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By By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press 
June 3, 2024
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The cease-fire proposal announced by President Joe Biden has placed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a crossroads, with either path likely to shape the legacy of Israel’s l...
Democrats wanted an agreement on using artificial intelligence. It went nowhere
Politics
By By DAN MERICA AP 
June 2, 2024
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic National Committee was watching earlier this year as campaigns nationwide were experimenting with artificial intelligence. So the organization approac...
Politics
June 2, 2024
By JILL COLVIN, WILL WEISSERT AND MEG KINNARD Associated Press Donald Trump has joined the popular video-sharing app TikTok, a platform he once tried to ban while in the White House, and posted from a...
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By By CALVINWOODWARD Associated Press 
May 31, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — The bravado behind Donald Trump’ s boastful hypothesis in 2016 — “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters” — is headed for a rea...
Why do voters think the economy is worse now than it ever was?
Politics
May 31, 2024
ne of the worst things about democracy O is the way we talk about it. For instance, politicians love to talk about unity, but our constitutional system was set up to keep unity at bay, preferring a mo...
Controlling Congress counts, too
Politics
May 30, 2024
Happy Valley, Oregon, population 23,733, played a small but significant role in American politics last week. That’s the hometown of Janelle Bynum, a state legislator who won the Democratic nomination ...
Pay no attention to the crazy-talking orange man
Politics
May 30, 2024
Iremember when a politician who expressed an easily debunked, crackpot conspiracy theory would be through in public life. Indeed, it took a whole lot less than that. Just 20 years ago, Democratic pres...
Politics
May 30, 2024
THOSE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES are often cautioned about the casual tossing of stones. Last week, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Braddock, decided to pick up some rocks and juggle. “In the past, I’ve des...
Rallies and debates used to define campaigns. Now they’re about juries and trials
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By By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press 
May 29, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has been sitting for hours a day in a Manhattan courtroom, where his hush-money trial is nearing its end. On Monday, a trial is set to begin...
Politics
May 29, 2024
THE PANDEMIC CHANGED the way many people worked. Specifically, it changed where they could do that work. There was a reason. If people were working from home, they weren’t spreading the virus. Working...
‘Whatever they can get him for is fine with me’
Politics
May 28, 2024
The trial of former President Donald Trump is heading toward a conclusion. For those who at the beginning thought the case was weak and politically motivated, the presentation of the prosecution’s evi...
Politics
May 28, 2024
By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump engaged in “a conspiracy and a cover-up,” a prosecutor told jurors during closing argumen...
Politics
May 28, 2024
MON VALLEY TOWNS have proven repeatedly that they have a special touch when it comes to honoring veterans. Despite the rainy forecast, that was on display again over Memorial Day weekend with services...
The message of motherhood
Politics
May 27, 2024
“I am mother!” cried “Saturday Night Live” host, and former cast member, Maya Rudolph on Mother’s Day weekend, On the show, she was dubbed the “Mother of the House of Rockefeller,” and she proceeded t...
Loose talk about the end of everything
Politics
May 27, 2024
After a recent summit between new partners China and Russia, General Secretary Xi Jinping and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin issued an odd one-sentence communique: “There can be no winner...