Former President Trump is the slight favorite to win November's election with less than six months to go.
That's less because of national polls — where Trump holds only a very small lead — and more because of his standing in the battleground states. So, things are looking relatively rosy for the former president. But there are big things that could yet go wrong.
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Special counsel Jack Smith in a Friday filing called on the judge overseeing former President Trump's classified documents case to block Trump from speaking about the case in a way that could endanger law enforcement officials. In his request, Smith asked the court to impose a condition that would bar Trump from making public statements that could "pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to the law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case." |
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Former President Trump went after James Comey Friday, after the former FBI director suggested prosecutors could have enough to convict Trump in his criminal hush money case. "The Worst FBI Director in History, who I inherited from the Obama Administration, but fired almost immediately into ours, along with many other Corrupt Actors in the DOJ and FBI (The start of DRAIN THE SWAMP!), is going around LYING about the SCAM brought by [George] Soros backed [Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg,] and perpetuated by the Highly Conflicted, Democrat Appointed Judge, Juan Merchan," Trump wrote Friday on Truth Social. |
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The battle lines over free speech on college campuses were largely entrenched before pro-Palestinian encampments rapidly spread across the country last month.
Professors or speakers who broke with prevailing progressive points of view — particularly around issues of race, gender and social justice — were often subject to losing their job or other forms of "cancel culture." |
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. targeted former President Trump over his administration's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, as he spoke to Libertarians during their party convention Friday. Kennedy argued that the former president and his administration had violated people's First Amendment rights when they instituted health guidelines to combat the coronavirus pandemic. |
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The GOP-controlled subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic appears to be swaying the Biden administration with its exhaustive examinations targeting groups and individuals with links to the unproven COVID-19 lab leak theory. In the past month, the subcommittee has heard testimony from EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak and Lawrence Tabak, principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It also called in David Morens, a top deputy to former COVID czar Anthony Fauci, who was grilled over damning revelations about his conduct. |
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| A ban on intoxicating hemp products has made it into the House version of the farm bill. If the amendment makes it through a polarized House and divided Congress, it would end America's brief experiment with nationally legal cannabis. |
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Intraparty divisions within the Ohio legislature are stifling efforts to get President Biden on the November ballot.
Ohio requires parties to certify their presidential nominees 90 days before the election. But the Democratic National Convention, where Democrats will officially nominate the president, is scheduled after that deadline. |
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) signaled Friday that several of her Republican colleagues showed their approval of her response to the fracas with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) last week, even giving her a "thumbs up." Asked by MSNBC host Joy Reid about the spat and how it is to work alongside Greene, Crockett said it is "completely unproductive." |
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OPINION | The last two weeks have not been good for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant — his fellow war cabinet member, whom Netanyahu attempted to fire in March but was forced to retain — publicly attacked him on May 15 for failing to develop a plan for governing Gaza once the Hamas war comes to an end. Gallant also demanded that Netanyahu clarify that the Israeli Defense Forces would not reoccupy Gaza. |
OPINION | Justice Samuel Alito flew an American flag upside-down at his home in the days after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, which some have speculated was some kind of subtle nod of support. This controversy would be outrageous if it were not just yet another example of Supreme Court justices behaving badly, ignoring rules designed to ensure that judges decide the cases before them fairly and impartially.
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The Chinese Communist Party has long wielded perhaps the world's most sweeping surveillance apparatus against activists and others who might possibly voice discontent. Then, during the coronavirus pandemic, the surveillance reached an unprecedented scale, tracking virtually every urban resident in the name of preventing infections. Now, it is clear that Mr. Xi wants to make that expanded control permanent, and to push it even further. |
More than a year after his discharge from the hospital for a serious depression that followed a stroke during his Senate campaign, Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) knows a few things for certain. He is lucky to be alive. His support for Israel is unshakable. He backs President Biden. He's sticking to the hoodies. And he has no plans to change his party affiliation, even as many Democrats purse their lips when the freshman senator breaks with the party line on the most controversial issues of the day. |
BY BILL BARROW AND RICHARD LARDNER |
The Right Side Broadcasting Network has become a major player in Donald Trump's MAGA universe — a reference to the ex-president's "Make America Great Again" slogan — amassing more than 2 million subscribers on its YouTube channel and on Rumble, an alternative video-sharing platform. As Trump's loyal herald, carrying his message live and unfiltered from his rallies and other events, RSBN has allowed the former president to bypass traditional media and inject his vision for America directly into the veins of his diehard supporters. Here are a few things to know about RSBN and how the upstart channel covers Trump. |
Ahead of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, the then-chair of the Libertarian Party was increasingly concerned that a faction of his party supported white supremacy. Sarwark fired off a public letter saying racism didn't belong in the party and asking others to join in his condemnation of fascism and of the rising popularity of Donald Trump among libertarians. The letter was eventually signed by more than 400 people and groups, but it set off a firestorm among others. |
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