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How racial issues will define the 2020 presidential election

By Averi Harper and Briana Stewart, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- As the nation reckons with its complicated racial history, issues that impact communities of color are taking center stage in the platforms of each major political party.With less than ...
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Senate report details Russia’s efforts to meddle in 2016, ties to Trump associates

By Alexander Mallin,Matthew Mosk, and Allison Pecorin, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- A new bipartisan report released by a Senate panel Tuesday outlines perhaps the most detailed accounting to date of Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election while accusing the ...
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In reversal, Postmaster General DeJoy suspends mail-handling changes until after election

By LUCIEN BRUGGEMAN, ABC News (WASHINGTON) -- In a major reversal, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced Tuesday he will suspend several cost-cutting initiatives in an effort "to avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail."DeJoy, a longtime Republican financier, ...
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For her keynote address, Jill Biden will be speaking from the classroom where she taught

By MOLLY NAGLE, ABC News(WILMINGTON, Del.) -- When Jill Biden addresses the nation during the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, the former second lady will be speaking from a sentimental spot in Delaware: Brandywine High School, where she taught English ...
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Postmaster general agrees to testify before Senate, House lawmakers amid mail-in voting firestorm

By KATHERINE FAULDERS and LIBBY CATHEY, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Tuesday agreed to testify on Friday before Senate lawmakers, setting up President Donald Trump's controversial pick for two blockbuster hearings within a few days amid a ...
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How to vote via absentee ballot in 2020 election on Nov. 3

By HALEY YAMADA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The 2020 presidential election on Tuesday, Nov. 3 is poised to be unlike any other with the country in the midst of a global pandemic. Due to COVID-19, states have been reviewing their ...
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Former Trump DHS official backing Biden warns Trump more will speak out

By KATHERINE FAULDERS, ABC News(WASHINGOTN) -- Miles Taylor, a former senior Trump administration official, publicly warned President Donald Trump on Tuesday he's just the "opening salvo" of former administration officials coming forward to tell unflattering stories witnessed first-hand from inside ...
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Trump announces he’ll posthumously pardon Susan B. Anthony, convicted of voting illegally as a woman in 1872

By LIBBY CATHEY, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he is issuing a posthumous presidential pardon for Susan B. Anthony, a leader of the women's suffrage movement who was found guilty of voting illegally -- as a ...
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Trump’s ‘rigged’ election claim is ‘an attack on America’: Pete Buttigieg

By QUINN SCANLAN, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said President Donald Trump's false claim that the only way he will lose the 2020 election is if it's rigged is "an attack on America" and "bad ...
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Democratic activists’ hopeful down-ballot blitz in Florida pays off up-ballot

By WILL MCDUFFIE, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Scarred by narrow defeats at the ballot box in recent years, Democrats in Florida are planning a different approach this fall: Compete everywhere, no matter the odds.With primaries being held Tuesday in ...
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In about-face, Carson backtracks on his push against neighborhood zoning

By ANNE FLAHERTY, ABC News (WASHINGTON) -- In Minneapolis, Housing Secretary Ben Carson last year cheered on the city council when it moved to eliminate single-family zoning -- the kind of government red-tape Carson said made housing too expensive and exacerbated the homelessness ...
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Former DHS official blasts Trump, endorses Biden

By KATHERINE FAULDERS and LUKE BARR, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Calling President Donald Trump "unfocused and undisciplined," a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security has endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden's bid for the presidency."Given ...
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