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Maine joins compact to elect the president by popular vote but it won't come into play this November
Maine will become the latest to join a multistate effort to elect the president by popular vote with the Democratic governor's announcement Monday that she's letting the proposal become law without her signature.
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Tax Day reveals a major split in how Joe Biden and Donald Trump would govern
Tax Day reveals a major split in how Joe Biden and Donald Trump would govern: The presidential candidates have conflicting ideas about how much to reveal about their own finances and the best ways to boost the economy through tax policy.
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The Latest | First day of Trump's hush money trial adjourns with no jurors selected
The first day of Donald Trump 's historic hush money trial ended Monday after hours of pretrial motions and an initial jury selection process that saw dozens of prospective jurors excused after they said they could not be fair or impartial. The court ultimately adjourned without any jurors being seated, with the selection process resuming on Tuesday.
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Minnesota State professors ask lawmakers for more academic freedom protections
Union leaders say they're worried about restrictions passing in Republican-led states, where lawmakers are limiting what professors can teach about race, gender, other issues.
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Atlantic City mayor, wife charged with abusing and assaulting teenage daughter
Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small and his wife were charged Monday with abusing and assaulting their teenage daughter on multiple occasions, including hitting her in the head with a broom and knocking her unconscious.
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Supreme Court says no to Lindell's request for hearing on cellphone confiscation
The MyPillow founder's phone was seized in a Hardee's drive-thru.
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DFL disavows endorsed House candidate accused of harassing GOP incumbent
Judd Hoff has a long criminal history, including felony second-degree assault for wielding a machete during an argument.
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Former Trump staffer who said to 'fan the flame' after 2020 loss hired to lead Wisconsin GOP
The director of Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign in Wisconsin, who pushed allegations of widespread fraud that were ultimately debunked, has been hired to run the Republican Party of Wisconsin heading into the November election.
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The Civil War raged and fortune-seekers hunted for gold. This era produced Arizona's abortion ban
As Union and Confederate armies clashed in a bloody fourth year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln tasked one man to create the legal code for Arizona, almost 50 years before the territory became a state.
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Sen. Tina Smith says American women 'won't be conned' by Trump on abortion
The former president says states should decide their own abortion laws as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case that would curb the availability of some drugs.
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News organizations urge Biden and Trump to commit to presidential debates during the 2024 campaign
Twelve news organizations on Sunday urged presumptive presidential nominees Joe Biden and Donald Trump to agree to debates, saying they were a ''rich tradition'' that have been part of every general election campaign since 1976.
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A Pittsburgh congressional race could test Democrats who have criticized Israel's handling of war
An election this month in Pittsburgh and some of its suburbs is emerging as an early test of whether Israel's war with Hamas poses political threats to progressive Democrats in Congress who have criticized how the conflict has been handled.
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Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham are again at odds, now over abortion. The strife could help both men
The long and occasionally quixotic relationship between Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham has again turned negative after the South Carolina senator criticized the former president for refusing to support a federal abortion ban.
Business
Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the US Supreme Court
A pickleball game in this leafy Oregon community was suddenly interrupted one rainy weekend morning by the arrival of an ambulance. Paramedics rushed through the park toward a tent, one of dozens illegally erected by the town's hundreds of homeless people, then play resumed as though nothing had happened.
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A jury of his peers: A look at how jury selection will work in Donald Trump's first criminal trial
Donald Trump's history-making criminal trial is set to start Monday with a simple but extraordinary procedural step that is vital to American democracy. A group of regular citizens — Trump's peers, in the eyes of the law — will be chosen to decide whether the former president of the United States is guilty of a crime.
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McCormick gets Trump's endorsement in Pennsylvania's Senate race despite awkward history
Former President Donald Trump endorsed U.S. Senate candidate David McCormick of Pennsylvania on Saturday, urging his supporters in the state to ''go out and vote for him'' in one of the year's most hotly contested Senate races.
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Biden wins more delegates in Wyoming and Alaska as he heads toward Democratic nomination
President Joe Biden nudged further ahead in the Democratic nomination for reelection by winning party contests in Wyoming and Alaska.
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Trump goes after the judge and prosecutors in his hush money case in last rally before trial begins
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday lit into New York prosecutors and the criminal hush money case they brought against him during his last rally before what he called a ''communist show trial'' begins Monday.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. convenes hundreds in Iowa to try for access to November ballot
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched a one-day blitz Saturday to gain access to Iowa's presidential ballot as an independent candidate. Whether he succeeded is an outstanding question.
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Progressive candidates are increasingly sharing their own abortion stories after Roe's demise
For decades, only three people knew Gloria Johnson had had an abortion.
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