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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.
6 min read - PoliticsThe New York Times
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
6 min read - PoliticsUSA TODAY
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
2 min read - PoliticsAssociated Press
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.
5 min read - PoliticsThe Hill
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…
2 min read - BusinessAssociated Press
US airlines are suing the Biden administration over a new rule to make certain fees easier to spot
U.S. airlines are suing to block the Biden administration from requiring greater transparency over fees that the carriers charge their passengers, saying that a new rule would confuse consumers by giving them too much information during the ticket-buying process. The U.S. Transportation Department said Monday it will vigorously defend the rule against what it called “hidden junk fees.” American, Delta, United and three other carriers, along with their industry trade group, sued the Transportat
1 min read - PoliticsThe Guardian
Donald Trump leads Joe Biden in five key battleground states, new polls show
Surveys put ex-president up in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia and Nevada as Biden campaign brushes off significance
4 min read - WorldAssociated Press
China and US envoys will hold first top-level dialogue on artificial intelligence
High-level envoys from the United States and China are set to meet in Geneva on Tuesday for talks about artificial intelligence, including the risks of the fast-evolving technology and ways to set shared standards to manage it. The meeting, billed as an opening exchange of views, is the first under an inter-governmental dialogue on AI agreed during a multi-faceted meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco in November. Both the U.S. and China see
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'A big family': At Trump trial, Michael Cohen recalls when he and Donald 'Von ShitzInPantz' were co-conspirator besties
Back before the two men hated each other, Michael Cohen and Donald Trump were co-conspirator besties, the former "fixer" told a New York jury.
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FERC votes to overhaul US electric transmission system
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved rules on Monday in a 2-1 vote that set new requirements for moving electricity across states and covering the costs of new transmission projects, which will play a key role in the Biden administration's goal of decarbonizing the economy by 2050. The FERC's rule on regional transmission planning and cost allocation has been under development for nearly two years. It is meant to ensure the U.S. power grid is resilient and ab
2 min read - PoliticsAssociated Press
Trump to stump in Minnesota, a traditionally blue state he insists he can win. Is it really in play?
Former President Donald Trump's planned campaign visit to Minnesota on Friday will mark his return to a traditionally Democratic state that he has long argued he could carry. Trump will take a break from his hush money trial in New York to speak at the Minnesota GOP's annual Lincoln Reagan fundraising dinner. Tickets start at $500, ranging up to $100,000 for a VIP table for 10 with three photo opportunities with Trump.
6 min read - PoliticsAssociated Press
Trump hush money trial: A timeline of key events in the case
The events at the center of former President Donald Trump’s hush money case date back almost two decades, with new dates coming to light as the trial plays out in a Manhattan courtroom. January 2005: Trump marries his current wife, Melania. September 2005: Trump is recorded bragging to “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush about grabbing women’s genitals without asking for permission.
7 min read - PoliticsThe New York Times
Battleground Polling Shows Ticket-Splitting Pattern
We have a new set of polls for you in the battleground states, including New York Times/Siena College polls of Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona and the inaugural Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena poll in Pennsylvania. The results in the presidential race would have been surprising a year ago, but it’s hard to call them surprising anymore. Former President Donald Trump leads in five of the six states among likely voters, with President Joe Biden squeaking out a lead among likely vote
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J.D. Vance Claims He'll Accept The 2024 Election Results On 1 Condition
The Ohio senator is reportedly high on Donald Trump's vice-presidential shortlist.
3 min read - PoliticsThe Guardian
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 American Bridge co-founder Bradley Beychok, who said Democrats have too often shied away from rural counties as they have focused on turning out
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US Senator Robert Menendez's corruption trial gets underway
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jury selection began on Monday in the corruption trial of U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, a case that could affect the Democrat's political future and help determine which party controls the Senate next year. Menendez, 70, faces 16 criminal charges including bribery, fraud and acting as a foreign agent, and is being tried alongside two New Jersey businessmen in Manhattan federal court. The senator's wife, Nadine Menendez, has also been charged but will be tried separately.
3 min read - PoliticsThe Guardian
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.
10 min read - PoliticsAssociated Press
'Make sure it doesn't get released;' Star witness Michael Cohen implicates Trump in hush money case
Donald Trump's fixer-turned-foe, Michael Cohen, directly implicated the former president in a hush money scheme Monday, telling jurors that his celebrity client approved hefty payouts to stifle stories about sex that he feared could be harmful to his 2016 White House campaign. “You handle it,” Cohen quoted Trump as telling him after learning that a doorman had come forward with a claim that Trump had fathered a child out-of-wedlock. The Trump Tower doorman was paid $30,000 to keep the story “o
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Corruption trial for Sen. Bob Menendez underway with jury selection
Sen Bob Menendez, a Democrat, went on trial in Manhattan federal court Monday, accused of accepting bribes of gold and cash to use his influence to deliver favors that would help three New Jersey businessmen. Menendez, 70, sat with his lawyers and listened as Judge Sidney H. Stein told several dozen prospective jurors about the charges against Menendez and two of the businessmen. After he warned them that the trial was expected to last up to seven weeks, Stein let jurors raise their hands if
3 min read - WorldAssociated Press
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
4 min read - PoliticsThe New York Times
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.
3 min read - PoliticsThe Guardian
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
13 min read - USThe Guardian
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 'multitasking' 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 Oyate 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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