Kari Lake loses last claim in Arizona election challenge

An Arizona judge has dismissed Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's only remaining legal claim in her lawsuit challenging her loss to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs in the 2022 election. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter A. Thompson said Lake did not provide evidence that the signature review process for mail-in ballots in Maricopa County was tainted by misconduct. Lake, a Trump-backed former TV journalist, lost the election to Hobbs by roughly 17,000 votes and sued claiming ballot printers in the county were inaccurate and signatures on mail-in ballots were not...