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US and South Korea sign joint nuclear deterrence guidelines in face of North Korean threats
The U.S. and South Korea signed joint nuclear deterrence guidelines, weeks after North Korea and Russia struck a defense pact that deepened concerns in the region about the North's growing nuclear threats. Meeting Thursday on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Washington, President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol commended what they called “the tremendous progress” that their countries’ alliance have made a year after creating a joint Nuclear Consultative Group.
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Republicans are gathering in Milwaukee to nominate Donald Trump again. Here's what to expect
For all the usual stagecraft, the Republican National Convention that opens Monday is different from Donald Trump's previous nominating affairs. In 2016 and 2020, Trump was the underdog heading into fall and faced criticism from within his own party. This year, he will accept the Republican nomination with his party in lockstep behind him and Democrats in turmoil over President Joe Biden's viability.
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More Democrats call on Biden to step aside from 2024 race after his news conference
At least three more House Democrats are calling on President Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential race after his first solo press conference in months.
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Biden expounds on policy while his party frets over his delivery
For nearly an hour Thursday night, President Joe Biden faced reporters and spooled out ideas shaped by a half-century in elected office.
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Biden says he'll take a neurological test if his doctors tell him to
Biden said that his doctors determined that he was in "good shape," as pressure mounts for him to prove his cognitive fitness before the elections.
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Trump allies view Biden’s press conference as ‘best of both worlds’
They say Biden performed well enough to stave off calls to drop out but managed to provide campaign ad fodder.
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'I’m in good shape': Biden takes questions about his mental and physical fitness
President Joe Biden vigorously defended his fitness for office in a high-stakes press conference Thursday evening, fielding several questions about his age and calls for him to step aside.
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Biden's high-stakes NATO speech wasn't a disaster. But it's not going to change anyone's mind.
President Joe Biden's remarks at a NATO summit Thursday went relatively well, but it was always unlikely to assuage any concerns about his fitness.
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4 key takeaways from Biden’s NATO summit press conference
With the eyes of the world watching to assess the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as well as Joe Biden’s decision to press on with his reelection campaign amid concerns over his health, the U.S. president held a solo news conference Thursday seen as another high-stakes test of his fitness to hold office.
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Biden's challenge: Will he ever satisfy the media's appetite for questions about his ability?
Toward the end of his closely watched news conference Thursday night on the sidelines of the NATO summit, President Joe Biden was talking about being examined by doctors for his mental acuity. Biden appeared determined and gave no indication that he doubted his ability to be the best candidate to take on Trump in the November general election.
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U.S. Faces Calls To Halt Arms Sales To Israel, After Medical Journal Says Gaza Death Toll Likely Worse
A Lancet letter predicting an alarming Gaza death toll led to more pressure on the Biden administration.
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Key takeaways from Biden's news conference: Insistence on staying in the race and flubbed names
Joe Biden faced a test Thursday that he had avoided so far this year — a solo news conference with questions from the White House press corps. The news conference was meant to reassure a disheartened group of Democratic lawmakers, allies and persuadable voters in this year's election that Biden still has the strength and stamina to be president. Biden has tried to defend his feeble and tongue-tied performance in the June 27 debate against Republican Donald Trump as an outlier rather than evide
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Vulnerable Democrats grapple with running on a ticket with Biden
Democrats running in competitive congressional races are trying to keep the focus on their own campaigns as President Joe Biden, confronted with questions about his future as the party’s nominee, defiantly declares that he isn’t going anywhere.
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The Democrats who have called on Joe Biden to step down
A growing number of Democratic officials have publicly called for Biden to quit, or reportedly done so in private
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Arizona abortion initiative backers sue to remove 'unborn human being' from voter pamphlet language
Backers of a November abortion rights ballot initiative have sued a GOP-led legislative committee that seeks to include proposed language for the voter pamphlet referring to a fetus as an "unborn human being.” Arizona for Abortion Access filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court on Wednesday, asking that a judge refuse to allow the language favored by a Republican-dominated legislative group for the initiative summary. Abortion rights is a central issue in Democratic campaigns in this
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Biden refers to Kamala Harris as 'Vice President Trump' shortly after calling Zelenskyy 'Putin'
At the end of his press conference, Biden was asked about Trump mocking him over the flub. "Listen to him," Biden replied.
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Trump asks judge to toss out guilty verdict in hush money case after Supreme Court decision
Former President Donald Trump has asked a state court judge to toss out his criminal conviction in New York, pointing to the Supreme Court’s recent immunity decision that outlines when a former president must be shielded from prosecution.
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The pressure builds on Biden: From the Politics Desk
Close allies and congressional Democrats are increasing the pressure on Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race against Donald Trump.
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Top Biden advisers meet with senators as Democratic anxieties about election grow
Senate Democrats will meet with President Joe Biden's top advisers who are seeking to quell anxieties about whether he can beat Donald Trump in November.
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Mississippi election officials argue against quick work on drawing new majority-Black districts
Redrawing some Mississippi legislative districts in time for this November's election is impossible because of tight deadlines to prepare ballots, state officials say in new court papers. Attorneys for the all-Republican state Board of Election Commissioners filed arguments Wednesday in response to a July 2 ruling by three federal judges who ordered the Mississippi House and Senate to reconfigure some legislative districts. The judges said current districts dilute the power of Black voters in
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Biden introduces Zelenskyy as Putin in latest major flub
President Joe Biden introduced Ukrainian President Voldomyr Zelenskyy as Russian President Vladimir Putin in a cringeworthy moment on Thursday.
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Exclusive-UAW considering next steps on worries Trump could beat Biden, sources say
DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain met with the union's executive board late on Thursday to discuss his deep concerns with President Joe Biden's ability to defeat Donald Trump in the November election, three sources familiar with the matter said. Fain called together top officials at the nearly 400,000-member union to discuss concerns and what the union's options are, according to the sources, who asked not to be identified. Fain and the UAW, which endorsed
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The GOP group behind Project 2025 floats conspiracy theory that Biden will use 'force' to keep power
A conservative think tank that is planning for a complete overhaul of the federal government in the event of a Republican presidential win is suggesting that President Joe Biden might try to hold the White House “by force” if he loses the November election. The Heritage Foundation's warning — which goes against Biden's own public statements — appeared in a report released Thursday that the group said resulted from a role-playing exercise gaming out potential scenarios before and after the 2024
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Biden Calls Ukraine President Zelenskyy 'President Putin' At NATO Conference
“Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin," Biden said before correcting himself.
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Trump disavows Project 2025, but he has long-standing ties to some key architects
Former President Donald Trump claimed he knows “nothing” about Project 2025, but holds longstanding ties with the project’s authors and sponsors.
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Biden’s position tenuous amid reports campaign secretly testing Harris’s popularity
Reports come as Biden mistakenly refers to Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskiy as ‘President Putin’ at Nato summit
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Trump lawyers invoke immunity ruling in bid to toss hush money verdict
NEW YORK (Reuters -Donald Trump's lawyers on Thursday said Manhattan prosecutors improperly relied on evidence of the former U.S. president's official acts in securing his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star. In a court filing dated July 10 but made public on Thursday, defense lawyers said the May 30 guilty verdict in the first-ever criminal trial of a U.S. president should be set aside following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity.
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Trump lawyers press judge to overturn hush money conviction after Supreme Court immunity ruling
Donald Trump’s lawyers are imploring a New York judge to overturn his hush money conviction and dismiss the case, arguing his historic trial was “tainted” by evidence that shouldn't have been allowed because of the Supreme Court’s recent presidential immunity ruling. In a court filing made public Thursday, the former president's lawyers expanded on their view that Manhattan prosecutors had rashly and wrongly hurried to try Trump while the high court was still considering his immunity claims. “
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Jury to begin deliberations Friday in bribery trial of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez
A New York City jury was told Thursday it will begin deliberating criminal charges against Sen. Bob Menendez at his bribery trial on Friday after hearing instructions on the law. Judge Sidney H. Stein began after 4 p.m. to read the instructions to jurors who heard and viewed evidence over two months before listening to a week of closing arguments in Manhattan federal court. Prosecutors say the Democrat accepted nearly $150,000 in gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from thre
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'No one involved in the effort thinks he has a path': Biden insiders say the writing is on the wall
Several of Biden’s closest allies, including three people who are directly involved in efforts to re-elect him, said they now see his chances of winning as zero — and the likelihood of him taking down fellow Democratic candidates growing.
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More than a dozen congressional Democrats have now called on Biden to end his reelection bid
Fifteen Democratic members of Congress have called on President Biden to step aside so another nominee can take on Republican Donald Trump in November.
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Georgia's Fulton County approves plan for independent monitor team to oversee general election
Georgia's most populous county, which has had a history of voting problems and was a focus of former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, has approved a plan for an independent monitor team to oversee this year's general election. The Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections on Thursday considered two monitor proposals and voted to accept one and to reject the other. Board Chair Cathy Woolard said the selected proposal now goes to the State Election Boa
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GOP Push To Fine Merrick Garland $10,000 A Day Over Biden Audio Fails
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who pushed for the penalty, said she would try again when Congress returns.
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Democrats felt 'gaslit' by the Biden campaign. Are lawmakers returning the favor now?
Congressional Democrats are asking Biden: Have you really made your final decision on staying in the race?
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Biden looks to French elections to boost his political case — but it's complicated
France rejected the right’s bid for power last weekend. But the dynamics there and elsewhere are still big warning signs about Joe Biden’s shot at re-election.
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These Democrats have publicly called for Biden to drop out of the race
A growing cohort of congressional Democrats are breaking their silence on their concerns about Biden's political viability going forward.
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US steps up sanctions against Israeli settlers and ‘outposts’ in occupied West Bank
Targeting ‘outposts’ suggests Biden administration prepared to take some action to confront blatant land grab
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Biden Critics On Capitol Hill Settle In For Potentially Long Fight Over Nomination
If the White House had hoped a good showing at Thursday’s NATO press conference would end the debate over Biden's fitness, it may be disappointed.
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Biden faces his lowest point since the debate
Two weeks after debate, Biden allies struggle to quell unrest.
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Republicans fail to hold AG Merrick Garland in contempt and fine him over Biden audiotapes
A Republican bill to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in "inherent contempt" for failing to turn over the audiotapes of President Joe Biden failed.
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Biden Advisers Weigh How to Persuade Him to End His Campaign
WASHINGTON — Some longtime aides and advisers to President Joe Biden have become increasingly convinced that he will have to step aside from the campaign, and in recent days they have been trying to come up with ways to persuade him that he should, according to three people briefed on the matter. A small group of Biden’s advisers in the administration and the campaign — at least two of whom have told allies that they do not believe he should keep trying to run for a second term — have said they
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Senate committee to probe Supreme Court's Trump immunity ruling
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on possible legislation to limit the impact of the Supreme Court ruling on immunity for Donald Trump.
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Bipartisan House trio, all in tough re-election fights, pitch bill to stop fentanyl at the border
A new bill to stop fentanyl at the U.S.-Mexico border has support in the House and Senate, but Congress has struggled to pass any border legislation in this election year.
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The calls for Biden to step down are now coming from inside the White House
According to The New York Times, some White House advisors are convinced Joe Biden will drop out.
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The Embattled Biden Campaign Tests Kamala Harris’ Strength vs. Trump
Under siege from fellow Democrats, President Joe Biden’s campaign is quietly testing the strength of Vice President Kamala Harris against former President Donald Trump in a head-to-head survey of voters, as Biden fights for his political future with a high-stakes news conference Thursday. The survey, which is being conducted this week and was commissioned by the Biden campaign’s analytics team, is believed to be the first time since the debate that Biden’s aides have sought to measure how the vi
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Rep. Bob Good files for recount in Virginia GOP congressional primary
U.S. Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., one of Congress' most conservative members, filed a petition Thursday for a recount after state election officials say he narrowly lost a primary last month to a challenger backed by former President Donald Trump. The Good campaign filed the recount petition in Goochland County outside of Richmond. Earlier this month, the state board of elections declared state Sen. John McGuire the winner over Good in the 5th Congressional District primary.
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A Trump Ally Is Training 75 Armed Citizens. Is That a Militia?
The leader of a New York City suburb is recruiting 75 armed citizens, many of them former police officers, for a force of “special deputies” to be activated whenever he chooses. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican who has allied himself with former President Donald Trump and thrust himself into the culture wars, posted a call in March for residents with gun permits and an interest in becoming “provisional emergency special deputy sheriffs.” The posting called the initiative a st
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Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to meet with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Also snubbing Biden, the prime minister has enraged Nato allies as he tries to broker a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire
4 min read - PoliticsThe New York Times
How a Teamster Leader’s Flirtations With Trump Have Divided the Union
Sean O’Brien, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, has framed his decision to speak at the Republican National Convention next week as a savvy maneuver to keep the union’s doors open to whoever prevails in November’s presidential election. But his open flirtation with former President Donald Trump has divided the union’s leadership, rankled some of its 1.3 million members and set up a showdown over the Teamsters’ eventual endorsement that has undermined President Joe Bide
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House rejects GOP effort to fine Attorney General Garland for refusal to turn over Biden audio
The House on Thursday rejected a GOP effort to fine Attorney General Merrick Garland $10,000 a day until he turns over audio of President Joe Biden’s interview in his classified documents case as a handful of Republicans resisted taking an aggressive step against a sitting Cabinet official.
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