Nation and World Politics
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‘She should be alive today’ — Harris spotlights woman's death to blast abortion bans and Trump
Sep 20, 2024 11:02 pm - ATLANTA — Kamala Harris blasted Donald Trump as a threat to women's freedoms and their very lives, warning in a speech in the battleground state of Georgia on Friday that...
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Pro-Trump Georgia election board votes to require hand counts of ballots
Sep 20, 2024 11:01 pm - ATLANTA — The Georgia State Election Board approved a rule Friday requiring counties in the critical presidential battleground to hand-count the total number of ballots t...
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Suburban GOP group slammed for bringing controversial candidate here for fundraiserSep 20, 2024 7:04 pm - A North Shore Republican organization is taking heat from its own party and Democrats for hosting an upcoming event featuring an out-of-state GOP candidate who has downplayed the Holocaust, made inflammatory comments about Black people and this week was the focus of a CNN report about posts on a pornography website's message board.
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Israel says its strike on Beirut killed a top Hezbollah military official as Lebanon reports 14 died
Sep 20, 2024 6:59 am - Israel hit a Beirut suburb with an airstrike Friday, not long after Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with 140 rockets following a vow by the militant group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah to retaliate against Israel for a mass bombing attack, the Israeli military and the militant group said.
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Republicans are trying a new approach to abortion in the race for Congress
Sep 19, 2024 2:44 pm - WASHINGTON — In the most contested races for control of the U.S. House, many Republican candidates are speaking up about women’s rights to abortion access and reproductiv...
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These evangelicals are voting their values — by backing Kamala Harris
Sep 19, 2024 7:27 am - WASHINGTON — When the Rev. Lee Scott publicly endorsed Kamala Harris for president during the Evangelicals for Harris Zoom call on Aug. 14, the Presbyterian pastor and fa...
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Residents of Springfield, Ohio, hunker down and pray for a political firestorm to blow over
Sep 19, 2024 6:58 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — In the quiet corners of Springfield, Ohio — out of sight of the drumbeat of politicians and journalists, troopers and newly installed security cameras...
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Is Israel preparing for a war with Hezbollah?
Sep 19, 2024 6:54 am - JERUSALEM — With Israel's defense minister announcing a “new phase” of the war and an apparent Israeli attack setting off explosions in electronic devices in Lebanon, the...
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Hezbollah leader says pager attack crossed a ‘red line’ as fears of wider war with Israel mount
Sep 19, 2024 6:51 am - BEIRUT — The leader of Hezbollah vowed Thursday to keep up daily strikes on Israel despite this week's deadly sabotage of its members' communication devices, and said Isr...
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Iranian hackers tried but failed to interest Biden’s campaign in stolen Trump info, FBI says
Sep 18, 2024 8:25 pm - WASHINGTON — Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden's campaign in information stolen from rival Donald Trump's campaign, sending unsolicited emails to peo...