Nation and World Politics
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Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case in New York
Jan 08, 2025 7:51 am - President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday's sentencing in his hush money case in New York.
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Jimmy Carter continues to lie in state at Capitol Rotunda ahead of his state funeral
Jan 08, 2025 6:58 am - President Jimmy Carter will continue to lie in state Wednesday after his remains arrived in Washington a day earlier as part of state funeral rites.
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Appeals court rejects Trump's latest attempt to get Friday's hush money sentencing called off
Jan 07, 2025 12:53 pm - A New York appeals court judge on Tuesday denied President-elect Donald Trump's latest bid to delay this week’s sentencing in his hush money case.
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Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal
Jan 07, 2025 11:50 am - President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security.
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Judge temporarily blocks report on Trump classified-documents probe
Jan 07, 2025 11:22 am - The federal judge in Florida who dismissed the case against Donald Trump over his alleged mishandling of classified documents has temporarily blocked the Justice Department from releasing a report detailing the findings of that investigation by special counsel Jack Smith.
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Jimmy Carter eulogized by Kamala Harris, Congressional leaders at US Capitol
Jan 07, 2025 11:19 am - Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returns to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting Tuesday.
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New Orleans attack came at a time of political heat, and transition, for the FBI
Jan 07, 2025 11:15 am - Joining law enforcement officials to update the public in the hours after a man killed 14 people and injured dozens of others in New Orleans, Louisiana's junior Republican senator, John Kennedy, implored the FBI to “catch these people" — and then added one more eyebrow-raising request of the federal government.
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Elon Musk helped Trump win. Now he's looking at Europe, and many politicians are alarmed
Jan 07, 2025 11:12 am - Fresh from pouring his money and energies into helping Donald Trump win re-election, Elon Musk has trained his sights on Europe, setting off alarm bells among politicians across the continent.
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Meta replaces fact-checking with X-style community notes
Jan 07, 2025 8:00 am - Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said Tuesday it's scrapping its third-party fact-checking program and replacing it with a Community Notes program written by users similar to the model used by Elon Musk's social media platform X.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96
Jan 07, 2025 7:31 am - Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation, has died. He was 96.