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11/2/2010: Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association argued. The post Today in Supreme Court History: November 2, 2010 appeared first on Reason Magazine.

At more than $52m, the race has become the most expensive in US history, but residents are fed up with flooding Aida Havel mulled her fate over coffee after working the early voting polls all day in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. “We are trapped,” she concluded. The Dare county commission candidate lives about 50 miles (80km) south, on Hatteras Island on the state’s Outer Banks. Continue reading...

Young men’s dissatisfaction with Trump could be a critical factor in close midterm races. A jet crash in Florida kills everyone aboard. And a new study links energy drinks to cardiac arrest.

Spending more than one can afford is business as usual for state officeholders.

The place where voters increasingly get their news has been infected by propaganda cleverly designed to imitate the one type of journalism voters still trust.

The firm that will become Kaz Resources has secured letters of interest for up to $1.6 billion in U.S. funding, drawing scrutiny from Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

In purple Georgia, where independent voters make up nearly 30% of the electorate, Republicans are hoping to pull nonpartisan voters who support Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) into their fold to vote for Republican Rick Jackson in the state’s gubernatorial race. The Peach State has a history of split-ticket voters, with 6.1% of voters splitting their […]

On Oct. 27, I argued in these pages that Russian President Vladimir Putin got a diesel order and President Donald Trump got the calendar. Here is the calendar. On Oct. 8, Trump posted that he would not resume strikes on Iran before Nov. 3, Election Day. On Oct. 9, he announced that Putin had agreed […]

The Pentagon recently designated China’s Confucius Institutes as national security threats. The Department of War’s decision is the right one, but more work remains to combat the Chinese Communist Party’s extensive influence on American soil. The CCP’s operations in the United States are as vast as they are pernicious. In his Oct. 23 remarks announcing […]

Do you know who has access to your health records? From diagnoses and prescriptions to test results and treatment plans, these records tell a deeply personal story — which is why health record privacy protections were a central part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) when it was passed in 1996. Decades […]

All eyes will be on Washington, D.C., and the Lincoln Memorial, where President Trump will give his closing remarks this afternoon.

Democrats sought on Monday, November 2, to contain a rift in Michigan's US Senate race after one of their own crossed party lines to endorse the Republican candidate, as both parties made final pitches before midterm elections that will decide control of Congress. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Philip Turle has more.

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Edward Yardeni, president at Yardeni Research, examines the potential market implications of a blue wave in the US midterm election, saying it “could be a very cold shower for the markets in terms of the gridlock” in government. He speaks on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)

Senate polls show Democrats leading in Texas, Kansas, Ohio, Maine and Alaska, with Trump's approval at just 38% across the seven battlegrounds.

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Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul has failed to outline a detailed agenda for what she wants to accomplish over the next four years, if she is re-elected.