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       Representative Scott Perry.Credit...Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times

       Republican lawmakers sow doubts about the election As Donald Trump makes widespread claims that the Nov. 5 election will be rigged, a handful of his allies are already questioning this year’s voting. Their efforts could help lay the groundwork to once again undermine the results, should Trump lose.

       Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, who helped Trump try to overturn the 2020 election, is among those leading this effort. He and a group of Republican lawmakers have filed a lawsuit against their state’s government, alleging that its system to verify ballots cast by members of the military and Americans living abroad is insufficient. It’s one of about 100 cases filed by Republican allies related to topics like voter rolls and noncitizen voters. Election officials and other experts say that these claims are meritless.

       More on the U.S. election Election Day is Tuesday.

       Harris assailed Trump after he claimed that he would protect American women “whether the women like it or not.”

       Trump has won white women’s vote in two elections. It may be an uphill fight for Democrats to stop it from happening again.

       More than 3.5 million Americans have moved since the last presidential election. A Times analysis shows how this has made the U.S. more polarized.

       In Orange County, Calif., Vietnamese American voters hold so much sway that Little Saigon has become the center of a key House race.

       Algoma is known in Wisconsin as a sleepy, charming little town. It may also be the most divided place in America.

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       Palestinians fleeing from the northern Gaza Strip this month.Credit...Omar Al-Qattaa/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

       Hamas’s guerrilla tactics make it hard to defeat Hamas’s top commanders are mostly dead, its rank and file has been decimated and many of its hide-outs and stockpiles have been captured and destroyed. The group’s fighters are no match for Israel’s army in open combat, but that’s not how Hamas is fighting.

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