Vice President Harris has found herself at the center of multiple key policy pushes and national debates in recent weeks, giving her a significant platform as she and President Biden ready a reelection campaign. Harris became the highest-ranking Biden administration official to visit Africa when she traveled to the continent late last month. Last week, she made a quickly arranged trip to Nashville after two Black Democrats were expelled from the state legislature for engaging in gun violence protests. |
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Leading lights in the Republican Party are doubling down on abortion, despite mounting evidence of the political dangers of doing so.
On Thursday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a bill that would ban most abortions in his state after six weeks. DeSantis, if he enters the presidential race, will be the most serious rival yet to former President Trump for the Republican nomination. |
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In the post-Roe fight for reproductive rights, preserving federal control over broad access to the abortion pill is the Biden administration's best chance to protect reproductive rights at the federal level. With the GOP-controlled House, codifying Roe v. Wade is not likely to happen anytime soon, and red states are moving quickly to restrict abortions — enough to accelerate the White House's fears that a national abortion ban could be coming. |
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) said the Texas judge who ruled against the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval of mifepristone is part of an "extreme Republican" effort to ban abortion. Baldwin told NBC's Chuck Todd in an interview on "Meet the Press" that will air Sunday that judges, politicians and government should not be able to tell women "what sort of health care they can have." |
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BY CHRISTINA VAN WAASBERGEN |
Abortion rights supporters gathered in front of the Supreme Court on Saturday in protest of a recent ruling by a federal judge that would have limited access to the abortion drug mifepristone.
The rally, organized by Planned Parenthood, comes just one day after Justice Samuel Alito temporarily blocked the lower court ruling. The protest is part of a nationwide series of demonstrations planned for the weekend in support of safeguarding access to abortion pills. |
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Evan Corcoran, a key member of former President Trump's legal team, has recused himself from the investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents after he was questioned by a grand jury last month, according to a report.
Trump is under investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith over allegations that he intentionally mishandled classified documents during and after he left office, including storing documents at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and hiding them from federal investigators. |
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The environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, has resulted in a rare display of bipartisanship from the state's two senators, a hardline, Trump-endorsed, vocal critic of President Biden and a progressive populist facing the reelection fight of his life. In the wake of the February train derailment that released toxic chemicals into the Ohio town, Sens. J.D. Vance (R) and Sherrod Brown (D) have been atypically united in their efforts to pass legislation bolstering railroad safety and to ensure residents are not forgotten as they grapple with the damage and dangers left behind by the crash. |
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Kentucky Republicans are bracing for a tense and potentially bruising primary in their bid to oust Andy Beshear, the popular Democratic governor facing reelection. State Attorney General Daniel Cameron, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft and state Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles are frontrunners in the 12-candidate primary, which will take place on May 16. |
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Tornadoes are becoming more frequent in populated parts of the United States and are often occurring as damaging clusters — a development seen in recent deadly outbreaks from Alabama to Michigan. |
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OPINION | This week the Federal Reserve announced that it expects a recession in the coming months. Companies are already engaging in hiring freezes and layoffs, and several economic indicators point to a pessimistic future. But a pending Department of Labor (DOL) rule could make this recession more severe by cutting off work opportunities for millions of Americans. |
OPINION | The Biden administration's attempt to forgive $400 billion in outstanding student loan debt through administrative fiat has come under richly deserved fire, with its fate now in the hands of the Supreme Court. But an equally unlawful companion giveaway has thus far avoided much controversy. |
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In one decade, the risk to U.S. national security secrets has morphed from ideologically driven protesters to digital natives who live life online and think 'secrecy is for losers.' |
While the Biden administration sees minimal damage from the disclosure of highly classified documents related to the war in Ukraine and U.S. views of its allies and partners, that assessment will get its first real test when U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets in Japan with counterparts from six of America's closest foreign friends. |
BY ADAM NAGOURNEY AND JEREMY W. PETERS |
Defeated on same-sex marriage, the religious right went searching for an issue that would re-energize supporters and donors. The campaign that followed has stunned political leaders across the spectrum. |
BY KHALID ABDELAZIZ AND NAFISA ELTAHIR |
Sudan's army launched air strikes on a rival paramilitary force's base near the capital in a bid to reassert control over the country on Sunday after a power struggle erupted into clashes that killed 56 civilians and dozens of fighters. |
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