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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said the extension of the debt ceiling will “go down as one of the dumbest political decisions made in years,” referring to a 2023 budget deal struck by then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden. Under that deal, Congress suspended the debt ceiling until Jan. 1, 2025. […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died. He was 100 years old. The Carter Center said the 39th president died
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Donald Trump has promised to deport millions of immigrants on “Day One,” boasting that it will be the “largest deportation operation in American history” — though there are questions about both the legality of his plan and its potentially steep price tag. As history shows us, mass deportations are nothing new in this country. In
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Kari Lake will not seek office again, following two failed campaigns in the state of Arizona. Lake, who ran for governor in 2022 and a U.S. Senate seat in 2024, addressed her decision in a Saturday evening post on X, where she blamed a “corrupt machine” for keeping her from being elected. “We know the
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Here’s a look back at the year that was… January An opening is seen in the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 MAX on January 7, 2024 in Portland, Oregon. A door-sized section near the rear of the plane blew off 10 minutes after Flight 1282 took off from Portland on January 5. /
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WASHINGTON — For Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to end birthright citizenship is more than just a provocative anti-immigrant policy likely to be blocked by courts. It’s personal. Tong, 51, a Democrat who has served as the state’s top legal official since 2019, is the son of immigrants who came to
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republicans made claims about illegal voting by noncitizens a centerpiece of their 2024 campaign messaging and plan to push legislation in the new Congress requiring voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship. Yet there’s one place with a GOP supermajority where linking voting to citizenship appears to be a nonstarter: Kansas.
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ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s left-leaning president, an outspoken critic of Western military support for Ukraine in its war against Russia, is running for reelection in the Adriatic Sea state, but is unlikely to get an outright majority in the first round of voting on Sunday. President Zoran Milanović, who is often compared to Donald
President-elect Donald Trump weighed in on a simmering feud among MAGA allies over H-1B worker visas, telling the New York Post that he supports the program, according to the outlet. Trump told the New York Post that he has “always liked the visas.” The H-1B visa program allows employers to temporarily hire non-U.S. citizens for
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Ajit Pai urged the Supreme Court to uphold a federal law that could ban TikTok. The TikTok law requires its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to divest to avoid a US ban. Pai, the FCC chair during Trump’s first term, led efforts against other Chinese tech firms. Former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai is siding
