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Biden-Trump 2024 debate live updates: Candidates slug it out over economy and immigration — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are facing off in the first debate of the 2024 election cycle. It's the first time they've met since the 2020 campaign. … FACT CHECK
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Biden's Gaffes Hand Trump a Weapon: ‘Finally Beat Medicare’ — OH JOE — The incumbent and the former president faced off for a historic contest in Atlanta—and Biden saw much the worst of the early exchanges. — The first presidential debate of 2024—the first in American history between …
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Age, Issues Working to Trump's Advantage Pre-Debate
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Debate day brings bad news for Biden
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Here's what could actually move the 2024 needle during tonight's debate
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Watch? Cringe? Abstain? All about tonight's high-stakes debate
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Nancy Mace Fears Biden May Load Up on ‘Vitamins’ for Debate
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The Supreme Court just lit a match and tossed it into dozens of federal agencies — On Thursday, the Court handed down a 6-3 decision, on a party-line vote, that could render a simply astonishing array of federal laws unenforceable. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor writes in dissent …
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The Supreme Court strips the SEC of a critical enforcement tool in fraud cases — The Supreme Court on Thursday stripped the Securities and Exchange Commission of a major tool in fighting securities fraud in a decision that also could have far-reaching effects on other regulatory agencies.
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SCOTUS is going into July, destroying executive agency powers along the way — In SEC and EPA decisions, the conservatives are on a “power grab,” as Justice Sotomayor told us in dissent. Also: We got the EMTALA disposition. — “You had one job.” — By 10:30 a.m. Thursday …
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Sotomayor Torches Supreme Court's Short-Sightedness in SEC Ruling
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Supreme Court sidesteps ruling on emergency room abortion-access dispute — The court opted against deciding whether Idaho's abortion ban conflicts with a federal law that sets standards for hospital emergency room care, leaving legal question unresolved. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court …
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Still Won't Say The Word ‘Woman’
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The Supreme Court allows emergency abortions in Idaho for now in a limited ruling
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The Supreme Court's New Leaked Abortion Draft Reeks of Cynicism
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In a scathing dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says Idaho abortion ruling is ‘not a victory for pregnant patients’
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Jack Smith brings receipts of vile threats against judges and prosecutors in Trump cases, tells Cannon former president fundraised off of lies about FBI — In a Wednesday notice filled with examples of vile threats against judges and prosecutors from supporters of Donald Trump …
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Judge Aileen Cannon pushes back on idea that more hearings will delay Trump classified documents case — Judge Aileen Cannon wants to hold additional hearings on Donald Trump's attempts to challenge key evidence in his classified documents case and will allow the former president's lawyers …
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Oklahoma's State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Bible — The state superintendent, Ryan Walters, said the Bible was a “necessary historical document” that must be taught in certain grades. — Oklahoma's state superintendent on Thursday directed all public schools to teach the Bible …
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Trump allies' 920 page plan to give Trump more power over your daily life, gut democratic checks and balances, and consolidate power in the Oval office. — Project 2025 is the plan by Donald Trump's MAGA Republican allies to give Trump more power over your daily life, gut democratic checks and balances …
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Scoop: Biden seizes debate limelight for “Project 2025” push
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Supreme Court blocks EPA's interstate air pollution regulation — The Environmental Protection Agency's “good neighbor” rule is aimed at reducing air pollution that crosses state lines and contributes to smog. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a Biden administration …
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Supreme Court blocks enforcement of EPA's ‘good neighbor’ rule on downwind pollution
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Exclusive: Michelle Obama's private frustration with the Bidens … - Michelle Obama also was initially reluctant to campaign for Biden after he became the Democratic nominee in 2020, people familiar with the situation told Axios. — Biden's team says the relationship between the families is strong …


Right-wing group gets Anne Frank's Diary and other Holocaust books taken from Texas school — Pastor Luis Cabrera and his conservative group threatened to shut down school board meetings if a superintendent of a school district in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas did not heed their demands …

Man on trial for threatening to kill presidential candidates found dead as jury was deciding verdict — CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man on trial for threatening the lives of presidential candidates last year has been found dead while a jury was deciding his verdict, according to court filings.
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Prosecutors Accuse Illegal Alien, Freed into U.S. by Biden's DHS, of Murdering Girl on Her 21st Birthday — An illegal alien, released into the United States by President Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has been accused of murdering a young woman on her twenty-first birthday …
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Inside the Right-Wing Campaign to End Protections for Endangered Species — Leonard Leo's dark money hubs have funneled over $2 million to climate denial groups working to gut the Endangered Species Act — Leonard Leo, best known as the architect of the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority …


Biden makes stunning omission while claiming no troops died ‘anywhere in the world’ on his watch — 13 US service members were killed by an ISIS-K suicide bomber during the Biden administration's botched Afghanistan withdrawal — President Biden claimed during the CNN Presidential Debate …
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Trump tips hand on climate talking points ahead of debate — Former President Donald Trump posted a preview of proposed talking points on climate change and energy ahead of Thursday's debate, an unusual move before one of the most widely watched events before the November election.
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‘Insult to Democracy’: Sanders Says Citizens United the Real Story of Bowman Defeat — “Campaigns should be about a clash of ideas, not which candidate can raise more money from the oligarchs,” Sanders said after the defeat of Bowman, a progressive who was the target of huge dark-money spending.
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