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Editorial: The world's worst sore loser: Donald Trump will never play fair
Asked last week by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel if he would accept the outcome of the November election, Donald Trump responded: “If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that. If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country. If you go back and look at all of the things that had been found...Read more
Editorial: Biden expanded two national monuments in California. Three more to go
President Joe Biden’s move Thursday to expand two national monuments in California is unquestionably good news for our climate and environment.
One proclamation will increase the size of San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by nearly one third, adding more than 105,000 acres of mountains and foothills above communities from Sylmar to ...Read more
Editorial: Biden's spending spree hitting deficit wall
Since taking office in 2021, President Joe Biden has been spending money like he’s printing it in the basement. Now, his giddy check-writing days are coming back to bite him.
On the chopping block: funding for Biden’s “Cancer Moonshot,” his ambitious program to end cancer as we know it.
It’s a laudable ambition, one that could impact...Read more
Prosecutors in Trump's hush money case unveil potentially damning paper trail
NEW YORK — A potential smoking gun shown to jurors at Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush money trial on Monday appeared to harm his defense that money doled out to Michael Cohen from the White House was for payment for legitimate legal services — and not reimbursement for paying off a porn star.
The document displayed was a bank statement ...Read more
Judge Merchan threatens Trump with jail time for gag order violations in hush money trial
NEW YORK — Donald Trump was threatened with jail time by Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan on Monday after being found in criminal contempt again for the tenth violation of a gag order in his hush money case.
In his sternest warning yet, Merchan, in stunning courtroom remarks, said it appeared the $1,000 fines he has issued for Trump’s ...Read more
House Democrats push to put protections for equal rights, abortion on Minnesota's ballot in 2026
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Democrats in the House made the case on Monday to pass an expansive version of the Equal Rights Amendment, one that would ask voters in 2026 if they want to enshrine protections for everything from race, sex and gender identity to abortion and infertility treatments in the state's Constitution.
The amendment, which ...Read more
Maduro ponders next move as lead of opposition candidate skyrockets heading into election
A political ploy designed by Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro to regain international legitimacy through heavily manipulated elections appears to be spiraling out of control for the socialist leader as support for a previously unknown rival reaches apparently insurmountable levels.
A new poll over the weekend shows that opposition candidate...Read more
Trump, Biden eye new swing states but analysts have doubts
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Donald Trump are trying to create new battleground states, a signal the general election outcome could rival Saturday’s photo finish in the Kentucky Derby. But such efforts likely will come up short, experts say.
Each of the presumptive presidential nominees is taking shots at the other’s competence ...Read more
Judge Merchan threatens Trump with jail time for gag order violations in hush money trial
NEW YORK — Donald Trump was threatened with jail time by Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan on Monday after being found in criminal contempt again for the tenth violation of a gag order in his hush money case.
In his sternest warning yet, Merchan, in stunning courtroom remarks, said it appeared the $1,000 fines he has issued for Trump’s ...Read more
Bernie Sanders announces 2024 Senate reelection bid
NEW YORK — Sen. Bernie Sanders Monday announced he will run for reelection for a fourth term from Vermont in 2024.
The progressive two-time presidential candidate, who would be 89 years old at the end of a forthcoming six-year term, said in a video that he has unfinished business fighting for working people and the environment.
A self-...Read more
Election complaint spotlights need for training on who is authorized to handle machines
CHICAGO — The Lake County Election Board Saturday said they will use complaints filed against a Dyer man serving as a deputy election commissioner in November stemming from his actions on Election Day as a teachable moment for election workers.
Five election workers filed complaints in January against Kyle Rizzo, whom they alleged failed to ...Read more
Funk and circumstance: Music icon George Clinton collects honorary degree at college in SC
ROCK HILL, S.C. — Who needs pomp and circumstance when you can give up the funk, instead?
The Mothership arrived in Rock Hill on Friday afternoon, as music icon George Clinton accepted an honorary doctorate degree from the college named for his great-great-grandfather, Bishop Isom Caleb Clinton.
"Today in Rock Hill, South Carolina," Clinton ...Read more
Michigan GOP Rep. Bezotte disqualified from ballot after surprise entry into race
DETROIT — Michigan Rep. Bob Bezotte has been disqualified from the Republican primary ballot in his efforts to seek re-election to the state House.
The disqualification, listed in online Livingston County candidate filing records, comes after a complaint was filed last month challenging Bezotte's affidavit of identify, arguing it misstated ...Read more
Ex-Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade: Fani Willis affair was 'American as apple pie'
Ex-prosecutor Nathan Wade Monday defended himself over the affair with Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis that threatened to derail the Georgia RICO election interference case against former President Donald Trump.
Breaking his silence over the affair, Wade insisted there was nothing particularly earth-shattering about the fact he ...Read more
Judge Merchan threatens Trump with jail time for gag order violations in hush money trial: Live updates
NEW YORK — Donald Trump was threatened with jail time by Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan on Monday after being found in criminal contempt again for the tenth violation of a gag order in his hush-money case.
In his sternest warning yet, Merchan, in stunning courtroom remarks, said it appeared the $1,000 fines he has issued for Trump’s ...Read more
Harry Dunn brings 'searing' Jan. 6 memories to contentious Maryland US House race
BALTIMORE — Harry Dunn had a moment — between the madness of Jan. 6, 2021, and the swearing-in of President Joe Biden two weeks later — in which something crystallized.
The U.S. Capitol Police officer was on duty at the building’s West Front, which commands a picture-postcard view from on high of the National Mall with the Washington ...Read more
Democrats contend Republicans are using Michigan lawsuits to sow election doubts
LANSING, Mich. — The Democratic National Committee submitted briefs Monday against two election lawsuits brought by Republicans in Michigan courts, arguing the GOP was attempting to "undermine faith in our electoral system."
The filings spotlighted Michigan as a crucial battleground state, six months before the November election, and also ...Read more
After years of partisan feuding, California's new generation of Congress members tries to get along. Will it work?
WASHINGTON — Over homemade tacos at a Capitol Hill row home, several of California's members of Congress did something unusual last year: they gathered for a bipartisan, home-cooked meal where politics were not on the menu.
The table full of Republicans and Democrats represented an opening salvo in a push by some of the state's newest ...Read more
Trump promises to deport all undocumented immigrants, resurrecting a 1950s strategy − but it didn’t work then and is less likely to do so now
While campaigning in Iowa last September, former President Donald Trump made a promise to voters if he were elected again: “Following the Eisenhower model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” he said. Trump, who made a similar pledge during his first presidential campaign, has recently ...Read more
Editorial: More incoherence from the Biden White House
Democrats insist they’re committed to promoting “affordable” housing. Yet virtually every policy they propose in that regard actually makes housing more expensive.
In March, the White House issued a news release explaining, “President (Joe) Biden believes housing costs are too high, and significant investments are needed to address the ...Read more
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