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The wild past 24 hours of Trump legal news, explained

The Arizona attorney general’s office unsealed a new case indicting several top Trump allies, including Rudy Giuliani, for trying to steal the 2020...

26.04.2024 9

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How Trump’s hush money trial went from an afterthought to the main event

When former President Donald Trump was indicted in New York for falsifying business records last March, many anticipated that would be the prologue to...

15.04.2024 10

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Nebraska Republicans’ bid to help Trump win the Electoral College, explained

On Tuesday, Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) urged his state’s legislature to change its rules for this year’s presidential election — a change...

04.04.2024 20

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Could Republican resignations flip the House to Democrats?

The GOP’s majority in the House of Representatives was already very narrow — and it’s getting even narrower. But could it get narrow enough that...

30.03.2024 30

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Is Biden on track for defeat? The debate, explained

Is Joe Biden in deep reelection trouble, or is there good reason to think he’s headed for a comeback? The question has divided the political world...

28.03.2024 4

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The political battle over Laken Riley’s murder, explained

On the evening of February 23, reports spread that the suspect in the killing of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was murdered while out...

21.03.2024 6

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Fani Willis’s Trump prosecution can move forward — if she drops her ex from the case

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s prosecution of Donald Trump will be allowed to move forward in Georgia — if she drops her ex from...

15.03.2024 10

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Robert Hur’s report exaggerated Biden’s memory issues

When special counsel Robert Hur released his report last month explaining why he wouldn’t charge President Joe Biden with mishandling classified...

13.03.2024 30

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The media’s coverage of Biden’s age needs a rethink

The verdict from the media is in — President Joe Biden put to rest concerns about his age for the time being with a “fiery,” “forceful,”...

08.03.2024 10

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How Mitch McConnell lost by winning

28.02.2024 4

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Trump’s big day in court

Prosecutors in all four of the cases against Donald Trump are racing against time to try to get to trial before Election Day. But to do so, they each...

15.02.2024 10

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Why was there a special counsel report on Biden’s memory?

Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are old and speak less fluidly than they used to. When speaking, both have a tendency to forget things or mix up...

09.02.2024 7

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The chances that Trump will be a convicted felon by Election Day have dropped

Democrats perturbed about Donald Trump’s lead in 2024 polling have long had a comforting hope to fall back on: that Trump, who is facing four...

01.02.2024 30

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Why Trump fears a Biden-GOP immigration deal

For years, Republicans have professed fury over a crisis at the US-Mexico border. For months, many in the GOP have insisted they could only support...

25.01.2024 5

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What would it take for Nikki Haley to win at this point?

Nikki Haley congratulated Trump on his New Hampshire primary victory Tuesday — but she also said she wasn’t giving up on her campaign just yet,...

24.01.2024 4

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The 2024 New Hampshire primary is underway. Here’s the latest.

Voters in New Hampshire head to the polls on Tuesday, January 23, to vote in the Republican and Democratic presidential primary, the first of the 2024...

23.01.2024 6

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How a Haley presidency would be better — and worse — than Trump

With Nikki Haley as the last remaining significant challenger to Donald Trump, media coverage of her has focused overwhelmingly on the question of...

23.01.2024 8

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1 winner and 3 losers from the Iowa caucuses

None of the GOP presidential candidates got what they wanted out of the Iowa caucuses — except for Donald Trump. Before the caucuses, I wrote about...

16.01.2024 7

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Is it over yet? What the Iowa caucus results mean for the GOP presidential race.

Donald Trump won the Iowa caucuses big on Monday. The exact vote tally is still being determined, but he’ll likely end up with around 50 percent of...

16.01.2024 20

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How to decode the Iowa caucuses result

The question of who will win the Iowa caucuses isn’t as simple as who comes in first place. “Winning” Iowa doesn’t get you much except...

15.01.2024 7

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The Iowa caucuses only matter because people believe they matter

Polls show Donald Trump as the clear favorite to win the GOP Iowa caucuses on Monday, January 15. But the true stakes of the contest are about more...

13.01.2024 8

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3 winners and 2 losers from the fifth Republican debate

If you somehow avoided watching the Ron DeSantis-Nikki Haley debate Wednesday night, you missed an epic event full of game-changing moments that could...

11.01.2024 10

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Nikki Haley, the one candidate who could still make the GOP primary kinda interesting, explained

Donald Trump leads polls overwhelmingly, Ron DeSantis has gone down in flames, and various other candidates never got off the ground. But if the GOP...

10.01.2024 4

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The weird, true story of the most successful third-party presidential candidate in the past century

Americans were dissatisfied with both major-party options for president. The incumbent was viewed as prioritizing foreign affairs while failing to...

26.12.2023 10

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Why Biden may give in to Republican demands on immigration

In exchange for approving more aid to Ukraine, congressional Republicans want Democrats to agree to dramatically limit the options migrants have to...

14.12.2023 10

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Hunter Biden’s new indictment, explained

Just six months ago, Hunter Biden had reason to think his legal woes would soon be over — and now, they’re more serious than ever. Special counsel...

08.12.2023 4

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3 winners and 1 loser from the fourth Republican presidential debate

Time is running out for the Republicans who want to stop Donald Trump. The Iowa caucuses are six weeks away, and the former president continues to...

07.12.2023 4

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Is Biden doomed in 2024? 3 theories about the president’s bad polls.

Just how dire are President Joe Biden’s poll numbers looking for Democrats? The president is currently registering a 38.9 percent approval rating on...

27.11.2023 20

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Joe Manchin retires, making Democrats’ brutal 2024 Senate map even more brutal

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) will not run for reelection — a decision that likely means Democrats will lose a Senate seat in the narrowly divided chamber...

10.11.2023 30

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0 winners and 5 losers from the third Republican presidential debate

The third Republican presidential debate was more sedate and more substantive than the previous two — but, unfortunately for the candidates onstage,...

09.11.2023 60

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3 winners and 1 loser from Election Day 2023

The 2023 general election on Tuesday, November 7, featured only a grab-bag group of contests, but there was one clear overall theme in the results:...

08.11.2023 20

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The “uniparty”: The far-right obsession driving GOP chaos, explained

As Republican hardliners tossed Speaker Kevin McCarthy out of office and attempted to dictate his replacement, one word kept recurring in their...

28.10.2023 3

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3 winners and 3 losers from the House speaker circus

The winner of the game of House Speaker musical chairs is … Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), who won the job Wednesday with unanimous GOP support. After a...

25.10.2023 3

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The GOP speaker contest has entered its “who?” era

Republicans’ search for a new speaker of the House has gone back to square one. After Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) fell short of the votes he needed on...

20.10.2023 2

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5 ways the House speaker drama could end

On Thursday morning, House Republican leaders had hoped they’d finally found a way out of their bitter speaker’s race standoff. The idea was,...

20.10.2023 2

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How Speaker Jim Jordan went from unthinkable to quite possible

Speaker Jim Jordan. The phrase would have long been unthinkable, even laughable, to most Republicans in the House of Representatives. But it’s now...

17.10.2023 2

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House Republicans are fighting over their next leader. Here’s what you need to know.

Since Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was deposed as speaker on October 3, House Republicans have been in turmoil trying to elect his replacement. GOP...

16.10.2023 3

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Now it’s Jim Jordan’s turn to struggle to become speaker

If at first you don’t succeed, get the guy who succeeded to quit, and then try again. That’s how Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) won a vote among House...

14.10.2023 20

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Steve Scalise’s 24 hours of humiliation

For a brief moment, many Republicans hoped the party’s nomination of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) for speaker of the House could quickly unite their...

13.10.2023 50

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What’s next in Republicans’ rowdy fight to be the new House speaker

10.10.2023 2

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The fraught debate over whether the 14th Amendment disqualifies Trump, explained

Should Donald Trump even be allowed on the ballot in 2024? Some of the country’s most prominent legal experts, and a small number of activists and...

07.10.2023 8

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Republicans’ thin corruption case against Joe Biden, explained

Whatever you may think about the impeachments of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, they were at least impeached for things they verifiably did. But Joe...

28.09.2023 3

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1 winner and 3 losers from Fox’s dud of a second GOP debate

The second Republican debate, like the first, took place in a parallel political universe in which Donald Trump was an obscure figure of no serious...

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The indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez, explained

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has been indicted — again. On Friday, prosecutors from the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York...

22.09.2023 2

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The indictment of Hunter Biden isn’t really about gun charges

For more than four years, prosecutors have been digging into Hunter Biden’s tax and business affairs — including millions of dollars he made from...

15.09.2023 10

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Why Biden isn’t getting a credible primary challenger

In poll after poll this year, many and sometimes even most Democratic voters have said they don’t want President Joe Biden to be the party’s...

12.09.2023 10

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This decades-old GOP movement is finally scoring breakthrough wins in the Biden era

11.09.2023 2

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Trump and Biden are about tied for 2024. Is it too early to take those polls seriously?

Donald Trump may be facing 91 criminal counts across four separate indictments, but polls continue to show an extremely close 2024 contest between him...

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