Nation and World Politics
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One attack, two interpretations: Biden and Trump both make the Jan. 6 riot a political rallying cryJan 04, 2024 8:16 am - WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump will spend Saturday's third anniversary of the Capitol riot by holding two campaign rallies in leadoff-voting Iowa in his bid t...
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Bombings hit event for Iran's Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a shadowy figure slain in 2020 US drone strikeJan 04, 2024 6:57 am - TEHRAN, Iran — For Iranians backing the country's theocracy, whose icons since the Islamic Revolution have been stern-faced clergymen, Gen. Qassem Soleimani represented a...
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South Korea views the young daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as his likely successorJan 04, 2024 7:47 am - SEOUL, South Korea — The young daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is seen as her father’s likely heir apparent, South Korea’s spy agency said Thursday, its first...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. files as presidential candidate in Utah, the first state to grant him accessJan 03, 2024 2:38 pm - SALT LAKE CITY — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he has filed to run as a 2024 presidential candidate in Utah after meeting the 1,000-signature requirement needed to appear on...
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Speaker Johnson leads House GOP on a trip to a Texas border city as Ukraine aid hangs in the balanceJan 03, 2024 3:18 pm - EAGLE PASS, Texas — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is leading about 60 fellow Republicans in Congress on a visit Wednesday to the Mexican border as they demand hard-line...
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Plagiarism charges downed Harvard’s president. A conservative attack helped to fan the outrageJan 11, 2024 10:38 pm - WASHINGTON — American higher education has long viewed plagiarism as among the most serious of offenses. Accusations of plagiarism have ruined the careers of academics an...
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Trump's vows to deport millions are undercut by his White House record and one family's storyJan 03, 2024 7:38 am - Noelia Sanchez was born in the rolling farmlands of southwest Missouri, where her Mexican parents worked as seasonal farmworkers in the 1950s. When she was 1, Noelia and ...
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Biden will start the year at sites of national trauma to warn about dire stakes of the 2024 electionJan 03, 2024 7:03 am - WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is starting the campaign year by evoking the Revolutionary War to mark the third anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capit...
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Russia and Ukraine exchange hundreds of prisoners of war in biggest release so farJan 03, 2024 3:14 pm - Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release of captives since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Ukra...
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Israel's Mossad chief vows to hunt down Hamas members a day after senior figure killed in strikeJan 03, 2024 3:09 pm - BEIRUT — The chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service vowed Wednesday that the agency would hunt down every Hamas member involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, no ...