Nation and World Politics
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Trump says he didn't know his immigration rhetoric echoes Hitler. That's part of a broader pattern
Dec 27, 2023 12:48 pm - NEW YORK — Donald Trump has centered his unlikely rise from reality television star to onetime — and potentially future — president on the idea that he’s wiser than Washi...
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Michigan Supreme Court will keep Trump on 2024 ballot
Dec 27, 2023 8:32 am - LANSING, Mich. — Michigan’s Supreme Court is keeping former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary election ballot. The court said Wednesday it will not hear an ap...
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Nikki Haley has bet her 2024 bid on South Carolina. But much of her home state leans toward Trump
Dec 27, 2023 7:44 am - GILBERT, S.C. (AP) — Standing inside a rustic barn a short drive from the state capital, Henry McMaster shocked many South Carolina Republicans seven years ago by backing...
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A US delegation to meet with Mexican government for talks on the surge of migrants at border
Dec 27, 2023 7:14 am - MEXICO CITY — A top U.S. delegation is meeting with Mexico's president Wednesday in what many see as an attempt to have Mexico do more to limit a surge of migrants reachi...
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Lose a limb or risk death? Growing numbers among Gaza's thousands of war-wounded face hard decisions
Dec 27, 2023 7:11 am - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The doctors gave Shaimaa Nabahin an impossible choice: lose your left leg or risk death. The 22-year-old had been hospitalized in Gaza for ar...
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On foot and by donkey cart, thousands flee widening Israeli assault in central Gaza
Dec 27, 2023 7:09 am - RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Thousands of Palestinian families fled Wednesday from the brunt of Israel’s expanding ground offensive into Gaza’s few remaining, overcrowded refuges,...
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Americans sour on the primary election process and major political parties, an AP-NORC poll says
Dec 27, 2023 7:06 am - WASHINGTON — With the GOP presidential primaries just about to start, many Republicans aren't certain that votes will be counted correctly in their contest, as pessimism ...
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In battleground Arizona, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. draws Biden and Trump voters united by distrustDec 25, 2023 7:31 am - PHOENIX (AP) — Some voted for Donald Trump, others for Joe Biden. A few had never wanted anything to do with politics before they heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on a podcast...
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A weekend of combat in Gaza kills 14 Israeli soldiers in a sign of Hamas' entrenchment
Dec 24, 2023 8:09 am - TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Fourteen Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, the Israeli military said Sunday, in some of the bloodiest day...
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U.S. tensions with China are fraying long-cultivated academic ties. Will the chill hurt US interests?
Dec 24, 2023 7:39 am - WASHINGTON — In the 1980s, Fu Xiangdong was a young Chinese virology student who came to the United States to study biochemistry. More than three decades later, he had a ...