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Politics

Justice Department brings charges in Iranian murder plan Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week’s election with planning the assassination of the Republican ...

Trump’s election likely to usher in leadership change at FBI

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump lavished Christopher Wray with praise when he named him FBI director in 2017, introducing him as an “impeccably qualified individual” and a “model of integrity.” So much has changed in the seven years since. With Trump poised to reclaim the White ...

How Trump went from diminished ex-president to a victor once again

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — As he bid farewell to Washington in January 2021, deeply unpopular and diminished, Donald Trump was already hinting at a comeback. “Goodbye. We love you. We will be back in some form,” Trump told supporters at Joint Base Andrews, where he’d arranged a 21-gun ...

The US election was largely trouble-free

WASHINGTON — A relatively trouble-free presidential election was good news for those working to restore faith in the system. Less encouraging was a flood of misinformation that sought to undermine trust in voting and sow chaos, something experts say is likely to get worse in the years ...

How did locals vote?

The greater Tri-Lakes area proved to be a purple political region again on Tuesday’s election. In a region that leans Republican, the Essex County towns of North Elba, St. Armand, Wilmington, Keene and Jay skewed more Democratic, to varying degrees. A town-by-town breakdown of the votes ...

The early vote, by the numbers

SARANAC LAKE — Over 11,000 votes had already been cast between Franklin and Essex counties — through early and mail voting — before the polls opened on Tuesday, according to the two counties’ boards of elections. Essex County reported 4,019 votes had been cast early in-person and ...