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Judge recommends disbarring attorney who aided Trump

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Another defendant in the Georgia election interference case may lose his license to practice law for aiding Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

John Eastman devised questionable legal theories that Trump used to try to persuade state legislators and Vice President Mike Pence to reject Democrat Joe Biden’s ...Read more

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Judge skeptical of Hunter Biden's effort to dismiss tax case as politically motivated

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LOS ANGELES — Lawyers for Hunter Biden asked a federal judge in Los Angeles to throw out nine tax-related charges, arguing that the president’s son is being vindictively prosecuted by the Justice Department and had his rights trampled by two IRS agents who publicly revealed his confidential tax records.

At a hearing Wednesday, U.S. District...Read more

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Trump says RFK Jr. is 'Biden's political opponent' and good for MAGA

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Environmental lawyer and long-shot presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced his running mate, and it was apparently enough to catch the attention of the 45th president.

Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, was either up very late or very early Wednesday morning, when he took to his Truth ...Read more

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Florida's lost its battleground sheen. Biden is courting its Hispanic voters anyway

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President Joe Biden’s campaign isn’t ready to give up on Florida just yet.

Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband and a top Biden campaign surrogate, joined Florida Democratic officials in Coral Gables on Wednesday to launch the campaign’s Hispanic outreach initiative, Latinos con Biden-Harris, in Florida...Read more

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Biden's re-election campaign to open headquarters in the Lehigh Valley, throughout Pennsylvania

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President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, in coordination with the state Democratic Party, is opening campaign headquarters in the Lehigh Valley.

The office, which will be in the South Side neighborhood of Easton and opens Wednesday, will hold volunteer trainings, recruitments and canvass kick offs.

“Our campaign is investing early and ...Read more

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Former Trump lawyer John Eastman should lose his license, judge rules

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LOS ANGELES — John Eastman, the former California law school dean who helped forge Donald Trump’s legal strategy for retaining power after losing his 2020 presidential bid, should be disbarred, a State Bar Court judge ruled Wednesday.

Judge Yvette Roland’s recommendation to yank the 63-year-old Eastman’s license to practice law in ...Read more

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Democrat wins Alabama swing seat by 25% amid controversy over abortion and IVF

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A Democratic candidate won a swing seat in the Alabama state house by a whopping 25% margin in a race dominated by the controversy over Republican efforts to ban abortion and in-vitro fertilization.

Marilyn Lands, who campaigned on a strongly pro-choice platform, won a special election to fill the suburban Huntsville 10th District, turning ...Read more

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Trump to attend for slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller

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NEW YORK — Former President Trump plans to attend the wake for NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller, the hero cop who was gunned down Monday in Far Rockaway, police said Wednesday.

Trump has told NYPD officials that he will attend the emotional tribute to Diller that is planned for the Massapequa Funeral Home on Long Island Thursday evening.

The ...Read more

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Analysis: Race to House majority runs through the 10 toss-ups

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WASHINGTON — Even with President Joe Biden’s job approval rating stuck underwater, Democrats have a path to the House majority. It just involves winning virtually all of the "toss-up" races.

On the other hand, even though Republicans are seeing their current House majority shrink with each passing resignation, the GOP is better positioned ...Read more

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Missouri Republicans want to enshrine abortion ban in state constitution amid ballot push

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — As Missouri abortion rights groups mount a campaign to overturn the state’s abortion ban, Republican lawmakers are weighing legislation that would enshrine the ban in the state constitution.

A constitutional amendment, filed by Rep. Justin Sparks, a Wildwood Republican, would add the language from the strict abortion ...Read more

Imperfect recall: How a city council fight is roiling Congress

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Several hours had passed on a recent Saturday before a Charles Allen supporter walked by a table of Ward 6 residents hoping to recall the D.C. councilmember and called them “stupid racists.”

It had been an otherwise quiet morning at Eastern Market. One woman muttered, “Go home,” while another stopped and politely said, “I don’t ...Read more

How to have the hard conversations about who really won the 2020 presidential election − before Election Day 2024

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Millions of Americans believe that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. They think Donald Trump won by a landslide in 2020 and lost only because of widespread voter fraud. Some of the people who hold these views are my relatives, neighbors and professional associates. Because I reject these claims, it can be difficult to talk to those ...Read more

Why civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired’

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It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer knew exactly how white authorities in Mississippi felt about Black people voting in the 1960s.

At a rally with Malcolm X in Harlem, New York, on Dec. 20, 1964, Hamer described the brutal beatings she and other Black people endured in Mississippi...Read more

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Editorial: A perfect date for Trump's trial: April 15 for a man who always hides his taxes

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In setting defendant Donald Trump’s felony trial date for three weeks hence on the Stormy Daniels hush money/election inference case, Acting Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said Monday that Trump’s delays to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution were all done. So ordered.

Of all 366 days of this year, ...Read more

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Commentary: We are seeing a lethal shift in America's gun violence crisis

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While gun violence declined last year, a closer look at the data reveals a striking and surprising trend. While the total number of shootings is going down, the lethality of shootings — the odds of someone dying in a shooting — seems to be going up. If that trend holds, it could have massive consequences for gun violence in America, with ...Read more

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Congress eyes $45 million for upkeep of aging Hoover Dam

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A new bill could free up $45 million in federal funds to support maintenance of the almost century-old Hoover Dam as it ages.

In 2000, the Department of Energy’s Western Area Power Administration began collecting about $2 million a year from hydropower users and put that money into an account for dam employees’ retirement benefits.

That ...Read more

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The abortion pill fight isn't over. Foes look to 1873 obscenity law while providers vow to ensure access

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While the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to keep a widely used abortion pill available for now, some conservative justices signaled an interest in considering whether a 151-year-old indecency law should prevent American women from receiving the drug by mail.

A majority of the court indicated during arguments Tuesday they weren’t convinced ...Read more

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NYC judge issues gag order against Trump ahead of Stormy Daniels hush money trial

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NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Tuesday barred Donald Trump from publicly attacking some of his favorite targets — including Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels — ahead of next month’s hush money trial, finding his caustic diatribes against his enemies go “far beyond defending himself.”

Granting the Manhattan district attorney’s ...Read more

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Trump media climbs 16% to $7.9 billion post-SPAC deal valuation

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Former president Donald Trump’s social media startup whipsawed in its first session as a publicly traded company, after the most high-profile blank-check deal in years added billions to his fortune — at least on paper.

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. jumped nearly 59% on Tuesday and briefly triggered a volatility-related ...Read more

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In NC, Biden and Harris talk health care and lowering prescription drug prices

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RALEIGH, N.C. — In Raleigh on Tuesday, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both called health care a right and contrasted their administration’s vision for affordable and accessible health care with congressional Republicans’ latest budget plan.

Biden said they came back to North Carolina to celebrate the Affordable Care...Read more