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Adam Frisch wants to move Lauren Boebert's district away from 'anger-tainment' and toward problem solving
Adam Frisch is down in the polls but undeterred.
The math is simple enough. There’s a way for him to beat incumbent U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, he said. That is, if he can meet enough voters in the district face-to-face, share his platform and close the about 7% lead she has, according to a recent poll.
“People want and deserve to hear more ...Read more

Editorial: Trump's antics made us so numb, we learned to ignore almost anything. But not this time
This is different.
We’ve become so numb, so accustomed to the sliding scale of right and wrong practiced by Donald Trump that it can be hard to see where the line is anymore.
But the news coming out of Mar-a-Lago after the FBI search is appalling. Our ex-president, according to the documents released Friday, is being investigated for ...Read more

People think of Mexican Catholics as a monolith on abortion. One family shows it's not that simple
LOS ANGELES — Ana Lopez was 14 when her mother shared some gossip about a woman in their Huntington Beach neighborhood who, rumor had it, had gotten an abortion.
"How could they kill that innocent baby?" Bertha Valdez asked her daughter. "Catholic people don't do that."
"Se va a ir al infierno," Lopez recalls her mother telling her. "She's ...Read more

Bolsonaro, Lula vie for votes by pledging longer low-income aid
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro and challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pledged to preserve 600 reais ($118) in monthly government aid to poor families while campaigning for election in October.
Front-runner Lula said during a Facebook live event on Saturday that he’s the only candidate committed to keeping the aid at that level. The law ...Read more

With primaries over, Minnesota's elections take shape
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Crime. Abortion. Inflation. Trust. Distrust.
Those are some of the words and ideas Minnesotans will hear a lot about in the coming months. Following Tuesday’s primary elections, the stage is set for November’s general election.
Every statewide Minnesota office will be on the ballot: governor and lieutenant governor, ...Read more

NYT endorses Nadler, Goldman, Sean Patrick Maloney in Democratic primaries
WASHINGTON — The New York Times has endorsed two incumbent lawmakers and the former lead counsel for the Democrats in Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial in the crowded New York City Democratic primary races for Congress.
The newspaper on Saturday backed Jerry Nadler, a longtime U.S. representative with strong liberal credentials; Sean ...Read more

House Democrats ask intelligence chief to assess Trump documents
WASHINGTON — Two top House Democrats asked the U.S. Director of National Intelligence to provide a “damage assessment” after the FBI said it seized highly classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s estate in Florida.
A classified briefing on the assessment’s progress is also sought “as soon as possible,” House ...Read more

Fulton DA's Trump probe enters more combative phase
ATLANTA — Over the last 18 months, a team of prosecutors and investigators from the Fulton County District Attorney's office has been sifting through mountains of evidence.
They've pored over telephone logs, emails and text messages. Recordings of phone conversations, hearing transcripts and interview notes. A dense forensic analysis of ...Read more

Trump search's revelations open new political front for midterms
Revelations that authorities seized classified material from Donald Trump are poised to shift the political ground ahead of U.S. midterm elections and a potential 2024 run by the former president.
Although the fallout from a remarkable week is just beginning, the search at Trump’s resort in Florida is certain to seep into the November races ...Read more

Harris calls out 'irresponsible' rhetoric on FBI's Trump search
Vice President Kamala Harris condemned an attempted attack on an FBI office and criticized supporters of Donald Trump for incendiary rhetoric that has fueled a backlash against law enforcement following a raid on the former president’s Florida home.
“I will say, as a former prosecutor, but as a citizen of our nation, any attacks on law ...Read more

Editorial: Spending bill's EV subsidies won't work
The ill-named Inflation Reduction Act is being touted by Democrats and others as, among other things, the fast track to a zero-emissions future.
They argue the slowing manufacturing industry and curtailed automotive production calls for more government stimulation, particularly so electric vehicles are able to take hold and lead the nation into...Read more

Abortion will become illegal in Idaho as state Supreme Court declines to pause trigger law
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho residents will no longer be able to seek abortions in state after the Idaho Supreme Court earlier this week let the state implement its near-total abortion ban.
The decision came a little more than a week after a hearing addressed two lawsuits filed by Planned Parenthood in recent months. The first challenged an Idaho law...Read more

Kansas plans to recount abortion amendment vote, despite proposal's landslide defeat
Kansas election officials plan to conduct a statewide recount of the vote rejecting an amendment to remove abortion rights from the state constitution after a citizen posted a $200,000 bond for the recount, the state Secretary of State’s Office said.
Separately, Kansas state Sen. Caryn Tyson asked for a recount in 55 counties in the ...Read more

Once Indiana's abortion ban goes into effect, most patients seeking abortions will have to travel beyond its borders
When Indiana’s near-total abortion ban goes into effect on Sept. 15, the Planned Parenthood clinic in Merrillville — and its 10 other facilities in Indiana — will remain open to provide “critical health care services outside of abortion,” but patients seeking abortion care will likely have to go out of state.
“We provide a whole ...Read more

Here's where FBI agents searched for classified documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago
Agents with the FBI had a warrant to search any rooms at Mar-a-Lago used by the club’s owner, former president Donald Trump, or his staff, according to court documents unsealed Friday afternoon.
While the layout of Trump’s home is a mystery to most, building plans and interviews by the Miami Herald have helped sketch out the likely ...Read more

Manhattan DA's criminal case against the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg can proceed, NYC judge rules
NEW YORK — A judge on Friday denied the Trump Organization’s motion to dismiss the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal tax fraud case against Donald Trump’s family real estate business and its long-serving chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.
Among a flurry of motions shot down by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan ...Read more

FBI removed classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, is investigating possible Espionage Act violations
WASHINGTON — FBI agents removed 11 sets of classified documents — including some marked top secret and meant to be available only in special government facilities — from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday.
The itemized list of items taken from the property, which was released Friday at the Department ...Read more

FBI seized top-secret classified documents from Trump's estate
WASHINGTON — The FBI seized classified material from Donald Trump in a search that has thrown US politics into turmoil, and court filings revealed the former president may be under investigation for mishandling government records and potentially compromising national security information.
Court documents unsealed by a judge Friday shed new ...Read more

Whitmer won't have to testify in abortion case, judge says; defendants appeal
DETROIT — Oakland County Circuit Judge Jacob Cunningham has ruled Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will not be forced to testify in the case she filed to stop enforcement of Michigan's abortion ban — a decision that was almost immediately appealed to the state Court of Appeals.
Cunningham said Wednesday that Whitmer established good cause to quash the...Read more

House Democrats pass sweeping health care, tax and climate bill
WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Friday passed a sweeping health care, tax and climate change bill. Now they have to sell it.
The vote was 220-207, with all Democrats voting in favor and all Republicans opposing.
With the midterm elections quickly approaching, congressional Democrats have had a series of legislative victories in recent weeks ...Read more
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