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Trump critic Chris Christie ends his presidential campaign

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he is ending his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination. He explained his basic rationale as being the importance that Trump not win another term.

January 10, 2024
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By:
  • Don Gonyea
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley participates in fourth Republican Presidential Primary Debate on on December 6, 2023 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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  • Elections

Bringing birther back, Donald Trump questions Nikki Haley's right to be president

The former governor of South Carolina, Haley was born in the southern state. But as she surges in Republican polls, Trump is elevating false conspiracy theories about her citizenship on social media.

January 10, 2024
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Park Tavern precinct in Fulton County had long lines during the June 2020 election.

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  • News

Fulton County seeks poll workers ahead of 2024 election season

All U.S. citizens aged 16 and up living in Fulton or neighboring counties are eligible to serve as paid poll workers.

January 10, 2024
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Former President Donald Trump reacts to supporters during a commit to caucus rally, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, in Waterloo, Iowa.

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  • Elections

Where the Republican presidential candidates stand on Donald Trump

Most of Donald Trump's rivals have gone to great pains to avoid directly criticizing the former president out of concern that it would alienate base Republican voters.

January 10, 2024
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are arguing that he enjoys immunity from prosecution.

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  • Law

Judges push back against Trump's immunity claim in the election interference case

Lawyers for the former president made a sweeping argument that he enjoys blanket immunity from federal prosecution for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

January 09, 2024
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
President Biden was giving a campaign speech at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., when protesters interrupted with calls for a cease-fire in Gaza.

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  • Elections

Protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza interrupted Biden's campaign speech

President Biden has firmly allied himself with the Israeli government after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. But the progressive wing of his party is increasingly critical about civilian deaths in Gaza.

January 09, 2024
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By:
  • Asma Khalid
A monitor showing Dominion Voting Image Cast Central display tab is seen as Cobb County Election officials count ballots on a machine, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, in Marietta, Ga. Election integrity activists want a federal judge to order Georgia to stop using its current election system, saying it's vulnerable to attack and has operational issues that could cost voters their right to cast a vote and have it accurately counted.

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Opening statements expected in trial over constitutional challenge to Georgia voting system

Opening statements are expected Tuesday as the trial in a long-running legal challenge to the constitutionality of Georgia's election system begins in federal court in Atlanta.

January 09, 2024
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  • Associated Press
A voter enters a booth to fill out their ballot in Manchester, N.H., in 2022.

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  • Elections

Here are important dates on the 2024 election calendar

The presidential nominating contests kick off with voting in Iowa on Jan. 15. That's followed by New Hampshire on Jan. 23. Here are some more key dates for this year's election calendar.

January 09, 2024
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  • Domenico Montanaro
A participant in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Peace Walk in Washington, D.C., holds a sign that says "PROTECT VOTING RIGHTS" in 2022.

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  • Elections

3 novel legal arguments by Republicans that threaten the Voting Rights Act in 2024

Republican state officials are advancing new legal arguments in the courts that threaten to erode the Voting Rights Act's protections against racial discrimination in the election process.

January 06, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
The U.S. Supreme Court has thrust itself firmly in the middle of the 2024 presidential cycle.

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  • Law

Supreme Court takes up Colorado's decision to kick Trump off its primary ballot

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a dispute about whether Donald Trump should be disqualified from the ballot after the Capitol riot three years ago.

January 05, 2024
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
GPB News NPR

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  • Politics

Biden marks the anniversary of Jan. 6 with campaign speech near Valley Forge

President Biden gives a campaign speech near Valley Forge, Penn. — a place that looms large in the history of American democracy — as he marks the anniversary of Jan. 6.

January 05, 2024
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
Ahead of his speech, President Biden and first lady Jill Biden attended a small wreath-laying ceremony at the National Memorial Arch in Valley Forge National Historical Park on Jan. 5, 2024.

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  • Elections

Biden says the fight for democracy is at the heart of his 2024 rematch with Trump

President Biden used his first campaign event of 2024 to mark the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, saying his likely opponent, former President Donald Trump, posed a serious risk to democracy.

January 05, 2024
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez,
  • Deepa Shivaram,
  • and 1 more
The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., is seen on March 22, 2019.

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  • Politics

Foreign governments paid millions to Trump's companies while he was president

A report by House Democrats documents $7.8 million in payments from at least 20 foreign governments to Trump's businesses during his presidential term.

January 05, 2024
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By:
  • Eric McDaniel
Clockwise, from top left: former N.J. Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and former President Donald Trump.

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  • Elections

Where the Republican presidential candidates stand on the economy

GOP presidential hopefuls know that the economy is an important issue — if not the top issue — for voters. That means it's a big talker on the campaign trail and a focus area for winning votes.

January 04, 2024
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By:
  • Asma Khalid and
  • Jeongyoon Han
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

Trump appeals Colorado ballot ruling

Former President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a landmark decision by Colorado's top court that ruled him ineligible from appearing on that state's primary ballot.

January 03, 2024
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
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