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Trump rules out Vivek Ramaswamy as running mate as he eyes new team
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has ruled out Vivek Ramaswamy as his running mate and is instead eyeing the entrepreneur for a Cabinet job, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Republican presidential nominee ...Read more
Spending deal done, though final action could slip past deadline
WASHINGTON — House GOP and Biden administration negotiators reached a fiscal 2024 Homeland Security spending deal Monday night, even as agencies face a potential brief appropriations lapse this weekend with time running ...Read more
Hunter Biden refuses to appear at public House hearing this week
WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden has rejected an invitation to testify at a public congressional hearing into business activities that are the focus of a faltering GOP impeachment inquiry of his father, President Joe Biden.
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Down to the wire: Joe Simitian leads Evan Low by 12 votes in race to replace U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo in California
SAN JOSE, California — After nearly two weeks of counting ballots, Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian leads state Assemblymember Evan Low by just 12 votes in California’s Congressional District 16 race.
The ...Read more
Fewer Georgia voting machines proposed as Senate panel passes election bills
ATLANTA — Georgia senators advanced a series of election-related proposals Monday that would reduce the number of voting machines on election day, require more audits and post pictures of ballots online.
The bill ...Read more
Texas doctors 'really scared' amid vague abortion laws. Will state board clarify exceptions? <em> </em>
FORT WORTH, Texas — Confusion around Texas’ abortion law has scared doctors, who worry they could be prosecuted, fined or lose their medical license for performing an abortion procedure when a patient’s life or ...Read more
Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen can testify at Trump hush money trial, judge rules
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, porn star Stormy Daniels, Playboy model Karen McDougal and a Trump Tower doorman — all of whom prosecutors allege Donald Trump paid to stay silent about a series of sex scandals to win the ...Read more
Pro-Trump lawyer Stefanie Lambert arrested on bench warrant in Washington, D.C.
DETROIT — Stefanie Lambert, a Michigan lawyer who has championed dubious claims of election fraud, was arrested in Washington, D.C., Monday afternoon because of a bench warrant, according to a spokesman for the U.S. ...Read more
Trump can't come up with full $454 million bond owed NY attorney general while he appeals fraud ruling
NEW YORK — Donald Trump can’t come up with almost half a billion dollars he owes the New York attorney general for committing large-scale fraud, his lawyers told an appeals court Monday.
With one week to go before the...Read more
Trump, co-defendants ask to appeal judge's decision not to remove DA Willis
ATLANTA — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump and seven co-defendants in the Fulton County election interference case are asking a Superior Court judge for permission to appeal his recent decision that has kept ...Read more
Missouri attorney general says government censored social media. The Supreme Court seemed skeptical
WASHINGTON — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey emerged from the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, into a biting spring wind and declared that the federal government violated the First Amendment by coercing social media...Read more
Procedural hoops could drag wrapup spending bill into weekend
WASHINGTON — House GOP and Biden administration negotiators were closing in on a fiscal 2024 Homeland Security spending deal Monday, even as agencies face a potential brief appropriations lapse this weekend with time ...Read more
Former Georgia official Geoff Duncan passes on No Labels presidential bid
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he won’t launch a third-party presidential bid with the No Labels movement.
“It was an honor to be approached, and I am grateful to all ...Read more
2,000 pages of 'confidential' Dominion emails dumped on social media
DETROIT — A new social media account using the name and photo of Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf released Sunday more than 2,100 pages of emails from employees of Dominion Voting Systems as the company maintained Leaf got ...Read more
Biden team eyes expanding map to Texas, Florida despite Trump leads
WASHINGTON — Biden campaign officials said Monday they see “multiple paths” to President Joe Biden winning reelection, targeting a handful of swing states — and even trying to grab states he lost to Donald Trump in...Read more
Trump tries to walk back rant, threat of 'bloodbath' if Biden beats him
Former President Trump scrambled Monday to walk back his weekend rant that the country would be plunged into a “BLOODBATH” if he doesn’t win back the White House.
After a day of controversy over his remarks, Trump ...Read more
Missouri says the Biden administration censored speech. The Supreme Court will judge
WASHINGTON — In March 2021, as COVID-19 vaccines were increasingly available to the general public, officials inside the Biden administration were growing frustrated.
The administration had launched an aggressive ...Read more
Supreme Court sounds reluctant to curb US social media outreach
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready Monday to allow Biden administration officials to communicate with social media companies, as multiple justices sounded skeptical that the government violated free speech ...Read more
The Biggest Contrast in the Upcoming Election (Other Than Democracy vs. "Blood in the Streets" Fascism)
One of my goals in this column is to give you the facts and analysis you need to make informed decisions, especially political ones — and equip you to spread the word to others. So here goes on social security.
During a...Read more
Jackie Calmes: One Trump puppet stands between Ukraine and the aid it needs
Speaker Mike Johnson in just months has all but cemented his place among the weakest House leaders in its history. Alas, the Louisianan nonetheless holds enough power that he's single-handedly blocking one of the most ...Read more
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