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2024 presidential race enters a new phase 2024 presidential race enters a new phase 11:17 Washington — Vice President Kamala Harris accused former President Donald Trump of walking back his previous agreement to a Sept. 10 presidential debate, telling reporters, “I’m ready.” “I’m ready to debate Donald Trump. I have agreed to the previously agreed
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New York prosecutors urged a Manhattan judge to uphold Donald Trump’s criminal conviction, saying a recent Supreme Court decision has little bearing on a unanimous jury’s decision finding the former president guilty of falsifying records. In a 69-page memo filed Wednesday and made public Thursday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and prosecutors from his office
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Washington — North Korean hackers allegedly targeted a number of U.S. hospitals and healthcare systems with ransomware as part of an illegal scheme to fund a covert information exfiltration campaign against American military and scientific entities, federal investigators revealed Thursday. The international hacking campaign began in May 2021, when a hacking group tied to North
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Washington — Vice President Kamala Harris condemned demonstrators who voiced support for Hamas and burned an American flag near the U.S. Capitol to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress on Wednesday, saying in a statement that “hate and violence of any kind have no place in our nation.” Harris, now the likely
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Steward Health Care’s CEO Ralph de la Torre has for years avoided publicly responding to accusations that he profited at the expense of patients at the dozens of community hospitals around the country owned by the Dallas-based company. Now, he’ll have to face those questions on Capitol Hill after a bipartisan group of senators voted
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Washington — The House is set to vote Wednesday night to establish a bipartisan task force to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced the panel earlier this week and said it will have the full investigative authority of
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Approximately a dozen individuals are being vetted as possible running mates for Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a source familiar with the process. That number is larger than previously reported, and is an indication that the campaign is casting a wide net at the start of this process and isn’t winnowing the list yet. Multiple
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Washington — FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before House lawmakers Wednesday about the investigation into the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, and he revealed new details about the gunman’s actions in the lead-up to the July 13 shooting in Pennsylvania. Wray told members of the House Judiciary Committee that the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas
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Police deployed pepper spray as demonstrations against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress swelled in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Thousands of protesters gathered near the Capitol, chanting “Free, Free Palestine,” and some tried to block streets ahead of Netanyahu’s speech, the Associated Press reported. Police wearing gas marks blocked the crowd — which
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The “Haley Voters for Harris” political action committee, which had been working with President Biden’s and rebranded to support Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign, has gotten a cease and desist letter from former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley. In a letter sent Tuesday by a law firm representing Haley’s presidential campaign, they wrote the group
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