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Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appeared as a guest at a Washington Nationals baseball game on Wednesday.

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  • World

In his 1st White House visit, Rishi Sunak talks Ukraine, AI — and how to say his name

After Boris Johnson, Brexit and political turmoil, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants to convey stability in his first trip to the White House. On the agenda: Ukraine, NATO and AI.

June 08, 2023
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By:
  • Fatima Al-Kassab and
  • Lauren Frayer
A recent video from Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis includes an image with three fake photos of former President Donald Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci hugging. These three images appear to be AI-generated.

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  • Politics

DeSantis campaign shares apparent AI-generated fake images of Trump and Fauci

It's the latest example of how generative AI tools enable politicians to blur the line between fact and fiction.

June 08, 2023
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  • Shannon Bond
Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg speaks during an anti-gun violence rally in Boston on March 25, 2023.

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  • National

A lesson Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg learned: Find the joy

David Hogg is a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting at his high school. He talks about advocacy, finding common ground with opponents and the importance of making time for joy amid the pain.

June 08, 2023
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  • Tonya Mosley

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  • Law

Supreme Court sides with Jack Daniel's in trademark dispute with dog toy maker

Jack Daniel's, the famous Tennessee whiskey company, tried to stop production and marketing of a dog toy shaped and decorated like a Jack Daniel's bottle but with the name "Bad Spaniels" on the label.

June 08, 2023
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  • Washington Desk
The setting sun illuminates the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 10.

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  • Law

Supreme Court unexpectedly upholds provision prohibiting racial gerrymandering

The Supreme Court has ruled against Alabama's defense of an electoral map drawn by the state's Republican-dominated legislature. Black voters had challenged the law as racially discriminatory.

June 08, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg
Pat Robertson speaks during a forum at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., in 2015. Robertson was a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition.

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  • Obituaries

Pat Robertson, televangelist and a leader of the religious right, dies at 93

Pat Robertson founded the Christian Broadcasting Network. He also hosted The 700 Club and drew controversy for comments that were often seen as anti-gay and racially insensitive.

June 08, 2023
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  • Sarah McCammon
People wait in line to early vote for the U.S. Senate runoff election in Georgia between Sen. Raphael Warnock and challenger Herschel Walker, on Nov. 28, 2022, in Kennesaw, Ga., near Atlanta. After years of criticizing mail voting and trying to ban so-called "ballot harvesting," Republicans are reversing course. They are poised to launch aggressive get-out-the-vote campaigns for 2024 that employ just those strategies.

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  • News

GOP set to encourage early voting, mail balloting after years of opposite messaging to its voters

After years of criticizing mail voting and so-called ballot harvesting as ripe for fraud, Republicans at the top of the party want to change course. They're poised to launch aggressive get-out-the-vote campaigns for 2024 that employ just those strategies.

June 08, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Columbus is ranked #74 out of 100 by Livability.com's 2014 Best Places to Live.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Upcoming state GOP convention; Activists mount referendum campaign vs. 'Cop City'

Thursday on Political Rewind: Opponents of the planned Atlanta police training center launched a referendum campaign. But first, what to expect from the Georgia GOP convention.

June 08, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut and
  • Natalie Mendenhall
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  • Europe

In his 1st White House visit, Rishi Sunak talks Ukraine, AI — and how to say his name

President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are due to meet Thursday at the White House, where they'll likely focus on the war in Ukraine and NATO.

June 08, 2023
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  • Lauren Frayer
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, center, helps raise a Pride flag outside of the Department of Energy as the Biden administration celebrates Pride Month.

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  • Politics

Book bans are on the rise. Biden is naming a point person to address that

Book bans in schools can violate federal civil rights laws if they create a hostile environment for students. The Education Department will have a new point person to talk to schools about bans.

June 08, 2023
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  • Franco Ordoñez
Sens. Mark Warner and Mike Crapo, seen here making their way to the House chamber for President Trump's first State of the Union Address in 2018, are announcing an effort to expand access to capital for small businesses emerging from the pandemic.

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  • Politics

Senators to announce coalition reaches $1 billion goal for minority, community lending

Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, will join Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo at the Capitol Thursday to announce the funding.

June 08, 2023
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  • Claudia Grisales
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks to reporters as he walks to the House floor on Tuesday.

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  • Politics

U.S. House paralyzed as conservative Republicans' fight with McCarthy drags on

House lawmakers won't vote until Monday after a bloc of Freedom Caucus members torpedoed GOP legislation in an effort to express dissatisfaction with House leadership.

June 07, 2023
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By:
  • Claudia Grisales and
  • Barbara Sprunt
Of the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, only Justice Clarence Thomas (seated second from left) and Justice Samuel Alito (seated fourth from left) did not file their financial disclosures. They asked for — and were granted — extensions.

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  • Law

Supreme Court justices, minus Thomas, and Alito, file financial disclosure reports

Justice Clarence Thomas' disclosure form had been eagerly awaited in the wake of news reports that he accepted luxury trips worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.

June 07, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says replacing Nancy Pelosi is like following after Michael Jordan.

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  • Politics

6 months in, Hakeem Jeffries reflects on the debt ceiling drama and replacing Pelosi

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sat down with All Things Considered's Juana Summers to talk about the recent debt ceiling negotiations and what this says about the direction Congress is headed.

June 07, 2023
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  • Juana Summers,
  • Mallory Yu,
  • and 1 more
A voter marks her ballot during the first day of early voting in Atlanta on Oct. 17, 2022. Elected leaders in Georgia's most populous county — a Democratic stronghold — on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, rejected a Republican nominee for the county elections board who had challenged the eligibility of thousands of voters.

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  • News

County leaders in Georgia reject election board nominee who challenged voters' eligibility

Elected leaders in Georgia's most populous county have rejected a Republican nominee for the elections board who had challenged the eligibility of thousands of voters. The Fulton County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday voted 3-2 to reject Jason Frazier, one of two nominees put forth by the county Republican Party for a seat on the county Board of Registration and Elections.

June 07, 2023
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