1 minute ago | NY Times

Back on the campaign trail, the leading Democrats traded barbs over their competing visions for public safety.
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Oklahoma bucks red-state trend, extends early voting

29 minutes ago | WGN TV

OKLAHOMA CITY - On Election Day last year, state Rep. Jon Echols was mortified to see a 3 1/2-hour line to vote in his district, which stretches from the edge of Oklahoma...
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Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin announces he'll retire in 2022

47 minutes ago | Chicago Tribune

Commissioner Larry Suffredin will not run for reelection, the Evanston Democrat who for two decades has been a mainstay on the Cook County Board announced Friday. Suffredin...
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Democrat moves to censure three GOP lawmakers he says are 'rewriting history' in Jan. 6 attack

1 hour ago | NBC News

During a hearing, a Georgia Republican said the events of Jan. 6 were “not an insurrection” and likened the day to a "normal tourist visit."
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Greene's Combative Behavior Could Spark Ethics Review

1 hour ago | Bloomberg | 2 articles

Washington - A year before her election to Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene searched for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at her Capitol office, taunting the New York Democrat to...
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New DUP Leader Calls for Unity in Brexit Protocol Fight

1 hour ago | Bloomberg | 2 articles

Edwin Poots, the newly elected leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, called on his supporters to fight against a Brexit deal that has angered unionists and...
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Two former Wisconsin congressmen among Republicans threatening to start third party

1 hour ago | WISN

A new group of Republican officials is threatening to form a third party. They include former Wisconsin Congressmen Tom Petri and Reid Ribble.
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No garden for American heroes, yes to censorship & monument destruction? Biden revokes more Trump executive orders

2 hours ago | RT | 3 articles

US President Joe Biden has revoked a number of executive orders by his predecessor Donald Trump, including those seeking to protect monuments and combat online censorship, and...
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Neera Tanden Hired as Biden Adviser After Budget Nomination Scuttled

2 hours ago | Bloomberg | 4 articles

President Joe Biden has appointed longtime Democratic policy aide Neera Tanden as a senior White House adviser after her earlier nomination for budget director was scuttled by...
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Dem David Cicilline Seeks to Punish GOP Rep. Who Called Capitol Rioters 'Normal Tourists'

2 hours ago | Newsweek

Cicilline accused the three Republicans of "puttheir own political agendas above their country" and "legitimizing a violent attack on our democratic institutions."
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Aaron Hicks, Giancarlo Stanton injuries leave Yankees lineup decimated

After Aaron Boone announced Aaron Hicks would miss time with a torn sheath in his left wrist that could lead to surgery, Giancarlo Stanton was scratched from Friday's lineup... Read more ...

Derek Jeter sells mansion once rented to Tom Brady for $22.5M

The former Yankee has scored a home run and sold off his Tampa mansion, which he once rented out to Tom Brady, for $22.5 million after eight months on the market. Read more ...

No garden for American heroes, yes to censorship & monument destruction?...

US President Joe Biden has revoked a number of executive orders by his predecessor Donald Trump, including those seeking to protect monuments and combat online censorship, and... Read more ...

Biden hosts DACA recipients as he drops Trump health care rule for immigrants

Amid a growing southern border crisis, President Biden on Friday met privately with six people brought to the US illegally as children and repealed a long-stalled Trump... Read more ...

Abreu, Dozier collide, Royals snap 11-game skid, beat Chisox

CHICAGO - White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu and Kansas City batter Hunter Dozier were forced to leave after a frightening collision on a popup, and the Royals ended an 11-game... Read more ...

California budget has $35 million for basic income programs

California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to use a sliver of the state's massive budget surplus to give poor people money each month with no rules on how they spend it. Read more ...

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NH hopes to encourage hospitals, nursing homes to make mental health beds...

New Hampshire is offering a $12 million incentive program to end the crisis of boarding mental health patients in hospital emergency rooms. Read more ...

Medina Spirit cleared to run Preakness after passing drug tests

BALTIMORE - Medina Spirit has passed three rounds of prerace drug testing and been cleared to run in the Preakness on Saturday. Maryland racing officials said Friday tests on... Read more ...

Neera Tanden lands in the White House, after all

A contentious nomination process kept Neera Tanden out of President Joe Biden's Cabinet, but she still landed in the White House. The White House confirmed on Friday that Biden... Read more ...

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