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AP News - Politics

Noncitizen voting, already illegal in federal elections, becomes a centerpiece of 2024 GOP messaging

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Donald Trump will address the NRA in Texas. He's called himself the best president for gun owners

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Thousands are expected to rally on Washington's National Mall in support of Palestinian rights

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Here's how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could make the first debate stage under stringent Biden-Trump rules

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US intelligence suggests American who vanished in Syria in 2017 has died, daughter says she was told

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WATCH: Moment Marjorie Taylor Greene, AOC, Jasmine Crockett clash at House committee hearing

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Man convicted of attacking ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer sentenced to 30 years

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Donald Trump's GOP allies show up in force in hush money trial

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After blaming his 2020 loss on mail balloting, Trump tries to make GOP voters believe it's OK now

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Taking presidential debates out of commission's hands virtually guarantees fewer viewers

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House Republicans ditch their day jobs to stand with Trump, while legislating languishes

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Harris accepts debate invite to face off with Trump's VP pick, which may come at convention

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What we know, and don't know, about the presidential debates

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Biden and Trump, trading barbs, agree to 2 presidential debates, in June and September

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Trump accepts a VP debate but wants it on Fox News. Harris has already said yes to CBS

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Biden says landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation was about more than education

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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

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New immigration court docket aims to speed up removals of newly arrived migrants

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AP Decision Notes: What to expect in the California 20th District special election

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House votes to require delivery of bombs to Israel in GOP-led rebuke of Biden policies

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House signs off on FAA bill that addresses aircraft safety and the refund rights of passengers

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Republican group takes rare step of targeting GOP incumbent who voted to oust McCarthy

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Supreme Court sides with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, spurning a conservative attack

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Supreme Court orders Louisiana to use congressional map with additional Black district in 2024 vote

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Divided Supreme Court rules no quick hearing required when police seize property

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Supreme Court seems skeptical of Trump's claim of absolute immunity but decision's timing is unclear

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Donald Trump's support from white evangelicals and other conservative Christians is as strong as ever.

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When an upside-down U.S. flag flew over the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021, it was largely seen in connection with the false claim by then-President Donald Trump's supporters that the 2020 election had been marred by fraud.

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Dave Williams has deployed former President Donald Trump's belligerent politics to vault himself from a former state representative to chairman of the Colorado Republican Party.

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Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has taken final action on a last batch of bills from the year's regular legislative session.

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A Missouri judge has ruled that a longshot gubernatorial candidate with ties to the Ku Klux Klan can stay on the Republican ticket.

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California's largest teachers union is turning up the pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom. The California Teachers Association on Friday said it will work to block one of Newsom's proposals for balancing the budget.

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The State Department has renewed a global security warning for Americans overseas and added to it that LGBTQ people and events in particular face an "increased potential for foreign terrorist organization-inspired violence."

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Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

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Montana's attorney general told supporters he skirted the state's campaign finance laws by inviting another Republican to run against him as a token candidate in next month's primary so he could raise more money for the general election.

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Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's pardon of a former Army sergeant convicted of murder in the shooting death of a Black Lives Matter protestor was a case of the Republican pushing a limited executive power to its absolute limit to get a desired outcome in a politically charged case.

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Mothers of two children with disabilities are suing an Indiana agency in federal court over changes to Medicaid attendant care services they say violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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State economists in Michigan provided their final fiscal forecast of the year as lawmakers work to finalize a budget ahead of a self-imposed July 1 deadline.

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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is calling state lawmakers back to the Capitol to consider an $80 million allocation to the state's colleges, among other proposals.

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A media personality who co-founded a conservative political action committee has been appointed to a seat on the Georgia State Election Board.

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A witness at Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial says the cost of certifying that meat sent to Egypt follows Islamic dietary requirements skyrocketed after a single U.S. company was given a monopoly in a cozy deal prosecutors say Menendez arranged.

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A Pennsylvania man whose father is a prominent conservative activist has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol.

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Since its creation roughly 14 years ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has faced lawsuits, political and legal challenges to the idea of whether the Federal Government's aggressive consumer financial watchdog agency should be allowed exist at all.

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Missouri Republican lawmakers have failed to pass a proposal to make it harder to amend the state constitution.

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Democratic groups are asking Michigan officials to investigate the nominating petitions of the GOP candidates in the U.S. Senate race.

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell working from home after testing positive for COVID-19

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Baltimore's former top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby has applied for a presidential pardon ahead of sentencing on her recent perjury and mortgage fraud convictions.

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A bipartisan bill drafted in the response to the fatal shooting of a New Hampshire Hospital security guard has hit a roadblock in the state Senate.

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The final surviving member of a trio of African American youths who were the first to desegregate the undergraduate student body at North Carolina's flagship public university has died.

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Attorney John Eastman has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges for his role in the effort to overturn Donald Trump's loss in Arizona to Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

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A state judge has ruled that South Carolina can continue to enforce a ban on nearly all abortions around six weeks after conception as an appeal continues on what exactly defines a heartbeat under the law.

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Oregon has multiple hotly contested primaries upcoming, as well as some that will set the stage for high-profile races in November.

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Voters are heading back to the polls in Georgia, two months after helping Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump secure their parties' nominations for president.

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All of Donald Trump's top opponents for the Republican presidential nomination dropped out of the race weeks ago but will be back together on Kentucky's primary ballot.

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Idaho voters are heading to the polls to decide primaries for the U.S. House and the state legislature.

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A federal lawsuit argues the way representatives are elected to a local school board in Pennsylvania's coal region is unfairly shutting Latino voters out of power.

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The National Rifle Association is kicking off its annual meeting in downtown Dallas, gathering for the first time in decades without Wayne LaPierre at the helm as board members prepare to elect his replacement.

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Amy Kremer is a conservative activist who helped organize the Jan. 6, 2021 rally that led to a mob storming the U.S. Capitol.

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