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US Supreme Court Latest: Court sends Trump’s immunity case back to lower court

Jul. 01, 2024 12:08 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court extended the delay in the criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election, reducing the chance that Trump could be tried before the November election. In a historic ruling, the justices said Monday for the...

Stock market today: Wall Street drifts after French market jumps on election results

Jul. 01, 2024 11:47 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting Monday after the French market rallied, as elections continue to drive swings in financial markets worldwide. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in midday trading as it kicked off a shortened, four-day week that includes the Fourth of...

After 32 years as a progressive voice for LGBTQ Jews, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum heads into retirement

Jul. 01, 2024 10:52 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — For more than three decades, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum has led the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ synagogue through the myriad ups and downs of the modern gay-rights movement — through the AIDS crisis, the murder of Matthew Shepard, the historic civil-rights advances that included...

Jan. 6 shadows the 2024 campaign, but not on the debate stage. That alarms democracy advocates

Jun. 29, 2024 10:48 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the first presidential debate, Republican Donald Trump skimmed over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol, shifted blame for the violent mob siege and declined repeatedly to state unequivocally that he will accept the results of this year’s White House election. ...

Doug Burgum vetoed anti-LGBTQ measures while governor. Then he started running for president

Jun. 29, 2024 00:16 AM EDT

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — For most of North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum's two terms in office, he approached the job like a CEO running a business. The wealthy former software executive, now on a shortlist to be Donald Trump’s running mate, was laser-focused on priorities like...

Trump's debate references to 'Black jobs' and 'Hispanic jobs' stir Democratic anger

Jun. 28, 2024 18:04 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump warned during his debate with Joe Biden and again at a Friday rally that migrants were taking “Black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs” from Americans, angering critics who called it a racist and insulting attempt to expand his appeal beyond his white conservative...

New Jersey to hold hearing on 2 Trump golf course liquor licenses following felony convictions

Jun. 28, 2024 17:47 PM EDT

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey regulators will hold a hearing next month on whether two golf courses owned by former President Donald Trump should have their liquor licenses renewed following his felony convictions in May in New York. His company, the Trump Organization,...

Shares of Trump Media swing wildly after first US presidential debate, fall 10%

Jun. 28, 2024 16:45 PM EDT

Trump Media fell more than 10% Friday after the first U.S. presidential debate, demonstrating another of the wild swings that have made its stock one of the more volatile on Wall Street. Shares in the owner of social networking site Truth Social jumped 5% at the opening bell and...

Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge shows price pressures easing further

Jun. 28, 2024 12:55 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of prices that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve suggests that inflation pressures in the U.S. economy are continuing to ease. Friday's Commerce Department report showed that consumer prices were flat from April to May, the mildest such...

FACT FOCUS: Here's a look at some of the false claims made during Biden and Trump's first debate

Jun. 28, 2024 06:28 AM EDT

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump traded barbs and a variety of false and misleading information as they faced off in their first debate of the 2024 election. Trump falsely represented the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as a relatively small number of people...