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The US Postal Service is asking voters to return their mail-in ballots early as they brace for the upcoming election.

“We engage in heroic efforts intended to beat the clock,” Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said earlier this week, the Associated Press reports.

“These efforts are designed to be used only when the risk of deviating from our standard processes is necessary to compensate for the ballot being mailed so close to a state’s deadline,” he added. “This is commonly misunderstood in the media and even by election officials.”

This comes after the National Association of Secretaries of State and the National Association of State Election Directors told DeJoy the USPS had not fixed persistent problems that could disenfranchise some voters.

“It’s extremely troubling that the USPS dismissed our concerns about disenfranchising voters by failing to postmark and timely deliver ballots, rather than working with us to find solutions,” Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab said.

Former New York Police Department Chief Bill Bratton dismissed Donald Trump’s mass deportation pledge, wishing the former president “good luck” executing the plan.

“Former President Trump is talking about deporting 10 million to 15 million people. Good luck with that one,” Bratton said on the Catsimatidis Roundtable Show on Sunday. “I spent enough time in Latin America consulting and understand the desperation [of the] that people are fleeing [from] those countries.”

“But the idea of getting rid of 10 million or 15 million people, I don’t think Mr. Trump is doing himself a favor or the Republican Party by raising that,” he added.

Donald Trump likely would not run for president again in 2028 if he loses the election this November.

During an interview that aired Sunday on TV news broadcaster Sinclair’s Full Measure, the former president was asked if he could see himself running in 2028.

“No, I don’t,” Trump said.

If Trump wins this election, the 22nd Amendment would bar him from running again in 2028, but a loss now would leave another campaign on the table for the future.

When Mirlesna Azor-Sterlin heard former president Donald Trump repeat the lie that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating pets during his debate with Kamala Harris, she was reminded of her job as an educator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“We teach our students to — when they’re writing papers in class — to really have the facts right, the evidence,” she told The Independent on a Thursday evening in a suburban neighborhood in Durham, North Carolina. She was surprised that Trump and Vance failed to do the same.

The story was repeatedly debunked until Trump’s running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, admitted himself that the story was made up.

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Janet Jackson has issued an apology after claiming that Kamala Harris is not Black, echoing an outrageous, false claim made by Harris’s White House rival, Donald Trump.

The singer, 58, whose brother Tito passed away aged 70 last week, made the surprising comments about the Vice President when asked how she felt about the US having its first female Black president.

In a new statement to Buzzfeed, Jackson’s manager Mo Elmasri said: “She deeply respects Vice President Kamala Harris and her accomplishments as a Black and Indian woman.”

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Former president Barack Obama has raised $4 million for Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, The Washington Post reports.

Obama hosted a solo fundraiser for the vice president in Los Angeles on Friday. He told supporters that Harris “can make us proud on the world stage about what America stands for, as opposed to embarrassing us.”

“We’re still going to have free markets and we’re still going to have our liberties, and Americans are still going to be doing the weird things that we do,” Obama said at the event. “But we can make sure that it’s a little bit gentler, a little bit kinder, a little bit more generous, a little bit less unequal, a little bit more inclusive.”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opened up and gave a rare insight into her marriage with former president Bill Clinton while promoting her recent memoir, Something Lost, Something Gained.

CNN host Fareed Zakaria, in an interview airing Sunday, asked Hillary about the “dark periods” in her relationship with Bill, wondering, “Do they stay with you?”

“Nobody really knows what happens in a marriage except the two people in it,” Hillary responded. “Every marriage I’m aware of has its ups and downs, not public hopefully for everyone else. And you have to make the decisions that are right for you.”

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Donald Trump has revealed that he worries about the safety of his family after two assassination attempts against him in a matter of weeks.

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