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Recent polls show former President Trump leading President Biden in key swing states that will likely decide the 2024 election, indicating Trump is not just the overwhelming favorite to secure the GOP nomination but is in a strong position to recapture the White House less than a year before Election Day. Trump leads Biden in hypothetical match-ups both with and without third-party options on the ballot in states including Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, according to fresh polling. Biden carried each of those states in 2020, and Trump will need to flip at least a few of those states if he is to win in 2024. |
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BY ELLA LEE & ZACH SCHONFELD |
A jury ordered Rudy Giuliani to pay $148 million to two former Georgia election workers for baselessly claiming they committed fraud in the 2020 presidential election, delivering a staggering legal and financial blow for the former New York City mayor-turned-Trump attorney. During the four-day civil trial, the eight Washington, D.C., residents heard harrowing testimony from the workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who said their lives were turned upside down as they faced a torrent of racist and violent threats following the accusations. |
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BY ELLA LEE & ZACH SCHONFELD |
Rudy Giuliani's lawyer told jurors that awarding two ex-Georgia election workers the $43 million requested in their defamation lawsuit would mark "the end of Mr. Giuliani." Four days later, the jury instead ordered Giuliani to pay $148 million. As he now stares down the massive price tag, it remains unclear how the former New York City mayor will pay such a sum. |
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Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) is warning House Republicans that President Biden could not be impeached and removed from office for any conduct or crimes committed before he was elected president in 2020. Mullin's statement in an interview with Newsmax pours cold water on a House GOP investigation into Biden's family's business dealings, particularly Hunter Biden's work with foreign companies, while Biden was vice president during the Obama administration and immediately after. |
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Ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon on Friday predicted former President Trump will choose a woman as his running mate in 2024, highlighting South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) as contenders for the vice presidential slot. Bannon appeared on The Sean Spicer Show with the former White House press secretary, where the two discussed at length what a second Trump administration might look like in terms of policy and personnel. |
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GOP presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis leaned into rumors Friday that rival Nikki Haley could be asked to join former President Trump's ticket in 2024, willing the former South Carolina governor to make a decision now. "There's a reason why they spend money against me. Haley and Trump spend money against me," DeSantis, the governor of Florida, said during a campaign stop in New Hampshire. "He has not spent any money against her and she has not spent any money against him." |
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A high-stakes legal drama around a pregnant woman in Texas and the Supreme Court's announcement it will consider restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone are the latest unwelcome reminders for Republicans that abortion rights will be front and center ahead of the 2024 election. Abortion has been a calamitous political issue for the GOP since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer — and it's been a boon for Democrats, boosting them to a string of electoral victories on the issue and lowering their losses. |
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House Education Committee Chair Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) ensured Friday that the investigation into rising antisemitism on college campuses is not over. Foxx also explained that the probe also wouldn't be restricted to the three schools most recently in the spotlight: Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). |
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Azerbaijan will host the 2024 United Nations COP29 climate summit, the second in a row to take place in a major producer of oil, after this year's event in the United Arab Emirates. But after the unexpected breakthroughs at this year's meeting, some are hoping that the conferences can make progress when held in countries built on oil wealth. |
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BY BY ORA PESCOVITZ AND REP. HALEY STEVENS (D-MICH.) |
OPINION | During their testimony last Tuesday before a House committee addressing the increase of antisemitism on college campuses, three prominent university presidents were asked if calls for the genocide of Jews were permissible. They could not give a convincing or decisive answer and instead resorted to legal rationalizations of what was "allowable" depending on the context. |
OPINION | Many things are wearing out Americans these days, from security anxieties to real-world conflicts. German and Dutch authorities just foiled a major attack planned against Jews by Hamas — during a holiday season where many people may be traveling to Europe. News that a 13-year-old allegedly plotted to blow up a synagogue in Ohio is beyond disturbing. The fatigue is real; it is not surprising that the Biden administration reportedly is pressing Israel to wrap up its war in Gaza. |
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine each reported dozens of attempted drone attacks in the past day, just hours after Hungary vetoed 50 billion euros ($54.5 billion) of EU funding to Ukraine. |
BY MARK MAURER AND ALEXANDER SAEEDY |
An Ernst & Young senior partner, during a call with some of the accounting firm's U.S. partners and staff, delivered a sober message usually reserved for clients: It's time to cut costs. |
Martin Guzman was a college freshman at La Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, in 2001 when a debt crisis prompted default, riots and a devastating depression. A dazed middle class suffered ruin, as the International Monetary Fund insisted that the government make misery-inducing budget cuts in exchange for a bailout. |
KYIV — When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky flew to Washington this week to plead for wartime aid, he found himself caught in a bitterly partisan U.S. domestic political dispute — again. |
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