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Americans are voting every day, either early at a polling place or by mail. When CNN reports the number of early ballots returned or requested, the data is coming from a company called Catalist.

"The level of hate that has been directed against me this year" has been "exceptionally vulgar, violent, and threatening," Lichtman told Newsweek.

Republicans suffered a third blow when an Alabama court ruled on Tuesday that election officials had no right to remove thousands of voters from the register. Judge Anna M. Manasco said that the voters were wrongly marked as "inactive." She also noted that the voters had been referred for criminal investigation.

The presidential nominees are in a final push to convince voters. One Direction's Liam Payne was found dead after falling from a third-floor balcony. The White House plans to sidestep the jumble of legal challenges it’s facing over its student loan forgiveness agenda to tout billions of dollars in new relief on Thursday.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered” and a “despicable human being."

Gold prices hit record highs on Thursday as uncertainty surrounding the U.S. presidential elections and the war in the Middle East prompted investors to seek out the safe-haven asset, while easing monetary policy environment kept prices elevated.

Republicans’ crackdown on the statistically insignificant issue of noncitizen voting risks disenfranchising naturalized U.S. citizens, voting rights advocates say.

Reps. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) have spearheaded a bipartisan commitment, signed by over 30 members of the House of Representatives, to uphold the results of the 2024 presidential contest.