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March 28, 2024

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  • Trump votes in Fla. before rallies; Biden focuses on Pa.

    3 years, 5 months ago

    (AP) WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump said he voted Saturday "for a guy named Trump" and called it an "honor" to cast his own ballot in his adopted home state of Florida before he jetted off to campaign ...

  • House Dems summon postal leaders to hearing on mail delays

    3 years, 7 months ago

    (AP) BEDMINSTER, N.J. — The Democratic-run House on Sunday demanded that leaders of the U.S. Postal Service testify at an emergency oversight hearing Aug. 24 on mail delays as concerns grow that the Trump White House is trying to undermine the ...

  • Marge Simpson uses her voice to call out Trump adviser

    3 years, 7 months ago

    (AP) LOS ANGELES — Marge Simpson has advice for a lawyer with the Trump campaign: Do not name call. In a clip posted Friday by Fox's animated series "The Simpsons," matriarch Marge chided the attorney over a tweet comparing her voice ...

  • Church blasts Nevada's 'litigation tactic' at Supreme Court

    3 years, 8 months ago

    (AP) RENO — A rural church trying to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to suspend Nevada’s 50-person cap on worship services is accusing Gov. Steve Sisolak of adding the church’s county to a list of those with elevated cases of COVID-19 ...

  • Trump denies briefing about bounties; Congress wants more information

    3 years, 9 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has denied he was made aware of U.S. intelligence officials' conclusion that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan. The Trump administration was set to brief select members of ...

  • Beyond 'love,' Trump has little to show from N Korea talks

    3 years, 9 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — Hours after an astonishing summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump boldly declared a breakthrough. "There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea," he tweeted. Yet two years later, despite two more ...

  • Rolling Stones threaten to sue Trump over using their songs

    3 years, 9 months ago

    (AP) LONDON — The Rolling Stones are threatening President Donald Trump with legal action for using their songs at his rallies despite cease-and-desist directives. The Stones said in a statement Sunday that their legal team was working with music rights organization ...

  • Nevada lawmakers celebrate court ruling protecting LGBT people from job discrimination

    3 years, 9 months ago

    (AP) Nevada lawmakers and LGBT activists celebrated Monday's historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling that protects LGBT people from employment discrimination. The 6-3 decision means federal laws on sex discrimination also apply to LGBT workers. “As we celebrate Pride Month, it is ...

  • White House predicts Pelosi to ‘yield' on impeachment delay

    4 years, 3 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — The White House argued Sunday that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put herself in an untenable position by stalling House-passed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump in hopes of shaping the upcoming Senate trial. The House voted Wednesday ...

  • Impeachment testimony comes from White House budget official

    4 years, 4 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — House impeachment investigators met in private Saturday with a White House budget official as the historic inquiry produces new testimony offering direct insight of President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. After a week of dramatic public hearings, investigators ...

  • Pompeo acknowledges he was on Trump call at center of probe

    4 years, 5 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged on Wednesday that he was on the July phone call between President Donald Trump and the Ukraine president that's at the center of the House impeachment inquiry. But Pompeo continued to push ...

  • Former official: Trump's past phone-call memos also concealed

    4 years, 6 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — The White House severely restricted distribution of memos detailing President Donald Trump's calls with foreign leaders, including Russia's Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman, after embarrassing leaks of his conversations early in his tenure, a former ...

  • At DMZ, step into history for Trump as he offers hand to Kim

    4 years, 9 months ago

    (AP) PANMUNJOM, Korea — With wide grins and a historic handshake, President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un met at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone on Sunday and agreed to revive talkson the pariah nation's nuclear program. Trump, pressing ...

  • Pentagon tells White House to stop politicizing military

    4 years, 10 months ago

    (AP) SEOUL, South Korea — The Pentagon has told the White House to stop politicizing the military, amid a furor over a Trump administration order to have the Navy ship named for the late U.S. Sen. John McCain hidden from view ...

  • Supreme Court says 1 state can't be sued in another's courts

    4 years, 10 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court decided Monday that one state cannot unwillingly be sued in the courts of another, overruling a 40-year precedent and perhaps, foreshadowing an argument over the viability of other high court decisions. The outcome left one ...

  • Census Bureau: Nevada’s population tops 3 million

    4 years, 11 months ago

    (AP) Nevada’s population increased to more than 3 million last year, according to newly released census data. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the state’s population increased by almost 62,000 people between July 1, 2017, and July 1, 2018, bringing Nevada’s population ...

  • Supreme Court won't stop enforcement of bump stock ban

    5 years ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court won't stop the Trump administration from enforcing its ban on bump stock devices, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns. The ban took effect Tuesday. Gun rights groups asked the court on Monday ...

  • Supreme Court so far won't stop bump stock ban

    5 years ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is so far declining to stop the Trump administration from enforcing its ban on bump stock devices, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns. The ban took effect Tuesday. The administration is in ...

  • Appeals court to hear arguments in Trump hotel lawsuit

    5 years ago

    (AP) RICHMOND, Va. — The outcome of a lawsuit alleging that Donald Trump is violating the U.S. Constitution by profiting off the presidency could depend largely on competing definitions of an antiquated word: emoluments. At the center of the lawsuit is ...

  • Amodei says fed stance on marijuana, banking is hypocritical

    5 years ago

    (AP) U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei is calling out what he says is the hypocrisy of the federal government accepting tax money from legal marijuana businesses in Nevada but essentially banning them from using the banking system. Recreational marijuana is legal in ...

  • Trump says he wouldn't steer son Barron toward football

    5 years, 1 month ago

    (AP) PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump says he wouldn't steer son Barron toward football, saying it's "a dangerous sport," but also wouldn't stand in the way if the soccer-playing 12-year-old wanted to put on pads. The NFL fan tells ...

  • Trump muses staffing changes, won't commit to keeping Kelly

    5 years, 4 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump isn't committing to a previous pledge to keep chief of staff John Kelly for the remainder of his term, part of widespread speculation about staffing changes that could soon sweep through his administration. Trump, in ...

  • Officials: White House not 'micromanaging' Kavanaugh probe

    5 years, 6 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — Senior Trump administration officials insisted Sunday that the White House was not "micromanaging" a new FBI background check of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, claiming the probe was a Senate process and that lawmakers were the only ones ...

  • A look at what the FBI's Kavanaugh investigation will entail

    5 years, 6 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has ordered the FBI to reopen Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's background investigation after several women accused him of sexual misconduct. Just what the FBI will investigate remains a mystery. The Senate Judiciary Committee ...

  • Omarosa says she secretly taped her firing, plays audio

    5 years, 7 months ago

    (AP) BRIDEGWATER, N.J. — Former presidential adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman said Sunday she secretly recorded conversations she had in the White House, including her firing by chief of staff John Kelly in the high-security Situation Room. It was a highly unusual ...

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