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Election Day live updates: Trump wins 2024 election after taking Wisconsin

NPR updates from across the U.S. as Americans head to the polls for the last day to cast their vote in the 2024 election.
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Alaska voters head to the polls with bad weather delaying voting in 2 remote communities

A windstorm kept the polling location in St. George closed until 2 p.m. The polling place in Wales was expected to open at 4 p.m.
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How has the Electoral College survived, despite being perennially unpopular?

Despite its name, the Electoral College isn’t so much a body as a process. For decades, a majority of Americans have wanted it changed.
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Feds to monitor compliance with voting rights laws in rural Alaska

Monitoring will focus on the Bethel, Dillingham and Kusilvak Census Areas, as well as the North Slope and Northwest Arctic Boroughs.
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Alaskans line up like never before to vote early in the November election

More than 100,000 Alaskans had already voted by early Monday. That includes early in-person voters, who have exceeded the record the state set four years ago.
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Why Alaska’s U.S. House race is one of the most expensive in the nation

Candidates Mary Peltola and Nick Begich have raised more than $13 million, yet other groups have raised far more to influence the outcome.
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Here’s where Trump and Harris stand on 5 issues affecting workers

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have both appealed to workers. But their stances on many labor issues remain far apart.
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Lingít veterans hold space for dual identities during U.S. Navy apology in Angoon

When the Navy made its long-awaited apology inside Angoon High School, a clan leader drew attention to the veterans in the room.
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John Wayne Howe on why he’s running to represent Alaska in Congress

Howe, with the Alaskan Independence Party, is one of four candidates running for Alaska's sole U.S. House seat.
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During Bethel visit, Peltola discusses how to keep Alaskans in Alaska

U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola is focusing the final days of her reelection campaign on how to slow outmigration from Alaska.
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In Alaska’s U.S. House election, the leading campaigns are thinking about third options

John Wayne Howe and Eric Hafner are receiving attention as third options to leading candidates Mary Peltola and Nick Begich.
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Supreme Court allows Virginia to purge individuals from voter rolls

The 6-3 vote put on hold a lower court order that stopped Virginia from purging its voter rolls, less than a week before Election Day.
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Ballot Measure 2: Alaskans decide whether to become the first state to ditch ranked choice voting

Voters adopted the new way to elect candidates in 2020. Supporters say it discourages hyperpolarized politics. Critics say it’s confusing.
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Alaska Native advocates call Biden apology for boarding schools ‘just the beginning’

Native leaders say it's a good first step, but want the apology to be followed by more meaningful action.
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The Jan. 6 riot included Marines. The military is wrestling with the consequences.

A Marine and his buddies joined the mob that entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. They were not the only Marines there.
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Rep. Mary Peltola talks regional fisheries, Arctic security during Unalaska visit

Peltola stopped by Unalaska to hear more about the community’s unique concerns during her reelection bid.
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Several key steps toward drilling in Alaska’s Arctic refuge are due before year’s end

A legal ruling on a 2021 lease sale is expected as soon as Friday from a federal judge in Alaska.
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South Korea warns it may send Ukraine weapons after North Korea sent troops to Russia

South Korea's president says it may provide offensive weapons to Ukraine after North Korean troops deployed to Russia.
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After sex scandal leads to judge’s resignation, Alaska prosecutors ask to vacate a conviction

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Anchorage has identified at least 44 cases in which Joshua Kindred's actions are in question.
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Jailed reporters, silenced networks: What Trump says he’d do to the media if elected

Trump says he'll jail reporters who won't give up the sources of leaks and strip networks of broadcast licenses for fact-checking him.