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Former congressional staffer defeats Trump critic in special Utah GOP primary
Celeste Maloy, a former staffer for Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) and supporter of former president Donald Trump, has narrowly won a special GOP primary that included a Trump critic who voted for Joe Biden in 2020.
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Did a doctor order her left ‘dead or alive’? Revisiting an abortion tale
Interviews and contemporary newspaper articles call into question some claims made by “Penny,” a woman cited by Gov. Ron DeSantis in the August GOP debate
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Texas must move floating border barriers in Rio Grande, U.S. judge says
Texas placed the spiked barriers in the river without federal permission as part of Operation Lone Star, a $4 billion effort to block illegal border crossings.
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Arrests continue in Jan. 6 riot; fifth man charged in attack on Fanone
Wayne Snoots is charged in attack on former D.C. police Officer Michael Fanone. About 190 people have been charged this year in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
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Trump’s 2020 crusade has led to 700 years in prison sentences
The big recent sentences in the Proud Boys cases highlight the massive toll of Trump’s quixotic quest to stay in power.
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Wisconsin’s gerrymandering rides to the rescue of its gerrymandering
The red-imbalanced state has a new idea for protecting its disproportionate power.
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Trump endorsements helped win primaries … and lose in November
New research shows that Trump’s endorsed candidates from 2018 to 2022 took an estimated 1.5-point hit in general elections.
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Mitch McConnell says there’s ‘no excuse’ not to support more Ukraine aid
“Now is not the time to go wobbly,” the Senate Republican leader said Wednesday.
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Atlanta ‘Cop City’ protesters indicted under law used to target mob bosses
Georgia grand jury indicts 61 people on racketeering charges connected to protests against planned police and firefighter training facility.
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Donald Trump’s eternally unrealized dream of swaying the Black vote
There’s a big difference between apathy toward one candidate and enthusiasm for his opponent.
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Former GOP representative Mike Rogers launches Senate campaign in Michigan
Rogers, a former FBI special agent, is seeking to give the GOP a viable path to flipping a seat held by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), who is retiring at the end of her term.
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James Comer claims that Biden pseudonym email was code. That’s nonsense.
The Republican leading the Hunter Biden inquiry earns Four Pinocchios.
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Former Biden aide wins special Democratic congressional primary in Rhode Island
The Rhode Island congressional race won by a former Biden aide became a case study of factions within the Democratic Party.
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Biden awards Medal of Honor to retired Army Capt. Larry Taylor
Taylor, a retired Vietnam War helicopter pilot, risked his life by flying into enemy fire to rescue four soldiers in 1968.
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‘No evidence’ McConnell has seizure disorder, congressional physician says
Brian P. Monahan, the attending physician, wrote that he had examined McConnell after his second public freeze-up last week.
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Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years for Jan. 6
Convicted of seditious conspiracy, he recruited a group of 200 to march on the Capitol, though he wasn’t in D.C. that day.
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Rudy Giuliani’s stunning fall from grace, in one chart
A new poll punctuates his descent from the man nearly everyone could agree on post-9/11 to a starkly unpopular criminal defendant.
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Why it’s not surprising that 2024 polling is close
It’s not surprising that 2024 polling is close. This is the new normal.
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Biden didn’t protest or fight in Vietnam. Now he’s making a crucial visit.
Biden, who largely sat out his generation’s defining conflict, could cement the U.S.-Vietnam alliance.
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Alabama congressional map struck down again for diluting Black voting power
The judges said in the order that they are “deeply troubled that the State enacted a map that the State readily admits does not provide the remedy we said federal law requires.”
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