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The Bob Menendez trial is starting. Why his Senate colleagues don't want to talk about it
The senior senator from New Jersey is accused of taking bribes in exchange for helping businessmen and foreign governments.
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Biden celebrates ‘Infrastructure Week’ — and hopes voters are listening
The White House is sending senior officials across the country this week — Infrastructure Week — to ensure they’ve heard about billions of investments being pumped into every state.
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Blinken, Sanders and Graham offer differing takes on latest State Dept. report on Israel's possible humanitarian violations in Gaza
Antony Blinken and Bernie Sanders praise Biden for withholding military aid to Israel. Lindsey Graham calls it the 'worst decision.'
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'Gloves are off': Trump attacks Biden, sweeping criminal charges at raucous New Jersey rally
Trump held a large rally on the beach in Wildwood, New Jersey, and claimed the deep blue state is in play.
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Sullivan: Pause in military aid doesn’t mean Biden will ‘abandon Israel’
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan maintained Sunday that President Biden’s threat to withhold offensive weapons from Israel does not mean the U.S. intends to “abandon” the country. Sullivan, speaking with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, warned of “significant” civilian casualties in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The interview comes days after Biden…
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Gold bars, basement carpeting and more. Here’s what prosecutors say bought off a US senator
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey faces his second, distinct bribery and corruption trial in seven years starting Monday.
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GOP VP hopefuls in Congress burnish their credentials while currying favor with Trump
Potential picks are using the opportunities afforded to them in Congress to burnish their credentials to appeal to Trump.
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Trump Has Long Been Known as a Micromanager. Prosecutors Are Using It Against Him.
At Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial, his lawyers have insisted he had “nothing to do” with any of the felony charges against him. But testimony from prosecution witnesses over the past several weeks has called that argument into question, underscoring that Trump can be obsessive about two all-important aspects of his work: Anything having to do with the media, and anything having to do with his money. The 34 documents at the heart of the prosecution’s case relate to both obsessions. Sign u
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Top Trump allies J.D. Vance, Lindsey Graham say they will accept 2024 election results
Senators J.D. Vance and Lindsey Graham say they will accept the 2024 election results, a position that separates them from other top Republicans
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Election deniers: West Virginia voters must pick from GOP candidates who still dispute 2020 outcome
When West Virginia Republicans vote in Tuesday's primary, they will have a hard time finding a major candidate on the ballot in any statewide race who openly acknowledges that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Embracing or skirting the line on election denialism has become an unspoken checkoff among Republicans running for governor and Congress in one of the states most loyal to former President Donald Trump. What is spoken — almost constantly — is praise for the party's presumptive W
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Column: What a surly California governor's race can — and can't — tell us about the Biden-Trump rematch
No two elections are alike. But there can be striking similarities, like the parallels between a bitterly fought California governor's race and the Biden-Trump rematch. History says not to count Biden out.
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Greene: Johnson is ‘owned by the Democrats’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) accused Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) of being “owned by the Democrats” in a Sunday interview. Asked why she thinks Johnson would not “defund Jack Smith,” referring to the special counsel who brought two indictments against President Trump, Greene said, “Mike Johnson is owned by the Democrats, and that proved to…
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How the right is weaponizing pro-Palestinian campus protests in the US
Republicans are using a narrative of chaos and ‘philosophical divisions on Israel’ among Democrats to sink Biden’s campaign
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Fuel industry group targets Biden and Democrats in key states over emissions standards
A fuel industry group is launching a new $6.6 million ad buy criticizing President Joe Biden and Democratic Senate candidates in key swing states over the administration’s new emissions standards that are expected to lead to dramatic cuts in the production of gas-powered cars.
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Democratic ad campaign tries to chip away at Trump support among rural swing voters in 3 key states
A Democratic group is rolling out a new $140 million ad campaign that aims to chip away at Donald Trump's support among one of his most loyal voting blocs: rural voters. The ads, from American Bridge 21st Century, will begin airing Monday in the northern battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. “We should compete everywhere," said America Bridge co-founder Bradley Beychok, who said Democrats have too often shied away from rural counties as they have focused on turning out b
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US Senator Robert Menendez's corruption trial to get underway
Jury selection is expected to begin on Monday in the corruption trial of U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, a case that could affect the Democrat's reelection prospects and help determine which party controls the Senate next year. The senator's wife, Nadine Menendez, has also been charged but will be tried separately. Menendez, New Jersey's senior senator, is up for re-election in November and if exonerated hopes to run for a fourth full term as an independent.
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Florida is a prime example of Trump’s vise grip on state Republican parties
With Trump family members as state delegates, as well as national party co-chair, GOP lawmakers fall in line to support ex-president
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Meet Laura Friedman, the pool-playing assemblywoman who'll likely succeed Adam Schiff
Facing off against a Republican in an overwhelmingly Democratic district in November, Friedman is on a glide path to Congress.
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US, China meet in Geneva to discuss AI risks
The U.S. and China will meet in Geneva to discuss advanced artificial intelligence on Tuesday, U.S. officials said, stressing that Washington's policies would not be up for negotiation even as the talks explore mitigating risks from the emerging technology. President Joe Biden's administration has sought to engage China on a range of issues to reduce miscommunication between the two rivals. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi broached the topic of AI in
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Trump trial arrives at a pivotal moment: Star witness Michael Cohen is poised to take the stand
The star prosecution witness in Donald Trump's hush money trial is set to take the stand Monday with testimony that could help shape the outcome of the first criminal case against an American president. Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and personal fixer, is by far the Manhattan district attorney's most important witness in the case, and his expected appearance signals that the trial is entering its final stretch. Cohen is expected to testify about his role in arranging hush money payments
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Jury selection to begin in the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez
Jury selection was scheduled to start Monday in the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat charged with accepting bribes of gold and cash to use his influence to deliver favors that would aid three New Jersey businessmen. Menendez, 70, will stand trial in Manhattan federal court along with two of the businessmen — real estate developer Fred Daibes and Wael Hana. A third businessman has pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against the other defendants.
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Trump suggests Chinese migrants are in the US to build an 'army.' The migrants tell another story
It was 7 a.m. on a recent Friday when Wang Gang, a 36-year-old Chinese immigrant, jostled for a day job in New York City’s Flushing neighborhood. It would be another day without a job since he crossed the southern U.S. border illegally in February. The daily struggle of Chinese immigrants in Flushing is a far cry from the picture former President Donald Trump and other Republicans have sought to paint of them as a coordinated group of “military-age” men who have come to the United States to bu
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The 5 biggest bombshells of Trump's hush-money trial so far
The unprecedented first criminal trial of a former President Donald Trump has delivered several stunning moments so far.
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‘Strategic and moral mistakes’: US politicians step up condemnation of Israel
Democrat warns Hamas could become stronger if Israel wages all-out Rafah assault, while Blinken offers more measured comments
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Blinken delivers some of the strongest US public criticism of Israel's conduct of the war in Gaza
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday delivered some of the Biden administration’s strongest public criticism yet of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, saying Israeli tactics have meant “a horrible loss of life of innocent civilians” but failed to neutralize Hamas leaders and fighters and could drive a lasting insurgency. In a pair of TV interviews, Blinken underscored that the United States believes Israeli forces should “get out of Gaza,” but also is waiting to see credible plans from
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Michael Cohen Was Paid to Fix Trump’s Problems. Now He’s One of Them.
Donald Trump has always surrounded himself with lawyers — all types of lawyers. There are the television-friendly talking heads. The polished criminal practitioners. The pit-bull litigators, the corporate suits and the legal advisers with their own legal troubles. And then there was the singular Michael D. Cohen, lawyer by trade and enforcer by nature. With the loyalty of a surrogate son, he kept Trump’s secrets and cleaned up his messes. He was the fixer. This week, however, Cohen is poised to
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken declines to identify 'red line' for aid to Israel
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday declined to identify the Biden administration’s “red line” with Israel, despite President Joe Biden’s comments earlier this week that the U.S. will withhold certain military assistance if Israel launches an offensive on Rafah.
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Trump asked top oil execs for $1 billion campaign cash in exchange for environmental policy rollbacks, report says
Trump offered oil execs a $1 billion campaign contribution "deal" in exchange for dismantling Biden's environmental agenda, a report says.
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From senators to a dog killer: A power ranking of Trump's potential vice presidents
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina leads our early rankings of Donald Trump's potential running mates.
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Michael Cohen: A challenging star witness in Donald Trump's hush money trial
He once said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump. Now Michael Cohen is prosecutors' biggest piece of legal ammunition in the former president's hush money trial. There is his tortured history with Trump, for whom he served as personal attorney and problem-zapper until his practices came under federal investigation.
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Trump leads his supporters in vulgar chants at Jersey Shore rally
Donald Trump attacked his hush money trial prosecutor and judge at a New Jersey rally. He claimed he was being indicted on "bullshit" charges.
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One path for Biden to lure blue-collar voters – find the economic villains: ‘You have to pick fights’
Experts say Biden can win back working-class Americans if he hammers home the message that he is helping them on pocketbook issues
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Migrants, real and imagined, grip US voters, 1,500 miles north of border
Few residents of this Wisconsin small city have seen a migrant but some are blaming Biden for an ‘invasion’ regardless and elsewhere in the state an influx of foreigners is not all it seems
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Arizona's economy is booming. But Biden struggles to reap benefits from voters
President Biden's push to expand semiconductor and green technology manufacturing has poured billions into battleground states like Arizona.
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Trump's 'multi-tasking' defense is falling apart in court
Donald Trump's lawyers say he didn't pay attention to his checks reimbursing Michael Cohen for hush money because he was too busy running the country.
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For a second time, Sen. Bob Menendez faces a corruption trial. This time, it involves gold bars
For the second time in a decade, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez faces a corruption trial Monday with his political career and freedom on the line in a criminal case that already has forced him out of one of the most powerful posts in Congress. The 70-year-old New Jersey Democrat and his wife are accused of accepting bribes from three wealthy businessmen in his home state and performing a variety of favors in return, including meddling in criminal investigations and taking actions benefitting the govern
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VP contender Doug Burgum joins Trump at campaign rally in New Jersey
The North Dakota governor and former Republican presidential candidate praised Trump during remarks at Saturday's rally in Wildwood, New Jersey.
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Trump again attacks New York prosecutor, floats economic plans at New Jersey rally
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attacked the Manhattan judge and prosecutor in his New York criminal trial, while hinting at a range of possible economic policies at a sizable rally in New Jersey on Saturday. Speaking before tens of thousands of supporters on a chilly beach on the Atlantic coastline, the former president disparaged District Attorney Alvin Bragg's appearance and dismissed the various state and federal charges he faces as a form of political persecution. "Fat Alvi
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Controversy follows Gov. Kristi Noem as she is banned by two more South Dakota tribes
The latest developments in the ongoing tribal dispute come on the heels of the backlash Noem faced for writing about killing a hunting dog that misbehaved in her latest book. It is not clear how these controversies will affect her chances to become Donald Trump's running mate because it is hard to predict what the former president will do. The Yankton Sioux Tribe voted Friday to ban Noem from their land in southeastern South Dakota just a few days after the Sisseton-Wahpeton Ovate tribe took t
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Katie Britt proposes federal database to collect data on pregnant people
Republican US senator from Alabama best known for delivering widely ridiculed State of the Union speech in March
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Small pro-Palestinian protests held Saturday as college commencements are held
Small pro-Palestinian protests popped up sporadically Saturday as colleges and universities from North Carolina to California held commencement ceremonies, including dozens of graduating students at Virginia Commonwealth University who walked out on an address by Gov. Glenn Youngkin. While some of the estimated 100 students and family members who left during the Republican governor's speech showed support for Palestinians, others held signs signaling opposition to Youngkin's policies on educati
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Trump dismisses former presidential rival Nikki Haley as a potential running mate: 'Not under consideration'
As a candidate, Haley sought to move the GOP toward a future without Trump, which would've made her an unconventional choice.
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Connecticut Democrats unanimously nominate U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy for a third term
Connecticut Democrats unanimously endorsed U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy for a third term on Saturday, praising his efforts on gun control, immigration reform and foreign policy. With 1,425 delegates on hand, Murphy and other top state Democrats used the event to inspire support for the reelection of President Joe Biden in November and to keep Connecticut politically blue. The state's junior senator, Murphy pledged to keep pushing for a universal background check law on guns and a ban on assault weap
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Report: Trump may face a $100 million-plus tax bill if he loses IRS audit fight over Chicago tower
Former President Donald Trump may face an IRS bill in excess of $100 million after a government audit indicates he double-dipped on tax losses tied to a Chicago skyscraper, according to a report by The New York Times and ProPublica that drew on a yearslong audit and public filings. The report's findings could put renewed focus on Trump's business career as the presumptive Republican nominee tries to regain the White House after losing in 2020. Trump used his cachet as a real estate developer a
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Jill Biden tells Arizona college graduates to tune out people who tell them what they 'can't' do
Jill Biden on Saturday told Arizona community college graduates to tune out the people who like to tell them what they can't do. The first lady shared with graduates of Mesa Community College how her high school guidance counselor told her she wasn't college material and shouldn't waste her time going. Then she got three more, including two master's degrees and, at age 55, a doctorate in educational leadership.
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Melania Trump says Donald's youngest son, Barron, won't be a Florida RNC delegate — report
Barron Trump won't be able to nominate his father for the Republican nomination due to prior commitments, his mother said in a statement.
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Ex-GOP Gov. Hogan is popular with some Maryland Democrats, but not enough to put him in the Senate
Some Maryland Democrats have a soft spot for Larry Hogan, their former two-term Republican governor in a heavily blue state. Party voters in Tuesday’s primary will decide which candidate they think is in the best position to beat Hogan in November in a state that hasn’t elected a Republican senator in more than 40 years. David Trone, who's in his third term as a congressman, and Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks are the leading contenders among the 10 candidates.
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Joe Biden wants to remind 2024 voters of a record and an agenda. Often it's Donald Trump's
President Joe Biden is running for reelection on a record and an agenda -- often Donald Trump’s. In a hotel ballroom in Seattle, at fancy homes in California and at stops in Illinois and Wisconsin over the past week, Biden has been betting that reminding voters about Trump's presidency and highlighting his Republican opponent's latest campaign statements will work to the Democrat's advantage. At a Seattle fundraiser Friday night, Biden brought up Trump's recent interview with Time magazine in
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Will You Accept the Election Results? Republicans Dodge the Question.
Less than six months out from the presidential contest, leading Republicans, including several of Donald Trump’s potential running mates, have refused to commit to accepting the results of the election, signaling that the party may again challenge the outcome if its candidate loses. In a series of recent interviews, Republican officials and candidates have dodged the question, responded with nonanswers or offered clear falsehoods rather than commit to a notion that was once so uncontroversial th
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For Arab American Leaders, Biden’s Shift on Gaza Is Too Little, Too Late
WASHINGTON — Seven months into Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip, Muslim and Arab American leaders say their channels of communication with President Joe Biden’s White House have largely broken down, leaving the administration without a politically valuable chorus of support for his significant shift on the conflict this week. Biden’s announcement that he had paused a shipment of 3,500 bombs to Israel and would not help with a ground invasion of Rafah was a sea change in U.S. policy that Arab Ameri
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