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The political damage suffered by Donald Trump during the Jan. 6 hearings, which journalist Bob Woodward says has written the former president's "political obituary," is giving Senate Republicans eyeing the White House new hope for 2024. Presidential hopefuls including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) have largely steered clear of defending Trump against the revelations of the Jan. 6 hearings, instead positioning themselves to capitalize if Trump is too compromised to run in 2024. |
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BY JULIA MANCHESTER AND CAROLINE VAKIL |
The battle for control of the House is heating up as more and more general election matchups are set. |
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2020 saw Black voters and candidates alike turn out in droves. From Sen. Raphael Warnock's (D) successful campaign in Georgia to Jaime Harrison's unsuccessful Senate campaign in South Carolina, it seemed Black voters and candidates were lining up on the left. |
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BY MICHAEL TARM, KATHLEEN FOODY AND ROGER SCHNEIDER, ASSOCIATED PRESS |
A gunman on a rooftop opened fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago on Monday, killing at least six people, wounding at least 30 and sending hundreds of marchers, parents with strollers and children on bicycles fleeing in terror, police said. |
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WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been held in Russia since February, urged President Biden in a letter delivered to the White House on Monday not to forget about her and other Americans detained abroad. |
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In the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, President Biden pointed to the November elections, saying, "This fall, Roe is on the ballot." But in Kansas, abortion rights are on the ballot even sooner. |
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Abortion rights activists say the Supreme Court's decision to strike down Roe v. Wade will reverberate around the world, possibly restricting access to the procedure in other countries and weakening the global movement for reproductive rights. |
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BY KARL EVERS-HILLSTROM AND CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO |
Lobbying both for and against legislation to crack down on U.S. tech giants is intensifying as the Senate enters a critical month for the antitrust bills. |
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BY ARIS FOLLEY AND JORDAN WILLIAMS |
Democrats are reviving their efforts to shutter the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, but the push faces an uphill battle in the Senate, where Republicans are already writing it off as doomed. |
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Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely shot and killed unintentionally by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), but a U.S. investigation could not reach a definitive conclusion, the State Department said on Monday. |
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BY KRIS KOLESNIK, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR |
OPINION | Hearing number six of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee investigating the Capitol attack was decidedly damaging for the top two perpetrators of the failed effort to overturn the 2020 election — former president Donald Trump and his enabling chief of staff Mark Meadows. |
BY HARLAN ULLMAN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR | OPINION | In its decisions to strike down the constitutional right to abortion and New York City's concealed firearms ban, the Supreme Court has let loose a 21st century volley amid an ongoing political, cultural and social uncivil war not seen since the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861. |
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Worried about inflation and dissatisfied with President Biden, many moderate women have been drifting away from Democrats. Now the party hopes the fight for abortion rights will drive them back. |
BY RACHEL LOUISE ENSIGN AND ORLA MCCAFFREY |
Households of almost all income levels drew down those balances in the first quarter. |
BY HOWARD SCHNEIDER AND ANN SAPHIR |
By some early estimates, the U.S. economy, as measured by gross domestic product, may have shrunk in the three months from April through June. Add that to the decline from January through March, and that would be a contraction for two quarters in a row. |
BY MERYL KORNFIELD, SCOTT HIGHAM AND SARI HORWITZ |
In a blow to claims that pharmaceutical firms fueled the opioid crisis, a federal judge ruled that the nation's three major drug distributors did not cause a public nuisance by shipping millions of addictive pain pills to a West Virginia area that was among the hardest hit |
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