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How Political Party Platforms – Like The Republicans’ Trump-Inspired One For 2024 – Can Help Voters Understand American Politics

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/15/2024 - 1:00am

Political parties’ platforms – their statements of where they stand on issues – get little respect. In 2020, then-President Donald Trump mused he might shrink his party’s platform from 66 pages in 2016 to just one page – but ultimately the party just kept the same platform document from four years earlier. Even as far back as 1996, Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole claimed he had never read his party’s platform.

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Supreme Court Opinion Conferring Broad Immunity Could Embolden Trump As He Seeks To Return To Power

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/08/2024 - 7:00am

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Chesapeake, Va., Friday, June 28, 2024.
(Steve Helber / AP Photo)

WASHINGTON (AP) — In her dissent from a Supreme Court opinion that afforded former President Donald Trump broad immunity, Justice Sonia Sotomayor pondered the potential doomsday consequences: A president could pocket a bribe for a pardon, stage a military coup to retain power, order the killing of a rival by the Navy's SEAL Team Six — and be protected from prosecution for all of it.

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Democrats May Need the Courage of a Hugh Scott Moment

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/08/2024 - 6:00am

Hours after President Joe Biden's feeble debate performance Thursday night that left voters across the country stunned, two of Pennsylvania's most powerful Democrats, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), pushed back against calls for Biden to step down from his reelection campaign.

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Texas U.S. House Member Calls For Biden To Withdraw Amid Debate Fallout

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/08/2024 - 5:00am

WASHINGTON — Texas U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett called for President Joe Biden to withdraw as the Democratic nominee Tuesday, becoming the first congressional Democrat to do so after Biden’s poor performance in last week’s presidential debate that has sent the party reeling four months before the November presidential election.

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North Korea Brags Of New Missile With 'Super-Large Warhead.' Outsiders Doubt The North's Claim

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/08/2024 - 4:00am

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Tuesday it had test-fired a new tactical ballistic missile capable of carrying “a super-large warhead,” a claim quickly disputed by South Korean officials and experts who speculate the North likely fabricated a successful test to conceal a botched launch.

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Ukraine Is Releasing Thousands Of Prisoners So They Can Join The Fight Against Russia

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/08/2024 - 3:00am

DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — At a rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine, several convicts stand assembled under barbed wire to hear an army recruiter offer them a shot at parole. In return, they must join the grueling fight against Russia.

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Nebraska’s 2024 Border Deployments Cost $1.27 Million

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/08/2024 - 2:00am

LINCOLN — This year’s two border deployments ordered by Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen cost a combined $1.27 million.

The state says it paid $1.2 million of that total using interest accrued from the second wave of $48 million in federal pandemic relief funds that Congress set aside for rental assistance.

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How The Biden-Trump Debate Could Change The Trajectory Of The 2024 Campaign

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 7:00am

This combination of photos taken in Columbia, S.C. shows former President Donald Trump, left, on Feb. 24, 2024, and President Joe Biden on Jan. 27, 2024.
(AP File Photos)

ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden and his Republican rival, Donald Trump, will meet for a debate on Thursday that offers an unparalleled opportunity for both candidates to try to reshape the political narrative.

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Should Masks Be Banned At Gaza Protests?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 6:00am

Things got violent outside a Los Angeles orthodox synagogue on Sunday, leading the mayor at a Monday press conference to say that a ban on wearing masks to such protests should be considered. A number of the pro-Palestinian protestors Sunday, who blocked entrance to the synagogue and ended up in fistfights and spraying Bear spray at those attending synagogue, wore masks.

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SCOTUS Rejects Suit Alleging Federal Government Bullied Social Media Into Censoring Content

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 5:00am

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected arguments by Missouri and Louisiana that the federal government violated the First Amendment in its efforts to combat false, misleading and dangerous information online.