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Senate Republican leaders, including Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), are staying quiet about former President Trump's indictment on 37 criminal charges, letting him twist in the wind and breaking with House Republican leaders who have rushed to Trump's defense. McConnell, who is careful not to comment on Trump or even repeat his name in public, has said to his GOP colleagues that he wants his party to turn the page on the former president, whom he sees as a flawed general election candidate and a drag on Senate Republican candidates. |
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The indictment of former President Trump in connection with his handling of classified government documents is forcing his 2024 primary rivals into an awkward position: defending the man they're trying to defeat. Within hours of the indictment news, several of Trump's Republican challengers rushed to his defense, accusing President Biden and his Justice Department of weaponizing the legal system in an effort to take out one of his chief political opponents and the ostensible head of the Republican Party. |
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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) blasted the Republican 2024 presidential candidates for their reaction to the federal indictment of former President Trump, saying that they need to be willing to attack him to have a chance to win. Sununu said in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Friday that he is surprised the other candidates running for the GOP nomination are not being more "aggressive" in calling out the allegations Trump is facing as a "huge problem." |
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Former President Trump said at a Georgia GOP convention event on Saturday that his latest indictment is only driving his poll numbers up. "It's a horrible thing. It's a horrible thing for this country," Trump said of the indictment while in Columbus, Ga. "I mean, the only good thing about it is it's driven my poll numbers way up. Can you believe it?" |
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Former President Trump claimed the federal indictment the Justice Department (DOJ) filed against him is among the most "horrific abuses of power" in U.S. history. Trump said Saturday during remarks at a Georgia GOP Convention event in Columbus, Ga., that the investigation into him is a "witch hunt" and an example of "election interference" with the upcoming 2024 presidential election. |
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Former Vice President Mike Pence called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to publicly justify the federal indictment against former President Trump after his former boss was charged with 37 criminal counts. Pence said during a speech at a North Carolina GOP convention in Greensboro on Saturday that Trump is facing an "unprecedented indictment" from a Justice Department (DOJ) that is "run by" the current president, Joe Biden. He said the day of Trump's indictment was a "sad day" for the country. |
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BY JULIA MANCHESTER AND LAUREN SFORZA |
Casey DeSantis is set to play a central role in her husband's campaign for the White House. Florida's first lady was front and center with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) during his campaign kickoff tour last month and earlier this month. The couple notably brought their three young children to Sen. Joni Ernst's (R-Iowa) "Roast and Ride" event last Saturday, presenting a youthful, family image to GOP caucusgoers in the Hawkeye State. |
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The North Carolina Republican Party voted on Saturday to censure Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) for policy decisions they said do not align with the party, according to The Associated Press. Tillis, who previously served as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, has drawn the ire of fellow conservatives in the Tar Heel State over his work on the Respect for Marriage Act last year. He helped negotiate the legislation, which recognized same-sex and interracial marriages under federal law. |
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The Dnieper River dam collapse this week caused a major humanitarian crisis in southern Ukraine, but who, if anyone, was behind the breach is still shrouded in mystery. Both Ukrainian and Russian officials are pointing the finger at each other, accusing the opposing side in the war of carrying out an attack on the Nova Kakhovka dam to further their aims on the battlefield. Here are the three theories that have been floated thus far. |
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Canada — and the world — are stuck in a feedback loop of fire, argues bestselling Canadian journalist John Vaillant. The wildfires currently blazing across Eastern and Western Canada represent the mainstreaming of a level of power and destruction that was once extreme, Vaillant told The Hill last month, before the smoke drifted south and blanketed much of the eastern United States. |
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OPINION | Last month's Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on oversight of AI offered glimmers of hope that policymakers are ready to tackle the regulatory challenge posed by a rapidly advancing frontier of AI capabilities. We saw a remarkable degree of consensus across Democrats, Republicans, representatives from an industry stalwart (IBM) and a hot new trailblazer (OpenAI), and in Gary Marcus, a critical voice around AI hype. Microsoft and Google swiftly released their own overlapping policy recommendations, and an impressive array of academics, AI scientists and tech executives signed onto a statement that "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI" should be a global priority. |
OPINION | Politics is largely the art of theatrics and illusions. Crises are manufactured to enable both parties to claim to be the firefighters who extinguished the fire. But the underlying problems remain unaddressed, guaranteeing a new crisis in a never-ending cycle. The recent debt ceiling deal, suspending the debt limit for two years, is emblematic. The crisis was created by government spending extravagance that had sent the national debt surging past $31 trillion and incurring carrying costs approaching $1 trillion even with record low interest rates. |
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The road to Donald Trump's first weekend as the nation's most prominent criminal defendant began in the chaotic days of the presidential transition, after his frenetic drive to overturn the result of the 2020 election he had lost. |
BY MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, ALAN FEUER, MAGGIE HABERMAN AND ADAM GOLDMAN | The former president's allies have portrayed the indictment as an act of war and called for retribution, which political violence experts say increases the risk of action. |
China has been operating a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019, part of a global effort by Beijing to upgrade its intelligence-gathering capabilities, according to a Biden administration official. |
A U.S. citizen, a musician and a former paratrooper, has been detained in Russia on charges of organising a drug trafficking operation, a Moscow court said on Saturday. |
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