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Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) are heading to Iowa on Saturday for dueling events that underscore the escalating rivalry between the two leading contenders for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. DeSantis has been slated for weeks to headline Rep. Randy Feenstra's (R-Iowa) annual Family Picnic in Sioux Center, Iowa, and speak at a state GOP fundraiser in Cedar Rapids, while Trump's campaign announced just last week that he would hold a rally in Des Moines. |
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House Republicans fulfilled a major campaign promise this week with the passage of a border security crackdown measure — given the designation of H.R. 2 to symbolize its significance — that boosts border technology and funding, restarts border wall construction, adds new restrictions on asylum seekers and more. But they did so only after months of public swipes, late-stage delays and last-minute changes. |
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BY ALEX GANGITANO AND KARL EVERS-HILLSTROM |
The unprecedented step of President Biden invoking the 14th Amendment to avoid a national default would likely lead to legal uncertainty hanging over the already-fragile financial system. Markets are concerned about a default, which could come as soon as June 1 if Biden and lawmakers can't come to an agreement. But if Biden chose to act unilaterally instead, the financial system could take a hit with the risk of a default being tied up in the courts. |
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Asylum protections were the target of the left and the right this week, as both the White House and the House GOP laid out plans for limiting pathways for those fleeing persecution. While Republicans rolled out a plan to severely limit asylum rights — arguing such a move is necessary with the lifting of Title 42 — the Biden administration likewise unveiled a new regulation that, while less extreme, would also dramatically restrict who is eligible for the protections. |
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Two buses of migrants from Texas arrived in New York City on Friday morning, ahead of an expected surge in arrivals in the wake of Title 42's expiration. About 90 migrants from countries such as Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador arrived on the buses at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, just hours after the pandemic-era rule expired, according to Bloomberg. |
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Rep. John Duarte (R-Calif.) explained his decision to vote against the GOP's border bill that the House passed mostly along party lines, saying he did so to support working families and agriculture. Duarte was one of two Republicans, along with Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.), that chose to vote against the bill. |
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Former Trump prosecutor Mark Pomerantz invoked his Fifth Amendment rights during his deposition before the House Judiciary Committee on Friday, slamming the GOP-led panel's investigation as "political theater" in his opening statement. Pomerantz, who investigated Trump at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, said he was appearing before the committee "as required" because "I respect the rule of law," before issuing a sharp rebuke of the panel's probe and disclosing his intent to plead the Fifth. |
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President Biden plans to nominate former House Democratic campaign chief, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.), for representative of the United States to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Maloney lost his seat as the House flipped to GOP control last year, while he was at the helm of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. |
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Two Michigan middle schoolers are suing for the right to wear "Let's Go Brandon" sweatshirts. An Iowa high schooler posed next to the governor with "I Read Banned Books" emblazoned on his chest. And a Massachusetts seventh grader's clothing insists "There are only two genders." U.S. students are making their voices heard with political clothing as they navigate an increasingly polarized society where most of them can't vote at the ballot box. |
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced Linda Yaccarino, a former head of advertising for NBCUniversal, will take over for him overseeing the social media platform after six months of Musk in charge. Musk first indicated he hired someone to replace him in a tweet on Thursday, months after a majority in a Twitter poll he posted voted for him to step down as CEO. He said the new CEO would start in about six weeks, and he would transition to a role as executive chair and chief technology officer of the company. |
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OPINION | According to an old English proverb, children are meant to be seen and not heard. But if we aren't careful with new online-safety legislation, kids will be neither seen nor heard in online spaces. There has been no shortage of stories in recent months focusing on the real harms associated with teens on social media, which the platforms have already invested in mitigating in response to market demand from parents, advertisers and teens themselves. |
OPINION | After scoring arguably the biggest victory for Republicans in an otherwise poor 2022 election season, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has quickly solidified his place in the top ranks of 2024's GOP presidential contenders. Polls were briefly showing him leading the field. But after a few months of attacks by Donald Trump, DeSantis's not-yet-announced presidential run is already on shaky ground. Recent polls show DeSantis plummeting, causing some election-watchers to question whether he should hold off on a run until 2028, when presumably Trump may be out of the picture. But the reality is that in politics — especially presidential politics — there is no waiting: It is never your time and it's never your turn. |
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| President Joe Biden is coming under sustained pressure from both sides of the aisle over the administration's handling of the expiration of Title 42, the controversial Trump-era pandemic public health restriction that became a key tool to turn back migrants at the US-Mexico border. |
President Biden's attempt to deal efficiently with a new surge of migration following the end of Title 42 pandemic restrictions has focused new attention on a severe shortage of judges, the result of longstanding neglect that has overwhelmed the immigration court system with a backlog of more than two million cases. |
Farm conditions for pigs don't seem to have anything to do with states' salvos in the hard-fought battle over abortion. But a new Supreme Court ruling in an animal welfare case could become a tool in states' burgeoning efforts to restrict or expand abortion access even beyond their own borders. |
BY SIOBHÁN O'GRADY, KAMILA HRABCHUK AND KOSTIANTYN KHUDOV |
KYIV, Ukraine — They started shelling at sunrise. |
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