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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court decision could come as soon as Monday in the case about whether former President Donald Trump can be kicked off the ballot over his efforts to undo his defeat in the 2020 election. Trump is challenging a groundbreaking decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that said he is disqualified from being […]
TRUCKEE, CALIFORNIA — A powerful blizzard that a meteorologist termed “as bad as it gets” howled in the Sierra Nevada mountains, closing a long stretch of Interstate 80 in Northern California, forcing ski resorts to shut down, and leaving thousands of homes without power. More than 3 meters of snow was expected at higher elevations, National […]
Donald Trump was set to ask a federal judge in Florida on Friday to push back his criminal trial on charges of mishandling classified documents until the thick of the U.S. presidential campaign. Trump’s lawyers wrote in a court filing on Thursday that he cannot have a “fair trial” while he is running for president. […]
We can’t get Kylie out of our head and now we know why…… Ahead of being awarded the BRITs Global Icon accolade this Saturday, PPL can exclusively reveal that Kylie Minogue has amassed 230 million seconds of UK radio & TV airplay in the 21st century, the equivalent of being played for seven years straight. […]
Americans planning on voting for president in November shouldn’t trust popular artificial intelligence-powered chatbots for even the most basic information about the election, a study released this week by a team of journalists and academic researchers said. When five of the most well-known AI chatbots were asked to provide answers to the sort of basic […]
WASHINGTON — Congress passed another short-term spending measure Thursday that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22, avoiding a shutdown for parts of the federal government that would otherwise kick in Saturday. The bill now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. The […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is slashing the size of its force by about 24,000, or almost 5%, and restructuring to be better able to fight the next major war, as the service struggles with recruiting shortfalls that made it impossible to bring in enough soldiers to fill all the jobs. The cuts will mainly be […]
U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are both headed to the U.S.-Mexico border this week, focusing immediate attention on the ongoing illegal migration of tens of thousands of people into the United States. Illegal migration is a contentious issue that is certain to be a focus of debate in the November national […]
President Biden on Monday said he hoped a deal between Israel and Hamas could emerge as soon as next week, providing for the release of many of the remaining hostages in Gaza in exchange for a temporary pause in the fighting in the Palestinian enclave. Asked on Monday when a Gaza cease-fire could start, Biden […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday explored free speech rights in the digital age in a pair of cases testing the legality of Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas that restrict the ability of social media platforms to curb content that these companies deem objectionable. Arguments before the justices were ongoing. At issue is […]
