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Editorial: Trump's antipathy to wind energy is lose-lose-lose
President Donald Trump’s weird hatred of offshore wind energy is costing a lot as Uncle Sam has to pay off the companies which had invested in the canceled projects.
For the fifth time now, the Trump administration has agreed to pay an energy firm a huge sum of money, not for building something, but in fact for not building it. The German ...Read more
Race to replace Pelosi enters the AI group chat
LOS ANGELES — A parody AI chatbot designed by California congressional candidate Scott Wiener's campaign to mock the record of his opponent attracted the attention politicians crave and criticism most loathe.
The short-lived experiment stirred controversy over the use of artificial intelligence in campaigns ads and drew sharp criticism from ...Read more
Trump Media losses hit $238 million as firm pivots to fast feeds
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s social media company posted steeper losses as it careened from a big cryptocurrency bet into a controversial new line of business selling faster access to market-moving posts from the U.S. president.
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. reported a second-quarter loss of $238 million, driven by plummeting prices of...Read more
Minnesota officials advise voters as Justice Department sends seven teams to monitor primary
Local law enforcement leaders are providing guidance to Minnesota voters as the Trump administration sends seven teams from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to monitor polling locations during Tuesday’s primary.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement that “out of an abundance of caution” his office ...Read more
GOP executive team chooses a replacement for NC's Chuck Edwards on ballot
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Western North Carolina have a new candidate running to represent them in Congress.
The 11th Congressional District Republican Party Executive Committee chose state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom, a Republican from Hendersonville, to replace Rep. Chuck Edwards on the ballot.
“I’m grateful for the outpouring of support I...Read more
Trump order seeks to stagger childhood vaccination administration
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to drastically change the childhood vaccine schedule by recommending shots be administered in separate visits to the doctor’s office.
The executive order acts on Trump’s long-held belief that splitting up routine childhood vaccinations across multiple visits lessens the risk of ...Read more
Rep. Lauren Boebert's son faces felony charges over sex tape with 17-year-old, court records show
DENVER — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son was arrested last week on three felony charges related to sexual exploitation of a child in connection with a 43-second video he created in which he had sex with a 17-year-old girl when he was 18, court records show.
Tyler Boebert, 21, was arrested in Garfield County and was released from the county�...Read more
Trump cites unproven autism risk in attack on childhood vaccines
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump renewed his administration’s efforts to dismantle the childhood vaccination schedule with a direct attack on the measles shot, returning to a politically unpopular issue and making unproven scientific claims just months ahead of the midterm elections.
Trump issued an executive order that recommends ...Read more
Missouri abortion rights supporters see hope in election results. Opponents say not so fast
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The overwhelming defeat of two major Republican initiatives on the primary election ballot last week is giving abortion rights supporters hope that similarly energized voters will head to the polls in November.
A day after Missourians rejected plans to phase out the state income tax and make it harder to amend the ...Read more
Rep. Lauren Boebert's son arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, court records show
DENVER — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son was arrested last week on three felony charges related to sexual exploitation of a child, court records show.
Tyler Boebert, 21, was arrested in Garfield County and was released from the county’s jail on Sunday, jail records show. Court records indicate he was arrested on suspicion of five felonies,...Read more
Trump orders childhood shots to be split up, citing autism cases
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would recommend breaking up the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three separate shots and unilaterally overhauling the national childhood vaccination recommendations.
The order signed Monday also calls for childhood immunizations to be given at separate ...Read more
August recess was saved. The GOP's voter ID bill, not so much
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his closest allies on Capitol Hill said they’re willing to do whatever it takes to pass the so-called SAVE America Act before the midterms — except follow through on threats to cancel August recess.
A group of ultraconservative House Republicans and even a few GOP senators lobbied for the chamber to...Read more
Trump wins permission to revise BBC suit to remove brand damage
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump won court permission to revise his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corp. by excluding his earlier claim that a 12-second clip in a documentary caused massive financial damage to his business.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman in Miami could spare Trump’s ...Read more
Commentary: Donald Trump's design depravity and disregard for expertise
In June 2014, it seemed the entire city was upset when a certain New York real estate developer added five 20-foot-tall serifed letters spelling his name to the 16th floor of his eponymous tower facing the Chicago River.
That moment and the ensuing kerfuffle seem quite quaint now.
That unexpected design move — which defaced what is arguably ...Read more
Rep. Lauren Boebert's son arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, court records show
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son was arrested last week on three felony charges related to sexual exploitation of a child, court records show.
Tyler Boebert, 21, was arrested in Garfield County, Colorado, and was released from the county’s jail on Sunday, jail records show. Court records indicate he was arrested on suspicion of five felonies,...Read more
Democrat Ed Case bucks insurgent trend in deep-blue Hawaii district
The Democratic Party’s anti-incumbent wave has skipped Hawaii, with centrist Rep. Ed Case handily defeating state Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole in this weekend’s primary.
Case, 73, who’s spent more than a decade in the House across two separate stints, was leading Keohokalole, 60 to 36% as of Sunday morning, with 91% of votes counted in the ...Read more
Minnesota candidates race to the finish in high-stakes primary
The mud was thick, the dogs were everywhere and duck calls blared almost constantly across the Game Fair grounds in Ramsey on Sunday, occasionally interrupted by the crack of a shotgun somewhere in the distance.
Through it all, Minnesota’s political campaigns were making their final pitches.
Two men in square-toed cowboy boots walked past a ...Read more
Trump's attacks fuel Supreme Court's sinking public approval
The U.S. Supreme Court has a reputation problem. And Donald Trump’s attacks are making it worse.
In the weeks since an ideologically divisive term ended, polls show the court getting poor approval ratings, with one survey finding record low support. The president’s tirades after losing cases have fueled a slide among Republicans, ...Read more
In Connecticut, John Larson brushes aside calls for generational change
BRISTOL, Conn. – John B. Larson has a booming voice, a thick head of white hair and almost 14 terms in Congress under his belt.
But at 78, the Democrat still sees himself as the scrappy kid raised in public housing in a working-class Hartford suburb.
“I’m proud to stand with labor because I know what side of the street I grew up on,’�...Read more
The manager at Trump's North Jersey golf club set up the botched renovation of the Reflecting Pool, according to a NYT investigation
The person who set up the botched renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington is the manager at President Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, according to an investigation by The New York Times.
The Times found that David Schutzenhofer, who has run the Trump Organization’s golf club in North Jersey since...Read more
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- Missouri abortion rights supporters see hope in election results. Opponents say not so fast
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- Trump cites unproven autism risk in attack on childhood vaccines
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