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Ex-Trump lawyer Eastman should lose state law license for efforts to overturn election, judge says

Mar. 27, 2024 20:50 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has recommended that conservative attorney John Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep former President Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election. Eastman, a former law school dean, faced 11 disciplinary charges in the state...

Biden leans on his Democratic predecessors as Trump remains isolated from other Republican leaders

Mar. 27, 2024 16:08 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden needs advice, there are two people he can turn to who know what it’s like to sit in his chair. Sometimes he will invite Barack Obama over to the White House for a meal or he will get on the phone with Bill Clinton. The three men share...

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Mar. 17, 2024 07:27 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — White House national security spokesman John Kirby; Reps. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, and Ro Khanna, D-Calif. ___ NBC's “Meet the Press” — Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Ben Cardin, D-Md.; José Andrés, founder of World...

Former Vice President Mike Pence says he's not endorsing Trump

Mar. 15, 2024 18:44 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence says he will not be backing Donald Trump in the 2024 election. “It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year," Pence said in an interview with Fox News Channel Friday, weighing in for the first...

Nikki Haley suspends her campaign and leaves Donald Trump as the last major Republican candidate

Mar. 06, 2024 20:08 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, leaving Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination. Haley didn’t endorse the former president...

Trump has become the last Republican standing in the 2024 primary. Here's how he bulldozed the field

Mar. 06, 2024 12:48 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Eight years after Donald Trump outlasted a crowded field of Republican presidential candidates with his pugilistic and sometimes vulgar style, the former reality show star has done it again. The former president is now the last major GOP candidate standing and...

Tim Scott lost his own presidential bid. But he's gotten Donald Trump's attention for vice president

Mar. 03, 2024 08:26 AM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The biggest winner of the Republican primary season so far, besides Donald Trump, might be Tim Scott. The South Carolina senator failed in his own bid for president. But his enthusiastic campaigning for the former president has been generating buzz about...

Jury convicts first rioter to enter Capitol building during Jan. 6 attack

Mar. 01, 2024 17:15 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack was convicted on Friday of charges that he interfered with police and obstructed Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory. Michael Sparks, 46, of...

Here's where all the cases against Trump stand as he campaigns for a return to the White House

Feb. 28, 2024 19:44 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — From allegations of plotting to overturn a lost election to illegally stowing classified documents at his Florida estate, former President Donald Trump faces four criminal indictments in four different cities as he vies to reclaim the White House. The cases,...

Iowa school district paying $20K to settle gender policy lawsuit

Feb. 21, 2024 12:04 PM EST

MARION, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa school board has reached an agreement resolving a lawsuit over a now-rescinded district policy that allowed students to request a gender support plan to begin socially transitioning at school, without the permission of their parents. Linn-Mar Community...