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Nikki Haley says she will vote for Donald Trump following their disputes during Republican primary
Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she will be voting for Donald Trump in the general election, a notable show of support given their intense and often personal rivalry during the Republican primary calendar. “I will be voting for Trump,” Haley, Trump’s former U.N. ambassador, said during an event at the Hudson Institute in Washington. “Having said that, I stand by what I said in my suspension speech,” Haley added.
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Centrist challenger ousts progressive prosecutor in DA race in Portland, Oregon
Centrist district attorney candidate Nathan Vasquez has ousted the incumbent progressive prosecutor in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, after running a campaign in which he vowed to be tough on crime. One of District Attorney Mike Schmidt’s deputies, Vasquez was endorsed by several police groups. While there was a write in option, Vasquez and Schmidt were the only two candidates in the race.
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Florida hearing in Trump classified documents case devolves into shouting match
During a marathon day of proceedings in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, a morning hearing in front of Judge Aileen Cannon devolved into a shouting match amongst the attorneys, and the afternoon series of arguments prompted the judge to wonder if the legal nuances of the case may be too difficult for jurors to understand.
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Florida Sen. Rick Scott, a close Trump ally, joins race to succeed Mitch McConnell as GOP leader
Florida Sen. Rick Scott said Wednesday that he will run for Senate Republican leader when Mitch McConnell steps down from the post, becoming the third Republican in the race. South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the current No. Republican in the Senate, and Texas Sen. John Cornyn have already announced they are running.
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Here’s Why Republicans Are Focusing on Voting by Noncitizens
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are pushing legislation to crack down on voting by noncitizens, part of an effort to sow doubts about the election outcome and take aim at immigrants who they say have no business participating in elections in the United States. They are planning on Wednesday to push through a bill that would roll back a Washington, D.C., law allowing noncitizen residents of the nation’s capital to vote in local elections. And they are pushing legislation that would require states
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Republican National Committee’s headquarters evacuated after vials of blood are addressed to Trump
The Republican National Committee's Washington headquarters was briefly evacuated on Wednesday as police investigated two vials of blood that had been addressed to former President Donald Trump following the presumptive presidential nominee's takeover of the national party apparatus. Hazardous-materials teams were called in after the vials were discovered, according to the U.S. Capitol Police, who said they would continue to investigate. The vials were addressed to Trump, according to a person
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Biden is forgiving $7.7 billion in student debt. Here's who qualifies.
The Biden administration says it has now wiped away $167 billion of student loans for 4.75 million people, or 1 in every 10 borrowers.
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'Solidarity': All 9 South Dakota Native American tribes endorse Kristi Noem's banishment
Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe voted to formally banish South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem from their lands because of disparaging remarks.
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Congress aims to overhaul presidential ethics rules with a plan led by an unlikely pair of lawmakers
Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House on Wednesday would require presidents and vice presidents to publicly disclose tax returns before, during and after their time in the White House as Congress makes an election-year push to curb foreign influence in American politics. The proposal, led by the unusual pairing of Republican Rep. James Comer and progressive Democratic Rep. Katie Porter, is the latest effort to bolster congressional oversight of presidential ethics as both parties grapp
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FCC to consider rules for AI-generated political ads on TV and radio, but can't touch streaming
The head of the Federal Communications Commission introduced on Wednesday a proposal to require political advertisers to disclose when they use content generated by artificial intelligence in broadcast television and radio ads. If adopted by the five-person commission, the proposal would add a layer of transparency that many lawmakers and AI experts have been calling for as rapidly advancing generative AI tools churn out lifelike images, videos and audio clips that threaten to mislead voters in
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Trial of Sen. Bob Menendez takes a weeklong break after jurors get stuck in elevator
Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial is on a weeklong break after Manhattan federal court jurors got stuck in an elevator.
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Rudy Giuliani agrees to stop accusing Georgia workers of election fraud
Former Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani agreed to stop accusing former Georgia election workers of election fraud, according to court documents made public Tuesday.
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No. 2 US House Republican mulls tying border policy to tax bill next year
U.S. congressional Republicans would aim to pass a slew of tax, border and economic policies through a legislative maneuver that would bypass Democratic objections, if they sweep the Nov. 5 elections, the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives said on Wednesday. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said if Donald Trump wins the presidency and Republicans win the Senate and keep the House, they will use a process called "budget reconciliation" to retain tax cuts enacted when Trump was p
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What is at stake in the 2024 California Senate race?
California's Senate primary set up a likely win for Democrat Adam Schiff but what does the race explain about representation in the state?
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Biden hits Trump over ‘unified Reich’ video but stays silent on trial
“It is not the first time Trump has gone down this road,” the president told attendees at a fundraiser.
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Republican Vince Fong wins race to replace Kevin McCarthy, padding House GOP’s slim majority
Vince Fong won the California special election to fill former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s seat, a victory that will pad a narrow House GOP majority.
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Norway, Ireland, Spain say they are recognizing a Palestinian state in historic move
The three countries said Wednesday they are recognizing a Palestinian state in a historic move that drew condemnation from Israel and jubilation from Palestinians. Israel immediately ordered back its ambassadors from Norway and Ireland.
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California lawmaker Vince Fong wins special election to finish ousted House Speaker McCarthy’s term
Vince Fong, a California State Assembly member backed by former President Donald Trump, won a special election Tuesday to complete the remainder of the term of deposed former U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, which runs through January. A McCarthy protege who also had the former speaker’s endorsement, Fong defeated fellow Republican and Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux in the 20th Congressional District, in the state’s Central Valley farm belt. Because of Trump’s involvement, the race wil
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Trump is holding a rally in the South Bronx as he tries to woo Black and Hispanic voters
Former President Donald Trump will campaign in one of the most Democratic counties in the nation Thursday, holding a rally in the South Bronx to woo minority voters days before a Manhattan jury will begin deliberations on whether to convict him of felony charges in his criminal hush money trial. Trump will address supporters in Crotona Park, a public green space in a borough that is among the city's most diverse and its most impoverished, a change from the majority-white areas where he holds mo
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Donald Trump may be stuck in a Manhattan courtroom, but he knows his fave legal analysts
If there are bragging rights associated with Donald Trump praising your legal acumen when he speaks after a day's testimony at his criminal trial, Fox News analyst Andy McCarthy has already been cited at least a dozen times. “Every legal scholar says, `They don't have a case,'” Trump has said more than once while reading back supportive quotes. McCarthy, quoted by the former president three separate times on May 13, is a “great analyst,” Trump said.
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A comment from Trump and GOP actions in the states put contraceptive access in the 2024 spotlight
Republican lawmakers in states across the U.S. have been rejecting Democrats' efforts to protect or expand access to birth control, an issue Democrats are promoting as a major issue in this year's elections along with abortion and other reproductive rights concerns. Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, pushed the issue into the political spotlight this week when he said in an interview that he was open to supporting restrictions on contraception before he reversed course
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Trump says people crossing the border bring 'very contagious disease' with them
Former President Donald Trump asserted that people who immigrate across the U.S.-Mexico border from South and Central America are bringing contagious diseases.
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Democratic candidate with White House ties says Biden could be tougher on China
Congressional candidate Maggie Goodlander, a former Justice Department official who is married to White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, recently criticized the Biden administration's actions toward China when asked if there was a U.S. policy that she disagreed with.
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Another Far-Right Flag Was Flown Outside Alito's Beach House: Report
The historic "Appeal to Heaven" flag has been linked with Christian nationalists and those who support former President Donald Trump.
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Political consultant who admitted deepfaking Biden's voice is indicted
Steve Kramer, the political consultant who admitted to NBC News that he was behind a robocall impersonating Joe Biden's voice, was indicted in New Hampshire.
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Nikki Haley says she'll be 'voting for Trump'
Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she's planning to vote for Donald Trump in November, despite her criticism of him during the campaign for the GOP nomination.
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Sen. Rick Scott enters race to succeed Mitch McConnell as GOP Senate leader
Sen. Rick Scott of Florida announced Wednesday that he is jumping into the race to succeed Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell after he leaves the post later this year.
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House Republicans Oversell Latest Dirt On Hunter Biden
A claim about the president’s son lying to Congress doesn’t match the evidence Republicans presented Wednesday.
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Democrat ruled 'out of order' after listing off Trump's legal woes on the House floor
Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern ruled 'out of order' for listing the charges against Donald Trump and his legal cases after Republicans objected.
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Where the VP contenders stand on Trump’s biggest issue: From the Politics Desk
Where the contenders to be Donald Trump's vice president stand on accepting the 2020 and 2024 election results.
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Trump’s favorite policy position: Check back later
Donald Trump has a history of kicking the can down the road when asked to clarify stances on significant policy issues, often promising answers in two weeks.
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Former Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley says she will vote for Trump
Former Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley said on Wednesday that she will vote for Donald Trump in the November election, despite lobbing harsh criticisms at her former rival for months on the campaign trail. There has been immense speculation on who will receive the votes of Haley's supporters in the Nov. 5 general election rematch between Trump and Democratic President Joe Biden. While Haley dropped her bid for the Republican presidential nomination in March, her name has remained
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Nikki Haley says she will vote for Donald Trump in 2024 election
U-turn by ex-president’s most enduring rival during Republican primaries provokes swift backlash
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Hunter Biden's tax charges trial postponed until September
Hunter Biden’s trial on tax charges which was scheduled to begin next month in California has been postponed until September.
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Lawmakers call for further inquiry into Virginia prison that had hypothermia hospitalizations
A raft of hypothermia hospitalizations and other questionable conditions at a Virginia prison uncovered in a recent report deserve further scrutiny, leading Democratic state lawmakers said this week. Lawmakers pledged to press Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration for answers and called for a newly created prisons watchdog to look into the findings of an Associated Press report, which found at least 13 hospitalizations for hypothermia over three years at the Marion Correctional Treatm
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Louisiana lawmakers approve bill similar to Texas' embattled migrant enforcement law
A Louisiana bill that would empower state and local law enforcement to arrest and jail people in the state who entered the U.S. illegally received approval from lawmakers Wednesday and will likely soon be on the governor's desk. Amid national fights between Republican states and Democratic President Joe Biden over how and who should enforce the U.S.-Mexico border, a growing list of GOP-led states have passed measures seeking to push deeper into migrant enforcement. Texas was allowed to enforce
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Can Medicare money protect doctors from abortion crimes? It worked before, desegregating hospitals
The Supreme Court's pending Idaho abortion ruling may hinge on how federal spending power might protect doctors against a state's criminal code. For guidance, the justices can look to the very beginning of Medicare in the 1960s, when the promise of federal funding finally persuaded hospitals in the Jim Crow South to desegregate. In oral arguments for Idaho v. United States last month, Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch raised questions about the Biden administration's powe
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Prosecutor blasts Trump co-defendant's 'garbage argument' at heated hearing in classified documents case
Federal prosecutor in former President Donald Trump's classified documents case angrily pushed back on allegations of vindictive prosecution and prosecutorial misconduct from one of Trump's co-defendants in the classified documents case, calling some of the claims "garbage" and "a fantasy."
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Hunter Biden's criminal tax trial delayed to Sept. 5
The start of the criminal tax trial for President Joe Biden's son was postponed until Sept. 5 from June 20, which Hunter Biden's legal team requested because of conflicts with a separate criminal trial in Delaware. Hunter Biden's attorney Abbe Lowell had argued to U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi in Los Angeles that the start of a trial on criminal gun charges in Delaware on June 3 created overlap with pretrial deadlines in the criminal tax case. In addition, Lowell said in court filings he has
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FACT FOCUS: Trump distorts use of 'deadly force' language in FBI document for Mar-a-Lago search
Former President Donald Trump pointed to standard language in an FBI documentunsealed Tuesday to baselessly claim that the Biden administration wanted to kill him during a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach nearly two years ago. The claim was also boosted online by his supporters.
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Wisconsin criminal justice groups argue for invalidating constitutional amendments on bail
Wisconsin criminal justice advocates argued in court Wednesday that Republican-backed cash bail constitutional amendments approved by voters last year should be invalidated over procedural flaws, a case that elections officials and the Legislature call a cynical attempt to undo election results. Dane County Circuit Judge Rhonda Lanford did not rule from the bench following arguments. The case revolves around whether the Legislature sent the ballot questions to the correct elections officials a
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Here's what top Trump VP picks say about the 2020 election results — and whether they'll accept the 2024 outcome
No matter how much closer the country gets to the 2024 election, Donald Trump can’t stop looking back to the one four years ago.
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Two tech investors to host Trump at June San Francisco fundraiser
Two high-profile tech investors will host a fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in deeply Democratic San Francisco in June, according to a copy of an invitation sent to donors and seen by Reuters. The June 6 reception and dinner with Trump will be hosted by venture capitalists David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya, as well as Sacks' wife Jacqueline, the invite states. While the tech industry tends to skew left-wing - San Francisco voted 85% for Democrat Joe Biden in th
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Arizona state lawmaker used ChatGPT to write part of law on deepfakes
Republican Alexander Kolodin said: ‘I was kind of struggling with the terminology. So I thought, let me just ask the expert’
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Trump falsely claims US justice department was ready to kill him
Ex-president recasts FBI’s standard policy statement limiting use of deadly force into claim Biden officials were ‘locked and loaded’
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Joe Biden lands 200 judges, highlighting stakes for the courts in the 2024 election
President Joe Biden confirmed his 200th judge, highlighting the stakes for the courts in his bid against Donald Trump in the 2024 elections.
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GOP lawmakers conflate standard FBI policies with an assassination attempt on Trump
The online remarks from Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar came after Donald Trump posted about the FBI's search of his Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022.
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US lawmakers advance bill to make it easier to curb exports of AI models
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to advance a bill that would make it easier for the Biden administration to restrict the export of artificial intelligence systems, citing concerns China could exploit them to bolster its military capabilities. The bill, sponsored by House Republicans Michael McCaul and John Molenaar and Democrats Raja Krishnamoorthi and Susan Wild, also would give the Commerce Department express authority to bar America
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'A Major Milestone': Senate Confirms Joe Biden’s 200th Lifetime Federal Judge
Not only has Biden confirmed more judges than Trump had done by this point in his presidency, but he's infused the nation’s courts with astounding diversity.
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US says Palestinian state should come via talks, not unilateral recognition
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden believes a Palestinian state should be achieved through negotiations, not unilateral recognition, the White House said on Wednesday after Ireland, Spain and Norway said they would recognize a Palestinian state this month. Washington's reaction appeared to signal U.S. dismay that the three European nations announced an intent to proceed with unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, which does not exist in practice. White House national securi
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