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GOP presidential hopefuls use Trump’s COVID record to court vaccine skeptics

December 10, 2023, 6:05am Health

Former President Donald Trump often seems proud to advertise his administration’s record on speedily developing COVID-19 vaccines. Read story

Analysis: Trump initially sidesteps ‘dictator’ question before adoring Iowa crowd

December 9, 2023, 6:00am Politics

Former President Donald Trump initially sidestepped a question about whether he intends to govern as a “dictator” or “abuse power” during a possible second term as friendly Iowa voters repeatedly… Read story

GOP presidential candidates share stories of family and faith. Offstage, their sharp edges reemerge

December 10, 2023, 5:51pm Nation & World

A trio of Republican presidential candidates shared stories of family and faith before hundreds of voters in northwest Iowa on Saturday, having congenial individual conversations with their hosts not long after dueling at the campaign's latest fractious debate. But off the stage at a small Christian college in Sioux Center,… Read story

A group of migrants walk along the border in a remote part of the Arizona desert as they join hundreds of migrants gathering along the border Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in Lukeville, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D.

Smugglers are bringing migrants to a remote Arizona border crossing, overwhelming U.S. agents

A group of migrants walk along the border in a remote part of the Arizona desert as they join hundreds of migrants gathering along the border Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in Lukeville, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D.

December 10, 2023, 3:47pm Nation & World

Gerston Miranda and his wife were among thousands of migrants recently arriving at this remote area on Arizona's southern border with Mexico, squeezing into the United States through a gap in the wall and walking overnight about 14 miles (23 kilometers) with two school-aged daughters to surrender to Border Patrol… Read story

FILE - President Joe Biden talks with U.S. Border Patrol agents as they walk along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. A deal to provide further U.S. assistance to Ukraine by year-end appears to be increasingly out of reach for President Joe Biden. Republicans are insisting on pairing the funding with changes to America&rsquo;s immigration and border policies.

New U.S. aid for Ukraine by year-end seems increasingly out of reach as GOP ties it to border security

FILE - President Joe Biden talks with U.S. Border Patrol agents as they walk along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. A deal to provide further U.S. assistance to Ukraine by year-end appears to be increasingly out of reach for President Joe Biden. Republicans are insisting on pairing the funding with changes to America&rsquo;s immigration and border policies.

December 10, 2023, 3:46pm Nation & World

A deal to provide further U.S. assistance to Ukraine by year-end appears to be increasingly out of reach for President Joe Biden. The impasse is deepening in Congress despite dire warnings from the White House about the consequences of inaction as Republicans insist on pairing the aid with changes to… Read story

Trump says he won’t testify again at his New York fraud trial. He says he has nothing more to say

December 10, 2023, 2:52pm Nation & World

Donald Trump said Sunday he has decided against testifying for a second time at his New York civil fraud trial, posting on social media that he “VERY SUCCESSFULLY & CONCLUSIVELY” testified last month and saw no need to appear again. Read story

FILE - President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden exchange points during the first presidential debate Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. President Joe Biden is trying to focus the campaign on former President Donald Trump&#039;s comments and policy proposals, sometimes more than his own. It&#039;s a time-worn strategy of White House incumbents to try to negatively define their rivals in the public&#039;s eyes.

Biden’s focus on bashing Trump takes a page from the winning Obama and Bush reelection playbooks

FILE - President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden exchange points during the first presidential debate Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. President Joe Biden is trying to focus the campaign on former President Donald Trump&#039;s comments and policy proposals, sometimes more than his own. It&#039;s a time-worn strategy of White House incumbents to try to negatively define their rivals in the public&#039;s eyes.

December 10, 2023, 12:25pm Politics

President Joe Biden's campaign manager recently sent a fundraising email meant to reassure supporters worried about the Democrat's reelection chances, urging them to take a “quick walk down memory lane.” Read story

Blinken defends bypassing Congress to sell weapons to Israel and presses lawmakers to help Ukraine

December 10, 2023, 11:47am Latest News

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday defended the emergency sale to Israel of nearly 14,000 rounds of tank ammunition and also called for quick congressional approval of more than $100 billion in aid for Israel, Ukraine and other national security priorities. Read story

Abortion-rights activists march to the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2023, in Washington, DC. The rally was organized by abortion-rights activists and held to mark the one year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s Health, which overturned Roe v Wade and erased federal protections for abortions.

State abortion bans bar exceptions for suicide, mental health

Abortion-rights activists march to the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2023, in Washington, DC. The rally was organized by abortion-rights activists and held to mark the one year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s Health, which overturned Roe v Wade and erased federal protections for abortions.

December 10, 2023, 5:38am Health

In the year since the Supreme Court outlawed the national right to an abortion, 18 states have implemented abortion bans that specify that mental health or suicidality do not qualify as a health-related exception for the woman — a deviation that’s occurring despite growing national momentum to treat physical and… Read story

Washington, D.C., Roll Call

December 9, 2023, 6:02am Northwest

Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the week ending Dec. 8. Read story