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New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate race was decided by little more than 1,000 votes in November, while the spread between the top two presidential candidates was fewer than 3,000 votes.While 458 potentially fraudulent votes aren’t enough to have changed the outcome of either race, the questionable votes prompted an investigation by the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office and legislation to reform the state’s same-day voter registration.“It’s not enough to change the result of the national level races, but it could impact state or local races that are often decided by just one vote,” New Hampshire Deputy Secretary of State David Scanlan...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A U.S. Navy plane with three officers on board was reported missing during exercises off the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, a Navy spokesman said Wednesday. The Navy searched all day for the S-3B Viking which lost radio contact at about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, said Cmdr. Ernest Duplessis, a spokesman for the U.S. Second Fleet in Norfolk, Va. "It's not clear where it went missing," Duplessis said. The 53-foot plane, used for in-flight refueling and sea surveillance, took off from the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico. Duplessis...