Nation and World Politics
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Some state abortion bans stir confusion, and it's uncertain if lawmakers will clarify them
Dec 20, 2023 6:52 am - Ever since the nation’s highest court ended abortion rights more than a year ago, vaguely worded bans enacted in some Republican-controlled states have caused bewildermen...
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Google to pay $700 million to US states, consumers in app store settlement
Dec 19, 2023 2:05 pm - Google has agreed to pay $700 million and make several other concessions to settle allegations that it had been stifling competition against its Android app store — the s...
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A pro-Trump super PAC airs an anti-Haley ad in New Hampshire. She says that's a sign of her strength
Dec 19, 2023 1:56 pm - COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The super PAC supporting Donald Trump's 2024 campaign has launched a television ad targeting Nikki Haley, a move her campaign called a signal that T...
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Zelenskyy says he's confident Ukraine will get more U.S. support for its war with Russia
Dec 19, 2023 1:03 pm - KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday he's certain the United States will make good on its promise to provide billions of dollars in furthe...
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Ex-Proud Boys leader is sentenced to over 3 years in prison for Capitol riot plot
Dec 19, 2023 12:28 pm - WASHINGTON — A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Tuesday to more than three years behind bars for joining a plot to attack the U....
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Appeals court says Mark Meadows can’t move Georgia election case charges to federal court
Dec 19, 2023 7:59 am - ATLANTA — A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows cannot move charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 el...
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Illegal crossings surge in remote areas as Congress, White House weigh major asylum limits
Dec 19, 2023 7:48 am - LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — Hundreds of dates are written on concrete-filled steel columns erected along the U.S. border with Mexico to memorialize when the Border Patrol has...
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Pentagon announces new international mission to counter attacks on commercial vessels in Red Sea
Dec 19, 2023 7:03 am - MANAMA, Bahrain — The U.S. and a host of other nations are creating a new force to protect ships transiting the Red Sea that have come under attack by drones and ballisti...
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Meta's initial decisions to remove 2 videos of Israel-Hamas war reversed by Oversight Board
Dec 19, 2023 6:53 am - MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — A quasi-independent review board is recommending that Facebook parent company Meta overturn two decisions it made this fall to remove posts “inf...
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Israel strikes south Gaza and raids a hospital in the north as war grinds on with renewed US support
Dec 19, 2023 6:52 am - The Israeli army has raided and detained staff at two of the last functioning hospitals in Gaza’s north, where the defense minister said Tuesday that troops were working ...