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Filing in Trump case details remarkable schism with Pence over rejecting 2020 election loss

Oct. 04, 2024 08:06 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Days before rioters roamed the halls of the U.S. Capitol threatening to “hang Mike Pence,” Donald Trump told his vice president that people are going to “hate your guts” and “think you're stupid” if he failed to stop the 2020 election certification. ...

Populist conservative and ex-NBA player Royce White shakes up US Senate primary race in Minnesota

Aug. 08, 2024 00:36 AM EDT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon surrendered at a federal prison in Connecticut, he asked an unconventional U.S. Senate candidate from Minnesota to stand at his side. Royce White, seeking the Republican nomination in next week's primary to challenge...

Russell Vought, a Project 2025 architect, is ready to shock Washington if Trump wins second term

Aug. 05, 2024 00:07 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russell Vought sounds like a general marshaling troops for combat when he talks about taming a “woke and weaponized” federal government. He recently described political opposition as “enemy fire that’s coming over the target,” while urging allies to be...

Steve Bannon's trial in border wall fundraising case set for December, after his ongoing prison term

Jul. 23, 2024 16:51 PM EDT

While Steve Bannon serves a four-month federal prison term, the conservative strategist now has a December date for a different trial in New York, where he's charged with scheming to con donors who gave money to build a border wall with Mexico. With Bannon excused from court because...

JD Vance charted a Trump-centric, populist path in Senate as he fought GOP establishment

Jul. 16, 2024 17:34 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Ohio Sen. JD Vance traveled to the Munich Security Conference earlier this year, he wasn’t there to reassure Europe and other global allies that America would aid Ukraine in its war against Russia, as all of the other senators were. Instead, Vance was...

Self-exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui convicted of defrauding followers after fleeing to US

Jul. 16, 2024 17:31 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Guo Wengui, a self-exiled Chinese business tycoon whose criticism of the Communist Party won him legions of online followers and powerful friends in the American conservative movement, was convicted by a U.S. jury Tuesday of engaging in a massive multiyear fraud that ripped off...