Articles filed under Politics
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House speaker chaos stuns lawmakers, frays relationships and roils WashingtonOct 04, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Lawmakers who had been sitting in stunned silence gasped at the declaration: The office of speaker "is hereby declared vacant." For the first time ever, a H...
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The problems with net zeroOct 04, 2023 1:00 am - Net zero is in trouble. In utterly predictable trouble, in the king's-wearing-no-clothes trouble. The signs are all around. Governments from coastal America to Communist...
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Child care programs just lost thousands of federal dollars. Families and providers scramble to copeOct 04, 2023 1:00 am - WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP) - Kaitlyn Adkins is studying law to help families in her community impacted by the opioid epidemic at the heart of West Virginia coal country. But...
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Kevin McCarthy is out as speaker of the House. Here's what's nextOct 04, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives is entering uncharted territory after a far-right effort to remove fellow Republican Kevin McCarthy from the speakership succee...
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McCarthy becomes the first speaker ever to be ousted from the job in a House voteOct 03, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history that was forced by a contingent of hard-right ...
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Britain's COVID-19 response inquiry enters a second phase with political decisions in the spotlightOct 03, 2023 1:00 am - LONDON - Britain's inquiry into the response to the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the nation entered its second phase Tuesday, with political decision-making ar...
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Joe Biden's intentional crisisOct 03, 2023 1:00 am - Syndicated columnist The continuing incursion of illegal border crossers into the United States is the most astonishing story in American politics. There have been days...
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Pandas could be gone from America's zoos by the end of next yearOct 03, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Wearing an "I Love Pandas" T-shirt and clutching a panda-covered diary, Kelsey Lambert bubbled with excitement as she glimpsed the real thing. She and her m...
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Pritzker urges Biden to intervene amid 'untenable' pace of migrant arrivalsOct 03, 2023 1:00 am - As Chicago prepares this week for an increase in the already steady stream of migrants arriving from the southern U.S. border, Gov. J.B. Pritzker is once again publicly ...
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Hunter Biden pleads not guilty to three federal gun charges filed after his plea deal collapsedOct 03, 2023 1:00 am - WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to three federal firearms charges filed after his earlier deal imploded, setting the case on a track t...