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How might third-party candidates impact 2024? How might third-party candidates impact the 2024 race? 07:40 Washington — The campaign of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. disowned language used in a fundraising email on Thursday that referred to those facing charges in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as “activists” who have been “stripped
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A federal judge in Los Angeles ordered U.S. border officials to quickly process and relocate migrant children from makeshift open-air sites in Southern California where advocates have documented squalid conditions. In a 12-page order issued Wednesday, Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California found that the children, who
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Maryland’s congressional delegation will meet with Gov. Wes Moore and the director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget Tuesday to discuss emergency funding for Baltimore and its response to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, multiple sources familiar with the planning told CBS News. The meeting will be held Tuesday at
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Washington — A federal judge in Florida denied former President Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss the classified documents indictment against him, ruling the Presidential Records Act (PRA) does not shield Trump from charges that he unlawfully retained national defense information. In a brief order issued Thursday, Cannon rejected Trump’s argument that a 1978 recordkeeping law
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Washington — No Labels, the centrist political group, is abandoning its effort to draft a third-party “unity” ticket to run in the 2024 presidential race, the organization announced Thursday. The group, which has worked for months to gain ballot access in states across the country for potential candidates, said it only planned to pursue a
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A Washington state man who used a megaphone to orchestrate a mob’s attack on police officers guarding the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot was sentenced on Wednesday to more than seven years in prison. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said videos captured Taylor James Johnatakis playing a leadership role during the Jan.
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A lone electoral vote in Nebraska could have a decisive impact on the 2024 presidential election. And that reality is now being seized upon by prominent Republicans. Nebraska is a reliably red state in presidential races. The last Democratic presidential candidate to win statewide was Lyndon B. Johnson over half a century ago. Donald Trump
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Washington — The Justice Department is set to invest nearly $80 million in additional funding to support community violence intervention programs across the country as part of the federal government’s multifaceted strategy to continue stemming what had been rising crime rates, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday. At the same time, Garland said federal law
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Biden and Trump win primaries, but some results show some voters still prefer another candidate – CBS News Watch CBS News President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump won their respective primaries in four states Tuesday, but the results showed some voters still preferred another candidate. The political protest vote against Biden’s handling of
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Sen. Bernie Sanders and President Biden joined forces Wednesday at the White House, championing the progress they’ve made on lowering the cost of inhalers and other expenses for Americans with asthma. Mr. Biden and Sanders also called on Congress and pharmaceutical companies to do more to curb prices. “Bernie, you and I have been fighting
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