Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s border proposal was one of the toughest bipartisan bills to emerge on the issue in decades. Yet it quickly collapsed when Republicans — galvanized by Donald Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee — rejected the compromise as insufficient. Now Democrats see an opening. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called Trump’s rejection of the border legislation …

ROXBORO, N.C. (AP) — One candidate is an Ivy League-educated attorney who over 25 years amassed allies as he climbed North Carolina’s Democratic ladder. The other is a former furniture factory worker with a history of blunt commentary who plowed into Republican politics four years ago after a viral video on gun rights vaulted him to prominence. While taking dramatically …

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over the state’s challenge to a lower court ruling that would allow a man to run for one of the state’s U.S. Senate seats as a Republican, even though the state GOP doesn’t back his candidacy. A state law says a candidate’s past two primary ballots must be cast with …

Robert Kennedy Jr.’s presidential ambitions resulted in public family drama after a political action committee aired a Super Bowl ad invoking the Democratic family’s legacy to implicitly compare the independent candidate to his assassinated uncle, President John F. Kennedy. The 30-second spot, financed by the American Values 2024 Super PAC that is backing Kennedy, featured a shortened version of a …

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans urged the state Supreme Court on Thursday to ignore a report from redistricting consultants that determined GOP-proposed legislative maps were unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. While Republicans argue that the consultants’ findings are unsound, Democrats asked the court on Thursday to adopt one of their maps that the consultants found were “nearly indistinguishable.” The stakes are …

WASHINGTON (AP) — La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos programó una sesión especial para escuchar los argumentos sobre si el expresidente Donald Trump es inelegible para volver a ser presidente y puede ser retirado de la boleta de las elecciones. El caso, que será discutido el jueves, se deriva de una sección de la 14ta Enmienda constitucional que prohíbe ocupar …

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Authorities issued cease-and-desist orders against two Texas companies they believe were connected to robocalls that used artificial intelligence to mimic President Joe Biden’s voice and discourage people from voting in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary last month. New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said Tuesday that investigators have identified the source of the calls as Life Corporation …

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz’s campaign consultant inserted images of horses in ads as a vulgar joke about her opponent, her campaign manager told a liberal podcast last month. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday that Protasiewicz’s campaign manager, Alejandro Verdin, told The Downballot podcast on Jan. 25 that her campaign operatives had heard people …

DENVER (AP) — In the summer of 2020, Gerard Magliocca, like many during the coronavirus pandemic, found himself stuck inside with time on his hands. A law professor at Indiana University, Magliocca emailed with another professor, who was writing a book about overlooked parts of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. He decided he would research the history of two long-neglected sentences …