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New Fort Wayne, Indiana, mayor is sworn in a month after her predecessor's death
Democrat Sharon Tucker was sworn in Tuesday as the new mayor of Indiana's second-most populous city, nearly a month after her predecessor's death.
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Man charged with starting a fire outside U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders' Vermont office pleads not guilty
The man charged with starting a fire outside independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders' Vermont office earlier this month pleaded not guilty to a federal charge on Tuesday.
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Transgender Louisianans lost their ally in the governor's seat. Now they're girding for a fight
As transgender people in Louisiana watched surrounding states in the deeply conservative South implement a slew of laws targeting nearly every facet of their lives in recent years, they counted on their ally in the governor's office to keep their home a relative oasis.
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The Latest | Pecker says he wanted to keep tabloid's agreement with Trump 'as quiet as possible'
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified Tuesday that he offered to be the ''eyes and ears'' of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, a pledge that led to an agreement to give Trump's personal lawyer advance notice of allegations and negative stories that might hamper the political aspirations of the then-candidate.
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What to know in the Supreme Court case about immunity for former President Trump
The Supreme Court has scheduled a special session to hear arguments over whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted over his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.
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Minnesota and other Democratic-led states lead pushback on censorship. They're banning the book ban
A movement to ban book bans is gaining steam in Minnesota and several other states, in contrast to the trend playing out in more conservative states where book challenges have soared to their highest levels in decades.
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Kansas has a new anti-DEI law, but the governor has vetoed bills on abortion and even police dogs
Kansas' Democratic governor on Friday vetoed proposed tax breaks for anti-abortion counseling centers while allowing restrictions on college diversity initiatives approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature to become law without her signature.
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Richmond Mayor Stoney drops Virginia governor bid, will run for lieutenant governor
Democratic Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced Tuesday he is dropping his bid for Virginia governor in 2025, avoiding a nomination contest with U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, and will instead run for lieutenant governor.
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As Blinken heads to China, these are the major divides he will try to bridge
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is starting three days of talks with senior Chinese officials in Shanghai and Beijing this week with U.S.-China ties at a critical point over numerous global disputes.
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Trump could avoid trial this year on 2020 election charges. Is the hush money case a worthy proxy?
Former President Donald Trump faces serious charges in two cases over whether he attempted to subvert the Constitution by overturning the results of a fair election and illegally remain in power.
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Mississippi lawmakers move toward restoring voting rights to 32 felons as broader suffrage bill dies
Mississippi legislators advanced bills Monday to give voting rights back to 32 people convicted of felonies, weeks after a Senate leader killed a broader bill that would have restored suffrage to many more people with criminal records.
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Trump called this visa 'very bad' for Americans. Truth Social applied for one
The social media company founded by former President Donald Trump applied for a business visa program that he sought to restrict during his administration and which many of his allies want him to curtail in a potential second term.
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California reject bill to crackdown on how utilities spend customers' money
California lawmakers on Monday rejected a proposal aimed at cracking down on how some of the nation's largest utilities spend customers' money.
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Seattle hospital won't turn over gender-affirming care records in lawsuit settlement with Texas
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is dropping a request for a Seattle hospital to hand over records regarding gender-affirming treatment potentially given to children from Texas as part of a lawsuit settlement announced Monday.
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Trump tried to 'corrupt' the 2016 election, prosecutor alleges as hush money trial gets underway
Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of the former president's historic hush money trial.
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Key takeaways from the opening statements in Donald Trump's hush money trial
Monday's opening statements in the first criminal trial of a former American president provided a clear roadmap of how prosecutors will try to make the case that Donald Trump broke the law, and how the defense plans to fight the charges on multiple fronts.
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Biden marks Earth Day by going after GOP, announcing $7 billion in federal solar power grants
President Joe Biden marked Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities — while criticizing Republicans who want to gut his policies to address climate change.
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Prosecutors cancel warrant for lawmaker on primary eve, saying protective order hadn't been in place
A warrant for charges that a Democratic state representative from Philadelphia violated a protective order was withdrawn Monday — a day before he faces a contested primary — because police and prosecutors said they determined no such active protective order had been in place.
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Without cameras to go live, the Trump trial is proving the potency of live blogs as news tools
They watched from the courtroom or via closed-circuit television in an overflow room — roughly 140 reporters, most with laptops or other silenced electronic devices, serving up news at its most elemental and in rapid-fire fashion.
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GOP battle for nomination in Minnesota's Second District could head to August primary
The race has bitterly divided Republicans over who is best to take on DFL incumbent Rep. Angie Craig this fall.
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