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Whistleblower lawsuit alleges retaliation by Missouri House speaker

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Amanda Smith

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s House speaker once described “stupid Republican women” as “an invasive species,” according to a whistleblower retaliation ...

The contrasting days of a former and current president

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Amanda Smith

Former President Trump stood in the lobby of his namesake office tower in New York on Friday morning, lashing out at “fascists” ...

Factbox-What’s in the new Israel ceasefire proposal Biden announced?

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Amanda Smith

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday laid out a three-phase ceasefire proposal from Israel to Palestinian ...

Answers to your questions about Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial conviction

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Amanda Smith

NEW YORK (AP) — Will Donald Trump go to prison? Could he pardon himself? What about the election? The first criminal conviction ...

Biden Declares Trump Verdict a Victory for the Rule of Law

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Amanda Smith

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden declared Friday that a New York jury’s guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump should be respected ...

Trump hits out at ‘felon’ status in rambling speech at Trump Tower

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Amanda Smith

Donald Trump hit out furiously today at the new status of “felon” conferred on him by a New York jury, whose guilty ...

Upside-down American flag reappears as a right-wing protest symbol after Trump’s guilty verdict

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Amanda Smith

CHICAGO (AP) — After Donald Trump’s historic guilty verdict, a steady flow of images showing upside-down American flags has appeared on social ...

Trump carries the stain of conviction like a crown. Will the verdict matter to voters?

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Amanda Smith

WASHINGTON (AP) — The bravado behind Donald Trump’ s boastful hypothesis in 2016 — “I could stand in the middle of Fifth ...

Trump campaign doubles previous one-day record fundraising haul after guilty verdict

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Amanda Smith

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign says it raised a whopping $34.8 million in small dollar donations after he was convicted Thursday on ...

Running for U.S. president from prison? Eugene V. Debs did it, a century ago

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Amanda Smith

NEW YORK (AP) — Following his unprecedented felony conviction, former president and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has to wait to find ...