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Biden campaign seeks to strengthen its support among Black men – CBS News Watch CBS News Black voters helped swing Georgia for President Biden in the 2020 election, but their support appears to be softening, and local grassroots organizers are seeing signs Black men are particularly slow to return to his fold. Taurean Small explains
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Minnesota officially raises its new state flag Minnesota officially raises its new state flag 02:04 MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota officially adopted its new state flag on Saturday, making the old flag history. So what happens to the old flag now that it is obsolete? The old flag, which the Minnesota Legislature adopted in 1957, will no
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Leading up to Tuesday’s West Virginia primary, three of the Republican candidates for governor have been trying to outdo each other in proving their opposition to transgender rights. In TV ads running in West Virginia, state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, Chris Miller and Moore Capito have been accusing each other of harboring transgender sympathies while
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered to Congress on Friday a highly anticipated report on the Israeli military’s operations in Gaza that accused Israeli forces of potentially violating international humanitarian law but did not formally find they had already done so, according to the document’s key findings. The report states that though there are allegations
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Barron Trump, the 18-year-old son of former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump, has turned down an offer to serve as a Florida delegate to the Republican National Convention. “While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to
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Washington — Republican officials in Louisiana asked the Supreme Court on Friday to step into a long-running dispute over the state’s congressional districts after a panel of lower court judges said upcoming elections can’t be held under a recently adopted map that included a second majority-Black district. Top lawyers for the state requested the justices
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A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new government rule that would slash credit card late-payment charges, a centerpiece of the Biden administration’s efforts to clamp down on “junk” fees. Judge Mark Pittman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Friday granted an injunction sought by the banking industry and other
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Former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York is expected to see its key witness, ex-attorney Michael Cohen, testify Monday. Now six years removed from being a key confidante to Trump, Cohen has emerged as the Republican presidential candidate’s de facto arch nemesis. In books, podcasts and on social media, he has become among
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Washington — A three-judge appeals court panel upheld the criminal conviction of former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in a unanimous decision on Friday, ruling they found “no basis” to depart from binding legal precedent. Bannon was found guilty in 2022 of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress for not responding to
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Racine, Wisconsin — Sheree Robinson was excited about being invited to ride in President Joe Biden’s motorcade during his trip to Wisconsin Wednesday. The Black mother of two and longtime resident of Racine said education funding in Mr. Biden’s American Rescue Plan enabled her to earn a HSED, a High School Equivalency Diploma. “Our conversation
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