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Alabama governor signs bill to ban curbside voting

May. 26, 2021 06:24 PM EDT
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed legislation to ban curbside voting in the state. Ivey's office announced...

FILE - In this May 18, 2021 file photo, President Joe Biden stops to talk to the media as he drives a Ford F-150 Lightning truck at Ford Dearborn Development Center in Dearborn, Mich. On Friday, May 21, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming Biden was caught fake driving a Ford F-150 Lightning truck during a visit to a Ford safety testing center Tuesday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press May. 21, 2021 02:10 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Wisconsin

By The Associated Press May. 05, 2021 12:46 AM EDT
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram. May 2, 2021. Editorial: Officials should show their work Everyone remembers those math...

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press Apr. 12, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Houston Chronicle. April 5, 2021. Editorial: A tawdry attack on voting rights, Senate Bill 7 should be rejected by the House ...

FILE - In this Thursday, March 25, 2021 file photo, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, appears before Boulder District Court Judge Thomas Mulvahill at the Boulder County Justice Center in Boulder, Colo. On Friday, March 26, 2021, The Associated Press reported on a manipulated image circulating online incorrectly asserting that CNN displayed a banner during coverage of the mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, stating the gunman was “factually Arab, but morally white.” The manipulated screenshot of a CNN broadcast was shared thousands of times on Facebook this week, fooling social media users who did not realize it was initially shared as satire. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via AP, Pool)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press Mar. 26, 2021 02:46 PM EDT

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2020, file photo, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson speaks in Detroit. Michigan's 250 audits around the state of the 2020 general election found that it was was secure and accurate, Secretary of State Benson said during a news conference Tuesday, March 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
Michigan official: Audits show state had a secure election

By Anna Liz Nichols Mar. 02, 2021 02:14 PM EST

FILE - In this May 28, 2019 file photo Arizona Republican Sen. Paul Boyer, at the podium, is seen with Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey during a news conference in Phoenix. For months, four elected Republicans and one Democrat on the board overseeing Arizona's most populous county have been facing threats and harassment for backing election results that saw Democrat Joe Biden win the state. That fury from some backers of President Donald Trump moved on this week to Boyer a Republican state senator, who had to change his phone number, move his wife and young son and get police protection after he voted against a measure to subject the supervisors to arrest for refusing to hand election materials over to the Senate. (AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper, File)
Months after Biden win, Arizona officials still face threats

By Bob Christie Feb. 12, 2021 06:16 PM EST

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, file photo, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar speaks during a news conference about counting votes from Tuesday's election, in Harrisburg, Pa. After navigating the sea of challenges in 2020, Boockvar is leaving her job in Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's cabinet under a cloud that has nothing to do with last year's election. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
Pivotal election figure leaving job under an unrelated cloud

By Mark Scolforo Feb. 02, 2021 03:47 PM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2018, file photo, Republican Congresswoman Claudia Tenney signals she successfully cast her ballot after voting at St. George's Church in New Hartford, N.Y. Tenney appeared on the verge of recapturing her old seat in Congress as election officials wrapped up counting ballots Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, in the nation's last undecided U.S. House race. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth, File)
Republican Tenney leads in last undecided US House race

By Marina Villeneuve Feb. 01, 2021 02:40 PM EST

Here is the latest news from The Associated Press at 11:40 a.m. EST

Jan. 25, 2021 11:52 AM EST
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has lifted regional stay-at-home orders statewide in response to improving coronavirus conditions. Public health officials...

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2021 file photo, Michael Lindell, CEO of My Pillow, Inc., waits to go into the West Wing of the White House in Washington. Lindell, is weighing a run for governor in Minnesota. If he follows through on a campaign, it could be an early test of where the Republican Party is headed in the post-Donald Trump era. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert File)
MyPillow Guy among the Trump acolytes picking up the torch

By Steve Karnowski Jan. 23, 2021 09:28 AM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2021, file photo, a healthcare worker receives a second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot in Southfield, Mich. On Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting that COVID-19 vaccines that rely on messenger RNA technology will teach the body to attack itself, leading to autoimmune disease. The mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 contain a genetic code that trains the immune system to recognize the spike protein on the surface of the virus to generate an immune response and fight it. A lack of understanding around how mRNA vaccines work has led to a flurry of misinformation around the vaccines. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press Jan. 08, 2021 04:42 PM EST

New Hampshire. State Representatives stand for the Pledge of Allegiance during an outdoor meeting of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in a parking lot, due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, at the University of New Hampshire Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Durham, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
American idle: New Hampshire House holds drive-in session

By Holly Ramer Jan. 06, 2021 10:43 AM EST

Georgia Democratic senate candidate Raphael Warnock talks to reporters following a campaign rally in Augusta, Ga., Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Democrats Jon Ossoff and Warnock are challenging incumbent Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in a runoff election on Jan. 5. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP)
The Latest: Ossoff-Perdue Senate race is too early to call

By The Associated Press Jan. 05, 2021 07:04 AM EST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020 file photo, debris remains on the sidewalks in front of buildings damaged in a Christmas Day explosion in Nashville, Tenn. On Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting the explosion was caused by a missile or some kind of directed energy weapon. Surveillance video from a Metro Nashville Police Department camera at the intersection of 2nd Avenue North and Commerce Street captured the explosion and offers proof that the blast came from a parked recreational vehicle. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press Dec. 31, 2020 03:31 PM EST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020 file photo, a registered nurse prepares a syringe with the first round of the Pfizer COVID vaccination in Ridgeland, Miss., as state medical leaders received inoculations. On Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting a 42-year-old nurse in Alabama died after she received the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday. After being contacted by the AP, Alabama Department of Public Health officials checked with the hospitals that administered the COVID-19 vaccine to confirm that claims about the death of a nurse were false. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By Beatrice Dupuy, Arijeta Lajka And Ali Swenson Dec. 18, 2020 01:45 PM EST

FILE - In this May 15, 2019, file photo, Senior Associate Justice Paul Newby presides at a special session of the Supreme Court of North Carolina at New Bern City Hall in New Bern, N.C. Republican Paul Newby’s narrow lead over Democratic incumbent Cheri Beasley changed little overall as a statewide machine recount of North Carolina’s very close race for Supreme Court chief justice was finally completed, late Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. (Gray Whitley/Sun Journal via AP, File)
Beasley concedes defeat in N. Carolina chief justice race

By Gary D. Robertson Dec. 12, 2020 12:47 PM EST

FILE - In this Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020 file photo, 90-year-old Margaret Keenan, the first patient in the U.K. to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, receives an injection by nurse May Parsons at University Hospital, Coventry, England. On Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting the first two recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine in Britain are “crisis actors.” Parsons first administered the vaccine to Keenan, then to “Bill” William Shakespeare. (Jacob King/Pool via AP)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press Dec. 11, 2020 02:04 PM EST

FILE - In this May 21, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump is greeted by Kurt Heise, left, Supervisor of Plymouth Township, Mich., and Speaker Lee Chatfield, of the Michigan House of Representatives after stepping off Air Force One as he arrives at Detroit Metro Airport in Detroit. President Donald Trump summoned Michigan's Republican legislative leaders Chatfield and Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, to the White House for a meeting Friday, Nov. 20, amid a GOP push to overturn the certification of Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the battleground state. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Trump, allies make frantic steps to overturn Biden victory

By Colleen Long, Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin And David Eggert Nov. 19, 2020 04:01 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Nov. 18, 2020 04:32 PM EST
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Nov. 17 The Minneapolis Star...