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Yellen says threats to democracy risk US economic growth, an indirect jab at Trump

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Amanda Smith

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is arguing that a fractured democracy can have destructive effects on the economy — an ...

Biden administration says 100,000 new migrants are expected to enroll in ‘Obamacare’ next year

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Amanda Smith

WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children are expected to enroll in the Affordable Care ...

US jobs report for April will likely point to a slower but still-strong pace of hiring

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Amanda Smith

WASHINGTON (AP) — The American economy likely delivered another solid hiring gain in April, showing continuing durability in the face of the ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signs legislation to ensure Biden will appear on November ballot

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Amanda Smith

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday signed into law legislation to ensure that President Joe Biden will appear on the state’s November ...

The unexpected, under-the-radar Senate race in Michigan that could determine control of the chamber

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Amanda Smith

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Elissa Slotkin had less than half an hour to reckon with a retirement announcement that would reshape Michigan’s ...

Michael Cohen hasn’t taken the stand in Trump’s hush money trial. But jurors are hearing his words

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Amanda Smith

NEW YORK (AP) — The prosecution’s star witness has yet to take the stand in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial. But jurors ...

A tornado hit an Oklahoma newsroom built in the 1920s. The damage isn’t stopping the presses

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Amanda Smith

SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) — When Oklahoma and national officials held a press conference Monday to discuss the scale of devastation following tornadoes ...

A loan, with a country’s natural resources as collateral

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Amanda Smith

WASHINGTON — Working to salvage an aid package to Ukraine, Republican senators pitched an idea to former President Donald Trump that they ...

Ryan Nichols, Capitol rioter who confessed on video in the third person, gets five years

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Amanda Smith

WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump fanatic who assaulted officers with pepper spray and called for additional violence after the Capitol attack as ...

Why Biden decided to speak out about the campus protests after days of silence

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Amanda Smith

WASHINGTON — After days of silence from President Joe Biden about the eruption of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses nationwide, his decision ...