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A GOP governor is drawing a hard line against a key demand made by President Donald Trump ahead of midterms, per a report.

According to reporting by NBC News, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott said during a panel on Friday that he will defend mail-in ballots despite Trump's efforts to limit them. Scott defended states' rights and rejected the idea of letting the federal government overhaul mail-in voting when asked about Trump's demand for Republicans to "nationalize" elections.

"I would hope that all, if not the majority, of Democrats would agree that this is ours, not the federal government's," Scott said. "We were here before the federal government was, the states were, and so we formed the government. Now they're getting bloated, and we need to protect our rights."...

The Vermont Democratic Party is one of many political fundraising committees that have fallen victim to theft during the past couple of years.

But it’s the only one where the thief deposited the stolen funds into a sports betting account.

A Raw Story analysis of Federal Election Commission records showed the Vermont Democratic Party experienced a fraudulent charge of $925 on its political committee debit card — and the money went into an account on the sports and fantasy gambling site FanDuel....

The man facing felony charges in the crash that killed actor Treat Williams in early June is speaking out for the first time about the incident. Ryan Koss, a 35-year-old actor who serves as the managing creative director of the Dorset Theatre Festival in Vermont, said he was “devastated” by the death of the “Everwood” star, adding the two had known each other for a long time. “I have known Treat for years, both as a member of this tight-knit community and fellow theater-maker. I considered him a friend,” Koss said in the statement obtained late Friday by The Manchester Journal. “I know his fam......

WASHINGTON – Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is a lot of things, but she’s not a “normal” congresswoman on Capitol Hill.

Normalized by House Republican leaders this session, sure.

But not the norm. ...

Mere minutes before being mowed down by a dozing driver as she stood on a Queens sidewalk, college student Ava Conklin spent her final moments snapping a light-hearted selfie and sending it to her beloved family. Conklin had just wrapped up her shift as a hostess at the upscale Rockaway Hotel and was waiting at a bus stop to go picnicking with her kid sister in Central Park when she sent the selfie at 2:14 p.m. ET Saturday. “How does your whole life change in four minutes?” her heartbroken stepmother, Jennifer Duffy, asked Sunday. At 2:17 p.m. ET, the 29-year-old driver of 2021 Hyundai Venueva......

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders isn’t all that angry with capitalism.

He’s fully embracing it these days, actually, which may be increasingly evident to those who paid up to $273.56 to see him discuss his new book, “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism,” here in the nation’s capital Wednesday night.

An avowed democratic socialist, Sanders has simultaneously berated “1 percenters” — America’s wealthiest people — while Ticketmaster charges fans at least $95.00 a ticket to see the octogenarian and two-time presidential candidate promote his book for Crown Publishing, an imprint of America’s largest publishing house, Penguin Random House. ...