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Idaho’s top court allows strict abortion ban to kick inAn abortion ban with few exceptions is scheduled to take effect on Aug. 25. The court is separately reviewing the merits of the law.Read complete article
What’s going on with all the missing Jan. 6 textsThough there are still questions about how the day unfolded, evidence is missing: texts from the Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security and Defense Department.
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Fetterman returns to the campaign trail three months after strokeHanging over his first public in-person campaign event was a single question: How would the lingering effects of the stroke hinder his ability to wage a winning campaign?
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What’s going on with all the missing Jan. 6 textsThough there are still questions about how the day unfolded, evidence is missing: texts from the Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security and Defense Department.
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What could the Mar-a-Lago search mean for Trump legally?The FBI searched Trump's residence for evidence of violation of the Espionage Act. What is that?
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The story behind Trump’s and Fox News’s specious ‘What about Obama’ parallelFox News and the Trump team are pointing to former president Barack Obama's library possessing 30 million documents. But the two situations have basically no resemblance for a host of reasons.
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Post Politics Now: House passes Inflation Reduction Act in major win for BidenThe House is taking up a sweeping Senate-passed package that aims to lower health-care costs, combat climate change, raise taxes on some large companies and reduce the deficit.
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What could the Mar-a-Lago search mean for Trump legally?The FBI searched Trump's residence for evidence of violation of the Espionage Act. What is that?
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Agents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago seized 11 sets of classified documents, court filing shows The newly-unsealed search warrant for Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club lists potential crimes including mishandling defense information and destruction of records.
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What if Trump hadn’t spent the week directing fury at the FBI? Trump has known the details of the FBI search all week — but exaggerated and misrepresented it because it was useful. No matter what damage it did to others.
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National Archives counters Trump’s baseless claims about Obama recordsSince the FBI search of his Florida home and club this week for classified documents, Trump has incorrectly asserted in social media posts that Obama “kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified."
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Federal law enforcement leaders warn about danger as GOP assails FBILaw enforcement leaders are raising alarms about threats to federal agents as prominent Republicans attack the FBI for its search of Donald Trump’s residence and as authorities investigate an attempted breach at a field office in Ohio.
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Why tackling drought is a significant part of Democrats’ economic packageThe Inflation Reduction Act includes $4 billion meant to address drought — a central concern as the planet warms.
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Wisconsin GOP fires election investigator who pushed false fraud claims Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) dismissed attorney Michael Gableman a week after Gableman joined Donald Trump in endorsing the speaker’s primary opponent.
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House GOP stands by Trump despite revelation FBI searched for nuclear documentsSince the search at the former president's property, Republicans have directed their vitriol at the FBI and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
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FBI searched Trump’s home to look for nuclear documents and other items, sources sayExperts in classified information said the unusual search underscores deep concern among government officials about the types of information they thought could be located at Mar-a-Lago.
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The story behind Trump’s and Fox News’s specious ‘What about Obama’ parallelFox News and the Trump team are pointing to former president Barack Obama's library possessing 30 million documents. But the two situations have basically no resemblance for a host of reasons.
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2 illuminating exchanges from the House GOP on the FBI’s Trump searchMany Republicans went out on a limb for Trump. The strength of that branch is about to be tested — as a pair of exchanges reinforces.
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How agents get warrants like the one used at Mar-a-Lago, and what they meanWhat you need to know about the court-authorized search of former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
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FBI attacker was prolific contributor to Trump’s Truth Social websiteAn account with the gunman’s name was one of the pro-Trump social network’s most prolific users, writing hundreds of posts calling to “kill [the FBI] on sight.”
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Investigate Hunter Biden? Most Democrats say yes. Investigate Trump? Most Republicans say no.A majority of Democrats say it's at least somewhat important to probe the president's son's business activity. Republicans are less enthusiastic about looking into Trump.
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Event venues (like Trump’s Mar-a-Lago) are not good places to store nuclear secretsNew details of the search of Mar-a-Lago reinforce the unique risk posed by Trump's apparent retention of classified material.
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Under fire, Homeland Security watchdog delays probe — with GOP helpJoseph V. Cuffari and his staff have refused to release documents and hindered interviews in an effort to block and delay a probe into his actions, sources say.
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