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Will votes be counted accurately? What the public is saying

For more than 20 years, after each election, the Pew Research Center has asked voters whether they believed their vote and separately, votes across the country, were counted accurately. Around 90% of voters consistently said they were very or somewhat confident of this, and around 80% gave that response about the votes of their fellow Americans. The news media and political actors on both sides of the aisle are trying to scare voters about what could go wrong on Nov. 3, but most people are reasonably confident that voting will go smoothly in most places.

Vance touts new beef facility in Texas while stumping for Paxton

Vice President JD Vance announced that the Agriculture Department is opening a new beef processing facility in Texas, a move that will bring jobs and money to the state as the Republican Party works furiously to help boost the economy.

Trump and Vance offer glimpse of MAGA's future on 2026 campaign trail

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance took the stage hundreds of miles apart Thursday, offering Republican voters two different presentations of the MAGA movement as the party fights to preserve its congressional majorities.

The Right is at a time for fusing

In the weeks leading up to midterm elections that could define American politics for a decade, a heated debate has broken out between various factions of the American Right. Pre-Trump Republicans, who resent the GOP’s shift away from Bushism and Romneyism, have declared war on Make America Great Again conservatives who celebrate the party’s Trumpian turn.

More than a page: How a simple story can shape a childhood

PITTSBURGH — In the late 1980s and early 1990s, my daughter, Shannon, and my son, Glenn, loved a book at the Carnegie Library on the North Side of Pittsburgh called Proud Pumpkin, a 1953 children’s book written and illustrated by artist Nora S. Unwin.

The case for engaging Europe’s pro-West independence movements

In October 1905, American diplomats received Norway’s charge d’affaires ad interim just days after Sweden recognized the dissolution of its union. The U.S. press widely celebrated this orderly separation as a model of Western self-determination, not a threat to regional stability. By swiftly recognizing the new Norwegian state, Washington proved that early engagement with pro-Western independence movements can lock in critical Atlantic alignments before rival powers can shape the outcome.

Butterworth's thumbs its nose at DC's proposed foie gras ban

Welcome to Thursday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Last night, we stopped by Butterworth’s for a taste of the debate about banning foie gras in the nation’s capital. It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it. Plus, who was the White House staffer hit by a golf ball?

Why Abdul el Sayed won’t denounce the Muslim Brotherhood

NBC News’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker kept insisting on Sunday that Abdul el Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, had denounced the Muslim Brotherhood. I was flabbergasted. How could I have missed such major news?

When will AI companies start returning on investment?

Skeptics of the artificial intelligence revolution have recently had the upper hand.

Iran claims four tankers struck mines in Hormuz as strike fears grow after U.S. midterms

Hormuz mine claims, Houthi attacks raise fears of renewed strikes as the U.S. reportedly weighs a fresh military campaign after midterm elections.

A pharma giant is moving past one patent cliff

Disappointing data highlights Novartis' challenge to build its next generation of blockbuster medicines, following a series of clinical trial setbacks.

Triple Mushroom Killer to Spend Life in Prison

Patterson has 28 days to consider whether she will take her appeal fight to the High Court of Australia.