Nation and World Politics
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Lebanon sees deadliest day of conflict since 2006 as Israeli strikes kill more than 400
Sep 23, 2024 7:28 am - Israeli strikes Monday on Lebanon killed more than 490 people, including more than 90 women and children, Lebanese authorities said, in the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. The Israeli military warned residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate ahead of its widening air campaign against Hezbollah.
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US will let more people take methadone at home
Sep 22, 2024 6:00 am - The first big update to U.S. methadone regulations in 20 years is poised to expand access to the lifesaving drug starting next month, but experts say the addiction treatment changes could fall flat if state governments and methadone clinics fail to act.
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The politics of immigration play differently along the US-Mexico border
Sep 22, 2024 6:00 am - SUNLAND PARK, N.M. — The politics of immigration look different from the back patio of Ardovino’s Desert Crossing restaurant. That's where Robert Ardovino sees a Border P...
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Robinson won’t speak at local GOP event amid latest firestormSep 21, 2024 11:48 am - North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson has canceled an appearance at a suburban GOP fundraiser.
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Smartmatic’s case against Newsmax will test 2020 defamation claims
Sep 21, 2024 6:00 am - WILMINGTON, Del.- A high-stakes court case scheduled to begin later this month will finally test whether a television network can be held liable for making statements abo...
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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...