Biden scores endorsements from Kennedy family, looking to shore up support against Trump and RFK Jr

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US will provide $6.1 billion to Micron Technology for chip plants in NY and Idaho, Schumer says

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The Maine Legislature has approved sweeping gun safety legislation nearly six months after the deadliest shooting in state history. Democratic Gov.

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The Justice Department is ramping up its efforts to reduce violent crime in the U.S., launching a specialized gun intelligence center in Chicago and expanding task forces to curb carjackings.

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Climate change concerns grow, but few think Biden's climate law will help, AP-NORC poll finds

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Jury selection in Trump hush money trial faces pivotal stretch as former president returns to court

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Trump trial jury selection process follows a familiar pattern with an unpredictable outcome

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Congress moving swiftly on bipartisan action to punish Iran after revenge attack on Israel

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House leaders react to Senate's dismissal of articles of impeachment against Mayorkas

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Senate dismisses two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security secretary, ends trial

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Biden honors uncle who he says was shot down during WWII in an area known to have 'cannibals'

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Anti-Trump Republican Larry Hogan navigates dangerous political terrain in pivotal Senate contest

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Biden vows to shield US steel industry by blocking Japanese merger and seeking new Chinese tariffs

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Donald Trump brings his campaign to the courthouse as his criminal hush money trial begins

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Only 1 in 3 US adults think Trump acted illegally in New York hush money case, AP-NORC poll shows

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Supreme Court questions obstruction charges brought against Jan. 6 rioters and Trump

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Noncitizen voting isn't an issue in federal elections, regardless of conspiracy theories. Here's why

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Biden is off on details of his uncle's WWII death as he calls Trump unfit to lead the military

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Dubious claims about voting flyers at a migrant camp show how the border is inflaming US politics

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House's Ukraine, Israel aid package gains Biden's support as Speaker Johnson fights to keep his job

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What's inside the $95 billion House package focused on aiding Ukraine and Israel

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Senate rejects impeachment articles against Mayorkas, ending trial against Cabinet secretary

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House panel says China subsidizes fentanyl production to fuel crisis in the United States

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Facing a Republican revolt, House Speaker Johnson's plan for US aid to Ukraine, allies uncertain

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Supreme Court makes it easier to sue for job discrimination over forced transfers

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Nearing 50 Supreme Court arguments in, lawyer Lisa Blatt keeps winning

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Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to the abortion medication mifepristone

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Supreme Court again confronts the issue of abortion, this time over access to widely used medication

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Former President Donald Trump met in New York with Polish President Andrzej Duda. It's the latest in a series of meetings with foreign leaders as Europe braces for the possibility of a second Trump term.

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Louisiana is awaiting a decision from three federal judges that could affect the balance of power in Congress — and the fortunes of two prominent state politicians.

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Louisiana lawmakers are debating bills about where people can carry concealed firearms. A Democratic-authored measure that would have added places including child day care centers and nursing homes to the list of firearm-free zones was rejected by a Republican-controlled committee Wednesday.

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Registered voters in New Mexico for the first time can join a permanent list to receive an absentee ballot by mail in future elections.

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Several members of the Albuquerque police academy's training staff who were dismissed from their duties last summer have filed a whistleblower lawsuit.

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A new North Carolina forecast from the General Assembly and Gov. Roy Cooper's administration expects revenues during this fiscal year and next to be higher than what's projected in the current state budget.

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An Oklahoma man has been arrested after authorities accused him of throwing a pipe bomb at the headquarters of a group in Salem, Massachusetts, called The Satanic Temple.

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Democrats in the Arizona Senate cleared a path to bring a proposed repeal of the state's near-total ban on abortions to a vote after the state's highest court concluded the law can be enforced and the state House blocked efforts to undo the long-dormant statute.

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California regulators adopted a drinking water limit on toxic hexavalent chromium, a chemical compound made infamous by the movie "Erin Brockovich."

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A California lawmaker wants to require limited liability companies and similar businesses to report the identities of their owners to the government.

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An Alabama Senate committee on Wednesday voted down a bill that would have required the public release of police body-worn camera video and dash camera footage. Sen.

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North Carolina's top election administrator says the state's new photo voter identification mandate has been rolled out successfully but knows that challenges await in the fall election.

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Donald Trump's legal team says it tried serving a subpoena on Stormy Daniels as she arrived for a screening of her documentary at a gay bar in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor and hush money trial figure refused to take it and walked away.

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Twenty-three Republican attorneys general are attacking the Biden administration's stated goal of pursuing environmental justice.

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Civil rights advocates say Mississippi needs to simplify the process of restoring voting rights to people convicted of some felonies.

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Republicans in the South Carolina General Assembly have taken the rare move of rejecting the only remaining candidate in a race to be a circuit judge.

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A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court's decision to order New Jersey Democrats scrap a ballot design widely viewed as helping candidates with establishment backing.

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The Alaska Air National Guard flew 159 civilian search-and-rescue missions last year in the nation's largest state, often during vicious storms that prevented air ambulances from taking off.

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Former Florida Gov. and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham is being remembered as a politician who genuinely loved people and encouraged them to get involved in civic affairs.

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A Republican lawmaker says he plans to mount another effort to limit diversity, equity and inclusion practices at Kentucky's public universities.

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Diversity, equity and inclusion staff members' jobs in North Carolina's public university system could be at risk.

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The Maine Legislature is nearing adjournment with unfinished business, including final votes on a series of gun safety bills introduced after the deadliest shooting in state history.

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Progress is being made in getting more women into leadership positions in South Carolina. The election of a sixth woman to the 46-member Senate in January pulled South Carolina up from last place in the U.S. in the percentage of women in its upper chamber.

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New Mexico's Democratic governor is calling a special legislative session focused on public safety initiatives. Gov.

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Authorities say a pilot who died last week when a small plane crashed in northwest Indiana has been identified as a Purdue University student from Minnesota.

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A National Public Radio editor who wrote a critical essay saying that his company had become intolerant of all but liberal views has resigned.

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Alabama lawmakers have advanced legislation to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state's November ballot.

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Let no one say "Suffs" lacks timing. Shaina Taub's buzzy musical about the women's suffrage movement first played off-Broadway in 2022, a run that coincided with news the Supreme Court was planning to overturn Roe vs.

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Jill Biden says allowing federal employee military spouses to work from overseas is a "national security imperative" that's long overdue.

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