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Trump stop at NYPD officer's wake stirs sharp contrast with Biden's long-planned Radio City fundraiser, experts say

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NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump on Thursday headed to the tearful Long Island wake for slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller while President Joe Biden jetted into the city for a swanky Manhattan fundraiser.

That could amount to a split screen made in MAGA heaven as Trump seeks to take advantage of the contrast, political analysts said. ...Read more

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Court says South Carolina can use current congressional map

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WASHINGTON — South Carolina can use its current congressional map for the fall election, a panel of federal judges ruled Thursday, finding the U.S. Supreme Court has taken too long to decide an appeal over a ruling that the map is likely unconstitutional.

Last year, the three-judge panel found the state’s congressional map likely was ...Read more

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Trump lawyer: Ex-president cannot be charged for false statements

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The charges against former President Donald Trump in the Fulton County election interference case should be dismissed because he cannot be criminally charged for political speech that is protected under the First Amendment, his lawyer argued Thursday.

“When you look at the allegations against President Trump, all of the allegations — all of...Read more

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Biden raises $25 million in NYC, extending cash lead over Trump

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President Joe Biden will raise $25 million in a one-day New York fundraising bonanza, flexing his political and organizational muscles in the face of Donald Trump.

Biden is raising money Thursday with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton from more than 5,000 supporters at Radio City Music Hall, a unique gathering designed to expand his already-large ...Read more

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Jewish Democratic group backs George Latimer over Rep. Jamaal Bowman

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NEW YORK — A prominent national Jewish Democratic group Thursday endorsed Westchester County Executive George Latimer’s primary challenge to Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a key critic of Israel and the war in Gaza.

The Jewish Democratic Council of America cites Latimer’s “decades of support for the Jewish community and allyship” on a variety of...Read more

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Analysis: 'Take the money and run': Obama, Clinton to raise campaign cash for Biden at A-list NYC event

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WASHINGTON — Celebrities Mindy Kaling, Stephen Colbert, Queen Latifah and Lizzo will attend a pricey Radio City Music Hall function Thursday night. Actor Lea Michele and the multitalented Ben Platt also will be there in New York.

But the main draw will be a rarity in American culture and politics: Three of the six living men who have been ...Read more

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Florida Supreme Court issues no rulings today, leaving decision on abortion-access amendment pending

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida voters must continue to wait to learn whether they will get to vote in November to make abortion access a guaranteed right under the state constitution.

The Florida Supreme Court typically issues opinions on Thursday mornings at 11 a.m. and is expected to decide by April 1 on whether abortion access can be on ...Read more

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Judge rules Georgia Republican Party vice chairman voted illegally

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ATLANTA — A judge ruled Wednesday that the Georgia Republican Party’s first vice chairman, Brian K. Pritchard, violated state election laws when he voted nine times while serving probation for a felony check forgery sentence.

Pritchard, a conservative talk show host, must pay a $5,000 fine and receive a public reprimand from the State ...Read more

What the Supreme Court's abortion pill case could mean for California

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LOS ANGELES — Lee had just been dumped when she found out she was pregnant.

With no car, no job and no support, the 23-year-old — who asked that her last name be withheld for medical privacy — ended up at the virtual clinic Hey Jane, where she was quickly assessed and prescribed abortion medication.

Four months later, thousands of ...Read more

Biden raises $25 million in NYC, extending cash lead over Trump

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President Joe Biden will raise $25 million in a one-day New York fundraising bonanza, flexing his political and organizational muscles in the face of Donald Trump.

Biden is raising money Thursday with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton from more than 5,000 supporters at Radio City Music Hall, a unique gathering designed to expand his already-large ...Read more

Maduro tests limits of Biden administration's fair-election deal

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Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has so brazenly disrespected his promise for free and fair elections that allies in Colombia and Brazil took to publicly condemning his crackdown on the opposition.

Barring the opposition’s primary winner, Maria Corina Machado, and her little-known substitute, Corina Yoris, from running in this year’s...Read more

The amazing story of the man who created the latest narco-state in the Americas, and how the United States helped him every step of the way − until now

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When Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted by a federal jury in Manhattan in early March 2024, it marked a spectacular fall from grace: from being courted in the U.S. as a friendly head of state to facing the rest of his life behind bars, convicted of cocaine importation and weapons offenses.

“Juan Orlando Hernández abused his ...Read more

Moscow terror attack showed growing reach of ISIS-K – could the US be next?

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A deadly attack in Moscow on March 22, 2024, exposed the vulnerability of the Russian capital to the threat of the Islamic State group and its affiliate ISIS-K. But it also displayed the reach of the network, leading some terror experts to ponder: Could a U.S. city be next?

There has not been a mass casualty assault in the U.S. ...Read more

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Editorial: On medication abortion, the Supreme Court may actually do the right thing

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It always seemed farfetched that anti-abortion doctors could argue that they have the right to ask a court to severely restrict a drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration simply because they don’t want to treat women who might experience complications.

Do they even have standing to bring this case? Do they have any proof they ...Read more

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Editorial: Ideology over medicine: Arguments against mifepristone for abortions are pretext

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For more than two decades, the pharmaceutical mifepristone, used in tandem with misoprostol, has been allowing Americans to have safe and effective medication abortions at home, saving the expense and complexity of clinical visits. Medically speaking, the compound has side effects so infrequent that it is statistically safer than common over-the...Read more

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Commentary: Trump just got a break in one case against him. But his luck was running out in another

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The courts give, and the courts take away. And in a whirlwind couple of hours on Monday, they took a fair bit more from Donald Trump than they gave him.

The helping hand Trump got from one court, reducing the bond he had to post to protect his empire from a civil fraud penalty, was more than requited by the slap delivered by the judge poised to...Read more

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Biden is racing to shift marijuana policy, courting young voters

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WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris looked up from prepared remarks in the White House's ornate Roosevelt Room this month to make sure the reporters in the room could hear her clearly: "Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed."

Harris' "marijuana reform roundtable" was a striking reminder of how the politics have shifted for a...Read more

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Editorial: America's energy boom has helped with global security. Biden should leave well alone

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North America’s amazing energy boom has been a huge plus for U.S. domestic security over the past decade. Thanks to the rise of shale fracking and other game-changing technologies, the U.S. and Canada have produced more oil and gas than ever before, reducing the need for imports while breathing life into export markets.

This oil-and-gas ...Read more

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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