FREELAND, MI – U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson believes Michigan is “ground zero” in the battle for the presidency. “Michigan matters more than most, you know that,” Johnson said. “How Michigan goes, so goes the country.”

In the United States, the president is not elected by the popular vote but in a system known as the electoral college.

Donald Trump will face Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election after Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July.

In the final sprint to Election Day, dollars and eyeballs are flocking to prediction markets that offer ever-changing odds of Trump or Harris winning the race.

Bill Bratton, who has led the Boston, New York City and Los Angeles Police Departments, told the Herald he believes this election is “going to be unlike any we’ve certainly seen in modern times”

While many of the questions seemed more like vituperative venting about the presidential candidates, others were constructive and interesting. They ranged from questions about the Electoral College to specific inquiries about why ballots in some counties look the way they do.

In Michigan, Harris visited Grand Rapids, Lansing and Oakland County for three campaign stops. Trump appeared in Oakland County for a roundtable event, and then ended the evening with a rally in Detroit that included an 18-minute delay due to a microphone malfunction.

Four accounts on crypto-based prediction market Polymarket that placed large bets on former President Donald Trump winning the 2024 election, and have been the subject of much online speculation, are owned by non-Americans or a non-American,

Special counsel Jack Smith on Friday released nearly 2,000 heavily redacted pages of documents in his 2020 election subversion criminal case against former President Donald Trump, revealing snippets of the evidence Smith relied on to charge the former president.

A big group of skateboarders of all ages came before the City Council on Oct. 17, to ask councilors to support the ongoing efforts to renovate the 20+ year-old Westfield skate park in Amelia Park that has fallen into disrepair and vandalism.

BOSTON - Ballot boxes were busy Saturday as Massachusetts residents took full advantage of in-person early voting. From Roxbury to Needham and all communities throughout the state, voters were anxious and excited to cast their ballots.