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GOP Targets Ballot Drop Boxes in Georgia Florida Elsewhere
GOP Targets Ballot Drop Boxes in Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, Elsewhere
  • 19 April 2021
Atlanta-area voters looking to return their ballots using a drop box in the next gubernatorial...
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FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2021 file photo, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Greene was briefly suspended from Twitter Sunday, April 4 in what the platform called an error. It's the second time in less than a month that that has happened to the Georgia Republican's account. Twitter said Monday, April 5 that automated systems were to blame for both. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
New Conservative Group Would Save ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Traditions
  • 16 April 2021
Hard-right House Republicans were discussing forming an America First Caucus, which one document described as...
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The entrance gate of the Embassy of the Russian Federation is seen in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021. The Biden administration has rolled out a sweeping set of sanctions on Russia over its election interference, hacking efforts and other malign activity. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
US Says Russia Was Given Trump Campaign Polling Data in 2016
  • 16 April 2021
Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian and Ukrainian political consultant, was a key but mysterious figure in...
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From left, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and Rep. Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y., hold a news conference outside the Supreme Court to announce legislation to expand the number of seats on the high court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Democrats Begin Long-Shot Push to Expand the Supreme Court
  • 15 April 2021
A group of congressional Democrats have introduced legislation to add four seats to the Supreme...
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House GOP Leader: Won’t Punish Matt Gaetz Unless Charges Filed
  • 15 April 2021
Rep. Matt Gaetz, under federal investigation for sex trafficking allegations, is “innocent until proven guilty"...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Coordination Center of the Russian Government in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The centre was set up as a line of communication with the whole of Russia for analysing and collecting information, promptly using big data and solving arising problems. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Months After Hack, US Poised to Announce Sanctions on Russia
  • 14 April 2021
The Biden administration is preparing to announce sanctions in response to a massive Russian hacking...
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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2021 file photo State representatives gather at the Capitol, in Phoenix. Two years after Arizona lawmakers repealed a law barring any instruction on HIV or AIDS that that "promotes a homosexual lifestyle," they are close to enacting a broad remake of the state's sex education laws with a particular focus on LGBTQ issues. (AP Photo/Matt York,File)
Conservatives Propose Revised Sex Ed Rules in LGBTQ Pushback
  • 14 April 2021
Two years after Arizona lawmakers repealed a ban on any HIV/AIDS instruction that “promotes a...
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FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, police keep a watch on demonstrators who tried to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. A blistering internal report by the U.S. Capitol Police describes a multitude of missteps that left the force unprepared for the Jan. 6 insurrection — riot shields that shattered upon impact, expired weapons that couldn’t be used, inadequate training and an intelligence division that had few set standards. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
Stinging Report Raises New Questions About Capitol Security
  • 14 April 2021
Shields that shattered upon impact. Weapons too old to use. Missed intelligence in which future...
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, violent rioters storm the Capitol, in Washington. New details from the deadly riot of Jan. 6 are contained in a previously undisclosed document prepared by the Pentagon for internal use that was obtained by the Associated Press and vetted by current and former government officials. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Prosecutors: No Charges for Officer in Capitol Riot Shooting
  • 14 April 2021
Federal prosecutors will not charge a police officer who shot and killed a woman as...
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FILE - This Sept. 22, 2010 file photo shows bottles of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 in Des Moines, Iowa. In 2021, about 40% of all abortions in the U.S. are now done through medication — rather than surgery — and that option has become all the more pivotal during the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Some GOP-Led States Target Abortions Done Through Medication
  • 11 April 2021
Abortion opponents are pushing legislation in several Republican-led states to restrict and in some cases...
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FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 23, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a joint statement with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Former President Donald Trump plans to affirm his commitment to the Republican Party — and raise the possibility that someone else will be the GOP's next presidential nominee — in a closed-door speech to donors Saturday night, April 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Trump Goes After Pence, McConnell in Speech to Party Donors
  • 11 April 2021
In a closed-door speech to donors at his Mar-a-Lago resort, the former president also reinforced...
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks during a news conference at the State Capitol on Saturday, April 3, 2021, in Atlanta, about Major League Baseball's decision to pull the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta over the league's objection to a new Georgia voting law. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Protest Near Masters Pushes Back Against Georgia Voting Law
  • 10 April 2021
Georgia's law — which opponents say is designed to reduce the impact of minority voters...
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