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House OKs Debt Ceiling Bill to Avoid Default, Sends Biden-McCarthy Deal to Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) - Veering away from a default crisis, the House approved a debt ceiling and budget cuts package late Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy assembled a ...
Syndicated Author Jun 01, 2023

DeSantis Kicks Off Presidential Campaign in Iowa as he Steps Up Criticism of Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ron DeSantis plans to kick off his presidential campaign in Iowa on Tuesday, the start of a busy week that will take him to 12 cities in three states as he tests his pitch ...
Syndicated Author May 30, 2023

Debt Ceiling Agreement gets Thumbs Up from Business Groups, Jeers from Some on Political Right
WASHINGTON (AP) - The reviews are starting to come in as details emerge about the debt ceiling agreement reached by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.Even before seeing th...
Syndicated Author May 30, 2023

Biden Gets Low Ratings on Economy, Guns, Immigration in AP-NORC Poll
WASHINGTON (AP) - As President Joe Biden embarks on his reelection campaign, just 33% of American adults say they approve of his handling of the economy and only 24% say national economic co...
Syndicated Author May 22, 2023

Lawyer Who Quit Trump Legal Team Cites Disagreements with Trump Advisor as Basis for Departure
WASHINGTON (AP) - A lawyer who quit Donald Trump's legal team this past week attributed his decision Saturday to strategy disagreements with a close adviser to the former president.Timothy Parlatore, ...
Syndicated Author May 22, 2023

Biden Campaign Sees Multiple ‘Viable Pathways’ to 2024 Election Win
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden 's reelection campaign is vowing to hold the states that won him the White House in 2020 but also compete in places it lost like North Carolina and ...
Syndicated Author May 19, 2023

Biden Declares ‘America will not Default,’ Says he’s Confident of Budget Deal with GOP Lawmakers
WASHINGTON (AP) - An optimistic President Joe Biden declared Wednesday he is confident the U.S. will avoid an unprecedented and potentially catastrophic debt default, saying talks with congressio...
Syndicated Author May 18, 2023

AI Presents Political Peril for 2024 with Threat to Mislead Voters
WASHINGTON (AP) - Computer engineers and tech-inclined political scientists have warned for years that cheap, powerful artificial intelligence tools would soon allow anyone to create fake images, vide...
Syndicated Author May 15, 2023

Trump Rejects Last Chance to Testify at New York Civil Trial
NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Donald Trump rejected his last chance Sunday to testify at a civil trial where a longtime advice columnist has accused him of raping her in a luxury department store d...
Syndicated Author May 09, 2023

Supreme Court Seems to Favor Woman Who Got $0 in Condo Sale
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court seemed likely Wednesday to give a 94-year-old Minneapolis woman another day in court to try to recoup some money after the county kept the entire $40,000 ...
Syndicated Author Apr 27, 2023
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