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POLITICS/GOVERNMENT


8 hours ago

The fight for abortion rights gets an unlikely messenger in swing state Pennsylvania: Sen. Bob Casey

18 hours ago

A US aircraft carrier and its crew have fought Houthi attacks for months. How long can it last?

14 hours ago

Immigrant families rejoice over Biden's expansive move toward citizenship, while some are left out

12 hours ago

Poisoned trees gave a wealthy couple in Maine a killer ocean view. Residents wonder, at what cost?

There was one thing missing when a wealthy Missouri couple purchased their oceanfront home overlooking Camden Harbor in Maine: The million-dollar view was blocked by a neighbor's trees.

1 day ago

US approves new $360 million arms sale to Taiwan for drones, related equipment

The Biden administration has approved a new $360 million weapons sale to Taiwan, sending the island hundreds of armed drones, missile equipment and related support material.

1 day ago

Georgia primary runoff: Polls have closed, watch the results here as they come in

A handful of races that were not decided in the May 21 primary will be decided by southeast Georgia voters tonight.

1 day ago

Trump declares 'I love Milwaukee' after reportedly using the word 'horrible' for the RNC host city

Former President Donald Trump has insisted he loves the city of Milwaukee as he returned to the critical battleground state of Wisconsin just weeks before it hosts the Republican National Convention.

1 day ago

Republicans block bill to outlaw bump stocks for rifles after Supreme Court lifts Trump-era ban

Senate Republicans have blocked bipartisan legislation that would have outlawed bump stocks after the Supreme Court struck down a ban on the rapid-fire gun accessory.

1 day ago

Biden is offering some migrants a pathway to citizenship. Here's how the plan will work

A new Biden administration policy will give roughly half a million immigrants who are married to American citizens but lack legal status in the United States a pathway to citizenship for them and their children.

1 day ago

Biden again calls Trump a 'convicted felon' at a fundraiser pushing his 5-day total to around $40M

President Joe Biden is again taunting Donald Trump as a “convicted felon,” saying his likely opponent in November’s election is waging an “all-out assault” on the U_S_ legal system.”.

1 day ago

Turmoil rocks New Jersey's Democratic political bosses just in time for an election

Being a political boss in New Jersey ain’t what it used to be.

POLITICAL DRILL DOWN

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1 day ago

Here’s where courts are slowing Republican efforts for a state role in enforcing immigration law

The federal government has long had sole authority over U.S. immigration policy, but several Republican-led states are pushing for a role in enforcing regulations.

1 day ago

Congressional Budget Office raises this year’s federal budget deficit projection by $400 billion

The Congressional Budget Office says it projects this year’s federal budget deficit to be $400 billion higher, a 27% increase compared to its original estimate released in February.

1 day ago

Ethics probe into Matt Gaetz now reviewing allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use

New details are emerging in the ethics investigation into Florida Republican Matt Gaetz.

1 day ago

Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn pleads not guilty in Arizona’s fake elector case

Three people facing charges connected to trying to overturn former President Donald Trump’s Arizona election loss are pleading not guilty.

1 day ago

Treasury sanctions network connected to separatist Bosnian leader

A network of people and firms that support the sanctioned president of Bosnia’s Serb-run part, Milorad Dodik, has been hit with new sanctions.

1 day ago

New York's top court declines to hear Trump's appeal of the gag order in his hush money case

Donald Trump plans to keep fighting a gag order in his New York hush money case even though the state’s top court has declined to hear his appeal of it.

1 day ago

Half a million immigrants could eventually get US citizenship under a sweeping new plan from Biden

President Joe Biden has ordered an expansive election-year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S. It comes after the Democratic president's own aggressive immigration crackdown at the southern border earlier this month.

1 day ago

AI could help spread false and misleading information on Holocaust, UNESCO report warns

Artificial intelligence could be misused to spread misleading or false claims about the Holocaust.

2 days ago

Biofuel groups envision ethanol-powered jets. But fueling the effort has not been easy

Farming and biofuels organizations are hopeful that ethanol could be used to power passenger jets, but making that dream a reality hasn’t been easy.

2 days ago

The politics of memes: How Biden and Trump are fighting each other on the internet

Both presidential campaigns this year have embraced digital memes, the lingua franca of social media.

1 day ago

Former federal official Johnson and ex-Trump aide Jack win Georgia GOP nominations for US House

Georgia Republicans have settled two U.S. House nominations in runoffs.

1 day ago

Majority of Americans favor forgiving medical debt, AP-NORC poll finds

Majorities of Americans favor forgiving all or some of an individual’s medical debt if the person is facing hardships.

1 day ago

Cliffhanger congressional contest between Bob Good and John McGuire tests power of Trump endorsement

One of America’s most conservative congressmen is locked in a tight renomination battle against an opponent endorsed by former President Donald Trump in Virginia.

2 days ago

Harris meets with former Israeli hostage who described being sexually assaulted in Gaza

Vice President Kamala Harris has met with an Israeli lawyer who has publicly described being sexually assaulted while held hostage in Gaza.

2 days ago

An anti-abortion group in South Dakota sues to take an abortion rights initiative off the ballot

An anti-abortion group in South Dakota has filed a lawsuit to block an abortion rights measure from the November ballot.

2 days ago

Biden will announce deportation protection and work permits for spouses of US citizens

President Joe Biden is planning to announce a sweeping new policy that would lift the threat of deportation for tens of thousands of people married to U.S. citizens.

2 days ago

A record number of NATO allies are hitting their defense spending target during war in Ukraine

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says a record 23 of NATO's 32 member nations are hitting the Western military alliance’s defense spending target this year as Russia’s war in Ukraine has raised the threat of expanding conflict in Europe.

2 days ago

Michigan, CUNY didn't suitably assess if Israel-Hamas war protests made environment hostile, US says

The University of Michigan and the City University of New York didn't adequately investigate complaints about antisemitic or anti-Palestinian harassment linked to campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war and other incidents.

FLORIDA LEGISLATURE


Judge to decide on Florida’s law restricting teachers’ use of personal pronouns

New Florida bill could require sellers to disclose flood risk information at or before the time of the sale

Social media, insurance, hemp: 10 of the biggest issues in the just closed 2024 Florida Legislative session

Gov. DeSantis to get bill that makes it easier to shoot bears, claim self defense

Activists rally in Tallahassee to call for changes in Florida prisons

Florida House, Senate to vote on new safety rules for lithium-ion batteries

2 days ago

The IRS wants to end another major tax loophole for the wealthy and raise $50 billion in the process

The Internal Revenue Service plans to end another major tax loophole that could raise more than $50 billion in revenue over the next decade.

2 days ago

Keeping children safe on social media: What parents should know to protect their kids

At what age should kids be on social media.

2 days ago

Emhoff will speak at groundbreaking of the memorial for the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims

Vice President Kamala Harris' husband will deliver remarks at the groundbreaking of the memorial to victims of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.

2 days ago

Biden's campaign announces a $50 million advertising blitz highlighting Trump's conviction

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign says it's using a $50 million advertising blitz targeting voters in battleground states to highlight the “stark contrast” between Biden and former President Donald Trump following Trump's New York felony conviction.

2 days ago

Nuclear-armed nations are deepening their reliance on their nuclear weapons, watchdog finds

A Stockholm-based watchdog says the world's nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their nuclear weapons as the countries deepened their reliance on nuclear deterrence in 2023.

2 days ago

AI experimentation is high risk, high reward for low-profile political campaigns

Text, photos, videos and audio created using artificial intelligence are increasingly making their way into campaigns for state and local office.

3 days ago

Longtime Southern Baptist leader Paul Pressler, who was accused of sexual abuse, dies at 94

Paul Pressler, a leading figure of the Southern Baptist Convention who was accused of sexual abuse and later settled a lawsuit over the allegations, has died.

3 days ago

What to know about Trump's outreach with Arab Americans led by his daughter Tiffany's father-in-law

Donald Trump's allies hope to seize on dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden among Arab American voters.

3 days ago

Trump allies hope his daughter Tiffany's father-in-law can help flip Arab American votes in Michigan

A Lebanese businessman whose son married Tiffany Trump two years ago is now helping Donald Trump with outreach in the Arab American community.

3 days ago

Takeaways from the campaigning to win over rural voters in swing-state North Carolina

North Carolina is one of a handful of tightly contested states that could determine this year's presidential election.

3 days ago

Many voters in swing-state North Carolina are disengaged. Party activists hope to fire them up

Granville County is one of only six counties in North Carolina that voted for Barack Obama, and then pivoted to Donald Trump.

3 days ago

The anti-abortion movement is making a big play to thwart citizen initiatives on reproductive rights

Anti-abortion groups and their Republican allies in state governments are using a range of strategies to counter proposed ballot initiatives that are intended to protect reproductive rights or prevent voters from having a say in the fall.

Trump challenges Biden to a cognitive test but confuses the name of the doctor who tested him

Donald Trump has suggested President Joe Biden “should have to take a cognitive test,” only to confuse who administered the test to him in the next sentence.

Trump blasts immigrants for taking jobs as he courts voters at a Black church, MAGA event in Detroit

Donald Trump is blaming immigrants for stealing jobs and government resources as he courts separate groups of Black voters and hardcore conservatives in battleground Michigan.

Indiana Republicans upset Mike Braun’s choice for lieutenant governor, backing far-right pick

Indiana Republicans have rejected Sen. Mike Braun’s choice for lieutenant governor, instead nominating a podcasting pastor with far-right views to be his running mate.

Partisan gridlock prevents fixes to Pennsylvania’s voting laws as presidential election looms

Pennsylvania is seeing lots of action targeting gaps in its vote-by-mail laws.

Many Senate Republicans were done with Trump after Jan. 6. Now they want him back in the White House

After the 2020 election, many Republican senators distanced themselves from Donald Trump.

3 days ago

Clooney and Roberts help Biden raise $30 million-plus at a star-studded Hollywood gala

Some of Hollywood’s brightest stars headlined a fundraiser for President Joe Biden in Los Angeles that took in a record $30 million-plus for a Democratic candidate, according to his campaign.

The US supports 'a just and lasting peace' for Ukraine, Harris tells Zelenskyy at Swiss summit

Vice President Kamala Harris is pledging America’s full support in backing Ukraine and global efforts to achieve “a just and lasting peace” in the face of Russia’s invasion.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrongly says Buffalo supermarket killer used a bump stock

Around an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ban on bump stocks, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrongly said a gunman who carried out a racist massacre in her hometown of Buffalo had used the gun accessory that can allow semiautomatic rifles to shoot as fast as a machine gun.

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