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The fired Ukrainian prosecutor is not a reliable narrator
Republicans are hyping Viktor Shokin’s new Fox News interview about the Bidens and Burisma. But it reinforced reasons to doubt his account.
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All the times Trump’s trials conflict with the 2024 election campaign
Trump is facing four pending civil and criminal cases already on the calendar — and more could be on the way.
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Ramaswamy distills Republican race rhetoric to its essence
The Republican presidential hopeful compared a Black legislator to the Klan as he suggested a pun on his last name was racist.
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The Trump Cases: Highlights from last week and what’s coming this week
Former president Donald Trump is facing four criminal indictments, in D.C., Georgia, Florida and New York. A guide to the latest developments in each case.
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Biden’s course for U.S. on trade breaks with Clinton and Obama
President Biden is reshaping the U.S. approach to trade policy to focus on the needs of Americans as workers rather than consumers, breaking with 30 years of trade policy.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court flips liberal, creating a ‘seismic shift’
Liberal groups, long accustomed to seeing the court as hostile terrain, quickly maneuvered for potential victories on a string of major issues, including abortion.
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5,000 pilots suspected of hiding major health issues. Most are still flying.
Federal authorities have been investigating about 5,000 pilots suspected of falsifying their medical records to conceal conditions that could make them unfit to fly.
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DeSantis group prepares $25 million ad buy in Iowa and New Hampshire
The commitment comes as supporters hope his debate performance reverses his polling slide.
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Trump’s Georgia case could get real — quickly
While Trump might not go to trial for a long time, others are forcing the issue in ways that could shed light on the case against him.
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‘Democracy’ was on the wall at the GOP debate. It was never in the conversation.
The health of American democracy in the coming election has been an open question, yet the eight candidates at the GOP debates hardly addressed it.
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Trump and his co-defendants in Georgia have surrendered. Now what?
Shortly before noon, the final co-defendant surrendered: Stephen Cliffgard Lee, who faces five counts for his role in an alleged criminal conspiracy to steal the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
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Ex-Virginia school board candidate accused of attacking police on Jan. 6
Jared Miller, who ran for a school board position in Chesapeake, Va. in 2022, is accused of attacking police during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
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Americans don’t view all of Trump’s indictments equally
Among partisans, though, there’s more (predictable) consistency.
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Donald Trump marks return to X, formerly Twitter, with mug shot tweet
With 1 million ‘likes,’ the tweet still is not Trump’s most popular. That record is held by the tweet that announced his positive covid diagnosis.
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Houston selected for 2028 Republican National Convention
The RNC changed its rules in early 2022 to start picking the convention site six years out, according to a Republican involved in the process.
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Parsing Trump’s post-surrender comments in Georgia
The former president offered a preview of his political (if not legal) rhetoric.
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What our post-debate poll means for DeSantis, Ramaswamy and Haley
Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy were declared the winners by most voters, but their showings were less impressive in context. And Nikki Haley’s performance probably mattered most.
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The mug shot seen round the world: Donald Trump’s forever photo
Trump, 77, is known for mugging for the camera. Now, he has a mug shot, the first former president to be the subject of one.
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Trump is selling his mug shot on shirts, koozies and bumper stickers
For $34, Trump supporters can buy T-shirts and other merchandise featuring the first mug shot of a former American president. Bumper stickers are going for $12.
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Jonathan Turley’s deceptive Trump defense
The George Washington University Law School professor claims the former president was not asking for a recount when he called Georgia’s secretary of state.
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