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At a West Palm Beach rally Wednesday, Trump criticized the Israeli government for the intelligence failure surrounding Hamas's Saturday attack. The former president said Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shia Islamist party the United States recognizes as a terrorist organization, was "very smart." "Terrorists have murdered at lea...
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- Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey is expected to face his fellow Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill after more than half of them have called for his resignation. - Menendez faces bribery charges of abusing his office to enrich himself, including by pocketing gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash. - Senat...
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A New Mexico teenage mother was sentenced Monday to a mandatory 18 years in prison for tossing her newborn son into a trash bin behind a shopping center, but a state district judge cited mental health concerns and the defendant’s age in suspending two years of the punishment. Jurors convicted Alexis Avila, 19, of child...
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Just hours after the Supreme Court struck down the president's student loan forgiveness plan, the White House came back on Friday with several avenues to support borrowers. The Biden administration is seeking to provide debt relief under the Higher Education Act of 1965 and has initiated that regulatory process. Additi...
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Key events1h agoDemocrats edge towards Senate majority as counting continuesShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureIf Republicans win a majority in the House, Kevin McCarthy could be the man to lead it for the next two years. The Guardian’s Edward Helmore reports on McCarthy’s conversation wit...
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Ralph Yarl, the teenager who was shot after mistakenly going to the wrong house to pick up his siblings, opened up about the harrowing experience for the first time in an exclusive interview with GMA co-anchor Robin Roberts that is set to air on Tuesday morning. Yarl told Roberts that his mother asked him to pick up hi...
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- Attorneys for Donald Trump and special counsel Jack Smith are set to argue over the former president's gag order in his criminal election interference case. - Trump has appealed the gag order imposed by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, barring him from making public statements targeting prosecutors and witnesses in...
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“Trump begged me to come to Bedminster this week, I said only if I could record a substack with him, but the GIGANTIC P—Y is too afraid of me, so instead he did this,” Coulter wrote in a post on X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter. Bedminster is Trump’s New Jersey estate where the former president spends ...
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U.S. could be seeing ‘last gasp’ of MAGA Republicans, Biden says Or, the president said, it could be “the first big gasp.” President Joe Biden is predicting that the 2024 presidential election could make or break the MAGA movement. “I think that this is the last gasp or maybe the first big gasp of the MAGA Republicans....
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FIRST ON FOX: The Republican chairman of the House Committee on Small Business is accusing the Small Business Administration (SBA) of failing to protect coronavirus loan programs from fraud after a government report found that the agency disbursed over $200 billion in possibly fraudulent COVID-19 loans, nearly double t...
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A Colorado funeral home where 189 decaying bodies were discovered this month appears to have fabricated cremation records and may have given families fake ashes, according to information gathered by The Associated Press from customers and crematories. The families that did business with Return to Nature Funeral Home fe...
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WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Republican former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, an outspoken critic of ex-President Donald Trump who co-chaired the congressional probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, said she is weighing a third-party bid for the White House in 2024. In media interviews, Cheney said she was...
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They are fresh-faced, suited and booted, the National Mall behind them and the world at their feet. Congressmen Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan smile out from the cover of Young Guns, their co-authored 2010 book about the next generation of conservatives. “This isn’t your grandfather’s Republican party,” said...
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa — As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis completed a presidential campaign milestone Saturday afternoon byin Iowa, former President Donald Trump largely ignored his GOP opponent by taking aim at another rival, President Biden, as the two candidates held dueling rallies in the state. In an event in Cedar Rapids...
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A Denver District Court judge is expected to decide this week whether former President Donald Trump is eligible for Colorado's 2024 primary ballot. Closing arguments in a lawsuit filed by six Colorado voters wrapped up Wednesday. Sean Grimsley, an attorney for the petitioners, argues that Trump engaged in an insurrecti...
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Mortgage and loan giant Mr. Cooper says a “cybersecurity incident” earlier this week was the cause of an ongoing outage, adding that the company is “working to resolve the issue.” The Texas-based company said in a statement on its website that on October 31, Mr. Cooper “became the target of a cyber security incident an...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s X account was compromised on Wednesday in one of the more high-profile security lapses during Elon Musk’s ownership of the company. The account made several unusual posts, including one that falsely claimed former President Donald Trump had “passed away” and that Trump Jr. would take his place in the...
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Editor’s Note: This story was adapted from the January 3 edition of CNN’s Meanwhile in America, the email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe. CNN  —  2022 was the year democracy bounced back. But will the worst political system apart from all the others keep up its lead...
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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. Kate Brumback, Associated Press Kate Brumback, Associated Press Leave your feedback ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyer Sidney Powell pleaded guilty to reduced charges Thursday over efforts ...
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Double your support for intelligent, in-depth, trustworthy journalism. Gary Fields, Associated Press Gary Fields, Associated Press Leave your feedback WASHINGTON (AP) — Campaigning in Iowa this year, Donald Trump said he was prevented during his presidency from using the military to quell violence in primarily Democrat...
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The FBI seized electronic devices from Mayor Eric Adams earlier this week, according to his campaign, as scrutiny of Adams’ fundraising intensifies while a federal public corruption probe into donations to his campaign is underway. FBI agents approached Adams on Monday night after an event and requested his electronic ...
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More than 40 million federal student loan borrowers could be eligible for up to $20,000 in debt forgiveness, but they will likely have to wait several more months before the Supreme Court rules on whether President Joe Biden can implement his proposed relief program. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in ...
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Fetterman Trolls Menendez With George Santos ‘Encouragement’ Video: ‘Hey, Bobby … Stay Strong’ The recently-expelled Santos told Bob Menendez, facing charges of acting as a foreign agent, to 'stand your ground' Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., appears to be one of George Santos' first customers on Cameo, where the recently-...
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Biden student loan repayment changes could cost around $475B: economic model President Biden’s changes to the income-driven repayment (IDR) plans could cost around $475 billion over a 10-year budget window, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model. The administration introduced the Saving on Valuable Education (SAVE)...
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The House speakership drama enters a new week under increased urgency as Israel declared war Sunday following unprecedented surprise attacks by Hamas. Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster as speaker leaves the House in uncharted legal territory regarding what it can do under acting Speaker Patrick McHenry. When Congress la...
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Global ransomware attacks are at an all-time high after steadily increasing over the last few years. The worst part is that the U.S. is the top target in the world for all ransomware attacks, accounting for over 43% of the last 1,900 reported attacks in the last year, according to a report from Malwarebytes. So why exa...
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Votebeat is a non-profit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the US. Sign up for our free newsletters here. In North Carolina, Local Labs wanted obscure voter records that would take weeks, or even months, to prepare. In Georgia, the company requested a copy of every envelope...
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Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images toggle caption Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California who was first elected in 1992, died Thursday at the age of 90. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California who was first elected in 1992, died Thursday at the age of 90. Saul Loeb/A...
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A Florida woman claims the state’s GOP leader—a former county commissioner elected on a “family values” platform—raped her early last month, according to a heavily redacted investigation report filed by Sarasota police. The unidentified accuser told cops she and Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler, alon...
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A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. There is a long list of one-time allies and aides who have either turned against former President Donald Trump or whom he has turned against. No person in US politics – certainly no recent president – has ...
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Two hours in and Kari Lake's trial is already over (or it should be) Opinion: Kari Lake's "whistleblower" just annihilated her last gasp challenge of the 2022 election. Kari Lake on Wednesday opened her (second) trial challenging the 2022 election ... with a complete and total fizzle. Her attorney, Kurt Olsen, told the...
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Americans face $200 billion in medical debt. Will lawmakers step in? U.S. lawmakers propose bills to tackle the $200 billion medical debt crisis, with measures including debt relief programs, lower interest rates, and greater transparency on costs of care. Medical debt is a leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U...
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WASHINGTON -- A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Biden administration overstepped its authority in trying to cancel or reduce student loans for millions of Americans. The 6-3 decision, with conservative justices in the majority, effectively killed the $400 billion plan, announced by President Joe Bid...
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Is America on the brink of tyranny? Trump's plan if elected in 2024 should frighten us all. A bureaucracy purged of those loyal to the Constitution rather than to Donald Trump will send free and fair elections to history's landfill, along with the Bill of Rights The New York Times published an article Monday that's bon...
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At some point in the near future, Donald Trump is going to have to pick a 2024 running mate and would-be VP, and while we now know that this specific job includes responsibilities like “being okay with the boss calling you a pussy,” “rolling with the punches when the boss’s supporters threaten to hang you,” and “unders...
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s verbal and written attacks on participants in the criminal case against him pose a “grave threat” to the judicial process and warrant a limited gag order, the judge overseeing the Jan. 6 coup attempt case against him wrote Tuesday. “Since his indictment, and even after the government filed t...
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New House Speaker Mike Johnson may already be losing his first big clash with the hard-right lawmakers who are making the Republican majority and the nation ungovernable as time races down to yet another federal funding cut-off. The Louisiana conservative, who was just lifted from obscurity to second in line to the pre...
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Abraham Lincoln needed a makeover. Or at least, that was the diagnosis from his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a fashionable woman of the Kentucky aristocracy. He had a few sartorial disadvantages working against him. For one thing, Lincoln reportedly never cared much for his appearance, and it didn’t help that Abe was a tow...
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Republican presidential field: One party, many brands - Quick Read - Deep Read ( 7 Min. ) | Raymond, N.H. Often in presidential primaries, candidates struggle to find ways to differentiate themselves. Largely agreeing on the main issues of the day, they wind up emphasizing slight nuances or leaning on stylistic distinc...
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Republican lawmakers returning to Washington this week will do so without a House speaker, setting up a high-pressure situation to reach consensus on a candidate to wield the gavel – and the power to push through support for Israel. While Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina serves as the acting speaker after the his...
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Top Iowa Evangelical Vander Plaats: ‘Trump Deserved to Lose My Endorsement’ Ron DeSantis denied accusations of a 'pay-to-play' scheme in response to a Trump Truth Social rant on the religious leader's backing Top Iowa Evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats said former President Donald Trump "deserved to lose" his endorse...
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In 2019, Kennedy Ndahiro, the editor of the Rwandan daily newspaper The New Times, explained to readers of The Atlantic how years of cultivated hatred had led to death on a horrifying scale. “In Rwanda,” he wrote, “we know what can happen when political leaders and media outlets single out certain groups of people as l...
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is asking a federal judge to dismiss criminal charges against him based on his actions leading up to his Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt because, as president, that coup attempt should be considered part of his presidential duties. Trump lawyers Todd Blanche and John Lauro, in Thursday’s 52-page fi...
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Biden administration announces $39 billion in student debt relief for 804,000 borrowers The Biden administration has announced that it will provide $39 billion in total student debt relief for 804,000 borrowers, its latest step since President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan was struck down by the Supreme Court. ...
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As US voters get ready to vote in the midterms, a number of recent news events are shaping their social media feeds - the raid on Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago as he's investigated for possibly mishandling documents, abortion bans, and debates about gun rights. For Americast and Newsnight, BBC's Disinformation and Social ...
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Discover more from The Bulwark Punching Politicians and Trump’s Belligerence Journalists shouldn’t shy away from linking the two. WHEN THE 118th CONGRESS GOT UNDERWAY, one of the first actions of the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives was to remove the magnetometers that former Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
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When jobs are plentiful and business profits soar, that means good news for federal tax revenues. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work. For 15 years after the Tax Reform Act of 1986 went into effect, that’s exactly what happened: Changes in the U.S. unemployment rate were a strong predictor of changes in our fede...
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Chief prosecutor of Jan. 6 rioters describes ‘pervasive’ threats to his office Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, described the threats in a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee. The federal prosecutors who have brought charges against hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters are seei...
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In an emotionally charged hearing in Birmingham’s federal court Wednesday morning, it was revealed Joran van der Sloot had confessed to killing Mountain Brook teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005. Van der Sloot, 36, received a 20-year sentence on each of the two convictions. Those sentences will be served concurrentl...
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The spoiler alerts started early - his own.Donald Trump has been screaming 'comeback' at political rubberneckers from every stage he could find in the two years since he was turfed out of the White House. Now, we're told, the least surprising announcement in US politics is imminent.The timing isn't a surprise, as he'll...
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On February 13, 2020, a Russian-educated Mexican microbiologist who worked in Singapore arrived at the Miami, Florida, airport, and rented a car. The following day, the man and one of his two wives drove to a Miami condo complex and entered through the security gate by following closely behind a car in front of them. W...
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Donald Trump holds such a tight grip on the GOP that he has enjoyed the deference not only of his allies, but of most of his rivals, as well. But at least one of his competitors appears emboldened by his fourth and most recent indictment: Mike Pence, who was cartoonishly loyal as Trump’s vice president, is said to be e...
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Evangelical leaders flock to Speaker JohnsonThe Louisiana Republican has deep ties to evangelical leaders, including pastors who hold anti-democratic views and helped fuel the Jan. 6th Capitol riot as a battle for God to save America. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has close ties to the evangelical movement, includ...
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Trump vows to appeal reimposed gag order: ‘It will not stand!’ Former President Trump vowed to appeal the gag order reimposed late Sunday by a federal judge in his election interference case, calling the decision unconstitutional and politically motivated. Trump went on a lengthy social media rant shortly after the dec...
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The following content is sponsored by the Electronic Payments Coalition. Financial fraud is on the rise. Thousands of criminals work day-and-night to try to get your credit card information and personal information. Hackers in China, Russia, and a host of other countries have realized how lucrative it is to gain someon...
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Joe Manchin speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill, January 2021.Jose Luis Magana/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Within the brutal machinations of US politics, Joe Manchin has been elevated to a status of supreme decision-maker, th...
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Washington — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday in ainvolving President Biden's plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt for millions of Americans, as a constitutional and political showdown over the future of the program arrives before the justices. Though a decision from the court, with a 6-3 con...
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Rogelio V. Solis/AP toggle caption A poll worker in Brandon, Miss., right, hands an "I Voted" sticker to a person who filled out a ballot on Nov. 8, 2022. Rogelio V. Solis/AP A poll worker in Brandon, Miss., right, hands an "I Voted" sticker to a person who filled out a ballot on Nov. 8, 2022. Rogelio V. Solis/AP Disab...
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- Ted Cruz's highest-profile 2024 Democratic challenger says the Texas senator is podcasting too much. - But Cruz argues that hosting a thrice-weekly podcast is "critical" to being effective as a senator. - "That is not somehow peripheral to doing the job," said Cruz. "It is integral to doing the job." Sen. Ted Cruz is...
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A practice used by some, if not all, Arizona counties to verify signatures on early ballots may be illegal. And that could result in election officials across the state have to change their procedures – and potentially result in more signatures on ballot envelopes being questioned. Yavapai County Superior Court Judge J...
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) appears to be teetering on the edge of dropping his sweeping blockade against high-level military confirmations, which would bring his nearly 10-month standoff to a close just as his Republican colleagues were beginning to murmur about forcing his hand. The far-right Alabama senator, speaki...
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WASHINGTON -- The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case in Washington on Sunday reimposed a narrow gag order barring him from making public comments targeting prosecutors, court staff and potential witnesses. The reinstatement of the gag order was revealed in a brief notation on the on...
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The prosecutor in Marion County, Kansas, said Wednesday that police should return all seized material to ain a case that has drawn national scrutiny of press freedom. Marion County Attorney Joel Ensey said in a news release reviewed by CBS News that his review of police seizures from the Marion County Record found "ins...
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"To live outside the law, you must be honest. — Bob Dylan How screwed are we? I'll tell you. On Wednesday, the news was all about a big bag of wind destroying Florida and flooding the South, spreading destruction and threatening pestilence and death. Then there's Hurricane Idalia. Also on Wednesday, Senate Minority Lea...
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"Illegal dumping is way too common, and often leads to no consequences," writes Slashdot reader Tony Isaac. "In some urban neighborhoods, people dump entire truckloads of waste in ditches along the streets. Maybe authorities have found a way to make a dent in this problem." Houston Chronicle reports: The Texas Game War...
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The family of Dexter Wade is calling for justice after the 37-year-old man was allegedly fatally struck by a Jackson, Mississippi Police Department cruiser in March and later buried in a potter's field without his family knowing. "My son -- I never thought in a million years that he would leave me," Wade's mother, Bett...
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Damian Dovarganes/AP toggle caption Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders members Suzette Shaw, left, holding photos of 10 victims, and Margaret Prescod, at podium, join relatives of victims speaking after the sentencing for Lonnie Franklin Jr., a convicted serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper," in Los Angel...
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Mr Trump repeated one of his favourite stories to the audience in Waterloo, claiming that the Russian president would not have invaded Ukraine on his watch. “I said, ‘Vladimir, you and I are friends. We’re good friends. But if you go in, we’re gonna hit real hard’,” Mr Trump said. “He said ‘no way you would do that, th...
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ATLANTA -- They were blamed for long lines in Los Angeles during California’s 2020 presidential primary, triggered check-in delays in Columbus, Ohio, a few months later and were at the center of former President Donald Trump’s call for supporters to protest in Detroit during last November's midterms. High-profile probl...
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- College affordability is a problem that won't go away. - With a new semester about to start, most families are worried about how they will pay the tab. - Ultimately, students and their parents will have to rely on a combination of resources, including loans, to make it work, a new study finds. College is only getting...
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For months, since Joe Biden's age became the pet topic of the corporate media — you know, rather than the openly authoritarian maneuverings of the former occupant of the White House — I have said to anyone who will listen (OK, mostly to my wife, who nods agreeably) that I couldn’t do a quarter of the things that Joe Bi...
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There has been much handwringing about the retreat of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism in recent years – and for good reason. From the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, to the former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and the former US president Donald Trump, we have a growing list of authoritarians and...
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Whitmer signs Michigan election law overhaul that aims to prevent ‘chaos’ - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signs sweeping election-related bills - New laws reform post-election certification process in an attempt to ‘ward off chaos’ seen in 2020 - Other laws expand voter registration, create criminal penalties for inti...
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Having spent much of his Senate term as a lonely Republican foil to Donald Trump and his allies, Mitt Romney is now using what remains of his time in the chamber to go on the offense. In Romney: A Reckoning, an upcoming biography by McKay Coppins, the junior senator from Utah can be read attacking Ron DeSantis, Mitch M...
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The Senate passed a bill late Thursday evening to suspend the nation’s debt limit through January 1, 2025, averting a first-ever US default just days ahead of the deadline. The House earlier this week already passed the measure, which can now be sent to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. Biden, just moments aft...
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Jim Jordan is on track to lose a second ballot to secure the House Speakership, with over a dozen Republicans (and counting) voting against him on Wednesday. Jordan can only afford to lose four caucus members if he wants to win the gavel. House Republicans appear wholly incapable of bringing forth a resolution to the l...
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Past is prologue. It was October 2015. An unseasonably warm, autumnal light bathed a corridor near the Hall of Columns on the first floor of the Capitol. It was mid-afternoon. But the well-trafficked hall was surprisingly empty when I encountered a lawmaker who was a friend and occasional ally of then-House Majority Le...
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An 11-year-old girl was taken into custody and handcuffed outside her home in central Florida on Wednesday after reporting in detail the fake abduction of "her 14-year-old friend," authorities said. The girl, who faces felony and misdemeanor charges, later told law enforcement that a YouTube challenge inspired her to c...
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Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie predicted on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump, his chief foe in the primary race, will be convicted in one of the four criminal cases he faces. Christie claimed the reported immunity deal reached between Mark Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff, and the Just...
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House Republicans are planning a motion to expel Matt Gaetz from the chamber, even as he continues to threaten to expel Kevin McCarthy from the speakership. The House GOP will move to expel Gaetz if the Ethics Committee finds him guilty, Fox News reported Sunday. Earlier this year, committee investigators reopened a pr...
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Donald Trump's argument that he holds "absolute immunity" from criminal prosecution as a former president falls apart in the face of nearly all of American history, special counsel Jack Smith argued Thursday per Politico. In a 54-page filing pointedly refuting Trump's sprawling efforts to impede the federal criminal ca...
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Biden turned 81 on Monday, and numerous polls show that most people have reservations about his age and that of former President Donald Trump, Biden's likely Republican opponent in the 2024 general election. Pressed on this polling during Monday's White House press briefing, Jean-Pierre told reporters that the administ...
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Sen. Mitt Romney Says He Would Vote For ‘Virtually’ Anybody Other Than Trump or Ramaswamy Romney, smiling, said he'd even be 'happy' to support 'a number of' the Democrats in the presidential race In a recent sit down interview, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, flat out declared that he has no intention of casting a ballot fo...
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Former President Donald Trump never stops talking. He has an unusual habit of saying whatever is on his mind, no matter how factually inaccurate, off-color, or otherwise counterproductive. This has endeared him to a certain portion of Americans and largely alienated everyone else. Now Trumpworld is still claiming that ...
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The federal budget deficit—the difference between government spending and revenues—increased from 5.4% of GDP in FY 2022 to 6.3% of GDP in FY 2023. Adjusting for the effects of President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, which boosted the deficit in FY 2022 when it was announced and decreased it in FY 2023 when...
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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. Steve Peoples, Associated Press Steve Peoples, Associated Press Leave your feedback NEW YORK (AP) — The end of Labor Day weekend would typically mark the start of a furious spr...
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On a Tuesday afternoon in late April, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene walks into the seventh-floor congressional office belonging to Representative Matt Gaetz, settles into a high-backed black leather chair, and fits a pair of headphones over her blonde hair. The taping is about to begin for the 38th episode of G...
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An armed man was killed by police officers Monday morning after he fired at least twice inside the Duncanville Fieldhouse during a youth summer camp, officials said.During a news conference, Duncanville Assistant Chief of Police Matthew Stogner said officers responded within minutes of the call for help. No children, c...
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Women have more to worry about than men from a coming wave of automation and artificial intelligence that could replace almost a third of hours worked across the US economy. That’s one of the takeaways from a new report by the research arm of consultants McKinsey & Co. that examines US labor-market trends through the e...
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Like 9/11, Jan. 6 needs no year attached to convey its dark place in American history. On that Wednesday afternoon, 64 days after Election Day 2020, a mob of supporters of President Donald J. Trump assaulted the Capitol, resulting in what Vice President Mike Pence had refused to do: disrupting the ceremonial certificat...
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By Annabelle LiangBusiness reporterImage source, Getty ImagesMajor tampon manufacturers in the United States have pledged to make more of the sanitary products to address shortages in the country.One firm told the BBC the pandemic had caused staff shortages at its plants.Social media users have been posting about their...
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Thank you to everyone who wrote in last month to confirm that, indeed, only journalists care what happens to Twitter. As Elon Musk’s bizarre dance between buying the company and trash-talking it into oblivion continues, it’s a healthy reminder for us not to get too obsessed—though now that he may be getting access to t...
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Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at a news conference to announce actions to enhance the Biden administration’s environmental justice efforts, Thursday, May 5, 2022, at the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Last week Attorney General Merrick Garland, prompted by a question from a r...
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Judge In Trump Special-Master Review Assigned To New DOJ Criminal Case It wasn’t clear if Cannon will remain permanently assigned to the case. The assignment was reported earlier by ABC News. (Bloomberg) -- A federal judge in Florida who handled Donald Trump’s dispute last fall with the Justice Department over classifi...
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Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On August 31, 1977, Rosario Robles walked her five children to Bonner Elementary School in Tyler, Texas. Rosario and her husband, Jose, had immigrated to the United States from Mexico five ...
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CBS Mornings June 13, 2022 / 10:26 AM / CBS News Alleged white supremacists arrested in Idaho 31 alleged white supremacists arrested in Idaho, charged with misdemeanors for conspiracy to riot 02:40 Police in Idaho say they prevented a possible domestic terror attack over the weekend, when 31 men were arrested Saturday ...
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LIVE UPDATESThe justices voted to overrule the decisions of Roe and Casey.Last Updated: June 24, 2022, 9:10 PM ETThe U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in a much-anticipated ruling Friday in one of its biggest decisions this term.The court voted 5-4, largely along party lines, to overtu...
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30 min ago"With sorrow": How the court's 3 liberal justices closed their dissentJustices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan issued a dissenting opinion to the Supreme Court's decision that strikes down Roe v. Wade.In their joint opinion, the three justices heavily criticized the majority, closing: “With s...
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Something isn't loading properly. Please check back later. What the Fed's latest historic interest rate hike means 01:49 - Source: CNNBusiness Minneapolis CNN  —  The US economy added 223,000 jobs in December, according to the monthly employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, capping a year of extraordinar...
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Conservative Hispanic group lauds court decisionBienvenido, a conservative Hispanic group, said the court's decision to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision was "correct as both a legal and a moral matter.""Today we join millions of Americans — including the majority of Hispanics who value human life — in celebrating the ...
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