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AP News - Politics

Trump promised big plans to flip Black and Latino voters. Many Republicans are waiting to see them

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As border debate shifts right, Sen. Alex Padilla emerges as persistent counterforce for immigrants

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Trump's lawyers try to discredit testimony of prosecution's first witness in hush money trial

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Planning for potential presidential transition underway as Biden administration kicks it off

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140,000 people did their taxes with the free IRS direct file pilot. But program's future is unclear

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Trump challenges Biden to debate 'any time he wants' as he leaves the NY courthouse for the week

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US to provide $6 billion in additional funding for Ukraine. Find out what's being sent over.

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US Secretary of State Blinken on China's support for Russia, tension in MidEast and TikTok

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These people were charged with interfering in the 2020 election. Some are still in politics today

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AP Decision Notes: What to expect in New York's special congressional election

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Utah Republicans to select nominee for Mitt Romney's open US Senate seat

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Charges against Trump's 2020 'fake electors' are expected to deter a repeat this year

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Early voting begins for North Carolina primary runoff races

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Debates to play a major role in Pennsylvania's 2024 US Senate election

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Biden officials indefinitely postpone ban on menthol cigarettes amid election-year pushback

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President Joe Biden says he's 'happy to debate' Donald Trump. Trump says he's ready to go

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Trump downplays deadly Charlottesville rally by comparing it to campus protests over Gaza war

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First with Trump, now with Kamala Harris: Kim Kardashian is advocating for criminal justice reform

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They say don't leave valuables in parked cars in San Francisco. Rep. Adam Schiff didn't listen

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To pass Ukraine aid, 'Reagan Republican' leaders in Congress navigated a party transformed by Trump

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A look at what's in the $95 billion foreign aid package passed by Congress

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Senate passes bill forcing TikTok's parent company to sell or face ban, sends to Biden for signature

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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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Key moments in the Supreme Court's latest abortion case that could change how women get care

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What to know in the Supreme Court case about immunity for former President Trump

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Supreme Court will decide whether Trump is immune from federal prosecution. Here's what's next

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. has determined that an Israeli military unit committed grave human-rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank before the war in Gaza.

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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem — a potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — is getting attention again.

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The results of some primary elections in Indiana could determine the outcome of the general election in a deep red state where Republicans hold a supermajority in both chambers of the state legislature and GOP politicians lead many top offices.

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Moderate Utah Republicans will look to stave off farther-right challengers at a state GOP convention that tends to favor the most conservative contenders.

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A retired professional wrestler who failed in bids for Congress from Nevada and Texas has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of an Idaho man during a Halloween Party last year at a Las Vegas Strip hotel.

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Mississippi is on track to change the way it pays for public schools with a new plan that would give districts a boost in funding for students who can be more expensive to educate.

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The Federal Election Commission has fined the campaign fund of former Illinois Congressman Rodney Davis and its treasurer $43,475 for failing to refund excess contributions in a timely manner.

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Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

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Former Rep. Peter Meijer ends his longshot bid for the GOP nomination in Michigan's Senate race

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A judge has ordered a Marine Corps veteran and former militia member to remain jailed pending trial on charges he attempted to make ricin, a biological toxin ricin.

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Former Florida Gov. and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham has been remembered by Republicans and Democrats alike as a man whose love for the state and people transcended politics.

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Mississippi Senate leaders are saying for the first time that they are willing to expand Medicaid to the full level allowed under a federal law signed 14 years ago by then-President Barack Obama.

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Authorities have revealed the conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges that were filed against an ex-aide of former President Donald Trump and four attorneys in Arizona's fake elector case.

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A bill to ban the use of confidentiality agreements when negotiating potential laws in California has failed to pass.

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A judge upheld the disqualification of a candidate who had had planned to run against the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump's 2020 Georgia election interference case.

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A federal appeals court has ruled that New York can move ahead with a law requiring internet service providers to offer heavily discounted rates to low-income residents.

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A proposed ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors also would bar state employees from promoting it or even children's social transitioning.

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Help is finally on the way for the most critically eroded part of the Jersey Shore. North Wildwood and the state have been fighting in court for years over measures the town has taken on its own to try to hold off the encroaching seas while waiting — in vain — for the same sort of replenishment proj

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A federal appeals court says singer R. Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex convictions in Chicago.

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Democratic Gov. Janet Mills on Friday signed off on a suite of gun safety legislation approved by lawmakers after the deadliest mass shooting in state history, expanding background checks for private sales of weapons, bolstering the state's "yellow flag" law, criminalizing the transfer of guns to pr

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The CEOs of leading U.S. technology companies are joining a new artificial intelligence safety board to advise the federal government on how to protect the nation's critical services from "AI-related disruptions."

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A measure of inflation closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained uncomfortably high in March, likely reinforcing the Fed's reluctance to cut interest rates anytime soon and underscoring a burden for President Joe Biden's re-election bid.

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Online fast-fashion retailer Shein must face the European Union's strictest level of digital regulations.

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Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable. Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur investors who have collectively made tens of millions over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business – Truth Social – will keep dropping despite wild swings tha

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With Donald Trump facing dozens of federal criminal charges and hundreds of millions in legal expenses, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. went public on the Nasdaq exchange March 26.

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Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced a bill making it a crime for medical examiners to retain a deceased person's organs without family permission.

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Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation that could see librarians prosecuted for providing "harmful" materials or programs to minors.

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Tennessee's GOP-controlled General Assembly has adjourned for the year, concluding months of tense political infighting that ultimately doomed Republican Gov.

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Seventeen states are challenging new federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions.

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A North Dakota ballot initiative group can gather signatures to put a proposal legalizing recreational marijuana to a statewide vote in the fall.

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It's now illegal to sell weight-loss and muscle-building supplements to minors in New York. The first-in-the-nation law went into effect this week.

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Tennessee's GOP-controlled Statehouse has given their final approval on legislation penalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care without parental consent.

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