President Trump's controversial remarks that Black voters will back him because of his legal woes are raising new questions about whether the GOP's likely standard-bearer will help or hurt his party with the demographic. Trump is making a concerted effort to win over Black men in what is expected to be a razor-tight contest with President Biden. His appearance at the Sneaker Con event in Philadelphia and his flirtation with Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) as a vice presidential candidate are both examples of his campaign's strategy. |
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BY ZACH SCHONFELD AND ELLA LEE |
Attorneys for former President Trump and his Georgia co-defendants made their final pitch Friday to disqualify Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis (D), attacking her credibility and motives given her romantic relationship with a top prosecutor. After listening to three hours of legal arguments, Judge Scott McAfee indicated he hoped to issue a ruling in the next two weeks. |
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BY ZACH SCHONFELD AND ELLA LEE |
The fate of former President Trump's 2020 election interference case in Georgia now rests with a state judge tasked with determining whether to disqualify Fulton County's district attorney's office from the historic prosecution over a romance between two top prosecutors. Judge Scott McAfee heard arguments Friday to determine whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) and special prosecutor Nathan Wade should be kicked off the sweeping racketeering case because of their once-romantic relationship. |
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Congressional leaders are moving quickly to pass their first batch of bills to fund the government for most of 2024 by next Friday, but negotiators are already looking to a March 22 deadline when they say their tougher bills come due. Congress approved its fourth stopgap for fiscal year 2024 this week after leaders said they needed more time to pass the first set of government funding bills. |
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President Biden signed a government funding bill to punt the threat of a shutdown later into the month and buy lawmakers time to hash out spending deals. The president signed a stopgap bill that maintains funding for the departments of Agriculture, Interior, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Affairs, Energy, Justice, Commerce, Energy and other offices through March 8. |
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On his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border this week, President Biden rued the death of the bipartisan Senate border policy bill, called on former President Trump to join him in calling for the bill's revival and tried to flip the script on his weakest issue. But he did not sign a much-prognosticated executive action to crack down on asylum. Presidential power on immigration and border policy is expansive, but multiple administrations have hit a brick wall with court challenges blocking executive efforts to work around legislative impasses. |
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More than two months of direct fighting with the Houthis has heavily taxed the U.S. military, which is expending a significant amount of money to take down cheap drones, launch retaliatory strikes and defend against rebels who are, in turn, shooting down pricey American drones. In most cases, the U.S. is launching $2 million defense missiles to stop $2,000 Houthi drones, a discrepancy that the Yemini rebel group has noted in its statements mocking Washington. |
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President Biden said Friday that the United States will begin airdrops of humanitarian aid into Gaza amid negotiations for a temporary cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. Biden confirmed the planned airdrops during an Oval Office meeting with the prime minister of Italy. The effort will provide humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza as watchdogs and aid agencies have warned of increasingly dire circumstances there as Israel carries out military operations throughout the enclave. |
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The Department of Education said Friday that it is opening an investigation into the death of Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old Oklahoma high school student who died one day after getting into a fight in the girls bathroom at school, where they were allegedly bullied for months over their gender identity. The department's Office for Civil Rights notified the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) of the investigation, which it said was opened in response to a letter sent by the LGBTQ rights organization that alleged Nex's school district, Owasso Public Schools, failed to respond appropriately to the sex-based harassment that may have contributed to Nex's death. |
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| The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is no longer recommending Americans stay home from work or school for five days after testing positive for COVID-19, a major shift in policy that comes as much of the country has moved on from the height of the pandemic. The new guidance aligns COVID recommendations with other respiratory viral illnesses such as flu and RSV. |
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| OPINION | The role of the "great" man or woman in history has fascinated thinkers since at least Plato, who believed the ideal society should be ruled by a philosopher king. The fascination with heroes and heroines is understandable: they're charismatic personalities with the capacity for great good and evil. As the sociologist Sidney Hook argued in his 1943 work "The Hero in History," such figures have changed the course of world events. Directly taking on the Marxist belief in the primacy of "forces" and "contradictions," Hook even claimed that the Bolshevik coup of November 1917 would not have taken place had Vladimir Lenin not returned to Russia and persuaded his reluctant comrades to seize the Winter Palace. |
BY CATHERINE GLENN FOSTER |
OPINION | As one of the few lawyers in America to have actually litigated in vitro fertilization, I can say with certainty that Congress's approach to the issue of IVF is all wrong. Eight years ago, I filed a lawsuit under Louisiana's IVF law to save the lives of five-day-old Emma and Isabella, the embryonic children of actor and businessman Nick Loeb and his former fiancée, Hollywood A-lister and star of the TV show "Modern Family" Sofia Vergara. |
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President Biden's climate ambitions are colliding with political and legal realities, forcing his administration to recalibrate two of its main tools to cut the emissions that are heating the planet. |
Bank stocks slid Friday, led by a 26% decline in New York Community Bancorp, after more signs of trouble at that lender and a smaller peer revived fears about the stability of the sector a year after a string of high-profile failures. |
The mother and mother-in-law of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were among mourners who brought flowers to his grave in Moscow on Saturday, a day after thousands turned his funeral into one of the largest recent displays of dissent. |
BY LOVEDAY MORRIS, LORENZO TUGNOLI AND SUFIAN TAHA |
HEBRON, West Bank — To leave their home, the Idris family has to navigate an obstacle course. "This is our secret way," said Firas Idris, 57, gesturing toward the 12-foot ladder that leads over a garden wall and into the basement of a neighboring building. After two flights of stairs, a door opens onto the street. |
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