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Democrats see efforts to get abortion on the ballot in key battleground states across the country as a way to boost turnout and energize their base amid signs of low voter enthusiasm for this year's presidential race.
Abortion-related measures are already on the ballot in Maryland and New York — a state seen as central to both parties' efforts to win control of the House — while similar efforts are underway in states like Arizona, Florida and Montana. |
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Manhattan prosecutors and former President Trump are sparring over the scope of the gag order imposed on the former president in his hush money criminal case less than three weeks out from the start of trial. The former president has continued to direct his rage at Judge Juan Merchan's daughter in social media posts after Merchan this week refused to delay Trump's trial and approved prosecutors' request to gag him. |
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BY ELLA LEE AND ZACH SCHONFELD |
Former President Trump urged a state appeals court to review a judge's decision allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) to remain on Trump's Georgia 2020 election racketeering case. Judge Scott McAfee earlier this month ruled Willis's once-romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade created an appearance of a conflict but allowed the district attorney to move ahead with her prosecution once Wade resigned. |
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U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton is criticizing former President Trump's attacks on the judges involved in his criminal cases, most recently his hush money trial, warning that undermining an independent judiciary risks sliding the country toward tyranny. Walton joined CNN's Kaitlan Collins to discuss Trump's aggressive remarks about the families of his perceived foes in his various legal battles. |
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Anthony Scaramucci, who spent a short amount of time as White House communications director under former President Trump, said more Republicans don't speak up about their opposition to Trump due to not wanting threats to their life. "Well, they probably don't like death threats, Nicolle, I think we could probably start there," Scaramucci told MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" host Nicolle Wallace Thursday when she asked him about why some of those who have interacted with Trump directly find it hard to speak up about the "danger" he poses. |
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BY ALEX GANGITANO AND JULIA MANCHESTER |
Two of the Democratic Party's rising stars have been thrust into the national spotlight this week after the bridge collapse in Baltimore. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, 45, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, 42 — both of whom considered likely candidates for higher office in the future — face a key test with their handling of the aftermath of the disaster, which took six lives and will require a bridge reconstruction and port reopening. |
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| President Biden's reelection campaign released an ad Friday that focuses on courting supporters of Republican Nikki Haley while also bashing former President Trump for pushing away her backers. The ad, first reported by The Washington Post, is a 30-second spot that includes the various times Trump has criticized Haley, including calling her "birdbrain" and "not presidential material." |
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The crisis in Haiti over gangs who have overrun the country and outmatched security forces is fueled in part by a major, illegal flow of U.S. guns to the Caribbean nation, a longstanding problem that has only grown worse despite efforts from the Biden administration to tackle it.
The gangs running amok on the island are armed with powerful American-made weapons, including .50 caliber sniper rifles and semiautomatic AR-15 rifles, along with small arms like handguns. |
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| On Thursday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could reinstate restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone, the first time abortion rights returned to the justices since the court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. During the arguments, conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito repeatedly invoked the Comstock Act. Here's what the law consists of and why it's related to the recent case. |
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OPINION | With the 2024 nominations essentially wrapped up, commentators are reminding us that the Joe Biden-Donald Trump race will be the first presidential rematch since Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson faced off in 1956. Although that contest was never close — Eisenhower won in a landslide, as he had done in 1952 — there are aspects of that campaign season that may repeat this year: the drama of selecting candidates for vice president. |
OPINION | For detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, Mar. 29 will likely pass like the 364 days before it, just another line scratched into a metal wall. As his confinement in a Russian prison enters its second year, Gershkovich is among the latest high-profile victims of Russia's cruel and calculated prisoner gamesmanship. Jailing foreign nationals is an increasingly common tool of Russia's coercive diplomacy, and not just in Russia. |
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BY PATRICK KINGSLEY AND JONATHAN REISS |
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing his most challenging political threat since the start of the Gaza war because of a disagreement among members of his coalition about whether ultra-Orthodox Jews should retain their longstanding exemption from military service. |
BY JO CRAVEN MCGINTY AND PAUL OVERBERG |
Fewer than 10 bridges in the U.S. have the clearance of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, the 1,200-foot span that collapsed after a supersize containership slammed into one of its vertical supports. All of them have a vulnerability where the failure of even a single steel component in tension along the span could cause a collapse. |
JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States has welcomed the formation of a new Palestinian autonomy government, signaling it is accepting the revised Cabinet lineup as a step toward Palestinian political reform. |
On Aug. 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse sliced from coast to coast across the Lower 48, darkening skies from Oregon to South Carolina. For up to 2 minutes 40 seconds, the moon extinguished the sun, leaving behind only a gaping black hole in the sky surrounded by the sun's corona — a crownlike atmosphere. And on April 8 — just a few weeks from now — the heavens will do it again. |
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