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How Turning Point, once spurned by the RNC, is becoming Trump’s ‘force multiplier’ in battleground states

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Amanda Smith

DETROIT — When Donald Trump takes the stage in Detroit on Saturday, it will mark the second time in two weeks that ...

From ‘scam’ to building a ‘crypto army’

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Amanda Smith

In a sharp reversal, former President Donald Trump has embraced the cryptocurrencies he once reviled, looking to outflank rivals Joe Biden and ...

DACA at 12 is on life support and already leaving out many young immigrants

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Amanda Smith

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. will count their blessings on Saturday as they mark a new anniversary of a ...

Biden’s final foreign trip turned out to be all about Trump

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Amanda Smith

FASANO, Italy — Joe Biden spent this week trying to persuade his closest world allies that American leadership would endure beyond November ...

Wisconsin Republicans block PFAS cleanup until polluters are granted immunity

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Amanda Smith

Wisconsin Republicans are withholding $125m designated for cleanup of widespread PFAS contamination in drinking water and have said they will only release ...

Mexico’s small, oft-questioned Green Party to become the second-largest force in Congress

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Amanda Smith

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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Amanda Smith

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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Amanda Smith

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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Amanda Smith

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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Amanda Smith

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is seeing lots of action targeting gaps in its vote-by-mail laws. The problem is that it’s in ...