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PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Biden administration has moved to protect northeastern Minnesota's pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from future mining, dealing a potentially fatal blow to a copper-nickel project. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed an order closing more than 350 square miles of the Superior National Forest, in the Rainy River Watershed around [...]
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Though the Insight Women's Center sits at the epicenter of a reinvigorated battle in the nation's culture wars, the only hint of its faith-based mission to dissuade people from getting abortions is the jazzy, piano rendition of "Jesus Loves Me" playing in a waiting room. The Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature is considering [...]
ATLANTA (AP) — They were blamed for long lines in Los Angeles during California's 2020 presidential primary, triggered check-in delays in Columbus a few months later and were at the center of former President Donald Trump's call for supporters to protest in Detroit during last November's midterms. High-profile problems involving electronic pollbooks have opened the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Democrats now think one term is plenty for President Joe Biden, despite his insistence that he plans to seek re-election in 2024. That's according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that shows just 37 percent of Democrats say they want him to [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may be months away from publicly declaring his presidential intentions, but his potential rivals aren’t holding back. No fewer than a half dozen Republicans eyeing the White House have begun actively courting top political operatives in states such as New Hampshire and Iowa, which traditionally host [...]
COLUMBUS — Republican Ohio Auditor Keith Faber wants more training for public employees to spot government fraud and corruption and requiring them to speedily report suspected crimes, as a way of improving the state's ability to root out and prosecute bad actors and recoup taxpayer money. Faber said last week that his office has raised [...]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration has released a long-awaited study that recommends allowing a major oil development on Alaska's North Slope that supporters claim could boost the nation’s energy security but that climate activists decry as a "carbon bomb." The move — while not final — drew immediate anger from environmentalists who saw [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More adults disapprove than approve of the way President Joe Biden has handled the discovery of classified documents at his home and former office, a new poll shows, but that seems to have had little impact on his overall approval rating. The new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs [...]
CHICAGO (AP) — Anti-abortion activists are looking to the 2024 presidential election as an opportunity to solidify their influence over the Republican Party. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, the most influential group in the anti-abortion movement, is telling each potential GOP presidential hopeful that to win its backing — or avoid being a target of [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — By this time four years ago, at least a dozen Democratic presidential hopefuls eager to make their case against Donald Trump had either visited Iowa or announced plans to soon visit the leadoff voting state ahead of the 2020 election. Iowa's campaign landscape is markedly different this year, with a [...]