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DeSantis booed at vigil for victims of racist shooting in Florida  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a GOP presidential candidate, was met with boos while speaking late Sunday at a vigil held for the three victims of a racially motivated shooting in Jacksonville.

Trump's indictments: Polling shows half of Americans want him to suspend his campaign, and more takeaways  —  Despite what he claims, he isn't getting a continued bounce in support.  —  The most recent ABC News/Ipsos poll, conducted Aug. 15-17, showed some problems for former President Donald Trump …

August 2023 National Poll: Trump Debate Snub May Open Door for Other Candidates  —  Home Polls August 2023 National Poll: Trump Debate Snub May Open Door for Other Candidates  —  Hunter Biden Legal Issues Offsetting Trump Indictments for Independents  —  A new Emerson College Polling survey …

If the U.S. economy is doing well, why do so many Americans say it's terrible?  —  The leading economic indicators show the U.S. economy is performing well, but most Americans still believe economic conditions are extremely poor — as if the country was mired in a deep recession.  What explains this discrepancy?

The World Is Contemplating a Second Trump Administration  —  Possibility that former president will win next year's election has capitals across globe on edge  —  The U.S. presidential election is more than a year away, but allies and adversaries around the world have already begun to contemplate …

House Republicans' road to power runs through New York.  Stefanik is driving  —  Elise Stefanik insists she has a plan that will allow the party to hold off a Democratic offensive.  —  POTSDAM, N.Y. — Elise Stefanik is betting big on 2024.  —  The No. 3 House Republican says she convinced …

We must keep marching toward Dr. King's dream  —  Joe Biden is president of the United States.  —  Sixty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and hundreds of thousands of fellow Americans marched on Washington for jobs and freedom.  In describing his dream for us all …

Republicans seize on gasoline prices, but the U.S. is pumping oil faster than ever  —  GOP presidential candidates are blaming pump prices on President Joe Biden's clean energy policies, even though the U.S. is churning out record amounts of oil.  —  The late-summer surge in gasoline prices …

French education minister announces ban on Islamic dress in schools  —  PARIS — French Education Minister Gabriel Attal announced on Sunday that France will ban the Islamic garment known as the abaya in schools.  —  “The school of the Republic was built around strong values, secularism is one of them. ...

Biden is widely seen as too old for office, an AP-NORC poll finds.  Trump's got other problems  —  Americans actually agree on something in this time of raw discord: Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president in a second term.  Only a few years his junior, Donald Trump raises strikingly less concern about his age.