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Trump announces Vance as VP pickMILWAUKEE -- Donald Trump says Ohio Sen. JD Vance will be his vice presidential pick. He says on his Truth Social Network that, “After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio.”...
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Authorities investigate motive, security in Donald Trump assassination attemptBUTLER, Pa. — Former President Donald Trump called for unity and resilience Sunday after an attempt on his life injected fresh uncertainty into an already tumultuous presidential campaign, while President Joe Biden implored Americans to "cool it down" in the final stretch and "resolve our differences at the ballot box." The opponents' statements followed an attack that shook the firmament of the American political system ...
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In Oval Office address, Biden asks Americans to reject political violence and 'cool it down'WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Sunday urged Americans to reject political violence and recommit themselves to resolving their differences peacefully, saying the upcoming presidential election will be a "time of testing" in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. ...
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What's worse than thieves hacking into your bank account? When they steal your phone number, tooWASHINGTON — One Monday morning in May, I woke up and grabbed my cell phone to read the news and scroll through memes. But it was out of cell service. I couldn't make calls or texts. That, though, turned out to be the least of my problems. ...
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Alleged Trump shooter identified; Secret Service investigating how shooter got as close as he did to former president (7/14/24)The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get close enough to shoot and injure former President Donald Trump at a rally Saturday in Pennsylvania, a monumental failure of one the agency's core duties...
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Biden says during news conference he's going to 'complete the job' despite calls to bow out (7/12/24)WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden used his closely watched news conference Thursday to deliver a forceful defense of his foreign and domestic policies and batted away questions about his ability to serve another four years, declaring: “I’m not in this for my legacy. I’m in this to complete the job.”...
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Trump lawyers press judge to overturn hush money conviction after Supreme Court immunity ruling (7/12/24)NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s lawyers are imploring a New York judge to overturn his hush money conviction and dismiss the case, arguing his historic trial was “tainted” by evidence that shouldn't have been allowed because of the Supreme Court’s recent presidential immunity ruling...
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Zelenskyy says to win the war, US needs to lift limits on striking military targets inside Russia (7/12/24)WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday embraced the support of allies who have provided substantial new military aid and a path to joining NATO, even as he emphatically pushed for the help to arrive faster and for restrictions to be lifted on the use of U.S. weapons to attack military targets inside Russia...
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Israeli army acknowledges Oct. 7 failures, including slow response and disorganization (7/12/24)JERUSALEM — The Israeli military on Thursday acknowledged a string of errors in its response to the deadly Hamas attacks last Oct. 7, including slow response times and disorganization, as it released the results of its first investigation into failures during the assault that triggered the war in Gaza...
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'We have nothing': Palestinians return to utter destruction in Gaza City after Israeli withdrawal (7/12/24)SHIJAIYAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinians returned to breathtaking scenes of destruction in the Gaza City district of Shijaiyah after Israeli troops withdrew, ending a two-week offensive there. Civil defense workers said Thursday that so far, they had found the bodies of 60 people in the rubble...
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France's unions call for protests to pressure Macron into naming leftist government (7/12/24)PARIS — With just 15 days before the start of the Olympic Games in Paris, a major French union on Thursday called for mass demonstrations and possible strikes to pressure President Emmanuel Macron into “respecting the results” of recent legislative elections and allow a left-wing coalition to form a new government...
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House rejects GOP effort to fine Attorney General Garland for refusal to turn over Biden audio (7/12/24)WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday rejected a GOP effort to fine Attorney General Merrick Garland $10,000 a day until he turns over audio of President Joe Biden’s interview in his classified documents case as a handful of Republicans resisted taking an aggressive step against a sitting Cabinet official...
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US inflation cools again, potentially paving way for Fed to cut interest rates soon (7/12/24)WASHINGTON — Inflation in the United States cooled in June for a third straight month, a sign that the worst price spike in four decades is steadily fading and may soon usher in interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. In a better-than-expected report, consumer prices declined 0.1% from May to June after having remained flat the previous month, the Labor Department said Thursday. ...
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Biden awards $1.7 billion to boost electric vehicle manufacturing and assembly in 8 states (7/12/24)WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is awarding nearly $2 billion in grants to General Motors, Stellantis and other carmakers to help restart or expand electric vehicle manufacturing and assembly sites in eight states, including the presidential battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia...
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Half a million Houston-area homes and businesses still won't have power into next week (7/12/24)HOUSTON — About half a million Houston-area homes and businesses will still be without electricity next week, the city's largest utility said Thursday, stoking the frustration of hot and weary residents and leading a top state official to call the pace of recovery from Hurricane Beryl “not acceptable.”...
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Vibrant portraits turn gun death statistics into indelible stories (7/11/24)PHILADELPHIA — Zarinah Lomax is an uncommon documentarian of our times. She has designed dresses from yellow crime-scene tape and styled jackets with hand-painted demands such as “Don’t Shoot” in purple, black and gold script. Every few months, she hauls dozens of portraits of Philadelphians — vibrant, bold, bigger-than-life faces — to pop-up galleries to raise an alarm about gun violence in her hometown and America. ...
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Pritzker signs law banning health insurance companies' 'predatory tactics,' including step therapy (7/11/24)SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday signed into law measures to block what he called insurance companies' “predatory tactics to make an extra dime” by shortchanging consumers on their medical needs. The Democrat signed legislation codifying one of his top initiatives of last spring's legislation session, the Healthcare Protection Act, which outlaws step therapy, prior authorization for mental health crises and junk insurance...
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Biden says pressure on him is driven by elites. Voters paint a more complicated picture (7/11/24)SAGINAW, Mich. — Considering her choices in this year’s rapidly approaching presidential election, Rochelle Jones thinks both major party candidates should step aside. “They just need to get somebody that’s going to run this country right, that don’t have any health issues, that care about us people,” the 39-year-old culinary worker at Michigan State University said this week...
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Pressure mounts on Houston power company to quickly restore service as city sweats after Beryl (7/11/24)HOUSTON — Pressure mounted Wednesday on Houston’s power utility as millions of residents still had no electricity nearly three days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall, stoking questions over how a city that is all too familiar with destructive weather was unable to better withstand a Category 1 storm...
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Las Vegas hits record of fifth consecutive day of 115 degrees or greater as heat wave scorches US (7/11/24)LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas baked Wednesday in its record fifth consecutive day of temperatures sizzling at 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46.1 Celsius) or greater amid a lengthening hot spell that is expected to broil much of the U.S. into the weekend. The temperature climbed to 115 shortly after 1 p.m. at Harry Reid International Airport, breaking the old mark of four consecutive days set in July 2005. And the record could be extended, or even doubled, by the weekend...
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Congress OKs bill overhauling oversight of troubled federal Bureau of Prisons (7/11/24)The Senate passed legislation Wednesday to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny...
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NATO allies call China a 'decisive enabler' of Russia's war in Ukraine (7/11/24)WASHINGTON — In their most serious rebuke against Beijing, NATO allies on Wednesday called China a “decisive enabler” of Russia's war against Ukraine and expressed concerns over Beijing's nuclear arsenal and its capabilities in space. The sternly worded final communiqué, approved by the 32 NATO members at their summit in Washington, makes clear that China is becoming a focus of the military alliance. ...
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Judge says Rudy Giuliani bankruptcy case likely to be dismissed. But his debts aren't going away (7/11/24)NEW YORK — A judge said Wednesday he was leaning toward throwing out Rudy Giuliani 's bankruptcy case after lawyers for the cash-strapped former New York City mayor and his biggest creditors — two ex-Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him — agreed this was the best way forward...
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A defiant Biden borrows some tactics from his rival as he tries to put debate debacle behind him (7/11/24)NEW YORK — He’s calling in to his favorite morning cable news show, bashing the “elites” of his party and dismissing unfavorable polls. He’s even talking up his crowd sizes. As an increasingly defiant President Joe Biden rejects calls to step aside after a disastrous debate performance, he’s been embracing some of the tactics used by a man he calls a mortal threat to democracy: his rival, former President Donald Trump...
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Israeli military orders the evacuation of Gaza City, an early target of its war with Hamas (7/11/24)DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The Israeli military urged all Palestinians to leave Gaza City and head south Wednesday, pressing ahead with a fresh offensive across the north, south and center of the embattled territory that has killed dozens of people over the past 48 hours...
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Chaos swirling since Biden's debate flub is causing cracks in a White House known for discipline (7/10/24)WASHINGTON — Internal drama. Leaks. Second-guessing. The pressure and chaos swirling since Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance is causing cracks in a White House that until now had been marked by discipline and loyalty. For three-plus years, the Biden administration has been mostly a restrained and staid operation, defined more by an insistence on showcasing policy and an avoidance of palace intrigue. ...
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Trump revels in Democratic turmoil as he returns to campaign trail and teases VP pick (7/10/24)MIAMI — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday reveled in the mounting turmoil surrounding President Joe Biden ’s campaign in the wake of their debate and teased the expected announcement of his Republican running mate with one of the top contenders, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, in attendance...
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Biden's support on Capitol Hill grimly uncertain. A seventh Democrat says he should drop out (7/10/24)WASHINGTON — The mood on Capitol Hill turned grimly uncertain Tuesday as Democrats wrestled over President Joe Biden’s reelection and the extraordinary question before them — whether to stand behind his candidacy or push the president to bow out amid concerns over his ability to lead them to victory...
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Democrats on Capitol Hill express concerns about Biden in private but stay quiet in public (7/10/24)WASHINGTON — After meeting for around two hours Tuesday to discuss whether President Joe Biden should remain at the top of their presidential ticket, Senate Democrats seemed to agree on one thing — it's best not to talk about it publicly. Behind closed doors, several Democrats expressed deep concerns about whether Biden can win. ...
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Iran encourages Gaza war protests in US to stoke outrage and distrust, intelligence chief says (7/10/24)WASHINGTON — The Iranian government is covertly encouraging American protests over Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza in a bid to stoke outrage ahead of the fall election, the nation's top intelligence official said Tuesday. Using social media platforms popular in the U.S., groups linked to Tehran have posed as online activists, encouraged protests and have provided financial support to some protest groups, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said in a statement...
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Frustrations mount in the Houston heat after Beryl moves on and leaves millions without power (7/10/24)HOUSTON — The return of soaring heat in Houston on Tuesday deepened the misery for millions of people still without power after Hurricane Beryl crashed into Texas and left residents in search of places to cool off and fuel up as the extended outages strained one of the nation’s largest cities...
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Biden spotlights support for NATO as he looks to use summit to help reset stumbling campaign (7/10/24)WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden welcomed NATO leaders to Washington on Tuesday by celebrating their unity against Russia's Ukraine aggression and underscoring America's ironclad commitment to the alliance under his watch — a message that seemed aimed at bucking up his own wobbly Democratic supporters as much as allies confronting the prospect of a return to the White House of NATO skeptic Donald Trump...
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Airstrike kills 25 in southern Gaza as Israeli assault on Gaza City shuts down medical facilities (7/10/24)DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An apparent Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in southern Gaza killed at least 25 Palestinians on Tuesday, as heavy bombardment in the north forced the closure of medical facilities in Gaza City and sent thousands fleeing in search of increasingly elusive refuge...
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Chaos and horror at a Kyiv hospital as the city is hit with heaviest bombardment in months (7/10/24)KYIV, Ukraine — The sky was crystal clear as Oksana Femeniuk took her daughter to Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital for routine dialysis. Around 10 a.m, air-raid sirens blared. Sixteen-year old Solomiia was undergoing the treatment that required her to sit still for up to five hours and could not be interrupted. Her mother had to flee to the hospital's basement shelter without her...
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Former US Sen. Jim Inhofe, defense hawk who called human-caused climate change a 'hoax,' dies at 89 (7/10/24)OKLAHOMA CITY — Former Sen. Jim Inhofe, a conservative known for his strong support of defense spending and his denial that human activity is responsible for the bulk of climate change, has died. He was 89. Inhofe, a powerful fixture in Oklahoma politics for over six decades, died Tuesday morning after suffering a stroke during the July Fourth holiday, his family said in a statement...
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Beryl forecast to bring heavy rain, winds into Missouri on Tuesday (7/9/24)HOUSTON — Tropical Storm Beryl slammed into Texas on Monday, knocking out power to nearly 3 million homes and businesses and unleashing heavy rains that prompted dozens of high-water rescues. The fast-moving tempest threatened to carve a harsh path over several more states in coming days, including Missouri. ...
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Support for legal abortion has risen since Supreme Court eliminated protections, AP-NORC poll finds (7/9/24)WASHINGTON — A solid majority of Americans oppose a federal abortion ban as a rising number support access to abortions for any reason, a new poll finds, highlighting a politically perilous situation for candidates who oppose abortion rights as the November election draws closer...
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The White House faces many questions about Biden's health and medical history. Here are some answers (7/9/24)WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's terrible performance at the June 27 presidential debate has raised concerns about his age, health and ability to lead the federal government. Administration officials have blamed his confused and at times indecipherable answers at the debate with Republican Donald Trump on a head cold, jet lag and poor preparation at Camp David. ...
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The plane is ready, the fundraisers are booked: Trump's VP search comes down to its final days (7/9/24)NEW YORK — The future Republican vice presidential candidate's plane is currently parked in an undisclosed hangar, an empty spot on its fuselage where a decal featuring his or her name will soon be placed. Fundraisers have been planned. All that's left: an announcement from former President Donald Trump unveiling his pick...
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Biden gets support from key lawmakers as he tells Democrats he won't step aside after debate (7/9/24)WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden stood firm Monday against calls for him to drop his reelection candidacy and called for an end to the intraparty drama that has torn apart Democrats since his dismal debate performance last month, as key lawmakers expressed support for him to remain in the 2024 presidential race...
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Republicans move at Trump's behest to change how they will oppose abortion (7/9/24)MILWAUKEE — The Republican National Committee moved Monday to adopt a party platform that reflects former President Donald Trump’s position opposing a federal abortion ban and ceding limits to states, omitting the explicit basis for a national ban for the first time in 40 years...
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Read the letter President Biden sent to House Democrats telling them to support him in the election (7/9/24)WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden wants Democrats in Congress to know he has no intention of exiting this year's election, sending them a letter on Monday on his personal letterhead. Here is Biden's letter to the congressional Democrats whose backing he likely needs:...
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Elections in Europe, Iran show authoritarian march may have slowed, not halted (7/9/24)LONDON — At first glance, elections in France and Britain were a triumph for leftists and reformers over authoritarians and the right. Even Iran — where Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the final say on all matters of state — elected Masoud Pezeshkian, a lawmaker long associated with the reformist movement...
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Russia's heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in 4 months kills at least 31 and hits a children's hospital (7/9/24)KYIV, Ukraine — Russian missiles blasted cities across Ukraine on Monday, damaging the country's largest children's hospital and other buildings in a fierce assault that interrupted heart surgeries and forced young cancer patients to take their treatments outdoors. At least 31 people were killed, officials said...
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Affordability tops older Americans' list of health care worries (7/8/24)What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care? The cost of services and therapies, and their ability to pay. ...
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Texas coastal residents told to expect power outages, flooding when Beryl hits (7/8/24)MATAGORDA, Texas — Beryl began lashing Texas with rain and intensifying winds Sunday as coastal residents boarded up windows, left beach towns under evacuation orders and prepared for the powerful storm that has already cut a deadly path through parts of Mexico and the Caribbean. ...
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Some Democratic leaders in House continue to say Biden should step aside (7/8/24)HARRISBURG, Pa. — President Joe Biden urged his supporters to stay unified during a series of Sunday stops in critical Pennsylvania on Sunday, even as some leading congressional Democrats privately suggested it was time for him to abandon his reelection bid because of intensifying questions about whether he's fit for another term. ...
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Persistent heat wave in US shatters new records, causes deaths in West, grips East (7/8/24)LOS ANGELES — A long-running heat wave that has already shattered previous records across the U.S. persisted on Sunday, baking parts of the West with dangerous temperatures that caused the death of a motorcyclist in Death Valley and held the East in its hot and humid grip. ...
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Pongamia trees grow where citrus once flourished, offering renewable energy, plant-based protein (7/8/24)An ancient tree from India is now thriving in groves where citrus trees once flourished in Florida, and could help provide the nation with renewable energy. As large parts of the Sunshine State's once-famous citrus industry have all but dried up over the past two decades because of two fatal diseases, greening and citrus canker, some farmers are turning to the pongamia tree, a climate-resilient tree with the potential to produce plant-based proteins and a sustainable biofuel. ...
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Can you 'Trump-proof' NATO? As Biden falters, Europeans look to safeguard military alliance (7/8/24)WASHINGTON — Growing skepticism about President Joe Biden's reelection chances has European leaders heading to the NATO summit in Washington confronting the prospect that the military alliance's most prominent critic, Donald Trump, may return to power over its mightiest military. ...