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Editorial Roundup: Kansas

Jun. 18, 2024 07:17 AM EDT

Topeka Capital-Journal. June XX, 2024. Editorial: Kansas should get its ducks in a row then make a play for the Chiefs — if plan makes sense If you don’t live in the Midwest, you may not understand the intricacies of Kansas City. In our view, while...

Georgia GOP to choose congressional nominees, with candidates including man convicted in Jan. 6 riot

Jun. 18, 2024 00:15 AM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republicans are settling two congressional nominations in Tuesday runoffs, with a former Donald Trump aide bidding for an open seat and a man convicted for illegally demonstrating inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, running in a different district. ...

GOP contest between Bob Good and John McGuire highlights primary slate in Virginia

Jun. 18, 2024 00:14 AM EDT

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — One of America's most conservative congressmen is facing a serious primary challenge after his opponent was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, while voters in two other districts are nominating candidates to fill two open seats in Virginia's primary election...

The politics of memes: How Biden and Trump are fighting each other on the internet

Jun. 18, 2024 00:11 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether it’s a grinning Joe Biden as “Dark Brandon” or Donald Trump’s face superimposed onto a scene from HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” both presidential campaigns this year have embraced digital memes, the lingua franca of social media. The campaigns of...

Self-funded political newcomer seeks to oust longtime Republican US Rep. Tom Cole in Oklahoma

Jun. 18, 2024 00:09 AM EDT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, the powerful Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, was trying to fend of a primary challenge Tuesday from a businessman who has poured millions of his own dollars into the race. Political newcomer Paul...

Biden will announce deportation protection and work permits for spouses of US citizens

Jun. 17, 2024 21:51 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is planning to announce a sweeping new policy Tuesday that would lift the threat of deportation for hundreds of thousands of people married to U.S. citizens, an aggressive election-year action on immigration that had been sought by many Democrats. ...

Judge rules that federal agency can't enforce abortion rule in Louisiana and Mississippi

Jun. 17, 2024 21:23 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Monday granted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as employers in two Southern states, temporary relief from complying with a federal rule that would have required them to provide workers with time off and other workplace accommodations for...

FACT FOCUS: Biden's pause as he left a star-studded LA fundraiser becomes a target for opponents

Jun. 17, 2024 19:46 PM EDT

Video from a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles for President Joe Biden on Saturday is circulating on social media with claims that he froze up onstage as he exited the event. “Biden froze again last night and had to get escorted out by Obama,” reads one post on X that had...

More than 100 South Dakota primary ballots shouldn't have been rejected, elections official says

Jun. 17, 2024 14:08 PM EDT

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — More than 100 absentee ballots in one of South Dakota's least conservative counties should not have been rejected after being challenged by the leader of a group that has raised doubts about the state's voting system, an elections official said. Jessica...

Editorial Roundup: Michigan

Jun. 17, 2024 13:53 PM EDT

Detroit News. June 12, 2024. Editorial: Restricting access to recounts threatens election integrity Democrats are attempting to limit the ability to challenge election results in what amounts to an overreaction to rejection of the 2020 balloting by some Donald Trump...