GOP tries to 'correct the narrative' on use of mailed ballots after years of conflicting messages

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Trump will campaign in Minnesota after attending his son Barron's graduation

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Latinos found jobs and cheap housing in a Pennsylvania city but political power has proven elusive

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Amy Kremer helped organize the pro-Trump Jan. 6 rally. Now she is seeking a Georgia seat on the RNC

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Taiwan is selling more to the US than China in major shift away from Beijing

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White House blocks audio of Biden's special counsel interview, AP Explains

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Statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham unveiled at US Capitol

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Defense attorneys try to undercut Michael Cohen on the witness stand Thursday

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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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From Hogan to a Trumpier Senate: Takeways from Tuesday's primaries

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Senate primaries set up a marquee race in Maryland and a likely Republican flip in West Virginia

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

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Biden marks Brown v. Board of Education anniversary amid signs of erosion in Black voter support

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US proposes ending new federal leases in nation's biggest coal region

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Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in historic shift

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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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America's debt tops $34 trillion, but a commission to address it appears dead in Congress

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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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A U.S.-built pier is in place to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, but no one will know if the new route will work until a steady stream of deliveries begins reaching starving Palestinians.

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Pentagon officials are cautiously optimistic that an overall decline in reported sexual assaults among active-duty service members and the military academies suggests that leaders are finally getting a handle on what has been a persistent problem.

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Two House committees have moved ahead with contempt charges against Attorney General Merrick Garland for refusing to turn over audio from President Joe Biden's interview with a special counsel.

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An upside-down American flag was displayed outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021, The New York Times reports.

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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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After 73 years and a long fight with the Army, a Korean War veteran from Minnesota who was wounded in combat is set to finally get his Purple Heart. The U.S.

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A funeral will be held for a Black U.S. Air Force senior airman who was shot and killed in his Florida home by a sheriff's deputy.

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The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer is set to be sentenced in federal court.

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California lawmakers on Thursday voted to keep hundreds of bills from advancing for a floor vote during a tough budget year.

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Prosecutors and defense attorneys have discussed in court whether classified documents might play a role in the trial of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas.

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A measure to repeal a now-defunct Nebraska law that would use public money to fund private school tuition has been pulled from the November ballot.

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Prosecutors say an Oregon man who met two 15-year-old girls on Snapchat, sexually abused them while traveling through three states and finally abandoned them at a park has been sentenced to over a decade in prison.

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Google is asking that a federal judge, rather than a jury, decide whether it violated U.S. antitrust laws by building a monopoly on the technology that powers online advertising.

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A federal judge is rejecting a lawsuit by a former Democratic congressman running for Georgia state Supreme Court who claims a state agency is unconstitutionally trying to block him from talking about abortion.

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The Environmental Protection Agency watchdog says the agency distributed about $3 billion to states last year to replace harmful lead pipes based on unverified data.

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A conservative activist who embraced unproven election fraud claims has lost an appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court in his bid to oust a top county election official and others.

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The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld four voting restrictions passed by Republican lawmakers in 2021 that were struck down by a state judge as unconstitutional.

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Alaska lawmakers ended their four-month session with a flurry of last-minute bills addressing priority issues such as energy and correspondence school programs that are a focus of ongoing litigation.

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Archaeologists in Virginia have uncovered what is believed to be the remains of a military barracks from the Revolutionary War.

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A major North Carolina political donor and his associate have been convicted a second time of attempting to bribe the state's insurance commissioner to secure preferential regulatory treatment for his insurance business.

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A candidate for West Virginia secretary of state is hospitalized for copperhead snake bites sustained while he was removing election campaign signs.

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A disability rights advocate made a complaint to New York State Police saying was shoved twice by state Senator Kevin Parker.

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A Texas judge has ruled in favor of a Republican candidate challenging the results in a 2022 judicial race in the nation's third-most populous county.

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The chancellor of the California State University system has suspended the president of its Sonoma campus for announcing an agreement with pro-Palestinian activists to pursue an academic boycott of Israeli institutions and divestment strategies.

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The U.S. Coast Guard estimates that up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas.

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A statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where it will stand on behalf of his native North Carolina.

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Florida congressman Matt Gaetz has evoked language adopted by the far-right Proud Boys extremist group as he supports Donald Trump at his New York hush money trial.

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A lawyer for the family of Roger Fortson says the bodycam footage of the Florida sheriff's deputy who killed the Black U.S.

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Sen. Bob Menendez says his wife has breast cancer and will require a mastectomy, a revelation made just as the presentation of evidence began at his New York bribery trial.

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Wisconsin election officials have voted to provide more details to voters than normal to avoid confusion about a ballot that will have both a special and regular election for a vacant congressional seat.

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg is sitting for a second day of grilling on Capitol Hill, this time at the Senate Banking Committee, after a damning report about the agency's toxic workplace culture was released last week.

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has signed a bill into law to create a new statewide center to help prevent gun violence.

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National political themes will lead off the campaign for Pennsylvania's next attorney general

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A former top official in Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont's budget office has pleaded not guilty to extortion, bribery, conspiracy and false statement charges.

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