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Koch network stops spending on Nikki Haley's presidential campaign — Americans for Prosperity Action said it had to “take stock” after Haley's loss in South Carolina. — Americans For Prosperity Action, the powerful conservative group supporting Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary …
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Status Report: Warning Signs for Trump — A quick check-in on the state of affairs on the other side of the campaign aisle. For some time now, it's been down to two people, Trump and Haley, and yesterday the GOP primary contest was in Haley's home state of South Carolina. — Newsflash: Trump won.
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Months After Backing Haley, Koch Network Suspends Support for Her Campaign — The group's chief executive wrote in an email to staff on Sunday that it would now focus on House and Senate races. — The political network created by the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers announced …
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Haley isn't dropping out. But the end may be near. — Haley committed over the weekend only to keep running through Super Tuesday. — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley interacts with guests after speaking at a campaign event in Georgetown, South Carolina, on Feb. 22, 2024.
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Lawmakers fail to reach deal with partial shutdown looming — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday blasted Republicans over for threat of what he called “a harmful and unnecessary government shutdown” as Congress struggles to strike a bipartisan deal days out from a key funding deadline.
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Lawmakers fail to reach deal with partial shutdown looming — Congressional leaders are trading blame as both sides struggle to strike a bipartisan deal to stave off the threat of a partial government shutdown. — Lawmakers have until Mar. 1 to pass legislation to fund the departments of Agriculture …
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Biden is summoning congressional leaders to the White House to talk Ukraine and government funding — President Joe Biden will convene the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday to press lawmakers on passing an emergency aid package for Ukraine and Israel …
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Democratic operative admits to commissioning fake Biden robocall that used AI — Steve Kramer acknowledged Sunday that he created the fake Joe Biden robocall at the center of a multistate investigation after NBC News reported about his involvement. — Steve Kramer, a veteran political consultant working …
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What Is Christian Nationalism, Exactly? — If you're alarmed by the rise of Christian nationalism, the single worst thing you can do is define it too broadly. If you define it too broadly, then you're telling millions of ordinary churchgoing citizens that the importation of their religious values …
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Stupid Power — Deluding ourselves about America's delusions. — In all my years as someone spouting opinions about public affairs, I have never been more wrong than when I predicted that something could not happen because it was just too stupid. My first distinct memory of this phenomenon came …
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Republicans Struggle to Respond as Democrats Emphasize the Alabama I.V.F. Ruling — A decision in Alabama's Supreme Court, which pointed to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, has rocked presidential and congressional campaigns. — More than a week after the Alabama Supreme Court declared …
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Former CIA Director explains how Russia is using ‘Republican lawmakers as tools’ — Former CIA Director John Brennan joins The Weekend to discuss the FBI informant charged with lying to investigators about President Biden and Hunter Biden.
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What would happen without a Leap Day? More than you might think — Leap year. It's a delight for the calendar and math nerds among us. So how did it all begin and why? — Have a look at some of the numbers, history and lore behind the (not quite) every four year phenom that adds a 29th day to February.
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Hobbycraft refused to sell paint to black man as ‘he may use it for graffiti’ — Louis Gray says he was racially profiled after trying to buy spray paint to make over his son's bicycle helmet — A black man shopping for paint with his four-year-old son says he was racially profiled …
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Climate change is throwing the water cycle into chaos across the U.S. — As the planet continues to warm, this cycle is expected to be increasingly stretched, warped and broken. — The water cycle that shuttles Earth's most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving loop is in trouble.
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Fiona Hill: Trump comparison to Navalny ‘brazen’ and ‘shameful’ — Former National Security Council adviser Fiona Hill went after former President Trump on Sunday after he compared himself to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as a political dissident.
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Trump's request to suspend E. Jean Carroll's $83M verdict swiftly denied by judge
Trump's request to suspend E. Jean Carroll's $83M verdict swiftly denied by judge
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31,000 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed in Two Years of War, Zelensky Says — The tally that President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed on Sunday differs sharply from that given by U.S. officials, who have said the number is closer to 70,000. — Some 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since …
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Ukraine war: Zelensky says 31,000 troops killed since Russia's full-scale invasion
Ukraine war: Zelensky says 31,000 troops killed since Russia's full-scale invasion
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