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Why Republican-led states keep leaving a group that verifies voter rolls

Eight Republican-led states this year left an interstate cooperative that seeks to maintain accurate voter registration rolls, and three more may join them — a move that election security experts say is fueled by conspiracy theories.

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Patricia Murphy: Can Tim Scott break the Trump fever for the GOP?

Here we go again. A qualified, conservative, likable Republican gets into the GOP presidential primary against Donald Trump. And then so does another one, and another, and another until eventually, the race becomes a blob of Donald Trump vs. everyone else.

Tribune News Service

While DNC coming to Chicago might provide good vibes, experts say economic boost might be overhyped

CHICAGO — When Chicago last hosted the Democratic National Convention in 1996, Mayor Richard M. Daley played the role of deep-pocketed Johnny Appleseed.

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Editorial: Trump’s mouth on trial: Donald is compelled to spout off and the courts won’t abide it

Like the scorpion in the fable that causes its own drowning, Donald Trump cannot stop himself from attacking and insulting and belittling. It’s been his nature for his nearly 77 years and helped propel him into the White House. A fitting word for his attitude is contemptuous. While his sneering…

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COUNTERPOINT: Republicans falling into the same 2016 Trump trap

A large field of qualified candidates is setting up the Republican primaries for a repeat of 2016.

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AP News Digest 3:45 am

Here are the AP’s latest coverage plans, top stories and promotable content. All times EDT. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s coverage, visit Coverage Plan.

The Independent UK

What is Twitter Spaces and why did it go so wrong during DeSantis’s 2024 launch?

At one point, the controversial Republican governor himself disappeared from the audio-only livestream

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Friends to foes: How Trump and DeSantis' relationship has deteriorated over the years

Before Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis were leading rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, they were allies

The Independent UK

Trump and DeSantis' rivalry intensifies as Florida governor formally enters 2024 presidential race

Ron DeSantis’ entry into the 2024 White House race against former President Donald Trump sets up a clash of the Republican Party’s two leading figures

The Independent UK

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes faces sentencing for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes will be sentenced Thursday after a landmark verdict convicting him of spearheading a weekslong plot to keep former President Donald Trump in power, culminating in far-right extremists attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

The Independent UK

McCarthy's Republicans push debt ceiling talks to brink, lawmakers leaving town for weekend

House Republicans are pushing debt ceiling talks to the brink

The Independent UK

Look who's talking: Biden goes quiet in debt-limit talks, while McCarthy can't stop chatting

President Joe Biden has made a deliberate decision to go quiet as his team gets down to the wire in the debt-limit talks, according to White House officials

The Independent UK

George Floyd death anniversary: Reckoning with police violence in limbo

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police was three years ago today, and the fervent protests that erupted around the world in response, seemed like the catalyst needed for a nationwide reckoning on racism in policing

The Independent UK

What the 2020 census can — and can't — tell us about LGBTQ people

The Census Bureau has released the most comprehensive national statistics to date about same-sex couples living together in the U.S. But many other LGBTQ people remain invisible in the census data.

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Taxing the Rich Will Have No Meaningful Effect on Our Sky-High National Debt

The U.S. tax system is extremely progressive, even compared to European countries—whose governments rely on taxing the middle class.

The Independent UK

New York GOP candidate hosts protest at motel housing migrants. Turns out there were none there

Kew Motor Inn says they had ‘no intention’ of housing migrants or striking a deal to do so with New York City

The Hindu

Morning Digest | Ron DeSantis launches 2024 presidential bid to challenge Donald Trump; GDP growth may cross 7% in 2022-23: RBI Governor, and more

The Hindu’s Morning Digest brings readers a select list of stories to start the day

Tribune News Service

Biden to nominate Gen. Charles Brown to head Joint Chiefs

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is nominating General Charles Q. Brown Jr. as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a senior administration official said, seeking to elevate the Air Force chief to become the nation’s most senior military officer.

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McCarthy faces pressure from conservatives vital to his job as debt talks resume

WASHINGTON — House conservatives ratcheted up pressure on Speaker Kevin McCarthy to hold firm in talks over raising the debt ceiling just days before a potentially catastrophic U.S. default.

The Texas Tribune

Ken Paxton dismissed House investigators as partisan Democrats. Their backgrounds suggest otherwise.

A Texas Tribune review of the investigators’ employment history, voting records and campaign donations found a lack of support for the attorney general’s claim.

Tribune News Service

DeSantis signs bill allowing him to run for president without resigning

TAMPA, Fla. — In another incremental step in his bid for the White House, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a bill clarifying that Florida elected officials can remain in office while running for president.

The Guardian - US

Failure to launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis

What liberals may have feared as the alliance of two anti-woke villains, turned out to have the menace of a damp dishcloth

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Jan. 6 rioter who sat at Pelosi’s desk sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison

The man who sat and put his feet up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Wednesday to four and a half years in prison.

The Guardian - US

Outages, garbled audio: DeSantis’s 2024 launch marred by Twitter tech meltdown

Struggling platform experienced its greatest stress test yet on Wednesday, with glitches piling as more people joined the stream

Los Angeles Times

Does announcing for president on Twitter prove Ron DeSantis is too online?

WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential announcement Wednesday — a glitchy live broadcast on Twitter — was the latest example of the Republican candidate's all-out effort to court his party's most online activists.

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