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Updated: 51 weeks 18 hours ago
Republican race remains stuck as Trump dominates heading into fall
Campaigns don’t want to go after Trump for fear of alienating his supporters — but don’t see a path to beating him without attacking him at some point.
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Is America ready for another impeachment? McCarthy thinks maybe so.
Any further GOP investigations into the president with the word “impeachment” would come with considerable risk for the Republican Party.
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Trump’s Truth Social facing a key funding deadline
With the merger stalled for months, Digital World is fast approaching a Sept. 8 deadline for the merger to close and has scheduled a shareholder vote for Tuesday to extend the deadline another year.
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McCain’s political heirs carry on his fight against Trumpian isolationism
The institute bearing John McCain’s name says the Republican Party’s retreat from its strong national security stance would shock the senator if he were alive.
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Trump lawyers evoke 1931 trial of ‘Scottsboro boys’ in election case
In 1931, nine Black teens were wrongfully convicted of raping two White women. Trump’s lawyers cited the case in their unsuccessful bid to delay trial until 2026.
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Ex-employee sues CPAC alleging racial bias, defamation by Schlapp, others
The lawsuit against CPAC threatens to compound legal expenses for the conservative organization, which is facing other litigation.
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Brian Kemp ushers his party away from the Trumpian deep end — again
In rejecting an effort to target Trump prosecutor Fani Willis (D), the Georgia governor undercut the GOP’s whole “weaponization” push.
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Proud Boys leader gets 18 years, matching longest Jan. 6 punishment to date
Proud Boys leader Ethan Nordean was sentenced to 18 years, and member Dominic Pezzola, seen enabling the first breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, by smashing a window, received a 10-year term.
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The patterns of out-of-state abortions
From 2011 to 2020, the number of Alabamans seeking abortions out of state rose sharply.
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Trump’s Georgia trial is readied for TV, while others are hard to see
Trump’s Georgia trial will be televised, a judge ruled in a state that offers far more courthouse media access than the other places he is facing charges.
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Kentucky’s governor won’t commit to appointing Republican if McConnell resigns
Gov. Andy Beshear (D) previously vetoed a 2021 law that requires him to replace an outgoing senator with someone of the same party, but the Republican-controlled legislature overrode the veto.
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‘We need 50 million bucks’ and other takeaways from a pro-DeSantis PAC’s pitch
In a roughly 90-minute pitch, Never Back Down officials laid out their strategy for the coming months of the campaign.
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Appeals court won’t block Trump deposition in ex-FBI employees’ suit
The Justice Department wants to keep Trump from testifying about the firing of an FBI agent and the release of his text messages with an FBI attorney.
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FTC, Amgen reach deal to allow $28 billion pharmaceutical merger
The Federal Trade Commission dropped its lawsuit to block Amgen’s merger with Horizon Therapeutics, reaching a deal it said would prevent anticompetitive behavior.
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Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
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Be glad you’re not in charge of raising money for Ron DeSantis
Allies of the Florida governor would really like people to throw their good money after bad.
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Highways are the next antiabortion target. One Texas town is resisting.
A new ordinance, passed in several jurisdictions and under consideration elsewhere, aims to stop people from using local roads to drive someone out of state for an abortion
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Families crossing U.S. border illegally reached all-time high in August
At least 91,000 migrants crossing in a family group were arrested in August, an influx that may return immigration to the spotlight for the 2024 election.
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McConnell tries to tamp down health concerns after second incident
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday suffered his second public incident of freezing up in five weeks, prompting questions about his health that his aides have declined to address.
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Abortion fight unites the left and rattles the right in key Wis. battleground
Republicans in Door County, which has backed all but two presidential winners in the last 50 years, are grappling with the political fallout of an unpopular ban.
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