Attempts by conservatives to purge state voter rolls ahead of the November election, including from Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, are ramping up, prompting concern from the Justice Department that those efforts might violate federal rules governing how states can manage their lists of registered voters.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three bills to combat deepfake election content and remove deceptive material from social media, but two are facing court challenges.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pledged Thursday that the US Postal Service will undertake “heroic efforts” to deliver all mail-in ballots on time this year and urged people to put their ballots in the mail at least one week before Election Day on November 5.

According to a Pew Research poll released on September 9, 65 percent of Jewish voters said they back Harris this election, while 34 percent support Trump. In 2020, a report from Pew found that 70 percent of Jewish Americans voted for President Joe Biden, while 27 percent voted for Trump.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday that Jewish-American voters would be partly to blame if he loses the Nov. 5 election to Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate.

Kamala Harris is getting the star power behind her presidential campaign. Superstar Billie Eilish endorsed Harris days after Taylor Swift did. Donald Trump responded to the endorsement posting on social media “I hate Taylor Swift.

Since the 2020 election, the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force has arrested and prosecuted about a dozen people for threatening election workers. In contrast, experts say actual voter fraud, or instances of people voting improperly, are vanishingly rare.

Oklahoma voters will decide who holds 32 seats in the Oklahoma House of Representatives in November. Sixty-nine races already are finished, either because only one person filed for the seat or as a result of the primary and runoff elections held earlier this year. Republicans will continue to hold a majority in the House.

Two warring factions within the city’s Republican political machine hit a fever pitch. In the run-up to a heated primary election in September 1917, the “Bloody Fifth Ward” was described as a smoldering political volcano, back when now-posh Society Hill was a rough and violent political battleground.