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Sen. Ben Sasse's (R-Neb.) expected retirement from the Senate is the latest sign that is it harder to be a Republican critic of former President Trump in Congress than a loyal ally. Sasse is one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict former President Trump last year during his impeachment trial over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. He's the third to retire. The Nebraskan senator not that long ago was also seen as a rising star in his party and a possible presidential candidate. But that possibility seemed more and more faint as Sasse's opposition to various Trump actions grew. |
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Democratic candidate Mandela Barnes shared the stage for the first of two scheduled debates on Friday as the candidates simultaneously tried to paint each other as extremist while going on defense on issues like crime and Social Security. |
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North Carolina's Senate race has emerged as perhaps the year's most quiet toss-up contest. But both parties are taking the race — one of a handful that could decide control of the upper chamber — seriously. Democrat Cheri Beasley and Republican Ted Budd met for the first time on Friday night to debate a laundry list of issues that are playing out in key races across the country. |
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Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for Senate in Georgia, told NBC News that he learned the identity of the woman who claims he reimbursed her for an abortion in 2009 for the first time on Friday. |
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The woman who has said that Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker reimbursed her for an abortion she had in 2009 told The New York Times that Walker also urged her to get a second abortion two years later. |
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The GOP's Senate campaign arm is reportedly pulling millions of dollars out of the New Hampshire Senate race and redirecting it to other states. |
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President Biden on Thursday announced mass pardons for federal marijuana possession, a step long sought by advocates and the most significant action on marijuana his administration has taken to date. He also directed federal agencies to conduct a review of whether marijuana should remain a Schedule I substance. |
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BY TOBIAS BURNS AND MIKE LILLIS |
Republicans heading into November's midterm elections are talking a big game on the IRS, promising to take back the $80 billion in agency funding provided by Democrats and scuttle plans to hire what the GOP has characterized as an army of new auditors. |
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The White House has not seen any new intelligence to indicate there is an imminent threat of Russia using nuclear weapons, even as President Biden warned that the rhetoric coming from Moscow put the world at its greatest nuclear risk since the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
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The Biden administration has reunited 500 children separated from their parents under the Trump White House's zero tolerance border policy, an official told The Hill Friday. |
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BY EUGENE LITVAK, MARK D. SMITH AND HARVEY V. FINEBERG |
OPINION | Earlier this year, the National Academies reported that more than 20 percent of all donated organs are wasted, despite the fact that "on average, 17 people die every day from the lack of available organs for transplant." The major cause of this waste was a lack of available surgeons to perform surgery at the time needed to harvest and transplant donated organs. |
OPINION | Irrespective of how well we exercise or monitor our diet, no human was documented to live longer than Jeanne Calment, who died at age 122.5 years. Similarly, irrespective on how well we mitigate climate change, deflect asteroids with DART-like NASA missions, develop mRNA vaccines for lethal viruses and avoid nuclear wars, the Earth will ultimately be sterilized by the sun in about 1 billion years. |
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DOVER, Del. (AP) — New state laws allowing universal voting by mail and Election Day registration are unconstitutional, Delaware's Supreme Court ruled Friday. |
BY ERIN MULVANEY AND CARA LOMBARDO |
A judge's decision to grant Elon Musk a delay in his legal battle with Twitter Inc. gave the billionaire more time to complete his acquisition of the social-media platform—but no new leeway to avoid the deal if he changes his mind again, lawyers following the case said. |
MURRYSVILLE, Pa. — "I don't have to tell you that it is hard to be a Democrat in Westmoreland County." |
Six months after reopening its field offices to the public, the Social Security Administration is struggling to restore basic customer services and is assisting millions fewer of the poor, elderly and disabled people who sought its help before the coronavirus pandemic, federal data shows. |
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