New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg's latest moves suggest prosecutors are nearing a decision about charging former President Trump in connection with a $130,000 hush payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election. The Manhattan district attorney's office this week escalated the fight by empaneling another grand jury in the case and presenting witnesses. |
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The U.S. shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon off the Carolina coast on Saturday, after the high-altitude balloon spent the last week traveling across the country, according to the Pentagon. |
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China condemned the U.S. military's decision on Saturday to shoot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the U.S. last week. |
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After a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon spent several days flying across the U.S. this week, the U.S. military shot it down off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday afternoon. The decision raised questions on timing, as lawmakers and industry pundits had pushed the Biden administration to take care of it much sooner. |
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BY ALEX GANGITANO AND BRETT SAMUELS |
President Biden on Tuesday will deliver the State of the Union address to a divided Congress, which will bring him face-to-face for the first time with the new GOP House majority. |
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President Biden will travel to Wisconsin and Florida in the days after he delivers the State of the Union address on Feb. 7. The trips are part of an uptick in travel in the new year "to showcase how the President's plan is creating jobs, rebuilding our infrastructure, lowering costs for families, investing in our future, and delivering for families too often left behind," the White House said Friday. |
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BY MAX GREENWOOD AND JULIA MANCHESTER |
Republicans are increasingly looking to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) to play a leading role in the party's bid to take back the White House in 2024 and beyond following his decisive victory in last year's midterm election. |
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BY HANNA TRUDO AND JULIA MANCHESTER |
Progressives are looking at New York as a way to make the Senate map more left-wing. They see Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who's up for reelection in 2024, as a tempting primary target in a state that sent several "squad" members to the House and which some Democrats concede is in need of a party rebranding. |
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Saturday approved an adjusted early presidential primary state schedule, formalizing their intentions to move Iowa out of the early lineup and shake up the order, with South Carolina going first. |
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OPINION | This coming week a new House select subcommittee will hold its firth hearing on the FBI and the possible "weaponization" of government agencies. A variety of such controversies have contributed to plunging public trust in government and the FBI in particular. |
OPINION | The spy balloon that China sailed over the United States and Canada should compel Americans to ask what, exactly, Beijing is doing. China claims the balloon was a weather "airship" that went off course, a contention the Pentagon dismissed. At a minimum, the balloon has been gathering meteorological intelligence, but its detection over U.S. military sites makes it more likely a component of China's political warfare campaign against the U.S. and its allies. |
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BY STEVE HOLLAND, MICHAEL MARTINA AND DAVID BRUNNSTROM |
China's flight of a suspected surveillance balloon over the United States appears to mark a more aggressive - albeit puzzling - espionage tactic than relying on satellites and the theft of industrial and defense secrets, security experts said. |
Going into Tuesday's State of the Union address, President Joe Biden sees a nation with its future aglow. |
BY CAROLINE KITCHENER AND RACHEL ROUBEIN |
In Florida and Nebraska — where laws still allow the vast majority of abortions to continue — conservatives are pushing for six-week bans, which, together with the same kind of ban proposed in North Carolina, could dramatically reshape the national abortion landscape once again. |
The Navy pushed to retire nine of its newest ships, after years of breakdowns and as its mission shifted to countering global rivals. Then the lobbying started. |
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