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Just how long should a Supreme Court justice stay around?

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WASHINGTON — In late June, around the time the U.S. Supreme Court wraps up its current term, Justice Sonia Sotomayor will turn 70.

Is that old enough to retire?

For most Americans, that’s a simple question: More than 80% of Americans age 70 or older have left the labor force. Among those still working, a large share say they would retire ...Read more

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Donald Trump talks inflation, Iron Dome, Biden and bacon at Minnesota GOP dinner

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MINNEAPOLIS — Former President Donald Trump headlined the state Republican Party's annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner on Friday in St. Paul, repeatedly ripping President Joe Biden, promising to fight to turn Minnesota red and return to one-day voting and paper ballots.

"We want a landslide in your state and we want a landslide in our nation that is...Read more

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Joe Biden's Atlanta trip highlights duel for Black voters with Donald Trump

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President Joe Biden is stepping up a push to reach Black voters with weekend trips to students in Atlanta and business leaders in Detroit, signaling his need to lock in a bloc that’s critical to his reelection chances in November.

While overwhelming support from Black voters was key to Biden’s victory in 2020, there’s concern among his ...Read more

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Maduro Bets He Can Crush Venezuela's Opposition in an Open Vote

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CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is convinced he can win July’s presidential elections without resorting to fraud.

But, if he’s wrong, he also has backup plans to cling on to power, according to people who are in contact with the administration, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive political strategy....Read more

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Donald Trump talks inflation, Biden and bacon to Minnesota GOP donors, leaders and activists

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Former President Donald Trump headlined the state Republican Party's annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner on Friday in St. Paul, repeatedly ripping President Joe Biden and promising to fight to turn Minnesota red for the first time since 1972.

"This is an official expansion of the electoral map," Trump said of his appearance in ...Read more

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Colorado voters will decide abortion rights question after constitutional amendment qualifies for ballot

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DENVER — Colorado voters in November will decide whether to make abortion a state constitutional right after the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office announced Friday that backers of a ballot initiative had gathered enough signatures.

Advocates for the measure turned in 159,930 valid signatures last month — more than enough to place the ...Read more

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Donald Trump's claim in New Jersey that Democrats want to 'execute babies' is one of many GOP abortion falsehoods

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Former President Donald Trump recently told a crowd of thousands in Wildwood, New Jersey, the baseless claim that Democrats want to pass an abortion law that enables doctors to “execute” newborns.

“If the radical Democrat extremists get their way,” Trump said during his May 11 rally, “they will have a federal law — an abortion in ...Read more

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Biden twice makes false claim that inflation was 9% when he took office

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President Joe Biden erroneously said twice in one week that inflation was at 9% when he took office in 2021.

In reality, inflation stood at 1.4% when Biden assumed the presidency in January of 2021.

Biden made the false statements in interviews with CNN on May 8, and with Yahoo Finance on Wednesday.

“No president has had the run we’ve had...Read more

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Voters prefer Trump over Biden on economy. This data shows why

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Americans give Donald Trump the edge over Joe Biden on the economy in poll after poll.

That’s even as the Biden years have been the best time to find work since the 1960s, and the U.S. has bounced back from the pandemic with stronger growth than international peers such as the European Union, United Kingdom and Japan and stronger growth ...Read more

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President Biden plans to travel to Boston next week

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BOSTON — President Biden plans to travel to Boston next week after making a stop in New Hampshire, according to a schedule released Friday morning.

Exact details of what Biden will do in the hub were not immediately available but he is expected to head to New Hampshire on Tuesday. It will be the president’s second trip to the Granite State ...Read more

Republicans sue Georgia's DeKalb County over outside election funding info

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ATLANTA — The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit claiming DeKalb County violated state open records laws by failing to turn over documents related to its acceptance of an election grant.

Last year the county accepted a $2 million grant from the Alliance for Election Excellence, a nonprofit group. Republicans say the grant ...Read more

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Harvard University slammed by Republican House committee for not addressing 'explosion of virulent antisemitism'

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BOSTON — A Republican-led House committee that has put Harvard University under the microscope is calling out university leadership for not addressing “the explosion of virulent antisemitism” on campus.

The House Education and the Workforce Committee — which grilled the Harvard, MIT and Penn leaders over their handling of antisemitism ...Read more

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito under fire over upside-down US flag after 2020 election

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has been mired in controversy since it was revealed that an upside-down flag flew outside his Virginia home in the aftermath of the 2020 election, a time when many claimed President Joe Biden stole the White House from Donald Trump.

The New York Times on Thursday published photos of the inverted flag, ...Read more

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Biden kicks off outreach to Black voters as protest threat looms at Morehouse

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has kicked off a series of actions and public appearances aimed at selling his record to Black voters, a key bloc that typically votes Democratic but could tip the election by staying home in November in big numbers.

“We have a whole group of people out there trying to rewrite history, trying to erase ...Read more

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Republican Janelle King appointed to Georgia election board

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ATLANTA — House Speaker Jon Burns on Friday appointed Janelle King, a media personality and former deputy director of the Georgia Republican Party, to the State Election Board, which investigates allegations of fraud and creates election rules.

King is the co-chairwoman of the conservative political action committee Let’s Win For America ...Read more

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Will Donald Trump be a lifeline or liability for Minnesota Republicans?

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MINNEAPOLIS — Former President Donald Trump's visit to Minnesota is energizing Republicans as they prepare to battle for control of the state House in November.

They're hoping Trump's presence on the ticket, and his reported focus on winning Minnesota, will help them pick up House seats in rural areas and possibly some blue-collar suburbs —...Read more

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Biden sets Saturday event in Atlanta ahead of Morehouse speech

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ATLANTA — President Joe Biden plans to meet with Black voters in Atlanta on Saturday ahead of his closely watched commencement speech at Morehouse College, the latest in the Democrat’s escalating efforts to shore up his support with a crucial constituency.

The campaign announced the visit on Friday in tandem with a memo outlining Biden’s ...Read more

Modi’s anti-Muslim rhetoric taps into Hindu replacement fears that trace back to colonial India

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The world’s largest election is currently under way in India, with more than 960 million people registered to vote over a period of six weeks. Spearheading the campaign for his Bharatiya Janata Party, incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi is spending that time crisscrossing the country, delivering a message he hopes will result in a ...Read more

Some states’ populations are very much like the US overall – including 5 key states in the 2024 presidential election

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Five of the seven states widely expected to be political battlegrounds in the 2024 presidential election have populations very much like that of the U.S. overall, in a range of demographic and socioeconomic measures.

For decades, the presidential selection season has begun with the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. But in ...Read more

Attempted assassination of Slovak prime minister follows country’s slide into political polarization

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The assassination attempt against Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has been widely condemned by world leaders as an attack on democracy.

In Slovakia, the violent act similarly saw a unified response from the country’s deeply divided political leaders. But how long this lasts is uncertain. Just as outgoing Slovakian president –...Read more