Author: Amy B Wang

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Follow live updates as the trial in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s $250 million lawsuit against Donald Trump and his company is scheduled to begin Monday.

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Congress is racing against the clock to avoid a federal government shutdown ahead of an Oct. 1 deadline.

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Republican presidential candidates sparred Wednesday over whether to continue supporting Ukraine’s efforts to defend itself again an ongoing Russian invasion.

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At the second GOP presidential primary debate Wednesday, candidates blamed President Biden’s policies for the possibility of a shutdown — but also used the question to call out former president Donald Trump for skipping the event.

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Thomas’s presence was intended to be a fundraising draw for the conservative political network, according to a ProPublica report published Friday. Thomas did not disclose the 2018 trip.

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“I think we need to have standards when it comes to what we’re wearing on the floor of the Senate,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in a radio interview.

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The growing public opposition to the continuing resolution proposed by GOP lawmakers threw cold water on what had been seen as a small victory after a chaotic week for House Republicans.

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The Russian president, who has a history of persecuting his political opponents, claimed Tuesday that the criminal cases against Trump were part of “the persecution of a political rival for political reasons.”

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Some hard-right Republicans have been pushing to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden.