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USA Today:
A fraying coalition: Black, Hispanic, young voters abandon Biden as election year begins — In a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, Biden's failure to consolidate his victorious 2020 support has left him narrowly trailing Trump. — President Joe Biden heads into the election year …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Looking Ahead to 5 Things That Will Shape the 2024 Election — Trials, a Kennedy and the economy are among the variables to consider. — It's divisible by four. It's a leap year. It's a Summer Olympics year. — It's a presidential election year. — Happy New Year?
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Carmen Paun / Politico:
Mental hospitals warehoused the sick. Congress wants to let them try again. — Lawmakers are on the verge of allowing Medicaid to cover substance use treatment in the facilities. — The linked crises of drug addiction and homelessness have Washington on the verge of embracing …
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Associated Press:
Israel is pulling thousands of troops from Gaza as combat focuses on enclave's main southern city — Thousands of Israeli soldiers are being shifted out of the Gaza Strip, the military said Monday, in the first significant drawdown of troops since the war began as forces continued to bear …
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Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Netanyahu says ‘many more months’ of war ahead
Netanyahu says ‘many more months’ of war ahead
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Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Judge allows Mississippi to create state-run court in Black-majority capital city — Despite objections from the NAACP, a federal judge is allowing Mississippi to create a state-run court in Jackson — the state capital where the majority of residents are Black.
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Allison Novelo / CBS News:
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has thrown out the GOP-drawn district maps. That could be a huge change for the purple state — Republican Sen. Ron Johnson won reelection in 2022 in Wisconsin by just over 25,000 votes — the latest slim-majority victory in the state, which gave …
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Raw Story
Ari Rabinovitch / Reuters:
Israel's Supreme Court strikes down disputed law that limited court oversight — Israel's Supreme Court on Monday struck down a highly disputed law passed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government that rolled back some of the high court's power and sparked nationwide protests.
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Peter Stone / The Guardian:
‘A formulaic game’: former officials say Trump's attacks threaten rule of law — Ex-president has made increasingly conspiratorial and authoritarian broadsides against prosecutors pursuing him — As Donald Trump faces 91 felony counts with four trials slated for 2024 …
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Adeel Hassan / New York Times:
New State Laws Will Affect Americans Starting Jan. 1, 2024 — Many state laws take effect on the first day of 2024, including new rules on gun safety, a ban on diversity programs and a curb on telemarketing calls. — A spate of new state laws, including on guns, minimum wage and gender transition care …
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Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:
The global elections Washington should be watching in 2024 — Countries representing half the world population will head to the polls in what's been dubbed the biggest election year in history. — 2024 is set to put democracy through its most sweeping test yet.
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Washington Post
ABC News:
Court documents naming Jeffrey Epstein's associates to be unsealed: What to know — Former President Clinton, Prince Andrew and others are expected to be named. — In this May 18, 2005 file photo, Jeffrey Epstein attends the launch of Radar Magazine at Hotel QT in New York.
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Town of Secaucus:
Several Busses of Migrants Arrive at Secaucus Junction Train Station — Statement of Mayor Michael Gonnelli — Yesterday morning the Secaucus Police Department and town officials received word from the Hudson County Executives' Office that several busses transporting migrants in route …
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Chico Harlan / Washington Post:
The climate future arrived in 2023. It left scars across the planet. — The year will mark a point when humanity crossed into a new climate era — an age of “global boiling,” as the U.N. Secretary General called it. — AVAS, Greece — By the time the flames were barreling down the slope …
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John Katsilometes / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Comic legend Shecky Greene dies at 97 — Shecky Greene, an entertainment legend whose very name became synonymous with stand-up comedy, has died. He was 97. — Greene died at 3:21 a.m. Sunday at his home in Las Vegas of natural causes, confirmed by his wife of 41 years Marie Musso Green.