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Election 2024 latest news: Biden to highlight chips investments during New York trip
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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TikTok and the U.S. government dig in for legal war
The Biden administration has worked to distance itself from past ill-fated TikTok ban attempts. Legal scholars say its new law might be just as legally flawed.
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Eighty percent of Ukraine-Israel bill will be spent in U.S. or by U.S. military
“Foreign aid” often never leaves the United States.
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Secret Service agent on Harris detail involved in altercation before flight
The vice president was not affected by the incident, which happened at Joint Base Andrews, according to the Secret Service
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Trump calls deadly Charlottesville rally a ‘peanut’ next to Israel protests
Trump’s comments marked his latest downplaying of a 2017 white-supremacist event that he declared had “very fine people on both sides.”
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Here’s who was charged in the Arizona 2020 election interference case
Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and other Trump allies were indicted in connection with their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona.
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Here are the states where 2020 Trump electors have been charged
Republicans around the country have been charged with forgery and other crimes for filing paperwork claiming to be presidential electors in states that Donald Trump lost.
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Aid to Ukraine seemed dead. Then secretive talks revived it.
In one meeting, Biden and others sprang a surprise effort to persuade Speaker Johnson to pass the aid package
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Read the full text of the Arizona 2020 election interference indictment
Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies were among those charged in the Arizona 2020 election probe
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Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe
The indictments cap a year-long investigation by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) into how the 2020 pro-Trump elector strategy played out in Arizona, which Biden won by 10,457 votes.
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How Trump turned the 2016 primary into a supermarket tabloid gutter fight
Court testimony detailed how Donald Trump used the National Enquirer to smear GOP rivals who now support him in his current trial.
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The mounting antiwar protests on college campuses
Today, a look inside the pro-Palestinian protests taking root on college campuses and why universities have been struggling to respond to them.
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McConnell fights the isolationists
After months of haggling, 79 senators voted to send the $95 billion foreign aid package to the White House for President Biden’s signature.
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As usual, views of Trump guide views of his actions, not vice versa
New polling shows that Republicans are much less likely to view the Manhattan trial as involving serious charges.
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Conservative justices skeptical federal law requires emergency room abortions
The sharply divided court appeared to split largely along ideological lines.
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How Americans felt about campus protests against the Vietnam War
After the Kent State massacre, most people sided with the National Guard.
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House Speaker Johnson visits Columbia University amid protests
Johnson’s visit marks the first time the top representative in the House is visiting a college campus amid ongoing protests that have at times burst into violent attacks between pro-Palestinian and Jewish students.
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Why is Trump giving someone a ‘key to the White House’?
Donald Trump is not the president, nor was the White House his when he was.
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Speaker Johnson gets the votes. His antagonists get the retweets.
A contrived fight over a social media post reveals the divide between parties, within the Republican Party and in the approach of the GOP’s right and far-right.
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Live updates: Supreme Court hears arguments in case over emergency abortion care
The Supreme Court hears arguments in Idaho vs U.S. relating to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Justices will decide whether a federal law requiring hospitals care for life-threatening cases means ER doctors in states with abortion bans must terminate pregnancies in certain circumstances.
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U.S. unveils $1 billion Ukraine weapons package
Resupply of artillery ammunition, armored vehicles and air-defense missiles comes after Congress, following months of political gridlock, approves a massive foreign aid package.
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How Pecker’s testimony bolsters claims of Trump’s election-related scheme
Breaking down former National Enquirer executive David Pecker’s testimony Tuesday, and its meaning to the Trump hush money case.
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Congress’ first tech crackdown in years is a gift to Big Tech
Meta and Google stand ready to reap a TikTok ban’s rewards.
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Can an independent candidate like RFK Jr. win the presidency?
There is no requirement that a candidate belong to a major political party. That said, there are large barriers to entry for independent candidates.
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Election 2024 latest news: Biden to address building trades unions following fresh endorsement
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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Michael Cohen says he’s reformed. Will America buy it?
As he prepares to take the stand against former president Donald Trump, America’s most famous ex-fixer remains a divisive figure, even among partisans on the left.
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The anti-college subtext to the right-wing response to Gaza protests
Not all the backlash against protests on college campuses is rooted in the right’s hostility to higher education. Some of it clearly is.
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The Trump Trials: Day Six gets the tabloid treatment
Key takeaways from Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan: Lawyers argue over the former president’s social media posts and whether he violated the established gaga order, the judge gets frustrated with Trump’s lawyer and David Pecker details the messy world of tabloids.
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Cornel West, focusing on Gaza, has harsh critiques for opponents, former allies
“I just see both of them as so thoroughly unacceptable,” West said in a wide-ranging interview, referring to Biden and Trump.
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Biden aims to strike careful balance as college protests spread
The president and his allies say it is unclear what impact the ongoing demonstrations might have on his reelection bid.
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