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NPR toggle caption Former Republican Representative Liz Cheney (right) talks about her new book, "Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning," with NPR's Laila Fadel Friday during her interview for Morning Edition. NPR Former Republican Representative Liz Cheney (right) talks about her new book, "Oath and Honor: A Memoir a...
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The White House issued veto threats Monday for HR 4821 and HR 4820, House Republicans' appropriations bills for the Department of the Interior, Department of Transportation, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and their related agencies. President Joe Biden's Office of Management and Budget argued that the pac...
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The second 2024 Republican primary debate provided political fireworks as candidates not named Donald Trump sought the money and support they need to sustain their campaigns through the fall and winter. Underneath the harsh lights and decommissioned Air Force One in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in ...
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It stands to reason that Democratic members of Congress would not hold Kevin McCarthy in high regard. House Republicans didn’t care for Nancy Pelosi, and House Democrats weren’t fond of Paul Ryan or John Boehner. There’s no great mystery here: House speakers from the majority party tend not to have a lot of support fro...
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Wall Street is bracing for the likelihood of lengthy government shutdown — with one prominent analyst placing the odds at 90% that Republicans and Democrats won’t reach a deal before Saturday’s deadline. Goldman Sachs’ chief economist Jan Hatzius said in a Wednesday note obtained by The Post: “A government shutdown thi...
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Special counsel Jack Smith, in a motion filed this week, asked a federal judge to order Donald Trump to provide formal notice of whether he intends to employ advice of counsel as a defense ahead of trial in his federal election interference case, signaling it's time for the former president "to put up or shut up," acco...
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Wisconsin Republicans once more felled by a common foe: The mail “The message to our voters needs to change,” said a veteran GOP operative. Republicans lost big in Wisconsin. But their downfall came well before Tuesday. Liberal Milwaukee County judge Janet Protasiewicz crushed former conservative state Supreme Court Ju...
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By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved $14.5 billion in military aid Thursday for Israel, a muscular U.S. response to the war with Hamas but also a partisan approach by new Speaker Mike Johnson that poses a direct challenge to Democrats and President Joe Biden...
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The Republican nominees for Speaker of the US House have developed the political lifespan of mayflies. Tom Emmer barely had time to bask in his five-round secret-ballot victory for the speaker's gavel on Tuesday before it all came crashing down. Setting the charges and pushing the plunger was a familiar Republican demo...
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MARION, Kansas -- Even without the computers, cellphones and other office equipment taken in a police raid, the new edition of the Marion County Record made it to newsstands Wednesday after a frenzied scramble by the Kansas weekly newspaper's small staff. “SEIZED … but not silenced,” read the front-page headline in 2-i...
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The 10-day cyberattack that crippled MGM Resorts’ operations is reportedly set to cost the hospitality behemoth more than $100 million, according to a regulatory filing Thursday. Despite the hefty financial losses that resulted from the breach — where MGM’s 12 casino floors along the Las Vegas strip went dark, hotel re...
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Donald Trump’s chances of being convicted in the federal 2020 election subversion case may have increased after his top election lawyer took a plea deal in the 2020 election case in Fulton county and admitted to a felony that the effort to create fake slates of electors was fraudulent. The immediate consequence of Kenn...
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WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump will give his first broadcast network interview since leaving office, sitting down this week with Kristen Welker as she debuts as host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. The network said in a release that the interview will be pre-taped at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, golf c...
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A man was in custody after gunfire burst out at a protest of a controversial statue in Española, New Mexico, on Thursday, according to video of the shooting. The shooting happened after an altercation outside the Rio Arriba County Clerk’s Office, where a statue of Juan de Oñate was supposed to have been rededicated, NB...
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The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote Tuesday on a plan to avert a partial government shutdown on Saturday but at the same time push off contentious debates over spending priorities until early 2024. Current funding for all government agencies expires at midnight on Friday, forcing Congress and the White Hou...
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Former President Donald Trump’s lead is too big, barring “an act of God,” for any of the remaining GOP presidential candidates to have a shot at the Republican Party’s nomination, according to the Washington Examiner’s Sarah Bedford. While appearing on Cavuto: Coast to Coast, Bedford was asked whether an endorsement, s...
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EXCLUSIVE: House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry, R-Pa., is warning that House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., may have to "reassert some authority" in Congress after his plan to avoid a government shutdown got a rocky reception from GOP lawmakers. "You have one opportunity to make a first impression. And while our co...
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Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm. Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press News Desk News Desk Leave your feedback House Democrats are scheduled to hold a press conference after the Hou...
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Good morning.Donald Trump has formally announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, likely sparking another period of tumult in US politics and especially his own political party.“In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the ...
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Last week, as House Republicans struggled mightily to approve spending bills that would prevent a government shutdown, Donald Trump sided with GOP radicals against the party leadership. The radicals noticed: Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida declared online that he and his cohorts must “hold the line” because the former presi...
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A convicted rapist on trial for child pornography charges is believed to have fatally shot six people, five of them teenagers, before taking his own life at the rural Oklahoma property where the kids were having a sleepover last weekend, authorities said Wednesday. All of the victims were shot in the head, said Joe Pre...
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The first Republican presidential debate is fast approaching on August 23rd, where candidates will hope to close the gap on former president Donald Trump and separate from the rest of the pack. In this series, Up For Debate, the Washington Examiner will look at a key issue or policy every day up until debate day, and w...
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Who Chose The New House Speaker: Republicans Or Trump? The House GOP is only an embarrassment if you are under the mistaken impression that it’s there to serve the national interest. Emphatically, it is not. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- The chaos of October has brought the House GOP back to where it began: Some guy is once a...
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FBI, local authorities offer $80,000 reward for arrest of Texas mass shooting suspect The FBI Houston office and local authorities in Texas are offering a combined $80,000 reward for the arrest of a mass shooting suspect who allegedly shot and killed five people in a town north of Houston on Friday. “Like the sheriff h...
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Quick Response codes can be very convenient for traveling to websites, downloading apps, and viewing menus at restaurants, which is why they’ve become a vehicle for bad actors to steal credentials, infect mobile devices, and invade corporate systems. “We are seeing an exponential uptick in targeted attacks against mobi...
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A Republican congressman and member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus admitted last week he "was praying" the GOP would win just a "small" majority in the House of Representatives ahead of the 2022 midterm elections in order to shift the party further to the right, according to video obtained Monday by Fox News ...
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Telling Americans to cut back has not been properly tested since Jimmy Carter’s failed re-election The 405 Freeway during rush hour in Los Angeles, California. The US consumes about a fifth of the world’s oil output © Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images In Germany, lights are being dimmed, showers shortened and swimming ...
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Biden’s next student loan headache: A cash crunch at the Education Department Administration officials prepare for “unprecedented” restart of student loan payments amid customer service rollbacks. A funding shortfall is forcing Education Department officials to cut customer service to student loan borrowers just as the...
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In the aftermath of an underwhelming performance by Republicans in the 2022 election, demands have echoed across the internet for conservative leaders to develop a ballot-harvesting and voter-mobilization infrastructure comparable to the Left’s. Fed up and increasingly cynical, many conservatives, including heavyweight...
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Marianne Williamson keeps bleeding staff. Six more depart in internal feud. The staffers left through a round of firings and resignations. Hours after Marianne Williamson announced the hiring of her third campaign manager in five months, six staffers left her team through a round of firings and resignations. The depart...
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House Republicans are calling for Matt Gaetz to face some form of consequences for kicking Kevin McCarthy out of the speakership and plunging the chamber into chaos. Gaetz is bearing the brunt of his colleagues’ ire, after he introduced a motion to vacate the speaker last week and then led seven other Republicans to br...
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The web Browser you are currently using is unsupported, and some features of this site may not work as intended. Please update to a modern browser such as Chrome, Firefox or Edge to experience all features Michigan.gov has to offer. Report: Michigan’s youth turnout in the 2022 election was best in the nation April 17, ...
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The House of Representatives voted to pause a resolution to impeach the Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas after an effort led by far-right Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. The chamber voted to halt the bid to remove Mr Mayorkas on Monday following claims from Ms Greene that he h...
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A man who prosecutors say ordered the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur was arrested and charged with murder Friday in a long-awaited breakthrough in one of hip-hop's most enduring mysteries. Duane "Keffe D" Davis has long been known to investigators as one of four suspects identified early in the investigation. He i...
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Minutes after opening a Snapchat account pretending to be a 15-year-old girl, I'm amazed at what I see. Drugs seem to be readily available - just a couple of clicks away. I thought this world was hidden and hard to access, but it is so easy to find. I've gone undercover online to investigate how drug gangs use social m...
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NEW YORK -- An intense police search of the Long Island home of Rex Heuermann is now complete, authorities said Tuesday as they ended a 12-day hunt for evidence that involved ripping up the yard and the discovery of a basement vault containing hundreds of weapons kept by the man accused of killing at least three women ...
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House Republicans are looking to force President Biden to approve their border security legislation by tying it to one of 12 government spending bills lawmakers have pledged to pass for the next fiscal year. In a last-minute weekend meeting, the GOP-run House Rules Committee added a provision to the appropriations bill...
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A voting rights group is suing Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R-FL) administration for its “byzantine” voter registration process, which has led to the arrests of dozens of formerly incarcerated people who accidentally voted illegally. The League of Women Voters of Florida filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Florida Secretary of...
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Washington — The House ison a two-step proposal from Speaker Mike Johnson to fund federal agencies into the new year and avert a government shutdown, which poses the first test for the newly elected speaker, who will not be able to get the measure passed without the votes of Democrats. Johnson's measure, which heSaturd...
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Remember Ron DeSantis’s ridiculous war against Disney? It’s been a minute, so here’s a quick refresher: After Disney spoke out against the Florida governor’s bigoted “Don’t Say Gay” law last year, DeSantis lost his mind and dissolved the company’s self-governing status, forcing it to, among other things, pay more taxes...
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Former President Donald Trump rallied voters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, during a "Commit to Caucus" campaign event Saturday, focusing on his agenda and calling out "the worst, most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America." "We don't like corrupt politicians like Joe Biden. Without question, this is...
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EXCLUSIVE: One of the nine House Republicans running for speaker is out with a list of five commitments he is calling on his fellow contenders for the gavel to commit to. Republican Policy Committee Chair Gary Palmer, R-Ala., released the policy outline less than an hour before House GOP lawmakers are retreating behind...
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Why Mitt Romney decided to hang it up — and why he thinks Biden should too The retiring Utahn and leading GOP anti-Trumpist simply “can’t vote for Donald Trump,” he told POLITICO. But that doesn’t mean he supports the current president, either. As Mitt Romney‘s cell phone started ringing incessantly in the minutes foll...
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The US House of Representatives has rejected a move to expel New York congressman George Santos, who was last month indicted on fraud charges. The vote was 179-213, far short of the two-thirds majority needed to oust a House member. Twenty-four of Mr Santos' fellow Republicans voted to expel him, but more than 30 Democ...
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Welcome to Fox News’ Politics newsletter with the latest political news from Washington D.C. and updates from the 2024 campaign trail. What's happening: - The House readies vote on a spending package to fund the government through the holiday season… - Biden admin staffers revolt over president's calls for a ceasefire…...
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Democrats outperformed history and expectations with a surprisingly strong midterm elections performance Tuesday, with the promised red wave nowhere to be found. The best news for the GOP is that they appear to be the favorites to narrowly retake the House of Representatives, though the outcomes of key races have not y...
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner and House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik are accusing former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen of committing perjury and "knowingly" making false statements while testifying before Congress in 2019, Fox News Digital has learned. Turner, R-Ohio, and Stefanik, R-N.Y....
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Cincinnati congressman postpones town hall after 'threats against Jews' A congressman from Greater Cincinnati said he was forced to postpone a town hall planned for Saturday as a result of "security concerns." In a thread on X, formerly Twitter, Democratic Rep. Greg Landsman said Friday he had been warned about potenti...
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Latino economy advocates ‘on high alert’ over potential budget cuts Hispanic economic activity could take a steep dive if key programs are reduced as part of across-the-board federal spending cuts, according to a network of nonprofit organizations dedicated to growing wealth among Hispanics. The National Association fo...
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CNN anchor Abby Phillip asked Ms Ocasio-Cortez: “Jim Jordan looks to be the person who Republicans will put up for a vote. You joined in [with] all Democrats in voting to get rid of Kevin McCarthy. Any regrets if Jim Jordan is the man who replaces him?” “No. It has never been truly within the integrity and history of t...
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Even after the GOP’s abortion rollback cost Republicans dearly in the 2022 elections, the new GOP majority in the House moved forward with policies curtailing abortion access. But after wipeouts in Tuesday night’s elections in Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia—each of which hinged on abortion—Republicans are going to have t...
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Penzone won’t seek 3rd term as Maricopa County Sheriff, will step down in January PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone says he will not seek a 3rd term and will be stepping down as Sheriff in January 2024. “I have decided that I will not pursue a third term,” said Penzone during an emotional news ...
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Weapons, electioneering, conflicts: Reports offer insider view of Election Day challenges As a group of poll workers — two Democrats and one Republican — were leaving a voting center in Sun City on the evening of Nov. 1, 2022, they encountered a voter in the parking lot. The dark-haired man, 5-foot-8 and about 160 poun...
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Police lapel videos captured the moments a couple was detained by Las Vegas SWAT officers during a Tupac Shakur.at a home in July in connection with the cold case killing of rapper The 24 heavily redacted videos obtained Thursday by The Associated Press do not provide a view into the home or identify the couple, whose ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Internal government communications obtained by Fox News Digital show administration officials scrambled to respond to information requests pertaining to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's use of government jets. According to the communications, officials within the Federal Aviation Administration's (F...
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Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is forging ahead with his bid to become House speaker and suggested he intends to hold votes this weekend if he does not win on Friday. Jordan's office announced a Friday morning press conference late on Thursday night. House lawmakers are expected to hold a third round speaker vo...
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Scalise Drops Out Of U.S. House Speaker Race, Adding More Chaos The struggle prolonged the House’s inability to address an approaching fiscal deadline and respond to the Middle East war. (Bloomberg) -- Representative Steve Scalise abandoned his short-lived campaign Thursday to become US House speaker following days of ...
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What President Joe Biden is selling as a win for student loan borrowers in the debt ceiling deal is actually a forfeiture of his own authority to help debtors and a ticking time bomb for tens of millions of Americans. Biden could still move to save his student debt cancellation agenda from conservative sabotage — but i...
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Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) criticized a handful of House Republicans who are blocking efforts to avert a government shutdown at the end of the week. “The American people elected a House Republican majority to serve as a check and balance and be able to govern,” Lawler said Tuesday in an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Coll...
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Police said they are searching for an 18-year-old male suspect in the apparently random fatal stabbing of a New York City social justice advocate. Ryan Carson, 31, died after being stabbed in the chest multiple times during an assault early Monday morning in Brooklyn, police said. The suspect in his murder works at a s...
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Last Tuesday, Fidelity National Financial, or FNF, a real estate services company that bills itself as the “leading provider of title insurance and escrow services, and North America’s largest title insurance company,” announced that it had experienced a cyberattack. Since then, homeowners who have mortgages and prospe...
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FBI, Federal Judge Agree Fighting Botnets Means Allowing The FBI To Remotely Install Software On People’s Computers from the all's-fair-in-love-and-cyber-war dept The ends aren’t always supposed to justify the means. And a federal agency that already raised the hackles of defense lawyers around the nation during a CSAM...
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Charlie Neibergall/AP toggle caption Republican presidential candidate former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Northside Conservatives Club Meeting, on August 30 in Iowa. Charlie Neibergall/AP Republican presidential candidate former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Northside Conservatives Club Meeting, o...
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma's governor is seeking the resignation of four county officials after a newspaper's audio recording apparently captured some of them complaining about two of the paper's journalists and knowing hit men and where two holes are dug. A portion of the recording was released by the paper, and it als...
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In the face of what seems like endless gun carnage in the U.S., Republican politicians call for more mental health funding even while withholding it. Not only are there now more guns than people in this country, many Republicans and the right-wing media continue to profit by leading people, especially younger men, to d...
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California recently passed a new law creating an Ebony Alert, a notification system that will keep the public informed about missing Black children and young people in an effort to address the disparity in missing persons cases. The Ebony Alert system — which will be used for Black people aged 12 to 25 — takes effect i...
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Senate Republican says GOP is ‘making progress’ with Democrats on border security Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said Sunday that the GOP is “making progress” with Democrats over a bill on border security. “We are making progress on this,” Lankford told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week.” “This is exceptionally ...
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Attorneys for former president Donald Trump have asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to overturn a district court order barring him from attacking or disparaging witnesses and other figures connected to the election subversion and conspiracy case pending against him in Washington. In cour...
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House Republicans are once again left scrambling for a leader after Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., stepped back from being speaker-designate on Thursday night. Scalise won a closed-door secret ballot vote to be the House GOP’s new candidate for speaker on Wednesday afternoon. However, it quickly became clear tha...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia journalist lost her job last month after she reported about alleged abuse of people with disabilities within the state agency that runs West Virginia's foster care and psychiatric facilities.Amelia Ferrell Knisely, a reporter at West Virginia Public Broadcasting, said she was to...
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Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm. Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press Stephen Groves, Associated Press Stephen Groves, Associated Press Leave your feedback WASHINGTON (AP) — With a gov...
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Donald Trump was arrested in Georgia tonight for his role in what prosecutors christened “a wide-ranging criminal enterprise” aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 election. Trump and 18 others—his former lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, and ex-chief of staff, Mark Meadows, among them—have been formally accused of 41 s...
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Cold case Detective Clark Schwartzkopf was working a double murder case from the early 1990s and had arranged to meet a person of interest at a Chili's restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona. The idea was to get the possible suspect's DNA so forensic investigators could determine if it matched male DNA found on the bodies of t...
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Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm. Associated Press Associated Press Leave your feedback PHOENIX (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed the only remaining legal claim in Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her loss ...
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A California grandmother accused of running a global fentanyl ring while working for a police union hoodwinked her family for years with a Walter White-worthy performance, stunned relatives and coworkers told The Post. Joanne Marian Segovia, 64, kept family and colleagues in the dark by leading a “Breaking Bad”-style d...
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Judge rules Trump can stay on Michigan ballot, rejects insurrection clause challenge A Michigan judge ruled former President Trump can remain on the state’s 2024 presidential primary ballot, rejecting an attempt to remove him with a Civil War-era constitutional clause. Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Redford rejec...
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AutoZone alerted authorities on Tuesday that it had been a victim of the Clop ransomware gang's MOVEit attacks earlier this year. According to a breach notification filed with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, the data leak from the auto parts retailer impacted 184,995 people. The hackers acquired personal info...
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The Arizona Democratic Party is set to file a lawsuit against the state’s top election official in an effort to block his decision granting a third-party group access to the 2024 ballot. State Democratic leaders are planning to file the lawsuit against Secretary of State Adrian Fontes on Thursday as a way to reverse hi...
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- Jenny Town is a leading expert on North Korea at the Stimson Institute and the director of Stimson's 38 North Program. - About six years ago, North Koreans hacked into her computer and stole certain personal information, Town revealed at Mandiant's mWISE conference on Monday. - They then used that information to crea...
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Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has testified in the trial of ex-Fugees rapper Pras Michel, who is accused of accepting money from a fugitive tycoon to influence US politicians. Mr Michel, 50, allegedly received more than $100m (£80m) from Malaysian billionaire Jho Low. He denies a slew of charges, including conspira...
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Ramaswamy, like the other candidates on the stage, had been asked to make the case for why he should be selected to be the 2024 GOP nominee, but he instead turned his ire on the debate's own moderators and McDaniel. "I think there's something deeper going on in the Republican Party here, and I am upset about what happe...
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Aerospace giant Boeing has confirmed that it is dealing with a “cyber incident,” days after the company was listed on the leak site of the LockBit ransomware gang. In a statement given to TechCrunch, Boeing spokesperson Jim Prolux confirmed that attackers had targeted “elements of our parts and safety business.” The sp...
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Less than a week before the Republican National Committee's first primary debate, which is being broadcast on Fox News, former President Donald Trump wrote two social media posts criticizing the network. In two separate posts to Truth Social, Trump hit Fox News for not showing "polls where I am beating Biden," using un...
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On Sunday night, Donald Trump threw down the gauntlet at the feet of Rupert Murdoch and his sons, Joe Biden and the "WSJ heads." He posted this cri de guerre on his social media platform, Truth Social: In a phony and probably rigged Wall Street Journal poll, coming out of nowhere to soften the mental incompetence blow ...
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Donald Trump has amped up his attacks on Ron DeSantis -- making some of his harshest public comments yet directed at Florida's governor and potential GOP campaign rival. "You have to remember Ron was a disciple of Paul Ryan, who is a RINO (Republican In Name Only) loser," Trump said to a crowd in Davenport, Iowa on Mon...
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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jim Jordan has such a reputation as a political brawler that former House Speaker John Boehner once said he'd never met someone "who spent more time tearing things apart.” Now, nearly a decade after Boehner stepped down in the face a conservative revolt, it is Jordan who is trying to bring the Republ...
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World's Biggest Bank ICBC Still Faces Trader Wariness After Cyberattack Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. has been unable to convince some traders of safety after a recent ransomware attack. (Bloomberg) -- Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., the world’s largest lender by assets, has been unable to conv...
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The former editor of a left-leaning political news site reportedly has been charged with possessing and distributing child pornography, according to authorities in Massachusetts. Slade Sohmer, 44, who until last month was editor-in-chief of the video-driven news site The Recount, was released on $100,000 bail on Monday...
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Donald Trump's move to delay the closing arguments in his civil fraud trial may backfire as it shortens his legal team's preparation time for the former president's next trial. In September, Judge Arthur Engoron issued a partial summary judgment in the civil fraud trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia Jame...
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CHICAGO -- A Chicago father has been convicted of attempting to kill three people to avenge the slaying of his 9-year-old son who was lured from a playground into an alley with the promise of a juice box by rival gang members in 2015 and shot. A jury deliberated several hours Wednesday before finding Pierre Stokes, 33,...
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Mother, son charged with kidnapping after police say they took a teenager to Oregon for an abortion An Idaho woman and son have been charged with kidnapping after prosecutors say they took the son’s minor girlfriend out of state to get an abortion An Idaho woman and her son have been charged with kidnapping after prose...
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Police, including a former professional baseball player, Friday in Nevada in connection to a Lake Tahoe-area attack that left a man dead and his wife in critical condition. After a two-year investigation, Danny Serafini, 49, and Samantha Scott, 33, were arrested separately, hundreds of miles apart in Las Vegas and nort...
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Republican senators railed against Democrats and the Biden administration's handling of the migrant crisis during an impassioned press conference Wednesday afternoon. Amid Congress' funding negotiations to keep the government open past the September 30 deadline, Senators Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Marsh...
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PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — A prison escapee from Tennessee who was on the run for more than a month is now back in custody, after authorities caught up with him in Florida Tuesday night. Authorities say his fate was sealed by a desire to buy a hot dog at a gas station there. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) say...
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WASHINGTON — Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats abandoned their plan to vote Thursday on a subpoena for Dallas real estate magnate Harlan Crow as they seek more information about his gifts to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The abrupt about-face came after Republicans launched a barrage of amendments with reta...
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"I want to talk about Gov. Newsom," Biden said Wednesday during a reception for APEC leaders. "I want to thank him. He's been one hell of a governor, man. As a matter of fact, he can be anything he wants. He can have the job I'm looking for." While Newsom has been a vocal backer of Biden's 2024 re-election, he's also b...
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WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers in several Democratic-controlled states are advocating sweeping voter protections this year, reacting to what they view as a broad undermining of voting rights by the Supreme Court and Republican-led states as well as a failed effort in Congress to bolster access to the polls. Legislators in Con...
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It has been years, maybe, since you thought about the pee tape, and I regret to report that you are about to think about it again, even though you probably don’t want to. Donald Trump, somehow still alive and screaming, brought up the pee tape’s contents unprompted at an exclusive retreat for high-rolling GOP donors th...
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Christian Ziegler, chair of the Republican Party of Florida, is involved in a sexual battery investigation, his attorney confirmed to WFLA on Thursday. The Oct. 4 incident report provided by the Sarasota Police Department was almost completely redacted, including Ziegler’s name, and the nature of h...
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