Former President Trump is turning to familiar terrain as he gears up for the general election campaign against President Biden, escalating his attacks on migrants coming into the country and warning of calamitous consequences at the border if Biden is reelected. Trump has for years used incendiary rhetoric about immigrants to fire up his base, but in recent weeks he has turned up the intensity even more, warning about "migrant crime" and making dubious claims about migrants speaking languages "nobody has ever heard of." |
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BY ALEX GANGITANO AND RAFAEL BERNAL |
The Trump and Biden campaigns have a delicate task ahead in courting socially conservative Latino Catholics, a group that's ideologically opposed to core tenets of either presidential pitch. Both platforms are rooted in stances that directly violate Catholic teachings. |
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing some pivotal choices as he seeks to gain ballot access across the country amid his independent presidential bid. Kennedy has already gathered enough signatures to make the ballot in New Hampshire, Utah and Hawaii, and just this week he celebrated adding Nevada — a consequential swing state — to the list. His super PAC also says it has gotten enough support to appear on ballots in Georgia, Arizona and South Carolina. |
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President Biden and former President Trump held dueling campaign events in Georgia on Saturday, effectively kicking off a lengthy general election campaign in what is expected to be a hotly contested battleground state. The two men traded fierce barbs at events that took place less than an hour away from one another, with Biden hammering Trump as a wannabe dictator and Trump pummeling Biden over his handling of the southern border. |
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Public health advocates are watching in growing alarm as former President Trump increasingly embraces the anti-vaccine movement. "I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate," Trump said in a recent campaign rally in Richmond, Va. |
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Former Republican National Committee (RNC) leader Michael Steele went after outgoing chair Ronna McDaniel in her departing speech, arguing it is "messed up as hell" for her to talk about "unity" in the party. "The unity thing is a two-way street," Steele said Saturday, a day after McDaniel officially stepped down as RNC chair. "And you don't have unity when you refer to Republicans like me as a RINO (Republican in Name Only) who's been in the party for over 50 years." |
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| At a rally Saturday, former President Trump applauded Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for the impromptu exchange she had with President Biden during his State of the Union address over Laken Riley, a college student who was killed last month by an illegal migrant. The rally was held in Rome, Ga., Greene's district. Trump invited Riley's parents and friends to the event, a two-hour drive from Athens, Ga., where Riley was killed near the University of Georgia on Feb. 22. |
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Ty Cobb, who served as White House attorney under former President Trump, argued that the "facts are terrible" in his multiple legal cases and that it's probably been "very difficult" for him to navigate the various battles. Trump, the likely GOP nominee for the November election, has a tangled web of legal troubles already playing out in courtrooms across the country. The former president has pled not guilty to 91 criminal charges across four state and federal indictments and is involved in more than a half-dozen civil lawsuits. |
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| President Biden said Saturday he should not have used the word "illegal" during his State of the Union address when talking about a migrant accused of killing of a University of Georgia student. "An undocumented person. I shouldn't have used illegal, it's undocumented," Biden told MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart. "And look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I talked about in the border was his, the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about these people polluting the blood. I talked about what I'm not going to do. What I won't do." |
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BY KURT TONG AND CHUIN WEI YAP |
OPINION | The Biden administration launched the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity in May 2022, promising its 13 partners high-standard commitments that would deepen U.S. involvement in Asia-Pacific trade, supply chains, clean energy and graft-busting. But on the most politically and economically important aspect of the framework, its trade pillar, Washington's partners got a rude shock. |
BY SARAH GERSTENZANG & MICHAEL GERSTENZANG |
OPINION | Back in 2000, we accepted a five-week-old baby girl into our lives as foster parents. We were hoping to support her family until she could return to them. Seven months later, we got a call from the child welfare agency — they wanted to reassign her following the unexplained move of her sister from one foster family to another. |
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The United Arab Emirates has maintained its links to Israel throughout the war in Gaza, but the relationship, built on a U.S.-brokered deal, is under pressure as anger against Israel grows. |
BY MICHAEL R. GORDON, DION NISSENBAUM AND VIVIAN SALAMA |
The Biden administration is warning Israel of the risks of attacking the southern Gaza city of Rafah, intensifying efforts to get its Middle East ally to rethink the conduct of the five-month-old war. |
BY WAFAA SHURAFA AND SAMY MAGDY |
The voyage began just two days after U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to ramp up aid deliveries by sea to the besieged enclave where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been going hungry. |
BY TYLER PAGER AND MARIANNE LEVINE |
President Biden hammered Trump for cozying up to authoritarian leaders, rolling back women's reproductive rights and trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Trump delivered an insult-filled, mocking diatribe against the president. |
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