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Trial begins in alleged Florida election conspiracy that tilted a Miami Senate race

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A criminal case that opened a window to a plot to help Republicans win important 2020 Florida Senate races by propping up fake progressive Senate candidates with shadowy money is finally headed to trial, with a South Florida political operative fighting the charges.

State prosecutors are expected to claim in court this week that former Miami ...Read more

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NC man held after attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump

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Investigators are questioning a Greensboro, North Carolina, man in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

This comes nine weeks after Trump was shot in the ear at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Ryan Wesley Routh of Greensboro is in custody after the Secret Service spotted a scope pointed at the former president while he ...Read more

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Can Secret Service protect Trump? Pressure increases after second assassination attempt

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The United States Secret Service was already confronting a period of turmoil after a 20-year-old Pennsylvanian made an attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life this summer. But a second attempt, at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach on Sunday, deepened questions and concerns over whether the agency is up to the task of defending ...Read more

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A second assassination attempt against former President Trump raises new questions

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A gunman's ability to get within shooting distance of former President Trump on Sunday has again raised the specter of violence in the American political landscape, a development that analysts said is all too expected as Trump's followers vowed it would make them even more determined to reelect him.

Just two months after a would-be assassin's ...Read more

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro kicks off 'Reproductive Freedom' bus tour in Philly for Kamala Harris' presidential bid

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Sunday afternoon kicked off Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign's "Fighting for Reproductive Freedom" bus tour inside the Independence Visitor Center in Old City, where he criticized former President Donald Trump's record on abortion and said that the western part of the state has seen an influx of women ...Read more

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Trump 'safe and well' after agents fire at armed man near golf course

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Former President Donald Trump was safe Sunday after a gunman targeted him while he golfed in south Florida, according to law enforcement officials, in what the FBI said appeared to be a second assassination attempt in three months.

The Trump campaign and Secret Service said the former president and Republican presidential nominee was unharmed ...Read more

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Vance headlines evangelical conservative gala on Monday in Atlanta

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Former President Donald Trump’s running mate, U.S. Sen. JD Vance, will deliver a speech Monday targeting evangelical voters in metro Atlanta with a stop that marks a delicate moment on Georgia’s campaign trail.

The Georgia Faith & Freedom Coalition’s annual dinner at the Cobb Galleria Centre will also be the first time Gov. Brian Kemp and...Read more

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Shooting near Trump's Palm Beach golf course was an attempted assassination, FBI says

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The shooting near former President Donald Trump’s golf club in Palm Beach “appears to be an attempted assassination,” according to the FBI.

In a statement Sunday afternoon, the U.S. Secret Service announced that there was a “protective incident” involving the former president shortly before 2 p.m. The statement also said the former ...Read more

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Trump campaign reports he's safe 'following gunshots in his vicinity' in Fla.

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Donald Trump’s campaign said he’s “safe following gunshots in his vicinity” in Florida Sunday afternoon.

According to CNN, Trump was playing golf at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. It wasn’t immediately clear how far away the reported gunfire was or if it had anything to do with the former president.

His campaign ...Read more

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Trump says he won't tax your tips, OT or Social Security. Why critics see 'gimmicks' and a 'sham'

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The last time Donald Trump was president, he delivered a massive tax cut, touting the many benefits of the 2017 law. But a slew of nonpartisan reviews found it mostly benefited the wealthy, expanded the federal deficit enormously and didn't deliver promised economic benefits to the middle class.

Perhaps recognizing that his previous tax cut ...Read more

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Trump attacks Taylor Swift on social media after her Harris endorsement

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Evidently Donald Trump is not worried about losing the Swiftie vote.

On Sunday, five days after the world's biggest pop star endorsed his 2024 opponent, Kamala Harris, the former president lashed out with a blunt, all-caps post on his Truth Social platform: "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!"

The post seemed certain to alienate millions of the singer's ...Read more

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California firefighters' union: Trump should 'be ashamed' over threat to withhold firefighting aid

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The president of the California Professional Firefighters union said this weekend that former President Trump "should be ashamed" of his threat to withhold federal firefighting aid to the state if he were elected.

Brian K. Rice, president of the California Professional Firefighters union, which represents more than 35,000 firefighters, said in ...Read more

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Trump tariffs would help pay for his tax cuts, JD Vance says

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Former President Donald Trump’s agenda of higher tariffs on U.S. imports would help offset his expanding tax-cut proposals if he’s reelected in November, according to his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance.

“If we actually balance this out by penalizing some of these companies for manufacturing overseas, I do think that we can get this ...Read more

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Trump tariffs would help pay for tax-cut plans, JD Vance says

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Former President Donald Trump’s agenda of higher tariffs on U.S. imports would help offset his expanding tax-cut proposals if he’s reelected in November, according to his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance.

“If we actually balance this out by penalizing some of these companies for manufacturing overseas, I do think that we can get this ...Read more

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German conservatives riding high ahead of candidate decision

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Support for Germany’s opposition conservatives rose to the highest in more than three and a half years, according to a new poll, as the CDU/CSU alliance prepares to name its candidate to run against Chancellor Olaf Scholz in next September’s national election.

The latest Insa survey for Bild am Sonntag newspaper put backing for the ...Read more

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Trump excited this voter in 2016. This time, it's complicated

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WASHINGTON — Peggy Hayes thought she saw something amazing eight years ago in Donald Trump, a politician who knew how to make the political system, news media and the culture react to him.

He would be the powerful father figure for a nation that felt "un-babysat," she said at the time.

Hayes, a 62-year-old personal trainer from a ...Read more

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Springfield woman behind pet-eating rumors repeated by Trump admits claims are false

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An Ohio woman whose Facebook post sparked harmful rumors about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield — accusations repeated by former President Donald Trump at Tuesday’s debate — has admitted the claims are false, saying she regrets how they’ve spiraled into a political frenzy.

“It just exploded into something I didn’t mean ...Read more

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Trump's abortion answers complicate Michigan GOP's efforts to neutralize Dem attacks

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LANSING, Mich. — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gave a murky collection of answers during Tuesday's debate about how he would handle a proposal to prohibit abortion amid a stream of mailers from the Michigan Republican Party specifically telling voters he wouldn't sign such a ban into law.

After Michiganians approved a ...Read more

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Post-debate, how much progress will Harris make in the polls?

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WASHINGTON — The 1980 presidential race remained neck-and-neck into its final week, as a crucial swath of voters weighed their dismay with President Jimmy Carter against their fears about his challenger, Ronald Reagan.

One week before election day, the two met for their only televised debate. Viewers found Reagan personable, reassuring and ...Read more

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Trump can only watch as his media stake takes a $4 billion dive

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The paper fortune that former President Donald Trump amassed by taking a nascent media startup public is shriveling, and a race to the exits that begins as soon as Sept. 19 could shrink it even more.

Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., which owns the X-lookalike social media platform Truth Social, has shed nearly $6 billion in value over the ...Read more

 

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