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ATLANTA (AP) — In Georgia’s Senate runoff, Republicans once more met the realities of giving Democrats a head start they could not overcome. According to tallies from the secretary of state, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock built a lead of more than 320,000 votes heading into last week’s election. He topped Republican Herschel Walker by an [...]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's administration last week announced the infusion of nearly $36 billion to shore up a financially troubled union pension plan, preventing severe cuts to the retirement incomes of about 350,000 Teamster workers and retirees across the United States. "It's about everything you worked for," Biden said, with union officials standing behind [...]
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump arrived in Washington with a hodgepodge of ideas developed over decades in business and television that were far outside the Republican mainstream. After his party's military invasions and embrace of multilateral trade deals that moved jobs overseas, Trump ran on an isolationist foreign policy platform, with a deep [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fresh off his party's better-than-anticipated performance in the midterm elections, President Joe Biden is facing consistent but critical assessments of his leadership and the national economy. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 43 percent of adults say they approve of the way Biden is handling [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is still actively searching for ways to safeguard abortion access for millions of women, even as it bumps up against a complex web of strict new state laws enacted in the months after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision this summer that the Constitution does not confer the right to [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California could become the first state to fine big oil companies for making too much money, a reaction to the industry's supersized profits following a summer of record-high gas prices in the nation's most populous state. Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Democratic allies in the state legislature introduced the proposal this week [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed a bill late last week to avert a freight rail strike that he said could have plunged the nation into a catastrophic recession. The bill, passed last week by the Senate and the House, binds rail companies and workers to a proposed settlement that was reached between the [...]
CHICAGO (AP) — Emboldened by the results of November’s midterms, abortion rights supporters say they are preparing for even bigger fights in state legislatures and pivotal elections to come, including 2024 races for Congress and president. Victories for abortion rights ballot measures and candidates who support abortion provided a roadmap for how to win future [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats considering shaking up the order of their 2024 presidential primary schedules are waiting on President Joe Biden, anxious to see if he'll endorse stripping Iowa of its traditional leadoff spot or discourage major changes while mulling his own potential re-election bid. Biden, however, seems to be showing little urgency in addressing [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are promising aggressive oversight of the Biden administration once they assume the majority next year, with a particular focus on the business dealings of presidential son Hunter Biden, illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and the originations of COVID-19. Republicans won't have enough votes to advance key legislative priorities if [...]