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Did Donald Trump's guilty verdict drive away pivotal voters? Here's what the early polls say.
So far, at least, a smallish number may change their minds because of Trump's conviction - but they could wield a decisive impact.
5 min read - PoliticsThe New York Times
As Hunter Biden Stands Trial, a Republican Noise Machine Goes Silent
For nearly four years, Republicans have delved into the darkest corners of Hunter Biden’s life, seeking to tie his troubles to his father, President Joe Biden. But as the younger Biden stands trial in Delaware on gun charges, the case’s glaring political contradictions have rendered the GOP largely mute, from former President Donald Trump on down. It stands to reason: The baseless claim that the Biden Justice Department is running a political persecution of Trump is somewhat undermined by the de
6 min read - PoliticsTime
Changes to Biden's Cabinet Expected in a Second Term
Biden hasn’t won a second term. Yet some Democrats are already jockeying for position in case Cabinet posts opens up, writes Philip Elliott
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What Kamala Harris isn’t talking about
Vice President Kamala Harris isn't saying much on the campaign trail about controversies dogging the top of the Republican and Democratic presidential tickets.
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Supreme Court sides with Native American tribes in health care funding dispute
The 5-4 decision means the government will cover millions in overhead costs that two tribes faced when they took over running their health care programs under a law meant to give Native Americans more local control. Covering those costs is “necessary to prevent a funding gap,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. The Department of Health and Human Services had argued it isn't responsible for the potentially expensive overhead costs associated with billing insurance compani
3 min read - WorldReuters
At D-Day commemoration, Biden pledges continued Ukraine support
OMAHA BEACH, France (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden made an impassioned call for the defence of freedom and democracy at the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy on Thursday, urging Western powers to stay the course with Ukraine and not surrender to Russian tyranny. At a joint ceremony with French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. veterans at the Normandy American Cemetery, Biden said it was "simply unthinkable" to surrender to Russian aggression and he promised no let-up in
4 min read - PoliticsUSA TODAY
Trump said Clinton shouldn't run under investigation. Now he's running as a convict
Trump said 2016 rival Hillary Clinton would cause an "unprecedented constitutional crisis" if indicted. He's running under conviction and indictment.
6 min read - PoliticsThe New York Times
Far-Right Vows to Tie Up the Senate to Avenge Trump Are So Far Mostly Empty
WASHINGTON — Sen. Rick Scott is so furious over the felony conviction of former President Donald Trump that the Florida Republican says he and his colleagues need to take it out on the Senate, by acting as disrupters and blocking all Biden administration nominees and legislation. “We can’t have business as usual,” Scott insisted as the Senate convened this week for the first time since Trump’s trial ended in New York with a fusillade of “guilty” verdicts. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from
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A polling do-over finds Trump’s lead shrank after guilty verdict
Trump’s three-point lead over Biden before the jury rendered its verdict shrank to just one point when respondents were quizzed after the decision.
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Appeals court halts Trump's Georgia case during appeal of order allowing Willis to stay on case
An appeals court has halted the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others while it reviews the lower court judge's ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case. The Georgia Court of Appeals' order on Wednesday prevents Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee from moving forward with pretrial motions as he had planned while the appeal is pending. While it was already unlikely that the case would go to trial b
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Alito’s former neighbor says justice is ‘at best mistaken’ in flap over upside-down US flag
A former neighbor of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday disputed his account of a neighborhood spat that led to the hoisting of an upside-down US flag on his property in Virginia, saying that his timeline of what happened is wrong.
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Trump campaign asks for vetting records as vice presidential search intensifies
The former president recently said he has “some unbelievable people” under consideration.
3 min read - USMiami Herald
Florida would restore Trump’s right to vote if conviction becomes problem, DeSantis says
“Given the absurd nature of the New York prosecution of Trump, this would be an easy case to qualify for restoration of rights per the Florida Clemency Board,” the governor said.
9 min read - WorldThe New York Times
Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel organized and paid for an influence campaign last year targeting U.S. lawmakers and the American public with pro-Israel messaging, as it aimed to foster support for its actions in the war in the Gaza Strip, according to officials involved in the effort and documents related to the operation. The covert campaign was commissioned by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, a government body that connects Jews around the world with the state of Israel, four Israeli officials
6 min read - PoliticsThe New York Times
It Was Legal Boilerplate. Trump Made It Sound Like a Threat to His Life.
On the day before the FBI obtained a search warrant almost two years ago to look for classified materials at former President Donald Trump’s private club and residence in Florida, one of the agents on the case sent a reassuring email to his bosses. “The FBI intends for the execution of the warrant to be handled in a professional, low key manner,” he wrote, “and to be mindful of the optics of the search.” And that’s more or less what happened when 30 agents and two federal prosecutors entered the
7 min read - PoliticsHuffPost
GOP Rep. Compares Trump’s Conviction To Nazis' Rise To Power In 1930s Germany
“The similarities to what the Democrat Party has been doing, they cannot be denied,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) said in a full-blown conspiratorial rant.
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Biden Says He Will Not Pardon Son Hunter As Federal Gun Trial Continues
Hunter Biden is facing prison time on federal felony charges in Delaware.
2 min read - PoliticsNBC News
Biden mixes D-Day commemoration with warnings about democracy’s vulnerability
Biden slipped in a plea to Americans: Democracy is a fragile thing and, all these years later, the battle for its survival is still in doubt.
4 min read - PoliticsLA Times
Why Biden's order on the 'out of control' border may not fix Democrats' political problem
Biden is playing defense on the border with his action designed to limit asylum claims. It's one of his biggest political problems, interfering with his attacks on Trump.
6 min read - USYahoo News
Hunter Biden trial: Key takeaways from Hallie Biden’s testimony in felony gun case
Beau Biden’s widow, who had a romantic relationship with Hunter Biden after Beau's death, testified against her brother-in-law about discovering and disposing of the firearm at the center of the case.
3 min read - PoliticsThe Guardian
Trump ally Steve Bannon told to begin four-month contempt sentence by 1 July
Rightwing podcaster ordered by judge to surrender to authorities following conviction for contempt of Congress
3 min read - PoliticsAssociated Press
Kentucky Democratic governor pushes back against Trump-led attacks on electric vehicles
Electric vehicles have built up enough momentum from job growth and investments to steer past any roadblocks from Donald Trump and other critics, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday. The Democratic governor said the thousands of EV-related jobs springing up across the country, including in rural GOP strongholds, should be enough to overcome the political backlash against the technology. “Jobs are so much more important than the political rhetoric that’s out there day in and day out,” Besh
4 min read - PoliticsAssociated Press
North Carolina GOP lawmakers agree to add a health exemption to a bill that limits masking
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina struck a compromise on a bill that now maintains a health exemption for masking in public while preventing the use of masks during criminal activity, but only one chamber chose to vote on it Thursday. The state Senate passed the new masking bill — negotiated by both chambers to remedy concerns on the removal of a pandemic-era health exemption — in a 28-0 vote that Senate Democrats were absent from in protest.
3 min read - PoliticsThe New York Times
Progressives Urge Biden to Push Harder on ‘Greedflation’
WASHINGTON — As high prices at grocery stores, gas pumps and pharmacies have soured many voters on his first term, President Joe Biden has developed a populist riposte: Blame big corporations for inflation, not me. But despite facing a tough reelection battle where economic issues will be central, Biden has not leaned into that message as frequently or naturally as some other Democrats, including senators running in competitive seats across the southwest and the industrial Midwest. The Biden cam
9 min read - PoliticsReuters
Biden campaign hires Republican to pursue 'never Trump' voters
U.S. President Joe Biden is making a pitch for his re-election to Republicans who do not support their party's standard-bearer, Donald Trump, in November's election, a Biden campaign official said on Thursday. The Democratic president's campaign has hired a national Republican engagement director: Austin Weatherford, who was chief of staff to former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger, an outspoken critic of Trump, the official said. Weatherford has been hired "to head up outreach efforts to
2 min read - USAssociated Press
Secret Service head says RNC security plans not final as protesters allege free speech restrictions
The head of the U.S. Secret Service said Thursday that security plans for the Republican National Convention are still being determined as protesters blasted restrictions they claimed will violate free speech with just weeks until the event. Roughly 30,000 visitors are expected in Milwaukee next month when former President Donald Trump is slated to become the Republican party’s official presidential nominee. Largescale demonstrations are expected, but how close protesters will be allowed to th
3 min read - PoliticsReuters
Trump ally Bannon ordered to report to prison for defying Jan. 6 probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Steve Bannon, a former top adviser to Donald Trump, must report to prison by July 1 to serve a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress, a federal judge said on Thursday. The decision means Bannon, a right-wing media firebrand who maintains influence in Trump’s orbit, will likely be behind bars for a critical stretch of the U.S. presidential campaign as former President Trump faces Democratic President Joe Biden in the Nov. 5 election. The order by U.S. District Judge
2 min read - PoliticsAssociated Press
The ACLU is making plans to fight Trump's promises of immigrant raids and mass deportations
The American Civil Liberties Union filed legal challenges against former President Donald Trump 's administration more than 400 times during his time in the White House, helping to halt an array of policies, including separating immigrant children from their parents. The ACLU isn't conceding that Trump will beat President Joe Biden this year.
6 min read - USReuters
Republican lawmaker defends Jim Crow comments after criticism from Black Democrats
A Black U.S. Republican lawmaker said his comments expressing nostalgia for the Jim Crow era were taken out of context after Democrats criticised his words as outrageous and ignorant. Representative Byron Donalds, a second-term congressman and former candidate for House speaker, expressed nostalgia for the Jim Crow era - named after a series of laws that defined the height of racial segregation in the United States - in comments at a fundraising event aimed at Black Republicans in Philadelphia
2 min read - WorldNBC News
Putin threatens to provide weapons to attack the West
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested he could provide weapons to countries to attack Western targets after Biden and allies let Ukraine strike inside Russia using their weapons.
5 min read - PoliticsBusiness Insider
Hunter Biden may be doomed to lose his trial. His best bet is appealing a 'vindictive prosecution.'
President Joe Biden promised not to interfere with his son's criminal case. Hunter's lawyers say that perversely allows prosecutors to politicize it.
9 min read - WorldReuters
Exclusive-NAACP asks Biden to halt weapons to Israel as he seeks to shore up Black voter support
The NAACP urged President Joe Biden on Thursday to "indefinitely" halt all weapons deliveries to Israel and pressure the U.S. ally to end its war in the Gaza Strip, sending a reminder that his support for Israel could hurt him among Black voters in November's election. The NAACP's call was a rare instance of the influential civil rights organization taking a position on U.S. foreign policy towards a country without a significant Black population. The 115-year-old civil rights group said Israel
4 min read - PoliticsThe New York Times
A New Hurdle for Asylum-Seekers: 4 Hours to Find a Lawyer
Migrants who want protection in the United States are now facing another hurdle, even after President Joe Biden announced a near-total ban on asylum. Starting Wednesday, migrants who cross into the United States illegally have four hours to find a lawyer if they want to argue that they should be an exception to the sweeping restrictions on asylum that Biden announced Tuesday. If they cannot find a lawyer, they have to make a credible case on their own or be turned back immediately. Migrants prev
3 min read - PoliticsThe New York Times
Georgia Appeals Court Stays Most Proceedings in Trump Election Case
The Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday stayed the criminal election interference case against former President Donald Trump until an appellate panel could resolve the matter of whether the district attorney in Fulton County should be disqualified from prosecuting the case based on a conflict of interest. In a one-page order, the court stated that any movement at the trial court level pertaining to Trump and eight other defendants who have appealed a ruling allowing the prosecutor, Fani Willis
4 min read - WorldReuters
Mediators press Hamas over Gaza ceasefire plan touted by Biden
Talks involving Qatari, Egyptian and U.S. mediators aimed at reaching a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza war were still underway on Thursday but had shown no sign of a breakthrough, two Egyptian security sources said. The talks began on Wednesday, when CIA director William Burns met senior officials from Qatar and Egypt in Doha to discuss a proposal that U.S. President Joe Biden publicly endorsed last week. Biden described the three-phase plan as an Israeli initiative.
3 min read - PoliticsAssociated Press
Tim Scott, a potential Trump VP pick, launches a $14 million outreach effort to minority voters
A top ally and potential running mate of former President Donald Trump is launching a new effort to win over Black and other nonwhite working class voters he argues could be the deciding factor in November's elections. Scott's push comes as Trump's campaign is ramping up its own outreach efforts to Hispanic and Black voters, especially Black men, in his expected rematch against President Joe Biden. Scott says that, with Trump atop the ticket, he believes Republicans have a unique opportunity t
7 min read - WorldAssociated Press
South Africa's ANC leans toward a 'unity' government that evokes Mandela but divisions are there
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and other senior officials of the African National Congress party were in a critical meeting Thursday to decide if they should formally propose a “unity” government bringing in all major parties to solve a political deadlock in Africa's most industrialized country before a June 16 deadline. A government of national unity, which ANC officials said is the first option on the table, evokes South Africa's transition from apartheid's white minority rule to a d
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The Supreme Court is poised to take one of Biden’s few tools on abortion access
The Biden administration is in court defending a federal law it argues protects emergency abortions. In practice, the statute has offered only limited help.
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Takeaways from Day 3 of Hunter Biden’s firearms trial
Three people testified in Hunter Biden’s gun trial in Wilmington, Delaware, including ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, recalling in vivid color the defendant’s spiral into drug addiction.
7 min read - PoliticsAssociated Press
Trump will campaign in Arizona following his hush money conviction
Donald Trump returns to the campaign trail Thursday with a trip to Arizona, his first appearance in a battleground state since he was convicted in a hush money scandal. Trump is scheduled to speak at a town hall in Phoenix organized by Turning Point, a conservative youth organization that has seen its influence rise alongside Trump's takeover of the GOP. Trump responded defiantly to the verdict against him a day after a New York jury found him guilty last week of a scheme to illegally influenc
3 min read - USAssociated Press
Migrants are rattled and unsure as deportations begin under new rule halting asylum
Abigail Castillo was about to cross the U.S. border illegally when she heard President Joe Biden was halting asylum. She continued anyway, walking hours through the mountains east of San Diego with her toddler son, hoping it wasn't too late. “I heard that they were going to do it or were about to do it,” Castillo, 35, said Wednesday as she and her son were escorted to a Border Patrol van with about two dozen others from Brazil, Ecuador and her village in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, wh
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Widow of Beau Biden tells jurors in Hunter Biden's gun trial that she threw firearm in a trash can
The widow of Hunter Biden's brother told jurors in his federal gun trial Thursday about the moment she found the revolver in his truck, describing how she put it into a leather pouch, stuffed it into a shopping bag and tossed it in a trash can outside a market near her home. The purchase of the Colt revolver by Hunter Biden — and Hallie Biden's frenzied disposal of it — are the fulcrum of the case against him. Hunter Biden, who has pleaded not guilty, has said the Justice Department is bending
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Election certification disputes in a handful of states spark concerns over 2024 presidential contest
In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, two Republican members of a county canvassing board last month refused to sign off on the results of an election that led to the recall of three GOP members of the county commission. In Georgia's Fulton County, which includes the Democratic-voting city of Atlanta, a group run by members of former President Donald Trump's administration last month sued so a Republican member of the local elections board could refuse to certify the results of the primary election.
6 min read - WorldNBC News
Questions grow about how Biden’s border action will work without new funding
Twenty-four hours after President Biden announced his new executive action on the southwest border, migrants expressed confusion and U.S. officials questioned how the rule will be enforced without new funding.
4 min read - WorldAssociated Press
India’s opposition, written off as too weak, makes a stunning comeback to slow Modi's juggernaut
India’s bruised and battered opposition was largely written off in the lead-up to the national election as too weak and fragmented to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his powerful Hindu nationalist governing party. It scored a stunning comeback, slowing the Modi juggernaut and pushing his Bharatiya Janata Party well below the majority mark. The election results released Wednesday also marked a revival for the main opposition Congress party and its allies, who defied predictions of decl
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Trump's VP search accelerates
Donald Trump’s search for a running mate is intensifying, as the former president awaits sentencing on felony charges and prepares for next month’s Republican National Convention.
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Jan. 6 rioter caught in a woman’s Bumble dating app sting sentenced to prison
WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who assaulted law enforcement officers with bear spray and a metal whip — and who was arrested thanks to a woman’s sting operation on the dating app Bumble — was sentenced to just over six years in prison on Wednesday.
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Georgia appeals court stays Trump election interference case until at least October
A Georgia appeals court stayed until October the racketeering case alleging Donald Trump conspired to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election.
4 min read - USLA Times
Vice President Kamala Harris met by protesters outside fundraiser in San Francisco
Harris talked about the loss of abortion rights and repeated President Biden's call for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza. She was greeted by pro-Palestinian protesters.
2 min read - PoliticsNBC News
House Republicans send DOJ criminal referral on Hunter and James Biden, accusing them of lying to Congress
Top House Republicans on Wednesday sent criminal referrals to the Justice Department recommending President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden and brother James Biden be charged with making false statements to Congress.
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