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Mar 01 2023
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Mike Lee demands Japan free naval officer; briefly suspended on Twitter
SALT LAKE CITY — Sen. Mike Lee intends to call for the U.S. to renegotiate its military agreement with Japan because the Far East nation ignored his one-man deadline to release an imprisoned Navy officer. And the Utah Republican's language on his personal Twitter account toward Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishidia for not returning Lt. Ridge Alkonis may have led to @BasedMikeLee being
KSL
Jan 10 2023
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Eyes on 2024: Georgia on Trump’s mind
A Georgia grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump and his allies’ attempts to overturn the 2020 election has completed its work, per a judge’s ruling on Monday. While it’s not clear if the grand jury’s findings will be made public, Trump took to his social media platform on Monday to defend himself. NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard reports that Trump posted on his Truth Social account
NBC News Digital
Feb 16 2023
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Nikki Haley teams up with Don Bolduc for N.H. town halls - The Boston Globe
A spokesperson for Haley’s campaign confirmed that Bolduc will join the former South Carolina governor for town hall events here in Exeter on Thursday and Manchester on Friday. The appearances come at a crucial time as Haley seeks to galvanize her public persona in the state that will hold 2024′s first-in-the-nation Republican primary. EXETER, N.H. — When former United Nations ambassador Nikki
The Boston Globe
Mar 01 2023
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Rep. Fitzgerald, Sen. Johnson Introduce Legislation To Combat Opioid Epidemic
Republican Wisconsin Rep. Scott Fitzgerald introduced legislation Wednesday in the House to combat the ongoing opioid epidemic. Sen. Ron Johnson is set to soon introduce a Senate companion.
The Daily Caller first obtained the legislation, which is titled the Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues (SOFA) Act. The bill would permanently designate fentanyl-related substances to Schedule
The Daily Caller
Mar 01 2023
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Mississippi Becomes Seventh State To Outlaw Sex Change Surgeries for Minors
Mississippi governor Tate Reeves (R.) signed a bill Tuesday that prohibits sex change procedures for minors, making his state the seventh to restrict such practices. The Regulate Experimental Adolescent Procedures Act, which the Republican-led Senate passed last month along party lines, protects children from receiving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex change surgeries as treatment
Washington Free Beacon
Dec 01 2022
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Reassessing US democracy: Stronger, but not out of the woods
After a relatively smooth midterm election, America’s democracy seems less vulnerable to a crisis of legitimacy than many had feared. But experts still warn of anti-democratic trends.Is American democracy more resilient than we thought? Or has it just won a temporary reprieve?
Three weeks after elections in which democracy itself seemed to be on the ballot, those questions still hang
Christian Science Monitor
May 24 2023
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launches 2024 GOP presidential campaign to challenge Trump
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis entered the 2024 presidential race on Wednesday, stepping into a crowded Republican primary contest that will test both his national appeal as an outspoken cultural conservative and the GOP’s willingness to move on from former President Donald Trump.
The 44-year-old Republican revealed his decision in a Federal Election Commission filing before addressing his
Associated Press
Feb 18 2022
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Susan Collins: Orderly Transfer of Power 'Essential'
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, says the Electoral Count Act needs to be overhauled because the orderly transfer of power is “essential.”
Collins, who is leading a bipartisan group of senators committed to reforming the act, made her remarks in a column posted by The New York Times on Friday.
“This 1887 law, vaguely written in the inaccessible language of a different era, was
Newsmax (News)
Feb 13 2023
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College Credits: Buffalo Grove Students Named To IWU Dean's List
BUFFALO GROVE, IL — We're keeping track of all the major higher education accomplishments of area students. Send your submissions to eric.degrechie@patch.com. Illinois Wesleyan University's Dean's List for the fall semester of the 2022-23 academic year consisted of 757 students from 28 states and 28 countries. To qualify for the Dean's List, students must earn a GPA of 3.50 or better during
Patch.com
Jan 04 2023
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Jersey City mayor setting up likely run for N.J. governor. Here are other possible contenders.
Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop did more than announce he won’t seek re-election in 2025 on Tuesday. He revved up speculation about who may be seeking to succeed Phil Murphy as New Jersey’s governor three years from now. Fulop’s decision is widely seen as a sign he’s setting himself up to be a candidate in the 2025 gubernatorial race — an election that already has a big crowd of potential
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