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California lawmaker Vince Fong wins special election to finish ousted House Speaker McCarthy’s term
Vince Fong, a California State Assembly member backed by former President Donald Trump, won a special election Tuesday to complete the remainder of the term of deposed former U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, which runs through January. A McCarthy protege who also had the former speaker’s endorsement, Fong defeated fellow Republican and Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux in the 20th Congressional District, in the state’s Central Valley farm belt. Because of Trump’s involvement, the race wil
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Georgia DA and judge in Trump election interference case beat primary challengers
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Judge Scott McAfee -- both of whom have been key players in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his allies -- will win their respective primary races in Georgia's primary election on Tuesday, the Associated Press projects. Willis beat Atlanta attorney Christian Wise Smith in the Democratic primary; McAfee defeated attorney Robert Patillo in a nonpartisan election.
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Lawyers found classified docs in Trump’s bedroom 4 months after Mar-a-Lago search
The revelation was contained in a newly unsealed opinion that a federal judge issued in 2023.
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45 House Democrats Call On Samuel Alito To Recuse Himself From Jan. 6 Cases
"The fact of such a political statement at your home creates, at minimum, the appearance of improper political bias," the members of Congress wrote.
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Democrats propose ban on officials receiving payments from foreign governments after Trump probe
Democrats introduced legislation Tuesday that would prohibit U.S. officials from accepting money, payments or gifts from foreign governments without congressional consent, their response to a yearslong probe into former President Donald Trump’s overseas business dealings. The proposal led by Rep. Jamie Raskin and Sen. Richard Blumenthal would enforce the Constitution’s ban on emoluments, which prohibits the president from accepting foreign gifts and money without Congress’ permission. Democrat
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Key GOP senators criticize Alito over upside-down flag incident
Key Republican senators sharply criticized Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after news reports showed an upside-down American flag – a symbol used by some supporters of former President Donald Trump who challenged the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s 2020 victory – flying outside his home in 2021.
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Biden at odds with allies as U.S. and Israel attack ICC over arrest warrants
The United States was at odds with some key allies Tuesday after President Joe Biden denounced the chief prosecutor of the world’s top war crimes court for seeking arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders.
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After backlash, Trump pulls social media post with reference to 'unified Reich'
(Reuters) -Donald Trump deleted a video posted to his Truth Social account that included reference to a "unified Reich" after President Joe Biden's campaign and others criticized the use of language often associated with the Nazi regime. The video portrayed a positive vision for the country should the Republican presidential candidate defeat Biden, a Democrat, in November's election, featuring hypothetical newspaper headlines about a booming economy and a crackdown on immigration at the souther
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North Carolina Republican dismisses 2018 state election fraud as ‘fairly minor’
Dan Bishop says state board that called for new election after illegal absentee ballot collection was ‘under Democrat control’
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Trump says he is open to restrictions on contraception before backing away from the statement
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was open to supporting regulations on contraception and that his campaign would release a policy on the issue “very shortly,” comments that he later said were misinterpreted. The comments, made during an interview with a Pittsburgh television station, suggested that a future Trump administration might consider imposing mandates or supporting state restrictions on such highly personal decisions as whether women can have access to birth control. “
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Trump tops Biden in monthly fundraising for first time of 2024 campaign
Former President Donald Trump outraised President Joe Biden in fundraising in April, but the Democratic incumbent still has a sizable cash edge.
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Trump Courtroom Plays Host to Nonstop Spectacle as Prosecution Rests
NEW YORK — On a pivotal day in the first criminal trial of an American president, the courtroom threatened to spin out of control. The prosecution’s star witness, Michael D. Cohen, admitted on the stand to stealing from former President Donald Trump’s company. Trump’s courtroom entourage included three supporters charged with felonies of their own. And the defense’s only real witness was so defiant that the judge, after excoriating him, cleared the courtroom. The trial’s first five weeks feature
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GOP lawmakers conflate standard FBI policies with an assassination attempt on Trump
The online remarks from Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar came after Donald Trump posted about the FBI's search of his Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022.
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Female White House chef duo has dished up culinary diplomacy at state dinners for nearly a decade
A house-cured smoked salmon, red grapefruit, avocado and cucumber starter. Salted caramel pistachio cake under a layer of matcha ganache. While President Joe Biden and his guest of honor at a White House state dinner chew over foreign policy, the female chef duo of Cris Comerford and Susie Morrison take care of the culinary diplomacy.
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Judge in Trump classified documents case to hear more arguments on dismissing charges
Prosecutors and defense lawyers in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump are due in court Wednesday for the first time since the judge indefinitely postponed the trial earlier this month. The case, one of four criminal prosecutions against Trump, had been set for trial on May 20 but U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon cited numerous issues she has yet to resolve as a basis for canceling the trial date. On Wednesday, Cannon was scheduled to hear arguments on a Trump
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Takeaways: How Lara Trump is reshaping the Republican Party
Lara Trump is wasting no time rebranding the typically staid Republican National Committee in the image of her father-in-law, showcasing her own version of his pugilistic politics and brash management style. In an interview with The Associated Press, Lara Trump spoke about her famous family, the upcoming election and her vision for the party going forward. When Lara Trump and Chairman Michael Whatley took the reins in March, they promised to enact sweeping changes.
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What's in a name? A Trump embraces ex-president's approach in helping lead Republican Party
The direction of the Republican National Committee is clear from the last name of its new second-in-command: Trump. “My No. 1 goal is making sure that Donald Trump is the 47th president,” said RNC co-chair Lara Trump in an interview with The Associated Press. The daughter-in-law of the former president has wasted no time in rebranding the typically staid committee in Trump’s image, embracing her own version of his pugilistic politics and brash management style in ways that affirm his sway over
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Jan. 6 rioter who pushed through tear gas inside Capitol advances to House GOP runoff in Georgia
Jan. 6 Capitol rioter Chuck Hand advances to a runoff GOP primary election for a House seat in Georgia, NBC News projects.
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Bakersfield legislator Vince Fong wins special election to replace Kevin McCarthy in Congress
In the race to replace former Rep. Kevin McCarthy in Congress, San Joaquin Valley voters chose Vince Fong, a state assemblyman endorsed by McCarthy and Donald Trump.
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Biden touts PACT Act milestone as he focuses his pitch on veterans
President Joe Biden kicked off a series of events Tuesday that will focus on members of the military by highlighting a bipartisan law he signed two years ago to help veterans who’ve been exposed to burn pits or other poisons more easily receive care.
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Reparations proposals for Black Californians advance to state Assembly
The California Senate advanced a set of ambitious reparations proposals Tuesday, including legislation that would create an agency to help Black families research their family lineage and confirm their eligibility for any future restitution passed by the state. Lawmakers also passed bills to create a fund for reparations programs and compensate Black families for property that the government unjustly seized from them using eminent domain. State Sen. Steven Bradford, a Los Angeles-area Democrat
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Sen. Cory Booker questions US prison labor policies, calls for change
Prisoners should be learning professional skills that help prepare them for their release instead of being forced to work, sometimes picking crops in triple-digit heat for pennies an hour or nothing at all, Sen. Cory Booker said at a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing on prison labor Tuesday. Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas pushed back, saying prisoners are dangerous people housed in dangerous facilities where “idle hands are the devil’s workshop.”
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Appeals court denies Hunter Biden's request to postpone his June trial on gun charges
A federal appeals court on Tuesday denied Hunter Biden’s request to postpone his trial on gun charges, which is scheduled to begin next month in Delaware.
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Trump's lawyers rested their case after calling just 2 witnesses. Experts say that's not unusual
Donald Trump’s legal team rested its case Tuesday in his hush money trial after calling just two witnesses and opting not to have the former president take the stand in his own defense. The reason is simple: Prosecutors need to prove their case, while the defense only has to show there’s reasonable doubt their client committed a crime. “The burden is on the prosecution, and it’s a high burden,” said Sarah Krissoff, a white-collar defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor in New York.
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New cars in California could alert drivers for breaking the speed limit
California could eventually join the European Union in requiring all new cars to alert drivers when they break the speed limit, a proposal aimed at reducing traffic deaths that would likely impact motorists across the country should it become law. A bill in the California Legislature — which passed its first vote in the state Senate on Tuesday — would go further by requiring all new cars sold in the state by 2032 to beep at drivers when they exceed the speed limit by at least 10 mph (16 kph).
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Ukrainian gunners finally get shells to stop Russians near Kharkiv
Ukrainian servicemen operating a howitzer in Kharkiv region near the Russian border work around the clock to stop an incursion by Moscow's troops, and they are finally getting the shells to do it. Ukraine's defenders were hamstrung for months by shortages of artillery shells and other weapons as U.S. Congress held up billions of dollars worth of military aid. As the lawmakers in Washington argued, Russia's forces pressed their advantage on the frontlines, pushing forward on the eastern front.
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Democratic US lawmakers introduce bill to bar foreign payments to president
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday that would bar the president and other top officials from accepting payments from foreign governments while in office, a measure clearly aimed at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. The bill, which has no chance of passing the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives as the Nov. 5 election approaches, is aimed at tightening enforcement of the Constitution's "Emoluments Clause." House Oversi
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Trump won't testify and emails remain the credibility crunch. What you missed on Day 20 of the hush money trial.
Over the course of just a few hours in court, Donald Trump's legal team presented its entire case: Don't believe Michael Cohen.
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Giuliani pleads not guilty to felony charges in Arizona election interference case
Ten others, including former Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward, also pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, forgery and fraud charges related to the case.
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Former Trump adviser and ambassadors met with Netanyahu as Gaza war strains US-Israel ties
Former national security adviser Robert O’Brien on Tuesday said he and two U.S. ambassadors who served in the Trump administration met with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials from the country. John Rakolta, who served under Trump as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, and Ed McMullen, who served as ambassador to Switzerland, participated in the meeting. Former President Donald Trump is the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee challenging President Joe Biden’s
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‘Mr Trump, why won’t you testify?’: hush-money trial nears end with a fizzle, not a bang
Defense rests after calling two witnesses, and Donald Trump Jr attacks a question about why his father didn’t take the stand
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Donald Trump's campaign says it will begin accepting contributions through cryptocurrency
Donald Trump 's presidential campaign said Tuesday it would begin accepting donations in cryptocurrency as part of an effort to build what it calls a “crypto army” leading up to Election Day. The Trump campaign launched a fundraising page that allows “any federally permissible donor the ability to give" to its political committees using any crypto asset accepted through the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange. The announcement promotes Trump's message that he is a crypto-friendly candidate, and a
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Trump lawyers and prosecutors spar over evidence in classified documents case
Lawyers for Donald Trump asked the judge overseeing the classified documents case against him to block prosecutors from using as evidence the boxes of records that FBI agents seized during a search of the former president's Florida property nearly two years ago, according to a motion unsealed Tuesday. The defense lawyers asserted in the motion that the August 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida was unconstitutional and “illegal” and the FBI affidavit filed in justification of it wa
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Protesters against war in Gaza interrupt Blinken repeatedly in the Senate
In wide-ranging testimony before the Senate Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken denounced the chief prosecutor of the world’s top war crimes court for seeking the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said that despite offering condolences for the death of Iran's president, it didn't change that leader's history of repression. Blinken, speaking to senators about the Biden administration’s foreign affairs budget proposal, was repeatedly interrupted by protesters condemni
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How Trump's presidency became a roller-coaster ride for many of America's top CEOs
Donald Trump's relationships with many business leaders disintegrated in the aftermath of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va.
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Trump says he's 'looking at' policies that would restrict birth control access
Former President Donald Trump signaled in an interview that he's open to some restrictions on birth control, saying he will soon release a policy on the issue.
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What To Think About Biden’s Latest Poor Poll Numbers
Historically Democratic constituencies might be easier to win back than other groups, and the president has better infrastructure than Donald Trump to reach those voters.
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Trump allies plead not guilty in Arizona 'fake electors' case
Donald Trump allies pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Arizona on charges related to a plan to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state.
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Trump’s hush-money trial: here’s what’s happened in the case so far
Catch up on the latest news from Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial
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Giuliani told to post bond in Arizona election case after alleged evasion
Former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani was ordered to post a $10,000 bond in Arizona on Tuesday after allegedly eluding authorities' attempts to serve him court papers accusing the former New York mayor of trying to subvert the 2020 election. Appearing by phone at a court proceeding, Giuliani criticized what he called a "completely political case" as he pleaded not guilty to charges that he conspired to falsely claim Arizona’s electoral votes for Trump following Trump's narrow loss to Democra
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Biden's approval rating falls to lowest level in nearly two years-Reuters/Ipsos poll
U.S. President Joe Biden's public approval rating this month fell to its lowest level in almost two years, tying the lowest reading of his presidency in a warning sign for his reelection effort, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed. The four-day poll, which closed on Monday, showed just 36% of Americans approve of Biden's job performance as president, down from 38% in April. While this month's drop was within the poll's 3 percentage point margin of error, it could bode poorly for Biden as he faces off
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How Media Outlets Are Covering Justice Merchan in Trump’s Criminal Trial
Conservative media has been preoccupied for weeks with New York Judge Juan M. Merchan, who is presiding over the Manhattan criminal trial against former President Donald Trump. Trump has long attacked Merchan and his family in social media posts and on his campaign website. But Merchan did not earn a starring role in conservative media until after he issued a formal gag order against the former president, forbidding attacks against various people involved in the trial, including jurors and witne
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Biden releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from Northeast reserve in bid to lower prices at pump
The Biden administration said Tuesday it is releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast reserve established after Superstorm Sandy in a bid to lower prices at the pump this summer. The sale, from storage sites in New Jersey and Maine, will be allocated in increments of 100,000 barrels at a time. The approach will create a competitive bidding process that ensures gasoline can flow into local retailers ahead of the July 4 holiday and sold at competitive prices, the Energy Department
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Trump increasingly relies on allies to deliver the attack lines the gag order bars him from uttering
Donald Trump has been calling the politicians who make the pilgrimage to stand behind him in the New York City court where he is on trial his “surrogates” — as they push the lines of personal attacks that he has been barred from making because of a gag order.
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Defense rests in Trump hush money trial without former president's testimony
A lawyer who has clashed with Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen — and whom the judge overseeing the hush money case scolded for disrespectful behavior on the witness stand — will resume his testimony Tuesday as possibly the final witness for the defense in the first criminal trial of a former president.
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Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024?
Election officials in Nevada are reviewing signatures to see if there are enough to put an abortion rights constitutional amendment before voters in November, part of a national push to pose abortion rights questions to voters since the U.S. Supreme Court removed the nationwide right to abortion. Since the court's 2022 ruling, most Republican-controlled states have new abortion restrictions in effect, including 14 that ban it at every stage of pregnancy. Additionally, voters in seven states —
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Trump's defense rests case in hush money trial without calling Trump as witness
Donald Trump's defense lawyers on Tuesday rested their case at his criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star without calling the former U.S. president as a witness. Taking the stand would have given Trump, the Republican candidate for the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election, the chance to defend himself against the 34 criminal counts he faces for allegedly falsifying business records. Prosecutors say he sought to cover up his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 pa
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Trump rests his brief, tumultuous hush-money defense without testifying. Prosecutors turned his key witness against him.
Donald Trump's hush-money trial, the first-ever criminal trial of a former American president, is nearing the end after weeks of witness testimony.
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FDIC chairman Martin Gruenberg to resign following investigations into sexual harassment at the bank regulator
President Joe Biden is set to nominate a new FDIC chair after independent and congressional scrutiny of Martin Gruenberg's leadership.
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Trump's Truth Social posted a video with apparent Nazi messaging — his team says it wasn't him
The Biden campaign compared the video to Nazi propaganda.
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