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Down to the wire: Joe Simitian leads Evan Low by 12 votes in race to replace U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo in California
SAN JOSE, California — After nearly two weeks of counting ballots, Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian leads state Assemblymember Evan Low by just 12 votes in California’s Congressional District 16 race.
The two veteran lawmakers are vying for a spot in the November general election to face former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, who ...Read more
Fewer Georgia voting machines proposed as Senate panel passes election bills
ATLANTA — Georgia senators advanced a series of election-related proposals Monday that would reduce the number of voting machines on election day, require more audits and post pictures of ballots online.
The bill package arrived in the final days of Georgia’s annual legislative session as the Republican-controlled General Assembly sets ...Read more
Texas doctors 'really scared' amid vague abortion laws. Will state board clarify exceptions? <em> </em>
FORT WORTH, Texas — Confusion around Texas’ abortion law has scared doctors, who worry they could be prosecuted, fined or lose their medical license for performing an abortion procedure when a patient’s life or health is at risk.
The Texas Medical Board could offer some clarity, but some Texas OB-GYNs are warning about the difficulties of...Read more
Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen can testify at Trump hush money trial, judge rules
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, porn star Stormy Daniels, Playboy model Karen McDougal and a Trump Tower doorman — all of whom prosecutors allege Donald Trump paid to stay silent about a series of sex scandals to win the presidency — may all take the stand at his Manhattan criminal trial, a judge ordered Tuesday.
In a set of rulings ensuring ...Read more
Pro-Trump lawyer Stefanie Lambert arrested on bench warrant in Washington, D.C.
DETROIT — Stefanie Lambert, a Michigan lawyer who has championed dubious claims of election fraud, was arrested in Washington, D.C., Monday afternoon because of a bench warrant, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service.
The arrest ended an 11-day saga of uncertainty that played out after Oakland County Circuit Court Judge ...Read more
Trump can't come up with full $454 million bond owed NY attorney general while he appeals fraud ruling
NEW YORK — Donald Trump can’t come up with almost half a billion dollars he owes the New York attorney general for committing large-scale fraud, his lawyers told an appeals court Monday.
With one week to go before the former president’s deadline to put down at least $454 million to appeal the mammoth judgment without its consequences ...Read more
Trump, co-defendants ask to appeal judge's decision not to remove DA Willis
ATLANTA — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump and seven co-defendants in the Fulton County election interference case are asking a Superior Court judge for permission to appeal his recent decision that has kept District Attorney Fani Willis at the helm of the prosecution.
The defendants on Monday requested that Judge Scott McAfee ...Read more
Trump, co-defendants ask to appeal judge's decision not to remove DA Willis
ATLANTA — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump and seven co-defendants in the Fulton election interference case are asking a Superior Court judge for permission to appeal his recent decision that has kept District Attorney Fani Willis at the helm of the prosecution.
The defendants on Monday requested that Judge Scott McAfee grant a so-...Read more
Missouri attorney general says government censored social media. The Supreme Court seemed skeptical
WASHINGTON — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey emerged from the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, into a biting spring wind and declared that the federal government violated the First Amendment by coercing social media to censor content on their websites.
“We believe that the justices will make the right decision here,” Bailey said, ...Read more
Procedural hoops could drag wrapup spending bill into weekend
WASHINGTON — House GOP and Biden administration negotiators were closing in on a fiscal 2024 Homeland Security spending deal Monday, even as agencies face a potential brief appropriations lapse this weekend with time running tight.
Appropriators will need time to put the finishing touches on the Homeland Security bill following the White ...Read more
Former Georgia official Geoff Duncan passes on No Labels presidential bid
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he won’t launch a third-party presidential bid with the No Labels movement.
“It was an honor to be approached, and I am grateful to all those who are engaged in good-faith efforts to offer Americans a better choice than the Trump vs. Biden rematch,” Duncan ...Read more
2,000 pages of 'confidential' Dominion emails dumped on social media
DETROIT — A new social media account using the name and photo of Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf released Sunday more than 2,100 pages of emails from employees of Dominion Voting Systems as the company maintained Leaf got improper access to internal messages through the breach of a court order.
An account on the website X with the handle @...Read more
Trump can't come up with full $454 million bond owed NY attorney general while he appeals fraud ruling
NEW YORK — Donald Trump cannot come up with almost half a billion dollars he owes the New York attorney general for committing large-scale fraud, according to court papers filed Monday.
With one week to go before the former president’s deadline to put down at least $454 million while he appeals the mammoth judgment, Trump’s lawyers in ...Read more
Biden team eyes expanding map to Texas, Florida despite Trump leads
WASHINGTON — Biden campaign officials said Monday they see “multiple paths” to President Joe Biden winning reelection, targeting a handful of swing states — and even trying to grab states he lost to Donald Trump in 2020.
“From day one, the Biden-Harris campaign has firmly believed this race will be won on the ground across key states ...Read more
Trump tries to walk back rant, threat of 'bloodbath' if Biden beats him
Former President Trump scrambled Monday to walk back his weekend rant that the country would be plunged into a “BLOODBATH” if he doesn’t win back the White House.
After a day of controversy over his remarks, Trump asserted that he was only discussing the auto industry and not calling for violence if President Biden wins reelection in ...Read more
Missouri says the Biden administration censored speech. The Supreme Court will judge
WASHINGTON — In March 2021, as COVID-19 vaccines were increasingly available to the general public, officials inside the Biden administration were growing frustrated.
The administration had launched an aggressive campaign urging people to get the shot, hoping it would put the deadly pandemic in the past. Instead it kept bumping into a major ...Read more
Supreme Court sounds reluctant to curb US social media outreach
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready Monday to allow Biden administration officials to communicate with social media companies, as multiple justices sounded skeptical that the government violated free speech rights when it encouraged the removal of posts with misinformation.
The justices heard oral arguments over a ruling from the U....Read more
Trump can't come up with full $454 million bond owed NY attorney general while he appeals fraud ruling
NEW YORK — Donald Trump is unable to come up with almost half a billion dollars he owes the New York attorney general for committing large-scale fraud, according to court papers filed Monday.
With one week to go before the former president’s deadline to put down at least $454 million while he appeals the mammoth judgment, Trump’s lawyers ...Read more
Commentary: Fani Willis' prosecution of Donald Trump may be alive, but it isn't well
Special prosecutor Nathan Wade’s resignation Friday from the Georgia racketeering prosecution of Donald Trump and others was the right decision and, indeed, a virtually forced one. Judge Scott McAfee’s resolution of a defense motion to disqualify Wade’s boss, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, left no practical alternative.
But ...Read more
Biden and Trump, though old, are both likely to survive to the end of the next president’s term, demographers explain
In a recent poll, 67% of Americans surveyed believe that President Joe Biden, 81, is too old to serve another term as president. But only 41% of respondents said they feel that way about former President Donald Trump, who is 77. Both men have stumbled around and have forgotten or mixed up names and events, which are behaviors that ...Read more
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