The rapper, representing Georgia, briefly stole the show in Chicago with a surprise performance during a lively yet symbolic vote. Vice President Kamala Harris is already the party’s nominee.
The unelected body that shapes voting rules has a new conservative majority who question the state’s 2020 results. They now have new power to influence the results in 2024.
The 12-foot-tall bronze statue of the civil rights leader was commissioned after Mr. Lewis died in 2020. It stands where a Confederate memorial was erected in 1908.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are in close races across Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina, crucial swing states that Mr. Trump had seemed en route to run away with just a few weeks ago.
The secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, has spent $500,000 fighting a lawsuit by a wealthy Republican. He says she will only settle it if he endorses a debunked conspiracy theory about the 2020 election.
The government has reduced a backlog of applications that built up during the Trump administration. New citizens say they are looking forward to voting in November.
Already the longest in Georgia history, the star rapper’s trial has been turned upside down. Here’s the latest as the case resumes after an eight-week delay.