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President Biden Delivers Long-Awaited Voting Rights Speech in Philly
President Joe Biden will speak in Philadelphia on Tuesday about the actions his administration is taking to “protect the sacred constitutional right to vote.”
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Rudy Giuliani in Hospital, ‘Doing Very Well' After Positive COVID-19 Test, Trump Says
President Donald Trump says his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani “is doing very well” after testing positive for the coronavirus and ending up in the hospital, the latest member of Trump’s inner circle to contract the disease surging nationwide. Giuliani was exhibiting some symptoms and was admitted Sunday to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, according to a person familiar with...
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Trump Attends Florida Rally Monday, 1st Since Contracting Coronavirus
Defiant as ever about the coronavirus, President Donald Trump on Monday turned his first campaign rally since contracting COVID-19 into a full-throated defense of his handling of the pandemic that has killed 215,000 Americans, joking that he was healthy enough to plunge into the crowd and give voters “a big fat kiss.” There was no social distancing and mask-wearing was…
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Trump Spurns Science on Climate: ‘Don't Think Science Knows'
With the smell of California wildfires in the air, President Donald Trump on Monday ignored the scientific consensus that climate change is playing a central role and renewed his unfounded claim that poor forest management is mostly to blame for historic infernos roaring up and down the West Coast.
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White House Considering Dramatic Expansion of Travel Ban
The White House is considering dramatically expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries amid a renewed election-year focus on immigration by President Donald Trump, according to six people familiar with the deliberations. A document outlining the plans — timed to coincide with the third anniversary of Trump’s January 2017 executive order — has been circulating the White House. But…
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Trump Returns to Washington to Face a Pair of Challenges
His 17-day holiday stay at his Florida resort over, President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Sunday night facing twin challenges: the fallout from the strike he ordered to kill an Iranian general and his looming impeachment trial in the Senate. The dueling images — one of potential chaos in the Middle East, the other a politicized ritual occurring for only...
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Trump Doubles Down on Striking Iran Cultural Sites, Issues Warning to Iraq
President Donald Trump insisted Sunday that Iranian cultural sites were fair game for the U.S. military, dismissing concerns within his own administration that doing so could constitute a war crime under international law. He also warned Iraq that he would levy punishing sanctions if it expelled American troops in retaliation for a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad that killed a...
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Trump Says 52 Targets Already Lined Up If Iran Retaliates
President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Iran on Saturday, threatening to hit dozens of targets in the Islamic Republic “very fast and very hard” if it retaliates for the targeted killing of the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force.
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From Resort Amid Palm Trees, Trump Settled on Iran Strike
At the midway point of his annual Christmas vacation, President Donald Trump huddled at his Florida club with his top national security advisers. Days earlier, a rocket attack by an Iranian-funded group struck a U.S.-Iraqi base, killing an American contractor and wounding several others. Trump’s advisers presented him with an array of options for responding, including the most dramatic possible response:...
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Trump Portrays Himself as Defender of Faith for Evangelicals
Highlighting his record on religious liberty, President Donald Trump on Friday worked to energize a group of evangelical supporters who make up an influential piece of his political base that could prove vital in battleground states. Trump spoke to more than 5,000 Christians, including a large group of Latinos, at a Miami megachurch, just days after he was the subject…
