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Trump ally Steve Bannon to report to federal prison to serve four-month sentence on contempt charges

Jul. 01, 2024 00:17 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon is scheduled to report to a federal prison in Connecticut on Monday to serve a four-month sentence on contempt charges for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack. A judge had allowed...

The Republicans who want to be Trump's VP were once harsh critics with key policy differences

Jul. 01, 2024 00:10 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s hard to refer to someone as “Hitler” and end up in their good graces, let alone potentially become the person they choose to help lead the country. But Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s shifting position on Donald Trump over the years from one-time critic of the...

Gathered at Camp David, Biden's family tells him to stay in the race and keep fighting

Jun. 30, 2024 21:35 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's family used a Sunday gathering at Camp David to urge him to stay in the race and keep fighting despite his dreadful debate performance, and some members criticized how his staff prepared him for the faceoff, according to four people familiar with the...

An English bulldog named Babydog makes a surprise appearance in a mural on West Virginia history

Jun. 30, 2024 08:40 AM EDT

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The English bulldog had never been featured prominently in West Virginia history. It has now. Gov. Jim Justice's 4-year-old pure breed Babydog joined the ranks of Abraham Lincoln, Civil War soldiers and odes to Appalachian folk music in new murals under...

American and British voters share deep roots. In 2024, they distrust their own leaders, too

Jun. 30, 2024 05:46 AM EDT

DARTFORD, England (AP) — Distrust has settled over the campaign trails in the United States and United Kingdom ahead of July 4 like a soggy summer haze. On that day, British voters will choose a new Parliament in an election expected to finish with a Labour government after 14...

A private call of top Democrats fuels more insider anger about Biden's debate performance

Jun. 29, 2024 23:56 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A sense of concern is growing inside the top ranks of the Democratic Party that leaders of Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee are not taking seriously enough the impact of the president’s troubling debate performance earlier in the week. ...

Biden makes appeals to donors as concerns persist over his presidential debate performance

Jun. 29, 2024 21:49 PM EDT

RED BANK, N.J. (AP) — President Joe Biden looked to recapture his mojo and reassured donors at a Saturday fundraiser that he is fully up to the challenge of beating Donald Trump. “I didn’t have a great night, but I’m going to be fighting harder,” Biden told attendees at the...

After president's debate debacle, Jill Biden delivering the message that they're still all in

Jun. 29, 2024 19:33 PM EDT

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Jill Biden was right at her husband's side Saturday as they exited Air Force One to head for a pair of campaign stops at luxurious vacation homes on Long Island. And she got straight to the point when it was her turn to introduce the president at a tony fundraiser. ...

The UN starts to move tons of aid from US-built pier after security fears suspended work there

Jun. 29, 2024 16:57 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Humanitarian workers have started moving tons of aid that piled up at a U.S.-built pier off the Gaza coast to warehouses in the besieged Palestinian territory, the United Nations said Saturday, an important step as Washington considers whether to resume pier operations after yet...

Despair in the air: For many voters, the Biden-Trump debate means a tough choice just got tougher

Jun. 29, 2024 12:22 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The sound you might have heard after the presidential debate this past week was of voters falling between a rock and a hard place. Apart from the sizable and pumped-up universe of Donald Trump's supporters, the debate suddenly crystalized the worries of many...