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Robert White Jr. wins Democratic primary for the District of Columbia’s delegate to Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington, D.C. Council member Robert White Jr. won the Democratic primary for the district’s delegate to Congress on Tuesday. White’s win in the heavily Democratic city sets him up to take the top spot in November’s general elections, when he could replace 18-term delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Trump threatens to take over DC police again over immigration enforcement
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to once again federalize Washington, D.C.'s police force, in what he suggested could come in response to the city's mayor's stated refusal to cooperate with immigration enforcement. Trump's emergency order, which took over the local police force, expired last week.
Protections of the Voting Rights Act are under threat as the law marks its 60th anniversary
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin Luther King Jr. standing behind him, signed the Voting Rights Act into law. The act protected the right to vote and ensured the government would fight efforts to suppress it, especially those aimed at Black voters. For many Americans, it was the day U.S. democracy fully began. That was then.
Court restricts who can bring voting rights challenges in a case involving voters with disabilities
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court panel on Monday ruled that private individuals and organizations cannot bring voting rights cases under a section of the law that allows others to assist voters who are blind, disabled or unable to read. It's the latest ruling from the St. Louis-based 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, saying only the government can bring lawsuits alleging violations of the Voting Rights Act.
Judge bars Trump administration from shutting peace institute that sought to end violent conflicts
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with its dismantling of the U.S. Institute of Peace, an organization taken over in March by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
DC weighs layoffs and other cuts as House leaves capital city in budget limbo
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser tried to keep the focus on a groundbreaking ceremony for a new mixed-used development. But she couldn't help fielding a string of questions about the budget crisis hanging over the nation's capital city. Asked Monday about the risk of layoffs and furloughs, she said: “We’re hoping that we don’t get to that stage.
Institute of Peace headquarters transfer is a done deal even as lawsuit continues to unfold
WASHINGTON (AP) — A hearing Tuesday on the fate of the Institute of Peace ended without a legal decision, but presented a deep look into how the Trump administration is remaking the federal government. Multiple times in a Tuesday hearing, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell equated the strategy to “a bull in a China shop” that is moving quickly and leaving destruction in its wake.
USAID workers clear out their desks as Trump's push to gut agency hits final steps
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Agency for International Development workers, some in tears, carted away belongings from a final visit to their now-closed headquarters Thursday as the Trump administration's rapid-fire dismantling of the congressionally authorized agency moved into its final stages.
Trump, Vance to address March for Life crowd after pardoning anti-abortion protesters
WASHINGTON (AP) — These are heady times for participants in the annual March for Life. Anti-abortion protestors gathered for decades to call for an appeal of Roe v. Wade, which had provided a constitutional right for an abortion. Now, with the repeal of Roe in 2022, they are now on the inside rather than the outside. With Donald Trump's return to the White House and Republicans in control of Congress, the activists want to build on their victories.
A history of the Panama Canal - and why Trump can't take it back on his own
In Georgia, the winner in the presidential race may be determined by who doesn't vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — As America hurtles toward the 2024 election, the road to the presidency passes through Georgia, one of the seven battleground states considered vital to the fortunes of anyone who wants to win the White House. Georgia also is one of the few southern states considered up for grabs, having gone to President Joe Biden in 2020 after a run of six-straight wins there by Republican presidential candidates.
Trump's case casts a spotlight on movement to restore voting rights to those convicted of felonies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican-led states have historically made it difficult for those convicted of a felony to vote or barred it altogether. Now the Republicans’ presumptive nominee for president, who lives in one of those states, is among them.
Trump could avoid trial this year on 2020 election charges. Is the hush money case a worthy proxy?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump faces serious charges in two separate cases over whether he attempted to subvert the Constitution by overturning the results of a fair election and illegally remain in power. Yet it’s a New York case centered on payments to silence an adult film actress that might provide the only legal reckoning this year on whether he tried to undermine a pillar of American democracy.
Americans agree that the 2024 election will be pivotal for democracy, but for different reasons
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a politically polarized nation, Americans seem to agree on one issue underlying the 2024 elections — a worry over the state of democracy and how the outcome of the presidential contest will affect its future. They just disagree over who poses the threat. A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 62% of adults say democracy in the U.S. could be at risk depending on who wins next fall.
Nuclear memories: Russia, war and childhood fears rekindled
Those of us of a certain age remember the threat. The 1960s were a time of domestic turmoil, yes. But they came, too, with a darker, existential menace: atomic bombs, ICBMs, thermonuclear war, annihilation. The buzzwords of destruction, with the Soviet Union seen as the architect of it all. Nuclear war was the shadow in our lives. Now, it feels, those shadows are back.
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