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Retired astronaut Mark Kelly kicking off Arizona Senate race
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Retired astronaut Mark Kelly is kicking off his U.S. Senate campaign Saturday with a rally in Tucson not far from the site where his wife, Gabrielle Giffords, survived a shooting when…
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Dianne Feinstein’s climate change discussion with schoolchildren gets heated
More than a dozen children and several adults with a youth climate-change advocacy group meet with the senator to ask her to vote yes on the Green New Deal. The California Democrat argues that the policy is unworkable and says she doesn’t agree with it.
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Trump vows veto as Democrats try to block emergency order
House Democrats have introduced a resolution to block the national emergency declaration that President Donald Trump issued to fund his long-sought wall along the U.S-Mexico border.
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GOP senators to watch on Trump’s emergency declaration
WASHINGTON (AP) — The fight over President Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall is heading to the GOP-controlled Senate, putting Republicans in the uncomfortable spot of deciding whether to back his declaration of a national emergency.…
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Klobuchar’s office retools family leave policy after news report
Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s Senate office scrapped a policy this week that required employees who took 12 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave to stay at the office for three times that time off once they returned, an aide to the Minnesota Democrat said Friday.
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Republicans now sizing up North Carolina congressional seat
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on a new election being called in a disputed North Carolina congressional race (all times local): 8:15 p.m. Several Republicans are now looking closely at whether they want to…
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Criminal charges possible in North Carolina’s US House fight
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — With a new election ordered in North Carolina’s disputed congressional race, a key question remains unanswered: Who could face criminal charges after a state elections board hearing exposed evidence of ballot…
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House Democrats introduce resolution to revoke Trump’s emergency order to fund border wall
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats introduce resolution to revoke Trump’s emergency order to fund border wall.
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Was that ballot fraud in North Carolina US House race?
North Carolina’s election board, hearing evidence of ballot fraud and testimony that the Republican ignored warning signs, ordered a new election. What happens now?
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The Latest: New election ordered in undecided US House race
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on a hearing outlining a ballot fraud investigation in an undeclared North Carolina congressional race for which a winner hasn’t been finalized (all times local): 4:05 p.m. North Carolina’s…
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New election ordered in disputed North Carolina House race
North Carolina’s elections board Thursday ordered a new election in the nation’s last undecided congressional race after the Republican candidate conceded that his apparent victory was tainted by evidence of ballot-tampering by political operatives working for him.
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Cohen visits Senate offices ahead of congressional testimony
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, visited the Senate intelligence committee’s offices on Thursday, meeting with his lawyers in preparation for three days of congressional testimony next week. Cohen and one…
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Trump endorses Cornyn, who is wary of O’Rourke 2020 threat
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — President Donald Trump is endorsing Sen. John Cornyn for re-election in 2020, saying the chamber’s No. 2 Republican “has done an outstanding job for the people of Texas.” The president tweeted…
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GOP candidate in disputed North Carolina race says congressional contest was undermined, new election should be called
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — GOP candidate in disputed North Carolina race says congressional contest was undermined, new election should be called.
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Pompeo says he’s ‘ruled out’ Kansas Senate bid in 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (pahm-PAY’-oh) appears to be ruling out a Kansas Senate race in 2020. Pompeo, who represented Kansas’ 4th Congressional District from 2011 to 2017, says he’ll serve as…
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