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Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, forever changing baseball and society.
Robinson was Black, and the integration of all-white major league baseball was perhaps the most important story about civil rights in the years immediately following World War II.
The integration, Jules ...Read more
Editorial: A middle ground in the Trump immunity case
Donald Trump has made sweeping claims of presidential immunity in an effort to fend off two criminal prosecutions by special prosecutor Jack Smith. Smith, on the other hand, contends that the office of the presidency imports no special protection from the reach of the law.
There are problems with both arguments. No president can be above the ...Read more
Editorial: Immune to logic: Donald Trump's nonsensical argument before the Supreme Court
Thursday, the American public witnessed — or heard, rather, given the Supreme Court’s stubborn refusal to allow cameras in its courtroom — a bewildering moment. We heard as the lawyer for a former president of the United States argued before our nation’s highest court that the president is effectively a king, above the law unless his ...Read more
Editorial: Idaho Republican legislators wouldn't fix abortion law. It's up to the Supreme Court
Idaho’s medical community has been saying for the past two years — since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — that Idaho’s strict abortion ban is jeopardizing medical care when the health of the mother is at risk.
Idaho’s abortion laws take into account only risks to the life of the mother.
The laws are the subject of a ...Read more
Mexican presidential candidate Xochitl Galvez readies for a must-win debate
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s opposition presidential candidate Xochitl Galvez is running out of opportunities to mount a serious challenge against President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s anointed successor, trailing by a wide margin in polling just five weeks before election day.
On Sunday, in the second of three debates against front-runner ...Read more
Biden enacts most sweeping reform of gun exports in decades
WASHINGTON — To curb the use of U.S.-made civilian guns in crimes and human rights abuses abroad, the Biden administration will require exporters to better vet their customers and tighten sales to 36 countries deemed “high-risk” for illicit diversion of semiautomatic firearms.
The new rules — the most sweeping in decades — also cut ...Read more
Judge denies South Carolina 3rd Congressional District hopeful's request to stop ballot printing
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A congressional hopeful’s effort to be on GOP ballot in June received a blow when a federal judge Thursday denied his request to stop ballot printing with his name left off.
Michael LaPierre, who filed to run as a Republican in the 3rd Congressional District but was not allowed to be on the ballot, sued the S.C. GOP and ...Read more
Trump at hush money trial wishes Melania 'happy birthday' as Pecker testimony about trysts continues
NEW YORK — Donald Trump wished his wife Melania a happy birthday walking into his hush money trial Friday — a day after former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker said the former president never mentioned worrying about what she thought about his alleged affairs at the heart of the state’s case against him.
“I want to start by ...Read more
Trump 'hush money' trial: Key takeaways from week one
The opening week of Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial offered plenty of insights into how his 2016 presidential campaign teamed up with a tabloid publisher to silence embarrassing stories from women who said they’d had extramarital affairs with him.
David Pecker, the former chief executive of the firm that published the National ...Read more
Why Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2003 tabloid deal came up at Trump's hush money trial
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s past personal foibles reemerged in the trial of former President Donald Trump over allegations of a hush money payment to a porn star in an attempt to cover up their sexual relationship.
Former National Enquirer Publisher David Pecker testified this week that he was reluctant to pay off a Playboy...Read more
Rep. Jamaal Bowman under fire for legacy admissions 'hypocrisy' as congressional primary race heats up
NEW YORK — Legacies for me, but not for thee.
Two years ago, Rep. Jamaal Bowman introduced a bill in Congress seeking to prohibit preferential admissions for legacy applicants at colleges — but a video recently unearthed by the New York Daily News shows two of his own children benefited from a version of that very system.
Bowman revealed ...Read more
In interview with Howard Stern, Biden says he considered suicide after death of first wife and daughter
NEW YORK — President Biden Friday said he considered killing himself after his first wife and baby daughter died in a car crash shortly after he won election as a U.S. senator.
In an interview with radio host Howard Stern, Biden admitted being distraught after his first wife, Neilia, and 18-month-old daughter, Naomi, died in a 1972 crash.
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Trump at hush money trial wishes Melania 'happy birthday' as testimony about trysts continues
NEW YORK — Donald Trump walked into his hush money trial Friday and wished his wife Melania a happy birthday — the day after former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified Trump never mentioned worrying about what she thought about his alleged affairs at the heart of the state’s case against him.
“I want to start by wishing ...Read more
Trump at hush money trial wishes Melania 'happy birthday' as testimony about trysts continue
NEW YORK — Donald Trump walked into his hush money trial Friday and wished his wife Melania a happy birthday – the day after former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified Trump, after he announced his candidacy, never mentioned worrying about what she thought about his alleged affairs at the heart of the state’s case against ...Read more
Derek Schmidt, former Kansas AG, launches campaign for Congress promising to 'fight back'
Former Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is running for Congress, echoing former President Donald Trump’s slogan “make America great again” as he attempts a political comeback following his narrow loss in the 2022 governor’s race.
Schmidt’s campaign for Kansas’ 2nd Congressional District, announced Friday, comes a week after Rep...Read more
Trump wishes Melania “happy birthday” at hush money trial as testimony about trysts continue
NEW YORK — Donald Trump walked into his hush money trial Friday and wished his wife Melania a happy birthday – the day after former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified Trump, after he announced his candidacy, never mentioned worrying about what she thought about his alleged affairs at the heart of the state’s case against ...Read more
Trump is having a bad week. Will it matter in the election?
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump's tough week showed as well as any to date why he is facing a new and unprecedented reality as a presidential candidate — as he ping-ponged among a dizzying array of court appearances, judicial rulings, competing allegations and subsequent grievances.
By Thursday, he was complaining about the ...Read more
Analysis: What to watch during what could be Biden's final White House correspondents' dinner
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden’s aviator sunglasses likely won’t be far away Saturday night when the president cracks some jokes at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. But not everyone will be laughing during Washington’s yearly spectacle — even if “Dark Brandon” makes another appearance.
That’s Biden’s ...Read more
Colorado's 3rd District prepares for epic, costly election battle -- even without Lauren Boebert
DENVER — Since U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert opted to change her address to one clear across the state late last year, the race for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District has fallen out of the media glare that seemingly shines on the controversial Republican congresswoman wherever she goes.
But Colorado’s largest district by land mass — ...Read more
Philadelphia has a lot more deadly shootings than expected for a big city − and NYC is much safer, new study says
Recent high-profile mass shootings at SEPTA bus stations have left Philadelphia commuters on high alert. Two gunmen opened fire at a bus stop in the Ogontz neighborhood on March 4, 2024, striking five people and killing 17-year-old Dayemen Taylor. Two days later, a group of teenagers shot eight other teens waiting at a bus stop near Northeast...Read more
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