Iran Emerges After Six Months of War With the U.S.

Par : Julian E. Barnes and Dustin Volz
New intelligence reports have assessed that Iran now has a far better understanding of its capabilities and the limits of U.S. power.

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A crowd mourning Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the start of the war. U.S. intelligence reports, some current and former officials said, suggest that any agreement to fully end the war will be hard to reach.
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Philippines’ Vice President Faces Arrest Over Assassination Threats

Par : Aie Balagtas See
A court issued a warrant for Sara Duterte, who is accused of having threatened President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and two of his relatives.

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Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte at her office in Metro Manila last year, speaking about the impeachment motions filed against her.
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Nigel Farage to Speak at Reform UK Conference Amid Scrutiny Over Party Finances

Par : Michael D. Shear
Advisers to the Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage were captured on film apparently arranging contributions from a man posing as a foreign donor.

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The Reform party leader, Nigel Farage, right, with an aide, Dan Jukes, in 2024. British law requires all donations to be disclosed and prohibits political contributions from foreign sources.
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Germany’s Far Right, Edging Close to Power, Remains Close to Extremists

Par : Christopher F. Schuetze and Jim Tankersley
The Alternative for Germany party has tried to soften its hard-line image but is still privately working with extremists. It could win a state election on Sunday.

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Ulrich Siegmund, a leader of the Alternative for Germany party in Saxony-Anhalt, speaking in Magdeburg, Germany, on Saturday.
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Argentina Is Ramping Up Its Claim to the Falklands. Here’s What to Know.

Par : Qasim Nauman
President Javier Milei has dialed up Argentina’s claim over the British territory, while President Trump has raised questions about longstanding U.S. neutrality on the dispute.

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Argentine visitors looking at ammunition cases from the 1982 war scattered on the slopes of Mount Tumbledown in the Falkland Islands in March.
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Judge Ends Federal Oversight of Teamsters

Par : Rebecca Davis O’Brien
The union and federal prosecutors agreed that organized crime groups had been rooted out of union operations, the judge wrote.

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Sean M. O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union.
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Trump Taps Army Engineering Official as Acting Secretary

Par : Chris Cameron
The move came days after the resignation of Daniel P. Driscoll, who had clashed with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the purge of top generals in the Army.

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Adam R. Telle, the assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, will take over as the acting Army secretary.
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Trump to Break Ground on Arch Before Getting Approval

Par : Luke Broadwater and Emily Badger
Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, announced plans to start work on the site of the 250-foot-tall triumphal arch. Final approval of the project is still pending.

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President Trump has said that the 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery must be taller than the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
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Missouri Supreme Court Delivers Win for Democrats in Redistricting Case

Par : Mitch Smith
The court said a map redrawn to benefit Republicans could not be used in November and said voters should decide on the new boundaries. The state attorney general vowed to appeal the decision.

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The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City.
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Proposal for White House Visitor Screening Center Advances

Par : Aishvarya Kavi
A federal panel again paved the way for one of President Trump’s construction projects, even as it heard opposition to another proposal to fence in a park north of the White House.

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The entrance to the proposed screening center would be in Sherman Park, southeast of the White House.
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JD Vance Says He Wouldn’t Call Iran Conflict a War

Par : Maggie Haberman
In the first White House press briefing since Karoline Leavitt left as press secretary, the vice president suggested that when the conflict would end was up to Tehran.

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Vice President JD Vance took questions from reporters in the White House press briefing room on Thursday, the first briefing held by any administration official there in several weeks.
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A judge suggests that Trump mail-in voting rules could cause ‘major disenfranchisement.’

Par : Zach Montague
Judge Indira Talwani said the Postal Service appeared to be trying a haphazard “experiment” with a new rule that could result in valid ballots being tossed.

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An official picking up a mail-in ballot drop box at the Lackawanna County Government Center in Scranton, Pa., in 2024.
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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Mail Voting Limits

Par : Abbie VanSickle
The justices have been asked to weigh in again on the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict mail voting — this time on whether the plans violate the Constitution.

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Administration lawyers asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for a new rule that prohibits the Postal Service from delivering ballots to voters in states that do not share voter data with the federal agency.
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Judge Suggests Trump Mail-In Voting Rules Could Cause ‘Major Disenfranchisement’

Par : Zach Montague
Judge Indira Talwani said the Postal Service appeared to be trying a haphazard “experiment” with a new rule that could result in valid ballots being tossed.

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An official picking up a mail-in ballot drop box at the Lackawanna County Government Center in Scranton, Pa., in 2024.
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Hillary Clinton, Meghan Markle, Lena Dunham and Others Pay Tribute to Gloria Steinem

Par : Johnny Diaz
After Ms. Steinem’s death at 92, celebrities and politicians reflected on her decades of activism for women’s rights and equality.

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Gloria Steinem “pushed open doors not just for herself, but for literally millions of women behind her,” Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and presidential candidate, said in a tribute on Thursday.
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