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Republicans schedule 1st presidential debate for Aug. 23, but there's no guarantee Trump will attend
CHICAGO (AP) — The first 2024 Republican presidential debate will be held Aug. 23, the Republican National Committee announced Friday, with a second debate the following night should it be needed. The RNC also detailed the criteria that will be used for candidates to qualify for...
Wisconsin lawmakers vote to spend $2 million to stage 2025 NFL draft in Green Bay
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin lawmakers voted Thursday to approve spending $2 million to help stage the 2025 NFL draft in Green Bay. The Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to include the funding in the two-year state budget it is drafting. The...
Trump revives threat of skipping GOP presidential debates
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Donald Trump is again threatening to skip a presidential debate. The Republican former president has privately said that a debate in August would be too early and he would not participate, according to two people familiar with his concerns who insisted on...
Tennessee Legislature wraps up; will reconvene on gun reform
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's Republican-led Legislature finished its annual session Friday without taking action on a gun control plan offered by the GOP governor in the wake of a deadly shooting at a Christian school in Nashville. Hours later Gov. Bill Lee announced that...
Wisconsin city moving GOP birthplace building across town
RIPON, Wis. (AP) — Officials in Ripon, Wisconsin, have moved the building where the Republican Party is said to have been founded across town to boost visibility as conservatives descend on the state for the GOP national convention next year. Workers moved the Little White...
Judges block Tennessee move to cut Nashville council in half
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Democratic-leaning city of Nashville's Metropolitan Council will get to keep all 40 of its seats for now, under a temporary decision issued Monday by three state judges. The ruling stymies an effort by state Republican lawmakers to cut the council in half after it...
Nashville sues over Tennessee law halving metro council size
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville officials on Monday sued over a new Tennessee law that will cut the Democratic-leaning city's metro council in half, a move that follows the council’s rejection of efforts to host the 2024 Republican National Convention in Music City. The law...
Tennessee governor OKs bill to cut Nashville council in half
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers and Tennessee's governor signed off Thursday on cutting Democratic-leaning Nashville's metro council in half, a move that follows the council's rejection of efforts to host the 2024 Republican National Convention in Music City. Gov....
