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Republicans are increasingly optimistic they can end their four-year stint in the Senate minority and topple the incumbents Democrats are relying on to carry the cycle with less than six months until Election Day. Top Republican party figures are quick to note they only need a single victory — on top of an all-but-certain win in West Virginia — with a pair of ruby-red states and a hoard of purple states where they are within striking distance on the table. Still, they are publicly downplaying that confidence after being burned in each of the past two cycles. |
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The House GOP effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress is in limbo, with Republicans unsure whether they have the votes to pass the measure. Two committees last week easily passed resolutions to censure Garland, and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has since projected confidence, saying he expects the measure to pass "handily" once lawmakers return from their weeklong Memorial Day recess. |
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The 2024 election will likely come down to just six states — and there is a big fault line right down the middle of them. Numerous polls show that President Biden is more competitive in the battleground states in the Midwest and Rust Belt — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — than he is in the Sun Belt and Southern states of Arizona, Nevada and Georgia. |
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"The Apprentice," a new biopic about former President Trump's rise in the real estate industry, did not clinch any awards at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend. The biopic is directed by Iranian Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi and stars actor Sebastian Stan playing the then-New York real estate developer Trump and Jeremy Strong as Trump's real-life former attorney and mentor Roy Cohn. The movie reportedly received an eight-minute standing ovation after it premiered at the festival. |
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| Former President Trump on Sunday flew over the Coca-Cola 600 in North Carolina in his private plane, dubbed "Trump Force One," before attending the NASCAR race. Trump Force One flew over the Charlotte Motor Speedway around 4:30 p.m. Sunday and was met with scores of cheering from the audience. |
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Alina Habba, an attorney for former President Trump, suggested the jury in the hush-money trial should have been sequestered over Memorial Day weekend to prevent outside influence ahead of this week's closing arguments. "They should have been sequestered, because, in my opinion, these jurors are handling something that is completely unprecedented and unwarranted in America," Habba said Sunday on Fox News's "Sunday Morning Futures." |
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was quickly eliminated from contention for the Libertarian Party's nomination Sunday in the first ballot, ending speculation that he could receive the backing of a major third party before the November election. Kennedy received support from just 19 delegates, about 2 percent of the vote, during the party's nominating process at its Washington convention. He addressed the convention Friday, despite saying last month he didn't intend to seek the party's nomination. |
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Rubber, squeaky chickens were handed out this weekend at the Libertarian Party convention in Washington, D.C., to call on former President Trump to debate independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The rubber chickens, which had the words "Debate Bobby" on them were passed out by the pro-Kennedy American Values 2024 super PAC at the weekend convention, where Trump was met with a raucous crowd and a mix of boos and cheers. |
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| A growing number of states have implemented free lunches for all students in recent years, making the school year easier for families who are food insecure. But the summer is a different story. While new federal summer food programs are being cheered by advocates, some states haven't been able to implement those initiatives, and school officials have been struggling to keep families informed of their options and involved in the process. |
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| OPINION | Canadian business mogul Kevin O'Leary has a new favorite hobby: threatening college students with the destruction of their livelihoods "forever" if they're caught at pro-Palestine protests. The "Shark Tank" judge says he will use omnipresent "1080p" and "4K" surveillance cameras capable of "retinal scanning" whose footage will be analyzed by "AI protocols" and made readily available to employers through background checks on the "deep web" and the "dark web." "I know who you are," O'Leary says. For the rest of their lives, the protestors "won't know why they didn't get that job," he says. "I won't be hiring any of them." When asked whether it's fair for a single act hang over someone's head for the rest of their life, his answer? " Life is hard, then you die." |
OPINION | A Los Angeles construction worker injured his back, leaving him unable to work. He and his wife lost their home and ended up living outdoors. They diligently signed up for lists to get subsidized housing and waited for years with no progress. The police repeatedly would wake them early in the morning, search, handcuff and ticket them or take them to jail for the crime of living out in public. Upon release, they would return to the streets with nowhere to go. |
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Sgt. Kennedy Sanders was killed in a drone attack on a U.S. outpost in Jordan. A collection of photos offers a glimpse into her life. "This is what they sent us," Oneida Sanders said, kneeling beside a heavy wooden chest in her living room. "These are Kennedy's things." The belongings were shipped home to her parents after she was killed: Dog tags, identification cards, Polaroids of her family. Gold jewelry and a quarter that appeared to be stained with blood. |
BY CATHERINE LUCEY AND KEN THOMAS |
President Biden is facing calls from anxious Democrats to express more empathy over inflation and prices, as voters continue to reject the president's positive rhetoric on the economy. Voter pessimism on the economy and Biden's handling of it appears increasingly locked in just over five months from Election Day, with surveys showing many voters holding a rosier view of the prepandemic economy under former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee. Democratic worries are mounting as the summer vacation season kicks off, and Biden is |
Generations of American families have grown up not knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who died while serving their country in World War II and other conflicts. But a federal lab tucked away above the bowling alley at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha and a sister lab in Hawaii are steadily answering those lingering questions, aiming to offer 200 families per year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. |
BY MARY BETH SHERIDAN AND LORENA RIOS |
Claudia Sheinbaum was fuming. The presidential candidate held a comfortable lead in the polls as her party's primary got underway last summer. But one afternoon, as she was entering a hotel for a meeting, she was confronted by dozens of her top rival's supporters, chanting that the contest was rigged. |
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