Afghan Sikhs show their inked fingers after casting their votes at a polling station in the city of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday. Polls closed Saturday in Afghanistan’s presidential election amid reports of historically low voter turnout due to Taliban threats, chaos among candidates and flawed voting procedures. About 9.6 million Afghans are…
An Australian state appellate court on Wednesday upheld lower-court verdicts against Cardinal George Pell, the highest-ranking Roman Catholic cleric to be found guilty of sexual abuse. In a 2-1 ruling, the Court of Appeal of Victoria state rejected Pell’s request to overturn his December conviction. The 78-year-old prelate, a former archbishop of Sydney who later…
President Donald Trump is targeting a trio of states that he lost in 2016 — a move aimed at widening his path to reelection that comes as he’s struggling in the Rust Belt states that propelled him to the White House. Trump officials are zeroing in on New Mexico, Nevada and New Hampshire, where they…
Attendees in Bucks County, Pa. test-drove new voting machines at an event aimed at helping the county decide which equipment to buy. Security is a major focus in the 2020 presidential race. With five months before primary season begins, election officials around the country are busy buying new voting equipment. Their main focus is security,…
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday proposed eliminating all of the nearly $1.6 trillion in outstanding student loan debt owed by Americans, raising the stakes on an issue that has increasingly animated the progressive base of the Democratic party. Sanders is the latest 2020 presidential contender to propose a one-time cancellation program that would forgive large…
David Coleman, CEO of the College Board, which administers the SAT, announced on Tuesday that the company’s “adversity score” was being abandoned and replaced by a new tool that provides information about a student’s socioeconomic background. Updated at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday ET The College Board is dropping its plan to give SAT-takers a single score…
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg warned on Monday that there "is no way an independent" presidential candidate "can win" and that such a bid would only ensure the reelection of President Donald Trump. Bloomberg’s statement, published on his website, came less than 24 hours after former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced that he is "seriously considering" mounting…
The nation’s biggest swing state looks even more like Trump Country heading into 2020. Newly released Florida voter data suggest President Donald Trump will begin his reelection campaign as the favorite in a state that offers a windfall of 29 electoral votes. The driving force: white voters who broke Republican and showed up in such…
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders — the front-runners in most presidential primary polls — have generated a torrent of news coverage since the beginning of the year. But so has Elizabeth Warren. And Kamala Harris is showing up everywhere. From Jan. 1 to April 30, four candidates — Sanders, Biden, Harris and Warren — accounted…
President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager predicted in an interview with CBS News that the president would win multiple swing states, including at least three he lost in 2016, if the presidential election were held this week. Brad Parscale, Trump’s campaign chief, said the president would win Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina, New…