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North Dakota voters just approved an age limit for congressional candidates. What’s next?

Politics
Amanda Smith

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — People in their late 70s or older can no longer run for Congress in North Dakota under a ...

Explosive cases flow to US Supreme Court from ‘bold’ regional court

Politics
Amanda Smith

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – When three conservative judges sitting on a New Orleans-based U.S. appeals court declared the funding mechanism approved ...

As Trump awaits sentencing in his hush money trial, more cases loom

Politics
Amanda Smith

Donald Trump is awaiting sentencing on 34 felony counts in New York on July 11, but he has other potentially more perilous ...

Trump Has Few Ways to Overturn His Conviction as a New York Felon

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Amanda Smith

NEW YORK — “This is long from over,” Donald Trump, the former president and current felon, declared Thursday, moments after a Manhattan ...

Washington Post said it had the Alito flag story 3 years ago and chose not to publish

Politics
Amanda Smith

NEW YORK (AP) — Nine days after The New York Times reported about the political symbolism of an upside-down American flag that ...

Why the flag at the center of Justice Alito controversy flew in front of an NC building, too

U.S.
Amanda Smith

The flag at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court controversy has also flown in front of the North Carolina lieutenant governor’s ...

Gavin Newsom pounces as Republicans come to Big Oil’s defense

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Amanda Smith

SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom has a new set of adversaries in his hard-charging campaign against Big Oil. Nineteen Republican attorneys ...

The ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag evolves from Revolutionary War symbol to banner of the far right

Politics
Amanda Smith

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy in as many weeks, this time ...

Fort Pierce post office flies upside down flag, symbol of “Stop the Steal” election deniers

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Amanda Smith

FORT PIERCE — A star-spangled banner flew upside down Wednesday at the United States Post Office on Orange Avenue, days after U.S. ...

Appeals court upholds Steve Bannon’s conviction for contempt of Congress

U.S.
Amanda Smith

WASHINGTON — A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has upheld Steve Bannon’s conviction ...