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Mike Pence's foundation launches a $10 million election-year campaign to preserve Trump-era tax cuts

Jun. 20, 2024 11:03 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence’s foundation is launching a $10 million campaign to preserve the Trump-era tax cuts that are set to expire after next year as he presses conservatives not to stray from the fight before the November election. Advancing American...

Trump refers to Milwaukee as 'horrible' just before the city hosts the Republican convention

Jun. 13, 2024 15:55 PM EDT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump used the word “horrible” in talking about Milwaukee — the city where he will accept the Republican nomination next month — during a closed-door meeting Thursday with GOP congressmen, according to several people in the room who spoke...

House Democrats step up to try to stop Project 2025 plans for a Trump White House

Jun. 11, 2024 13:53 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Warning about the far-right Project 2025 agenda for a Donald Trump White House, a group of House Democrats has launched a task force to start fighting the proposal and stop it from taking hold if the Republican former president returns to power. Democratic Rep....

Trump will meet with House and Senate Republicans this week near the Capitol

Jun. 11, 2024 13:34 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans will meet privately with Donald Trump on Thursday, as the former president who is now the party's presumptive nominee returns to Capitol Hill for the first time since his supporters attacked the building on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to overturn President Joe...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address the US Congress on July 24, AP source says

Jun. 06, 2024 19:04 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address the US Congress on July 24, AP source says.

Washington warns of danger from China in remembering the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown

Jun. 04, 2024 19:31 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday said the ruling Chinese Communist Party that sent in tanks against peaceful student protesters 35 years ago in the heart of Beijing is as ruthless and suppressive today as it was in 1989, a stark warning as they commemorated the...

FDIC chair is grilled on Capitol Hill after report outlines agency's toxic workplace culture

May. 16, 2024 13:22 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg sat for a second day of grilling Thursday on Capitol Hill, this time at the Senate Banking Committee, after a damning report about the agency's toxic workplace culture was released last week. The hearing...

These people were charged with interfering in the 2020 election. Some are still in politics today

Apr. 26, 2024 17:20 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud. At least five states that were won in 2020 by President Joe Biden have investigated...