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Multiple Republican presidential candidates made it clear at this week's debate that the Department of Education is in danger if they are elected. "Let's shut down the head of the snake, the Department of Education," Vivek Ramaswamy said. "Take that $80 billion, put it in the hands of parents across this country." Conservatives see the department, which has more than 4,400 employees and in its current form dates back to 1979 after first being established in 1867, as a prime example of Washington's meddling in Americans' lives. The time has come to "shut down the Federal Department of Education," former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday. |
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Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis (D) on Monday will have her first major courtroom faceoff after indicting former President Trump and 18 others in the Georgia election case. At a Monday morning hearing in Atlanta, prosecutors are set to battle with attorneys for former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who wants to move his charges to federal court so he can assert immunity. |
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Ask young activists about the Biden administration's efforts to address the climate, and they're quick to point out the problem isn't close to being solved. Despite historic climate moves put in motion by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which hit its first anniversary last week, many in the critical voting bloc of young Americans want to see the Biden-Harris administration rein in fossil fuels and declare a climate emergency. |
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The first GOP presidential primary debate underscored the split in the Republican Party — and among its candidates for president — when it comes to U.S. support for the war in Ukraine against Russia. Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy's hand shot up immediately Wednesday night when moderator Bret Baier asked which of the candidates would oppose providing Ukraine with more financial help. |
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Former President Trump has raised $7.1 million since he was booked at the Fulton County jail on Thursday evening, where he became the first U.S. president to have his mug shot taken, his campaign confirmed to The Hill on Saturday. Trump, who is the frontrunner in the 2024 Republican primary race, raised $4.18 million on Friday alone, marking the highest-grossing day of his entire campaign, a spokesperson said. The former president's fundraising haul was first reported by Politico. |
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) condemned the gunman who killed three people in Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday in what authorities have described as a "racially motivated" shooting. "This shooting, based on the manifesto they discovered from the scumbag that did this, was racially motivated," DeSantis said in a video message. "He was targeting people based on their race. That is totally unacceptable." |
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Former White House Press Secretary and MSNBC host Jen Psaki on Saturday said former President Donald Trump's recently released mug shot will not play well for him in a general election. In commentary she wrote for her weekly MSNBC Daily newsletter titled "Trump's mug shot will backfire in 2024," Psaki said independent and moderate voters will not be more likely to vote for the former president because he "was booked in the Fulton County Jail." She noted that while Trump and his allies are "leaning into" the mug shot, it may only be received well by his base. |
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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy suggested on Friday that he would like to bring Elon Musk on as an advisor if elected president. The conservative entrepreneur said at a town hall in Iowa that he would bring in people with "a blank fresh impression" to provide guidance in his administration, including Musk, the billionaire owner of SpaceX, Tesla and X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, NBC News reported. |
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Former Arkansas Governor and GOP presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson on Saturday claimed he has received thousands of new donors after the first GOP primary debate on Thursday. Hutchinson and the other candidates were asked to raise their hands if they would support former President Trump if he secured the Republican nomination and was later convicted. |
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OPINION | Imagine this: One person wielding arbitrary power over 1.5 million military family members. But surprise, it's not the president — it's Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville. His move to block more than 250 officer promotions not only robs the military of valuable talent, it's left two military branches leaderless: the Marines, without an official chief for the first time in 164 years, and the Army. The consequences are far-reaching, impacting those who defend our freedoms. |
Ten years ago, an unlikely group promoted innovation in the field of genomic medicine. They did not have medical degrees or toil endlessly in research laboratories — they sat as judges on the Supreme Court. In the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics case, the court ruled 9-0 that human genes were products of nature, not intellectual property, and that exclusive patent rights over genes should never be granted to anyone. |
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The New York Times: Trump and His Co-Defendants in Georgia Are Already at Odds |
BY RICHARD FAUSSET AND DANNY HAKIM |
Even as former President Donald J. Trump and his 18 co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case turned themselves in one by one at an Atlanta jail this week, their lawyers began working to change how the case will play out. |
The Wall Street Journal: Why Tribalism Took Over Our Politics |
Ahead of his arrest on Thursday in Georgia, Donald Trump repeatedly told his supporters about the legal peril he faced from charges of election interference. But the danger wasn't his alone, he said. "In the end, they're not coming after me. They're coming after you," he told a campaign rally. |
BY AARON MORRISON AND AYANNA ALEXANDER |
Thousands converged Saturday on the National Mall for the 60th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, saying a country that remains riven by racial inequality has yet to fulfill his dream. |
An Army doctor has been under investigation for more than a year in a sprawling sexual assault case involving at least 23 alleged victims, including his patients, according to military documents obtained by The Washington Post and interviews with four people familiar with the case. |
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The Hill's Evening Report |
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