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Mexico’s small, oft-questioned Green Party to become the second-largest force in Congress
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — It’s been a long strange trip for Mexico’s Ecologist Green Party, which rode on its alliance with the ...
Trump says he can’t be racist because he has ‘many Black friends’
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Former President Donald Trump claimed in a new interview published Friday that he can’t be racist because he has “so many Black ...
Trump once defied the NRA to ban bump stocks. He now says he ‘did nothing’ to restrict guns
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Less than six years ago, then-President Donald Trump took on the influential gun lobby after the deadliest massacre in modern U.S. history. ...
Many Senate Republicans were done with Trump after Jan. 6. Now they want him back in the White House
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Three years ago, Donald Trump had few friends left in the Senate. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell declared in ...
Partisan gridlock prevents fixes to Pennsylvania’s voting laws as presidential election looms
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is seeing lots of action targeting gaps in its vote-by-mail laws. The problem is that it’s in ...
A far-right pastor challenges the Indiana GOP gubernatorial nominee’s choice for running mate
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Republican delegates are set to gather Saturday at the party convention to nominate a candidate for lieutenant governor, ...
Trump’s lawyers urge judge to reject special counsel’s request for gag order in classified docs case
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Donald Trump’s lawyers on Friday hit back at special counsel Jack Smith in the classified documents case by opposing his request to ...
Donald Trump is dangling tax cuts and less red tape to win over top CEOs
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Sean Rayford/Getty Images; Chelsea Jia Feng/BI Donald Trump met with some of America’s top CEOs Thursday. The former president pledged to slash ...
Trump Is Fine With SCOTUS Legalizing Bump Stocks, Which He’d Helped Ban
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The Supreme Court struck down the nationwide ban on bump stocks on Friday that former President Donald Trump had worked to implement, ...
Foreign policy dominates Biden’s agenda before the first debate: From the Politics Desk
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Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest ...