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Casey, McCormick to debate three times in key contest for U.S. Senate
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and his Republican opponent, former hedge fund CEO David McCormick, will debate three times this fall — including once in Pittsburgh — the campaigns announced Thursday.
The other ...Read more
Supreme Court's conservatives lean in favor of limited immunity for Trump as an ex-president
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative justices said Thursday they agree a former president should be shielded from prosecution for his truly official acts while in office, but not for private schemes that ...Read more
Billie Eilish, Cyndi Lauper, Dave Matthews and hundreds more ask Congress to fix concert ticket pricing
Hundreds of musicians including Billie Eilish, Dave Matthews, Duran Duran, Cyndi Lauper, the Pixies and Blue Oyster Cult petitioned Congress on Thursday to regulate concert ticket pricing.
“We are joining together to ...Read more
Supreme Court sounds conflicted over Trump criminal immunity
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared conflicted over how to handle Donald Trump’s claim that his presidency shielded him from federal prosecution during oral arguments Thursday in a case almost certain to shape this...Read more
Trump immunity protesters see 'make-or-break moment for our republic'
WASHINGTON — The sidewalk outside the Supreme Court was dotted with more reporters than protesters Thursday morning as oral arguments in the Donald Trump immunity case played out inside.
Dozens of demonstrators banged ...Read more
Idaho Attorney General Labrador questions doctors' accounts of abortion emergencies
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador cast doubts on doctors’ claims that they’re transferring an increasing number of patients out of state for care to comply with the state’s strict abortion laws. ...Read more
How treatment of miscarriages is upending the abortion debate
For decades, the abortion wars have centered on whether a woman should be able to decide when and if she has a child. But with increasingly strict restrictions on reproductive rights being enacted across the United States,...Read more
David Pecker returns to witness stand as Trump's hush money trial resumes
NEW YORK — Former National Enquirer David Pecker returned to the stand Thursday at Donald Trump’s Manhattan Supreme Court hush money trial — where the jurors heard details on a scheme to disguise a $150,000 payment ...Read more
Arizona's abortion law repeal comes as independents trust Biden more on issue
The ruling from Arizona’s highest court reinstating a near-total ban on abortions has catapulted the issue to the forefront in a 2024 swing state that has absorbed an influx of independent voters.
On Wednesday, after ...Read more
Vice President Kamala Harris to visit Florida to talk about abortion rights
MIAMI — Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign in Florida on the day the state’s six-week abortion ban is set to take effect.
Harris will travel to Jacksonville on May 1 and will “discuss the harms inflicted by ...Read more
David Pecker set to return to witness stand as Trump's hush money trial resumes
NEW YORK — Former National Enquirer David Pecker is slated to return to the stand Thursday at Donald Trump’s Manhattan Supreme Court hush money trial — where the jurors are expected to hunker down for their first ...Read more
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore leads new Angela Alsobrooks ad in final push before primary
BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore and U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen — doubling down on their support for Angela Alsobrooks in the hotly contested Democratic primary for U.S. Senate — are leading a new star-studded television ...Read more
Trump infers campus protests worse than Charlottesville rally where white supremacist killed protestor
Former President Donald Trump has downplayed the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia where a counter-protester was killed by right-wing extremists.
Trump said the violent Unite the Right rally was �...Read more
Will Supreme Court make Trump immune from Jan. 6 prosecution?
The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear former President Trump's claim that he is entirely immune from prosecution for all of his "official acts" during his time in the White House, including his effort to overturn his ...Read more
California leaders asked for a Supreme Court homelessness decision. Will it backfire?
LOS ANGELES — As the nation's highest court heard arguments this week in a case expected to shape homelessness policies in the years to come, Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath listened angrily.
The case ...Read more
Arizona’s 1864 abortion law was made in a women’s rights desert – here’s what life was like then
Dora Juhl, a 15-year-old teenager, walked into Dr. Rosa Goodrich Boido’s obstetrical practice in Phoenix in January 1918. Juhl wanted to end her pregnancy.
But abortion was illegal in Arizona.
Boido, ...Read more
Who's running for Congress in Colorado? Here are the candidates on the June 25 primary ballot
DENVER — All eight of Colorado’s congressional districts will have candidates on the June 25 primary ballot. And in three of those districts — the 3rd, 4th and 5th — the seat is open, providing the ingredients for ...Read more
Cal Thomas: Adding to the Title IX law
What the Biden administration is doing to the Title IX civil rights law, the purpose of which is, among other things, to ensure equality between men’s and women’s ...Read more
Editorial: Amid the chaos, America's elite campuses can't educate. University presidents have to turn that around
On Monday afternoon, New York’s Columbia University looked like a military installation, not one of the most storied institutions of learning in the United States.
The campus gates, festooned with balloons designed to �...Read more
Commentary: More than 2 million workers are missing. Who are they, and how are they affecting the economy?
If I were a mystery novelist instead of an economist, I’d call it “The Case of the Missing Workers.”
I’m referring to the fact that there are 2.3 million fewer people employed today than if the employment-to-...Read more
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