CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Growing suspicion about the security of voting systems has kindled a back-to-the future moment among conservatives in some parts of the U.S.Republican lawmakers in at least six states have introduced legislation that would require all election ballots to be counted by hand instead of electronic tabulators. Similar proposals have been floated…Continue Reading

WASHINGTON (AP) — Engaging in lawyerly small talk, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley was telling Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson this past week how he met his wife while clerking at the high court.Jackson already knew the story, he discovered. She even “filled in some of the details for me.”“So I thought — she’s very…Continue Reading

CHONBURI, Thailand (AP) — Nanna Koerstz Madsen birdied her last two holes to take a one-shot lead after three rounds of the LPGA Thailand on Saturday.The 55th-ranked Dane’s error-free 6-under 66 gave her a 54-hole total of 21-under 195 in humid conditions after lightning and rain disrupted play for 90 minutes in the afternoon at…Continue Reading

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian officials criticized NATO on Saturday for what they said was its slow reaction to a military drone that apparently flew all the way from the Ukrainian war zone over several NATO member states, before crashing in an urban zone of the Croatian capital.The Russian-made unmanned aircraft crossed Romania and Hungary…Continue Reading

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey and Armenia have agreed to press ahead with efforts to establish diplomatic relations “without conditions” and continue the normalization efforts that could lead to the reopening of their shared borders for trade, their foreign ministers said Saturday.Ararat Mirzoyan met with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, on the sidelines of a…Continue Reading

LIMON, Colo. — Herbert Alexander stares at the sound waves jumping on the computer screen in front of him, his shaved head partially covered by headphones. He’s editing a short audio feature on incarcerated fathers, a subject with which he is intimately familiar. His two sons will soon hear his voice and his story because Alexander,…Continue Reading

A full two years into the coronavirus pandemic, long-haul Covid patients remain sick and in desperate search of answers. They’ve lost jobs. They’ve lost their sense of self. Many say they have lost faith in the medical community.Despite multiple studies, the launch of dozens of specialized long Covid clinics and $1.15 billion in federal funding…Continue Reading