Questions are swirling around whether former President Trump will participate in August's Republican primary debate. Trump, who is leading the crowded GOP primary pack by a large margin in most polls, has been coy about whether he will be on stage with the other candidates come August. "I like to debate. I probably am here because of debates. I don't mind it at all," Trump told Fox News's Bret Baier in an interview that aired earlier this week. "But when you're 40 points up .... Why would I let these people take shots at me?" |
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is trailing former President Trump by a long way in GOP primary polls — but he's still not hitting the 45th president with any bare-knuckle punches. DeSantis edged the temperature up only a notch or two with his speech at a Faith and Freedom Coalition event in Washington on Friday. The Florida governor never mentioned Trump's name during the 30-minute address. Even his most obvious jab at Trump was rather glancing. |
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is throwing his weight behind the conservative effort to expunge the two impeachments of former President Trump, saying Trump's behavior didn't rise to a level that merited either punishment, and he would like to eradicate both votes from history. Leaving the Capitol on Friday ahead of a long holiday recess, the Speaker said he supports erasing the pair of impeachments because, he argued, one "was not based on true facts" and the other was "on the basis of no due process." |
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Special counsel Jack Smith has requested a delay in the classified and sensitive documents trial of former President Trump from August to December. Smith on Friday filed a request or the start date for the trial be set for Dec. 11, which would be about four months after the initial Aug. 14 date that Judge Aileen Cannon set on Tuesday. |
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said an effort to impeach President Biden now lacking due process would be "dead on arrival" in the Senate. Graham said during a Friday appearance on "The Hill" on NewsNation that Republicans argued that Democrats did not give former President Trump the right to due process during the impeachment proceedings against him in 2019 and 2021, and he does not believe anyone should be impeached without a hearing being held. |
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Former Vice President Mike Pence, who is running for president in 2024, said Democrats and their allies on the left are trying to "bully" conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas because they are angry over the court's ideological balance. Pence made his comments in response to reports by ProPublica that Alito and Thomas failed to disclose private plane trips and luxury vacations paid for by wealthy conservative donors, which Democrats say is a violation of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act. |
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The chief of the private contractor Wagner Group said his fighters crossed into Russia's territory as Moscow calls for the surrender of his forces and ultimately his arrest. Yevgeny Prigozhin called for an armed rebellion on Friday to remove Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu from power. The push follows the Wagner chief's accusations that the Russian military attacked his group's campsite and killed many of his fighters. |
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Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) opened a criminal case against Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, just hours after he accused Moscow of lying about the war in Ukraine. The NAC opened the criminal case against Prigozhin on allegations that he incited an armed rebellion, according to Russian state-run outlet TASS. The counterterrorism body is calling for the head of the private military company to immediately halt illegal activities. |
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Texas is set to face record electric demand next week as it endures punishing tropical heat. Many Texans remain unsure of whether the state's grid has been fixed after going through two crises since 2020. But even though the state is anticipated to smash electricity demand records almost every day next week, blackouts are unlikely — at least from demand alone. |
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OPINION | Relations between the U.S. and India are flying into a new era on the wings of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's triumphant visit to Washington. Modi hit all the right notes in advancing a seemingly tight relationship between the world's oldest and the world's biggest democracies. While making deals on investment, trade and much else, however, Modi stopped short of endorsing anything like a real alliance, much less support for Ukraine and NATO against Russian invasion. Nor did he mention the troubling issues between India and China, despite border wars going back more than 60 years. |
OPINION | As the U.S. continues to wrestle with myriad concerns over the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence (AI), China has already emerged as an AI superpower with a clear focus on the use of data and analytics to achieve global dominance. This poses significant short and long-term economic and national security implications for all Americans, from every walk of life and across every corner of our nation. |
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Tony Lauinger spent 50 years fighting to end abortion in Oklahoma. When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June and the state criminalized the procedure, the president of Oklahomans for Life saw his once-improbable goal become reality. |
On Jan. 5, 2021, the lawyers and specialists on Twitter's safety policy team, which set rules about violent content, were bracing for a day of brutality in Washington. In the weeks since President Donald Trump had tweeted a call for his supporters to gather in the nation's capital for a protest he promised would be "wild," the site had erupted with pledges of political vengeance and plans for a military-style assault. |
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Stockton Rush wore a hard-hat and stood next to one of his submersible crafts last year full of enthusiasm as he told a bunch of students about the thrills and perils of being a deep-sea explorer. |
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They are fighting more effectively at night than their Russian counterparts, U.S. officials say. They are using American-made Bradley fighting vehicles to destroy Russian armor with anti-tank missiles. And they are deploying combined arms tactics — synchronized attacks by infantry, armor and artillery forces — that they learned from American and other Western troops. |
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