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  • PoliticsAssociated Press

    Outpaced by Biden, Trump hopes to rake in $33 million during Florida fundraiser

    Former President Donald Trump's campaign is seeking to outraise President Joe Biden next week, aiming to take in more than $33 million to top a new single-event fundraising record set by Biden on Thursday with $25 million, said a person familiar with the Trump event who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning. Trump is inviting wealthy donors to Palm Beach, Florida, home to his Mar-a-Lago estate, for an April 6 fundraiser hosted by New York hedge fund billionaire John Pauls

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  • PoliticsAssociated Press

    Obama, Clinton and big-name entertainers help Biden raise a record $26 million for his reelection

    Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and some big names from the entertainment world teamed up Thursday night to deliver a rousing New York embrace of President Joe Biden that hauled in a record-setting $26 million-plus for his reelection campaign. The mood at Radio City Music Hall was electric as Obama praised Biden's willingness to look for common ground and said, “That's the kind of president I want.” Clinton said simply of the choices facing voters in 2024: “Stay with what works."

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  • PoliticsYahoo News

    Trump legal news brief: Prosecutors tell Judge McAfee that First Amendment doesn't apply to Trump's 'criminal intentions'

    Prosecutors who have charged former President Donald Trump with election interference and racketeering relating to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia tell Judge Scott McAfee that the First Amendment does not protect him from prosecution in the case.

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  • PoliticsAFP

    US House to deliver Mayorkas impeachment articles to Senate in April

    The US House of Representatives will send articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden's immigration chief to the Senate on April 10, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday -- sparking a trial that would likely begin the following day."As we have said previously, after the House impeachment managers present the articles of impeachment to the Senate, senators will be sworn in as jurors in the trial the next day," Schumer's office said in a statement.

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  • PoliticsThe Guardian

    Chris Christie won’t mount No Labels run in 2024 US presidential election

    Former New Jersey governor’s decision closes another door on No Labels, the non-partisan group seeking to mount a campaign

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  • PoliticsThe New York Times

    Biden Administration Finalizes Rule Curbing Use of Short-Term Health Plans

    WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Thursday that it had finalized a new regulation that curbs the use of short-term health insurance plans that do not comply with the Affordable Care Act, reversing a move by the Trump administration to give consumers more access to cheaper but skimpier plans. Under the new rule, the short-term plans will be able to last for only 90 days, with an option for a one-month extension. In 2018, the Trump administration issued a rule allowing the plans to l

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  • PoliticsWashington Post

    Biden Title IX rules on trans athletes set for election-year delay

    The Biden administration is preparing to finalize sweeping rules in coming weeks governing how sex discrimination is addressed in schools, including new protections for transgender students. But officials plan to put off a companion regulation outlining the rights of trans athletes, according to people familiar with administration planning. Athletics is among the thorniest issues confronting supporters of transgender rights, including those in the Biden administration. Polling shows that clear m

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  • USThe New York Times

    How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk

    The email went out to members of Justice Clarence Thomas’ law clerk network late last month celebrating his newest addition to an exclusive club. The justice’s selection needed no introduction. “Crystal Clanton’s clerkship for OT ’24 was announced by Scalia Law today!” wrote an assistant to Virginia Thomas, the justice’s wife, who is known as Ginni. The email referred to the 2024 October term of the court, and the tone was jubilant: “Please take a look at these posts of congratulations and suppo

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  • PoliticsNBC News

    Georgia Republican Party official voted illegally nine times, judge rules

    A judge ruled this week that a top Georgia Republican Party official, who has promoted former President Donald Trump's claims of widespread voter fraud affecting the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, has repeatedly voted illegally.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Georgia teachers and state employees will get pay raises as state budget passes

    Pay raises for Georgia's public school teachers and state employees were never in doubt politically from the moment Gov. Brian Kemp proposed them, but lawmakers finally clinched the deal on Thursday, passing a budget that also boosts spending on education, health care and mental health. Senators and represenatives worked out their differences on House Bill 916, with it passing the House 175-1 and the Senate 54-1. “As they say, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” said House Appropr

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  • USAssociated Press

    A mostly male board will decide whether a Nebraska lawmaker faces censure for sexual harassment

    A Nebraska lawmaker implored the Legislature's Executive Board on Thursday to hold a colleague accountable for invoking her name in a graphic reading on the legislative floor, which some say constitutes sexual harassment. The decision of whether Republican state Sen. Steve Halloran will face a censure vote of the full Legislature now rests with a group of their colleagues who are mostly men. “If we don't move this forward, we are in fact condoning this kind of speech,” Democratic state Sen. Ma

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  • USHuffPost

    Court Finds GOP Party Official And Anti-'Voter Fraud' Activist Voted Illegally 9 Times

    Georgia Republican official Brian Pritchard must pay a $5,000 fine.

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  • PoliticsNBC News

    House Oversight chairman invites Biden to testify in impeachment probe

    The Republican chairman of the House Oversight panel formally invited President Joe Biden to testify before his committee as a part of its impeachment probe.

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  • PoliticsReuters

    Texas judge transfers lawsuit over card fees to Washington, D.C

    A federal judge in a Texas court that has become a favorite for conservative challenges to Biden administration policies transferred a lawsuit challenging a rule curbing credit card late fees to a court in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman said half of the business groups that sued are based in Washington, as are most of the lawyers representing them and the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which wrote the rule the groups are seeking to block. The CFPB ha

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  • PoliticsNBC News

    Kari Lake struggles to win over her GOP skeptics: From the Politics Desk

    Kari Lake is struggling to win over her Republican skeptics in her Arizona Senate campaign. Biden is stockpiling cash as Trump faces a perilous moment.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Tennessee governor signs bill to undo Memphis traffic stop reforms after Tyre Nichols death

    Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday signed off on the repeal of police traffic stop reforms made in Memphis after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by officers in January 2023, despite pleas from Nichols’ parents to GOP lawmakers and the governor to give them a chance to find compromise. The Republican governor’s signature means the law immediately renders some of Memphis’ ordinances null and void, including one that outlawed so-called pretextual traffic stops, such as for a broken taillight an

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  • USAssociated Press

    Tennessee politicians strip historically Black university of its board

    Trustees of Tennessee's only publicly funded historically Black university were removed Thursday under legislation signed into law by Republican Gov. Bill Lee. Black lawmakers and community leaders said state leaders, a majority of whom are white, are unfairly targeting Tennessee State University. The legislation cleared the state GOP-controlled House on Thursday in a 66-25 vote, and Lee signed off a few hours later without commenting on the controversial decision to vacate the board.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Youngkin vetoes Virginia bills mandating minimum wage increase, establishing marijuana retail sales

    Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities on Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail sales of marijuana to begin next year and measures mandating a minimum wage increase. The development, which drew criticism from Democrats who control the General Assembly, did not come as a surprise. While Youngkin had not explicitly threatened to veto either set of bills, he told reporters he didn’t think the minimum wage legislation was

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  • USHuffPost

    GOP Congressman Says It's 'Outrageous' To Use Federal Funds To Fix Baltimore Bridge

    Congress could be in for yet another partisan fight if Republicans line up against federal funding to address the deadly bridge collapse in Baltimore.

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  • PoliticsReuters

    US judge strikes down Biden highway climate rule for states

    A U.S. judge in Texas struck down a climate rule adopted by the Biden administration requiring states to measure and set declining targets for greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles using the national highway system. Texas had sued the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) in December, arguing the agency lacked legal authority to enact the rule. A separate lawsuit was filed by 21 other states.

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  • PoliticsHuffPost

    James Comer Formally Invites Joe Biden To Testify In Impeachment Inquiry

    Asking Biden to testify, and getting mad when he refuses, may signal the death rattle of the impeachment effort.

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  • USNBC News

    Trump attends wake for fallen NYPD officer as he ramps up rhetoric on crime

    After he attended the wake Thursday of slain New York police officer Jonathan Diller, former President Donald Trump expressed outrage over the killing and used the opportunity to tout his position on the need to curb crime.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Sen. Bob Menendez decides not to delay May trial with appeal of judge's ruling

    New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez will not appeal a judge’s ruling on Constitutional grounds that would have delayed his May trial, his lawyers said Thursday. The Democrat’s lawyers notified the Manhattan federal judge who will preside over the May 6 trial in a letter that the senator’s decision was “principally motivated by his desire to proceed to trial and establish his innocence without further delay.” Prosecutors say the gold and cash resulted from bribes that he and his wife received in excha

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  • USThe Guardian

    Ted Cruz, US senator mocked for flight to Cancún, seeks airport police escorts

    Republican senator, who flew to Mexico as Texas faced deadly cold snap, complains of ‘serious security threats’ to lawmakers

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  • BusinessReuters

    US, Mexico to partner on semiconductor supply chain development

    The United States will partner with Mexico to explore semiconductor supply chain opportunities, the State Department said on Thursday, as the Biden administration pushes to reduce reliance on China and Taiwan for the technology. The collaboration will take place as part of the U.S. CHIPS Act, a 2022 law that created a $500 million fund for developing the semiconductor supply chain through initiatives with allies and partners. "Manufacturing of essential products ranging from vehicles to medica

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  • USAssociated Press

    Republican states file lawsuit challenging Biden's student loan repayment plan

    A group of Republican-led states is suing the Biden administration to block a new student loan repayment plan that provides a faster path to cancellation and lower monthly payments for millions of borrowers. In a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, 11 states led by Kansas argue that Biden overstepped his authority in creating the SAVE Plan, which was made available to borrowers last year and has already canceled loans for more than 150,000. It argues that the new plan is no different from Biden's

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  • PoliticsHuffPost

    Senate To Begin Impeachment Trial For Alejandro Mayorkas April 11

    The trial could be over very quickly due to bipartisan Senate opposition to ousting President Joe Biden's secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Trump backers try again to recall Wisconsin GOP Assembly speaker as first effort stalls

    Backers of former President Donald Trump are launching a second effort to recall Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos from office after the first attempt appears to have failed. Recall organizers filed paperwork to start a second recall effort on Wednesday, just a day after they asked a court to give them more time to rehabilitate signatures that Vos challenged on the first recall petition. Organizers on Thursday said they weren't giving up hope on the first attempt, calling the new

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  • PoliticsReuters

    South Carolina voting map faulted for racial bias by court revived for 2024

    A federal court that previously threw out a Republican-drawn South Carolina electoral map for bias against Black voters decided on Thursday that it can be used in this year's congressional elections, a ruling that could undercut Democratic chances of winning control of the U.S. House of Representatives. But the panel said the approaching election calendar and the U.S. Supreme Court's delay in ruling on an appeal by Republican state officials had left the judges little choice. The Supreme Court

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  • USAssociated Press

    South Carolina to hold 2024 congressional elections with map previously ruled unconstitutional

    A federal court on Thursday ruled that this year's congressional elections in South Carolina will be held under a map that it had already deemed unconstitutional and discriminatory against Black voters, with time running out ahead of voting deadlines and a lack of a decision on the case by the Supreme Court. In an order, a panel of three federal judges from South Carolina wrote that “with the primary election procedures rapidly approaching, the appeal before the Supreme Court still pending, and

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  • PoliticsAssociated Press

    House Speaker Mike Johnson will send Mayorkas impeachment to the Senate next month

    House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday indicated he will send articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate shortly after Congress returns to Washington next month. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer plans to swear in senators as jurors in the trial the next day, according to his office. The House impeached Mayorkas on a razor-thin party-line vote in February, but Johnson had delayed sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate while Congre

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  • PoliticsThe Guardian

    Al Sharpton: Trump’s $60 Bibles ‘a spit in the face of people that really believe’

    The Rev Al Sharpton makes comment to MSNBC amid backlash over Republican’s latest moneymaking scheme

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  • WorldReuters

    Zelenskiy tells US House speaker: Quick passage of military aid is vital

    Republican Speaker Mike Johnson has held up a bill for months that would supply $60 billion in military and financial aid for Ukraine. In his nightly video address, Zelenskiy said he told Johnson that Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities were "escalating and can only be stopped by the physical force of our defence".

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  • PoliticsAssociated Press

    Joe Lieberman's death leaves a hole at No Labels as it tries to recruit a 2024 third-party candidate

    When No Labels' critics got the loudest, it was Joe Lieberman who came to the group's defense. Despite its benign stated mission, No Labels inflamed many people across politics by working to recruit a third-party presidential candidate that some fear might tilt the 2024 election in Donald Trump's favor. At almost every major turn, Lieberman served as the group's chief public defender.

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  • PoliticsReuters

    US House to deliver Homeland Secretary Mayorkas impeachment to Senate April 10

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will deliver two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on April 10, House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Thursday. Mayorkas, who Republicans blame for record flows of migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border, was narrowly impeached by the House last month on allegations that he has not enforced U.S. immigration laws and has made false statements to Congress. Mayorkas

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  • USAssociated Press

    As Kansas nears gender care ban, students push university to advocate for trans youth

    With Kansas poised to ban gender-affirming care for minors, college students are trying to counter Republican efforts to roll back transgender rights by pushing the state's largest university to declare itself a haven for trans youth. The GOP-controlled Legislature approved its proposed ban on puberty blockers, hormone treatments and surgeries for minors Wednesday, apparently with the two-thirds majorities in both chambers needed to override an expected veto from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. K

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  • USThe New York Times

    Bogus Election Fraud Claims Still Run Rampant in Maricopa County

    Nearly four years after Joe Biden flipped Arizona blue, the state — and in particular, its largest county, Maricopa — remains a hub for debunked claims of election fraud. In 2021, Republicans pushed for a recount of the vote in Maricopa, a lengthy and chaotic process that failed to validate former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the vote had been rigged. A year later, Kari Lake, a close Trump ally who lost the governor’s race, baselessly claimed that her election had been stolen, too.

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  • HealthAssociated Press

    Some cancer patients can find it hard to tell family and friends

    Ever since Anthony Bridges found out he had prostate cancer six years ago, he hasn’t stopped talking about it. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin kept his prostate cancer quiet, including from President Joe Biden. Dr. Otis Brawley says he’s encountered men who don’t even want to talk about their prostate cancer with their own doctors.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Biden administration restores threatened species protections dropped by Trump

    The Biden administration on Thursday restored rules to protect imperiled species and shield their habitat from destruction after the measures were rolled back under former President Donald Trump. Among the changes, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for animals and plants newly classified as threatened. The restoration of more protective regulations rankled Republicans who said the Endangered Species Act was being wielde

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  • PoliticsHuffPost

    James Comer Is Mad

    The House Oversight Committee chair has been increasingly lashing out at reporters covering his impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden.

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  • WorldThe Guardian

    Bernie Moreno says he fled socialism in Colombia for the US in 1971. What does history say?

    The Republican challenger to Democrat Sherrod Brown for US Senate in Ohio has made dubious claims in his campaign

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  • PoliticsNBC News

    JD Vance's VP prospects could rise after he helped deliver Trump a big Ohio win

    Bernie Moreno's Ohio GOP Senate primary victory reinforced Trump's influence and JD Vance's reputation as a loyal soldier to the former president.

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  • PoliticsNBC News

    N.J. Democrat targets Sen. Bob Menendez's access to classified information — as well as Trump's

    A new bill would prevent Sen. Bob Mendnez and Donald Trump from accessing classified information due their indictments on federal charges.

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  • PoliticsHuffPost

    Barack Obama Makes Big Change For Joe Biden As Election Nears: Reports

    The former president is said to be shifting his approach with Biden.

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  • OpinionLA Times

    Calmes: Is this the worst Congress ever? Let's count the ways

    The 118th Congress is on track to pass the least amount of U.S. legislation in modern times, all because of the self-defeating GOP House majority.

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  • WorldAssociated Press

    US congressional delegation pledges continued defense support for Taiwan

    A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation pledged continued support for Taiwan on Thursday, days after Congress approved $300 million in military aid for the self-governed island that’s claimed by China. Congress also approved $400 million on Saturday to counter the Chinese government’s influence in the region, as part of its Defense Appropriations Act. China regards Taiwan as a breakaway province to be brought under its control, by force if necessary.

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  • PoliticsAssociated Press

    Republican panel's selection to be Rep. Buck's likely replacement is a saving grace for Boebert

    A Colorado Republican panel made a surprising decision Thursday night, choosing a former mayor, Greg Lopez, to be U.S. Rep. Ken Buck's likely replacement until the November general election, a saving grace for Rep. Lauren Boebert's bid for another term in Congress. Lopez will now run as the Republican candidate in the June 25 special election after Buck's resignation at the same time GOP primary candidates are vying to be the congressman's successor. The stakes, however, were far higher than k

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  • PoliticsAssociated Press

    Trump's team cites First Amendment in contesting charges in Georgia election interference case

    The charges against Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case seek to criminalize political speech and advocacy conduct that the First Amendment protects, a lawyer for the former president said Thursday as he argued that the indictment should be dismissed. The hearing before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee was on a filing from Trump and on two pretrial motions by co-defendant David Shafer and centered on technical legal arguments. It marked something of a return to

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  • PoliticsNBC News

    Judge recommends John Eastman be disbarred in California

    A judge recommended Wednesday that John Eastman, a co-defendant of Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case, be disbarred in California.

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  • PoliticsNBC News

    Trump ramps up attacks on judge in hush money case after gag order

    Former President Donald Trump repeatedly lashed out at one person who's not covered by a gag order in the New York hush money case — the judge.

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