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Ohio Issue 1 passes, protecting abortion rights in the Republican state
Ohio is the seventh state in which voters successfully protected abortion access since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
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Who is Gov. Andy Beshear, the Democrat who won reelection in Kentucky?
Gov. Andy Beshear, who won his first term by less than a percentage point, has won reelection in the ruby-red state.
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Abortion access remains undefeated in the polls post-Roe
Abortion opponents in Ohio fought hard to block Issue 1, protecting access to abortion. It didn’t matter.
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House votes to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib over comments about Israel
The resolution accused Tlaib of “promoting false narratives” regarding the Hamas attack on Israel in October and for “calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.”
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Exit poll results from Ohio Issue 1 ballot measure on abortion rights
Exit poll results for Ohio Issue 1
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Court seems likely to allow gun bans for those under protective orders
The Supreme Court appeared inclined to uphold a U.S. law that bars people who are the subject of domestic-violence restraining orders from possessing firearms.
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5 ways Trump and allies plan for a more authoritarian second term
Trump looks an increasingly good bet to regain the presidency -- even as plans for a much more heavy-handed second term increasingly crystallize.
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Ex-DOJ employee who testified against Fugees rapper sentenced
Ex-DOJ employee George Higginbotham had testified against Fugees rapper Pras Michél in a criminal case arising from one of the world’s biggest financial scandals.
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Elizabeth Moynihan, impassioned scholar of Mughal gardens, dies at 94
While managing the Senate campaigns of her husband, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, she achieved wide renown for her decades of fieldwork in India.
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Anti-Trump forces splinter on alternative candidate as DeSantis, Haley fight on
With nearly two months until the first nominating contest, anti-Trump Republicans have yet to merge around a consensus candidate against the former president, who holds a commanding lead in polls of the GOP race
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Trump’s legal issues are bound with a thread of willful dishonesty
Dishonesty has long been Trump’s currency.
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Team DeSantis is somehow still trying to hype his electability
You have to argue something, I guess.
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These Miami-Dade voters want Ron DeSantis as governor, but not president
Some voters in the county that DeSantis won by double digits in the 2022 governor’s race race are calling on him to support Trump’s bid to reclaim the presidency.
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Iowa Gov. Reynolds hits back at Trump as she throws support to DeSantis
After months of trying to ignore Trump’s broadsides, Reynolds rebuked the former president.
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Trump belief that 2020 election was stolen is not a defense, DOJ says
Prosecutors for Special Counsel Jack Smith said they can prove Donald Trump used deceit to try to overturn the election results without getting in his head.
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Five GOP presidential candidates are set to debate Wednesday night
Only five Republican presidential candidates will take the debate stage in Miami on Nov. 8, while Trump will again skip the showdown.
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Grievances, insults, tangents: Trump brings his 2024 campaign into the courtroom
Monday’s testimony in a civil case offered a glimpse of the extraordinary intersection of a presidential candidate’s political strategy and conduct in court.
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Some Democrats worry Biden’s team is ignoring political warning signs
A series of recent polls shows Trump running even or ahead of Biden. His team says they don’t mean much a year before the election.
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Testifying in fraud case, Trump clashes with judge and draws reprimands
Trump clashes with judge and draws reprimands as he testifies in $250 million civil fraud trial
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A disgraced former Trump official wants to deport Palestinians
Ryan Zinke, now a congressman from Montana, offered legislation tailored to the conservative media crowd.
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