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An election worker sorts vote-by-mail ballots at the Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections Office for the Florida primary election in Doral, Fla., Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Early voting, key election deadlines weeks away in Florida, Georgia - What voters need to know now

Read full article: Early voting, key election deadlines weeks away in Florida, Georgia - What voters need to know now

Florida and Georgia residents who want to cast a ballot in the midterm general election, with both states having high-profile races for governor and U.S. Senate, have a few more weeks to get registered to vote, with early voting starting soon thereafter.

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Vote 2026: Election results in state & local races for the Aug. 18, 2026 Florida Primary

Read full article: Vote 2026: Election results in state & local races for the Aug. 18, 2026 Florida Primary

The polls are now closed across much of Florida for the state’s 2026 primary election. Republicans and Democrats across the state cast ballots to pick their party’s nominees for governor, U.S. Senate, and other state cabinet offices, as well as in U.S. House, Florida House, and local races.

People welcome a group of university students at the end of their cycling tour of the Balkan country ahead of an early election next month challenging populist President Aleksandar Vucic, in Kragujevac, Serbia, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Thousands welcome cycling students in Kragujevac ahead of Serbia’s Oct. 25 election

Read full article: Thousands welcome cycling students in Kragujevac ahead of Serbia’s Oct. 25 election

Thousands of people clapped and cheered in a central Serbian town.

FILE - Michael Davis, of Bellwood, Ala., picks up a sign supporting Doug Jones for governor after a town hall hosted by Troy University College Democrats and the Pike County Democrats, Aug. 18, 2026, in Troy, Ala. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt, File)

Southern Democrats see hope for first time in years, seek to build on discontent of midterm voters

Read full article: Southern Democrats see hope for first time in years, seek to build on discontent of midterm voters

Democrats see hope for political gains in the Deep South this year despite disappointments in previous elections.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., talks about the policies of President Donald Trump and Republican supporters in Congress as he holds a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump administration. Impeachment is an option

Read full article: House Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump administration. Impeachment is an option

House Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda if the party sweeps control in the November elections.

FILE - People opposed to new the U.S. House districts passed by the Missouri General Assembly demonstrate outside the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo., on March 10, 2026. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb, File)

Supreme Court rejects a Trump-backed Missouri congressional map for the third time

Read full article: Supreme Court rejects a Trump-backed Missouri congressional map for the third time

The Supreme Court has turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by President Donald Trump.

FILE - Bruce Blakeman, executive of Nassau County and Republican gubernatorial candidate for New York, speaks before President Donald Trump, Aug. 14, 2026, in Garden City, N.Y. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
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AI ads are popular in the 2026 midterms, but state laws haven’t stopped a lack of disclosure

Read full article: AI ads are popular in the 2026 midterms, but state laws haven’t stopped a lack of disclosure

Campaign advertisements that use AI to attack rival candidates are not uncommon in the 2026 midterms, some more obviously fake than others.

President Donald Trump greets supporters as he arrives on the stage at the Republican convention Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Trump said he would campaign in midterm battlegrounds. He's starting in deep red states instead

Read full article: Trump said he would campaign in midterm battlegrounds. He's starting in deep red states instead

President Donald Trump has vowed to campaign in 35 of the most competitive battleground races in the final sprint to November’s midterm elections.

People gather in Pristina, Kosovo, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, to protest against the verdicts for former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three other former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi, handed by a Netherlands-based court that tried them for alleged war crimes during the 1998-1999 war for independence from Serbia. (AP Photo/Zana Cimili)
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Protests against war crimes verdicts add pressure on Kosovo's government

Read full article: Protests against war crimes verdicts add pressure on Kosovo's government

Daily protests in Kosovo against war crimes convictions for former rebel commanders have spread throughout the small Balkan country.

FILE - New Jersey Democratic Lt. Governor elect Dale Caldwell speaks during an election night party in East Brunswick, N.J., Nov. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

New Jersey’s lieutenant governor resigns after sexual harassment and ethics complaints

Read full article: New Jersey’s lieutenant governor resigns after sexual harassment and ethics complaints

New Jersey’s Democratic lieutenant governor has resigned after being pushed out by the governor over accusations of ethics lapses and inappropriate behavior with women.

Ella Pamfilova, head of Russia's Central Election Commission, center, reports the official results of Russia's parliamentary elections at the commission's meeting in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Final results of Russia's tightly managed vote give a record high parliament seats to Kremlin party

Read full article: Final results of Russia's tightly managed vote give a record high parliament seats to Kremlin party

Final results of Russia's first wartime parliamentary election show that the Kremlin has further cemented its political control of the country.

FILE - Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco arrives at the Supreme Court of California for a hearing about his seizure and recount of more than half a million 2025 election ballots on Aug. 24, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
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California Supreme Court orders Riverside County sheriff to return 650,000 seized ballots

Read full article: California Supreme Court orders Riverside County sheriff to return 650,000 seized ballots

The California Supreme Court has ruled that a Republican California sheriff must return over 650,000 ballots he seized following a November 2025 special election that favored Democrats.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a device as he speaks speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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An isolated Netanyahu was defiant at UN as he seeks reelection at home

Read full article: An isolated Netanyahu was defiant at UN as he seeks reelection at home

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump has cooled as they disagree on how to handle the conflict with Iran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a Starlink satellite internet dish a he speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Israel's Netanyahu, at UN, calls accusations of genocide in Gaza 'the biggest lie of the century'

Read full article: Israel's Netanyahu, at UN, calls accusations of genocide in Gaza 'the biggest lie of the century'

Allegations of Israeli genocide in Gaza are not only false but “the biggest lie of the century" — so says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, Moroccan minister, politician and mayor of Marrakech, takes part in an electoral rally for Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) ahead of the upcoming legislative elections, in Tangier, Morocco, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
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Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party leads in provisional election results

Read full article: Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party leads in provisional election results

Provisional election results in Morocco show that the Authenticity and Modernity Party has won the largest number of seats in the country’s parliamentary election.

FILE - An official voting center sign stands outside of a polling location on May 26, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Gabriela Passos, File)
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State error in Texas creates huge backlog in voter registration applications as midterm voting nears

Read full article: State error in Texas creates huge backlog in voter registration applications as midterm voting nears

County election offices throughout Texas are scrambling to process a massive backlog of voter registration applications stemming from an error at the state level.

FILE - Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, arrives at the Capitol in Washington on June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Maine Dems hammer Collins over report of pay-to-play probe. GOP senator calls it 'completely false'

Read full article: Maine Dems hammer Collins over report of pay-to-play probe. GOP senator calls it 'completely false'

Maine Democrats are calling for Republican Sen. Susan Collins to account for a report that alleged she was the target of a federal investigation over campaign contributions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin leads a cabinet meeting via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Russia's parliamentary election result underscores public support for Kremlin policies, Putin says

Read full article: Russia's parliamentary election result underscores public support for Kremlin policies, Putin says

President Vladimir Putin says Russia’s first wartime parliamentary election, which further strengthened the Kremlin’s already-overwhelming legislative control, was a sign of public support for his policies.

Former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who is running for U.S. Senate, holds hands with a woman following a campaign event at St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church in Goldsboro, N.C., on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
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Republicans say Democrats are extremists. These Democrats want to convince voters that's not true

Read full article: Republicans say Democrats are extremists. These Democrats want to convince voters that's not true

Democrats are trying to win back Congress by criticizing their own party to appeal to voters in more conservative areas.

Voters cast their ballots on the first day of early voting in Minnesota at the Elections & Voter Services building, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)
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Administration's focus on noncitizen voting has led to 160 arrests. Experts say that shows it's rare

Read full article: Administration's focus on noncitizen voting has led to 160 arrests. Experts say that shows it's rare

A Homeland Security official says the Trump administration’s whole-of-government effort to find and prosecute noncitizens illegally on state voter rolls has resulted in about 1,600 voter fraud cases.

FILE - Delivery vans are parked during a protest staged as part of a countrywide National Day of Action Tuesday, July 28, 2026, outside the main United States Postal Service headquarters in northeast Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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US Justice Department charges Utah postal worker with dumping mail ballots in trash during primary

Read full article: US Justice Department charges Utah postal worker with dumping mail ballots in trash during primary

The Justice Department says a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier in Utah threw out more than 300 mail ballots that were being sent to voters for the state’s June primary.

Senatorial candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, left, and former Vice-President Kamala Harris participate in a roundtable discussion about reproductive health at Birth Detroit, in Detroit, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (David Guralnick/Detroit News via AP, Pool)
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Kamala Harris says midterms could be 'stopgap' on Trump and urges Dem unity for El-Sayed in Michigan

Read full article: Kamala Harris says midterms could be 'stopgap' on Trump and urges Dem unity for El-Sayed in Michigan

Former Vice President Kamala Harris says the midterm elections offer a potential “stopgap” halfway through Donald Trump’s turbulent second presidency.

In this photo taken with a smartphone, people opposed to a congressional redistricting plan rally outside the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo., Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)

Appeals court favors Trump-backed Missouri congressional map, but Supreme Court will have final say

Read full article: Appeals court favors Trump-backed Missouri congressional map, but Supreme Court will have final say

A federal appeals panel has ruled in favor of new Missouri congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump.