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Biden left with few choices as immigration takes center stage in American politics
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Almost immediately after he walked into the Oval Office on his first day as president, Joe Biden began rolling back his predecessor’s immigration policies, which he had assailed throughout the 2020 campaign as harsh and inhumane. A lot has changed in three years. Biden, now sounding increasingly...
Trump’s legal travails drained $51.2 million from his 2024 bid
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s legal troubles have helped him raise millions of dollars from supporters, but paying to defend himself has siphoned $51.2 million from his White House comeback effort in the past year. The Republican front-runner used his leadership political action committee, Save America, to pay $25.7 million in...
Oregon high court says 10 GOP state senators who staged long walkout can’t run for reelection
SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Supreme Court said Thursday that 10 Republican state senators who staged a record-long walkout last year to stall bills on abortion, transgender health care and gun rights cannot run for reelection. The decision upholds the secretary of state’s decision to disqualify the senators from the...
Pennsylvania House GOP leader asks attorney general to probe missing data
A top House Republican wants the Pennsylvania attorney general to investigate the massive data loss affecting the state police and state employees’ pension system. State Rep. Seth Grove, R-York, said he asked State Attorney General Michelle Henry to review the recent IT failure that led to the loss early last...
Biden to celebrate his UAW endorsement in Detroit, where Arab American anger is boiling over Gaza
DETROIT — President Joe Biden will celebrate his recent endorsement by the United Auto Workers union by visiting Michigan on Thursday, but his time in this critical battleground state with the nation’s highest density of Arab Americans threatens to be overshadowed by growing anger over U.S. support for Israel’s war...
House passes bill to enhance child tax credit, revive key tax breaks for businesses
WASHINGTON — The House accomplished something unusual Wednesday in passing with broad, bipartisan support a roughly $79 billion tax cut package that would enhance the child tax credit for millions of lower-income families and boost three tax breaks for businesses, a combination that gives lawmakers on both sides of the...
After Teamsters meeting, Trump says of possible union endorsement, ‘Stranger things have happened’
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump met with leaders of the Teamsters Union on Wednesday in Washington as he tried to chip away at President Joe Biden’s organized labor support heading into a likely general election rematch. Trump participated in a roundtable with the union’s executive board, its president and...
Trump said he’ll block U.S. Steel sale if elected
Former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump said Wednesday he will block U.S. Steel’s sale to the Japanese Nippon Steel Corporation, if elected president, reports Bloomberg. The sale was announced in December, with Nippon acquiring the iconic Pittsburgh-based steelmaker for about $14 billion in a deal that would keep U.S....
Federal judge dismisses Disney’s free speech lawsuit against Ron DeSantis
ORLANDO, Fla. — A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed Disney’s free speech lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, leaving the company’s remaining hopes of regaining control of the district that governs Walt Disney World to a separate state court challenge. U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor in Tallahassee said in his...
Gisele Fetterman returns to social media, explains break in online post
Taking a social media break might be more challenging than staying on. Just ask Gisele Fetterman. The wife of U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Braddock, responded to online speculation after she abruptly deleted her accounts on Instagram and X, formerly known as Twitter, this week. After deactivating her X account, Fetterman...
‘Traitor’: After bitter primary, DeSantis may struggle to win over Trump supporters if he runs again
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Before launching his ill-fated campaign for the White House, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was a star. Again and again, Republican voters said they saw him as the future of the party — a potential vice president who, after serving four years alongside Donald Trump, could become the...
House GOP takes party-line vote toward Mayorkas impeachment as border becomes 2024 campaign issueVideo
WASHINGTON — House Republicans voted along party lines after midnight Wednesday to move toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a “willful and systematic” refusal to enforce immigration laws as border security becomes a top 2024 election issue. The Homeland Security Committee debated all day Tuesday and well into...
Missouri Senate Republicans filibuster in hopes of making it harder for voters to amend constitution
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A faction of the Missouri Senate ended a roughly 16-hour filibuster Tuesday that was meant to pressure their fellow Republicans into fast-tracking legislation that would make it harder for voters to amend the state constitution. The Freedom Caucus’ push comes as abortion-rights supporters are trying to...
Sen. Joe Manchin’s wife, Gayle, hospitalized after car crash
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Gayle Manchin, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin’s wife, who leads an economic development partnership of the federal government and 13 state governments, and a colleague of hers have been hospitalized following a car crash in Alabama. Gayle Manchin, 76, and Guy Land were injured Monday in the accident...
Jean Carnahan, first woman to represent Missouri in Senate, dies at 90
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan, who became the first female senator to represent Missouri after she was appointed to replace her husband following his death, died Tuesday. She was 90. Carnahan was appointed to the Senate in 2001 after the posthumous election of her husband, Gov....
Florida to prohibit gender changes on driver licenses, will only allow birth sex
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles issued a memo last Friday telling county tax collectors to no longer allow people to update their gender identities on driver licenses and to prove that the gender on the license is the person’s biological sex using a “primary identification document,”...
Ohio could begin nitrogen gas executions under bill backed by state’s Republican attorney generalVideo
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort Tuesday that would bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, ending a yearslong unofficial death penalty moratorium. Attorney General Dave Yost made remarks in a news conference about a bill sponsored by Republican state Reps. Brian...
Illinois election board will consider whether to boot Trump from ballot over insurrection amendment
CHICAGO — Illinois’ election board on Tuesday is scheduled to consider whether to keep Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot after a recommendation that he be removed over the Constitution’s insurrection provision. The meeting of the Illinois State Board of Elections, which is split evenly between Democrats and Republicans,...
Illinois election officials to weigh recommendation to remove Trump’s name from March primary ballot
CHICAGO — Former President Donald Trump should be removed from Illinois’ primary ballot, but the decision should be left to the courts, a retired judge recommended Sunday to the state’s election board, arguing that it was clear Trump engaged in insurrection in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S....
Nikki Haley commits to staying in 2024 GOP race through Super TuesdayVideo
Nikki Haley vowed to stay in the Republican presidential primary race at least through Super Tuesday while chiding a tabled plan by the Republican National Committee that called for the party to coalesce around Donald Trump. Haley said she expects to perform better in her home state of South Carolina...
GOP legislatures in some states seek ways to undermine voters’ ability to determine abortion rights
CHICAGO — Legislative efforts in Missouri and Mississippi are attempting to prevent voters from having a say over abortion rights, building on anti-abortion strategies seen in other states, including last year in Ohio. Democrats and abortion rights advocates say the efforts are evidence that Republican lawmakers and abortion opponents are...
Biden is trying to balance Gaza protests and free speech rights as demonstrators disrupt his events
MANASSAS, Va. — It was President Joe Biden’s first big campaign rally of the year, a chance to spotlight the issue of protecting abortion rights. Instead, at least a dozen times during Biden’s 22-minute speech, demonstrators scattered throughout the audience rose to shout out demands for a cease-fire in Gaza....
Trump praises Texas governor as border state clashes with Biden over immigration
LAS VEGAS — Former President Donald Trump lavished praise Saturday on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for not allowing the Biden administration entry to remove razor wire in a popular corridor for migrants illegally entering the U.S. in an escalating feud over immigration. In a speech focused overwhelmingly on border security,...
Biden returns to South Carolina to show his determination to win back Black voters
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Joe Biden doesn’t need to worry about his prospects in South Carolina’s Democratic primary next week. He’s got that locked up. He also knows he’s not likely to win the solidly red state come November. It hasn’t voted for a Democrat since 1976. He’s spent the weekend...
Straw poll shows trouble for Boebert in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District
FORT LUPTON, Colo. — Lauren Boebert landed in fifth place in a straw poll conducted at a 4th Congressional District debate this week, a decidedly middle-of-the-pack showing among the nine Republican candidates who showed up for the event. While the survey of just over 100 Republicans on Thursday at the...
