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During the first impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump in 2019, former Trump national security aide Fiona Hill made an extraordinary plea. Seated in front of congressional Republicans, she implored…

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Dislike of the 2024 candidates is setting up a 2016-like election

April 6, 2024

Once upon a time, Americans generally liked the candidates who were running for president. It seems hard to believe in these jaded times, but, before 2016, at least one candidate…

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Far-right politics could hurt business in North Carolina, some fear. Again.

April 6, 2024

DURHAM, N.C. — Taco Tuesday was oddly slow, but Elizabeth Turnbull wasn’t worried. If roasted pork on homemade tortillas failed to lure diners on this pollen-dusted spring evening, the 42-year-old…

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Wisconsin Senate candidate shifts abortion position amid GOP struggles on issue

April 6, 2024

Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde, who is looking to unseat Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), told reporters Thursday that women should have a “right to make a choice” early in pregnancy…

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The Trumps’ cynical request that supporters donate ‘if they can afford to’

April 6, 2024

In the snippet of video that roamed around social media this week, Lara Trump — daughter-in-law of the former president and co-chair of the Republican National Committee, in that order…

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Trump embraces woman convicted of Jan. 6 crimes, helps raise money for legal costs

April 6, 2024

Former president Donald Trump said Friday that a Colorado woman convicted of four federal misdemeanor charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is a “patriot”…

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RFK Jr. clarifies that his view of Jan. 6 is the conspiratorial one

April 6, 2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s approach to national politics is uncomplicated. Whatever the conventional wisdom — however sound it might be and no matter the scale of the evidence supporting it…

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Gaza increasingly threatens Democrats’ Trump-era unity

April 6, 2024

Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest developments in the 2024 election — including increasingly fraught foreign policy choices. (Did a friend forward this to you? If…

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Despite Trump push, Nebraska unlikely to change electoral vote system for now

April 6, 2024

A late push to change Nebraska’s unusual electoral vote system appears doomed for now — despite the urging of former president Donald Trump and his allies, who saw an opportunity…

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Biden warns Netanyahu the situation in Gaza is ‘unacceptable’

April 5, 2024

President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that the United States would reassess its policy toward the war in Gaza if the Jewish state does not take…

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