Politics

‘Mother Teresa could not beat these charges’: Trump rails against justice system as jury decides his fate

NEW YORK — As a panel of 12 New Yorkers began deliberating their verdict, Donald Trump embarked o...

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Votes being counted in South African election framed as most important since apartheid

JOHANNESBURG — South Africans voted Wednesday at schools, community centers, and in large white te...

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RFK Jr. files complaint that CNN's debate 'colluded' with Biden and Trump to keep him off the stage

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed an official complaint about being excluded from the first presidential d...

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Florida’s top education official says public school closures a tradeoff for school choice

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida’s top education official downplayed the sizable enrollment declin...

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Louisiana law makes it crime to stand too near police

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — A new Louisiana law will make it a crime to knowingly approach within 25 ...

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Biden tears into Trump over race: ‘Trump is the same guy who unleashed birtherism’

President Joe Biden tore into Donald Trump over his record on race on Wednesday, targeting the forme...

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Florida sticks by social studies standard teaching ‘benefit’ of slavery

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — The Florida Board of Education approved several tweaks Wednesday to the sta...

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North Korea sends fleet of balloons carrying excrement to South Korea

North Korea sent a fleet of balloons carrying excrement and trash into South Korea, according to mul...

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Trump congratulates Alito for rejecting recusal calls amid flag flap

Donald Trump praised Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for rejecting calls to recuse himselffrom tw...

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Watchdog group says Noem was ‘threatening,’ ‘hostile’ in legal battle over Texas dentist promotion

A consumer advocacy group is claiming that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was “highly evasive” an...

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Top Biden aides signal openness to letting Ukraine strike Russia with US weapons

Two senior Biden administration officials Wednesday opened the door to allowing Ukraine to use Ameri...

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Biden administration won’t confirm reports US weapons used by Israel in Rafah strike

The Biden administration on Wednesday refused to confirm U.S. bombs were used by Israel in the deadl...

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Alito rebuffs critics over flag controversy, says he won’t recuse from Jan. 6 cases

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has rejected calls for him to recuse from a pending case involvin...

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RFK Jr.’s Philosophy of Contradictions

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. smiled, threw up a stilted wave, and made eye contact with nobody in particula...

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'Catastrophic consequences’ in Rafah due to Israel’s actions, Power warns

USAID head Samantha Power warned on Wednesday that Israel’s military operation in southern Gaza is...

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Lawmakers resume fight against ‘price gouging’ for military parts

A bipartisan group of senators is demanding the Pentagon reveal military contractors' so-called pric...

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Netanyahu blasts Biden admin for rejecting GOP effort to sanction ICC

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’s “surprised and disappointed” that the Bide...

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Why big-spending Californians are now pinching pennies

It used to be taken for granted that if California voters had the chance to borrow money and spend i...

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How We Survived the Trump Trial

NEW YORK — A media spectacle was inevitable. How could it not be, for the first ever criminal tria...

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AI is shockingly good at making fake nudes — and causing havoc in schools

Angela Tipton was disgusted when she heard that her students were circulating a lewd image around th...

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Trump says he won’t ‘ban’ birth control. Here’s what he may do instead.

Donald Trump says he won’t ban birth control if he returns to the White House. But he could make i...

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