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Under pressure to live up to expectations and win big in Iowa’s Jan. 15 Republican presidential caucuses, former President Trump is urging his supporters to turn out. “We don’t want to take anything for granted,” Trump told a crowd Friday as he campaigned in Mason City, Iowa. Trump encouraged his supporters to send a “thunderous” … Read more

Americans in Silicon Valley shared whether they believe President Biden’s leadership has been effective enough to earn him another term ahead of the 2024 election, with several pointing to his age as a concern. “I do feel like he’s a little too old,” Travis said in San Jose. “I kind of see him more as … Read more

Former President Trump’s attorney argued before a federal appeals court Tuesday that the former commander-in-chief and 2024 frontrunner has presidential immunity from charges stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, while warning that President Biden is “prosecuting his number one political opponent and his greatest electoral threat.”  Both Trump and Smith attended the hearing before … Read more

Rep. Greg Pence, R-Ind., brother of former Vice President Mike Pence, announced he is not running for re-election to the House of Representatives this year. “In 2017, I ran for Congress because I was Ready to Serve Again. As a former Marine Officer, I approached the job with purpose. After three terms, I’ve made the … Read more

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vowed to bring accountability to a school voucher program that’s expected to top $900 million this year and update laws that allow for the nearly unfettered use of groundwater in rural areas of the drought-stricken state. The Democratic governor, making her second annual state of the state address Monday as … Read more

Primary to take place on 19 March for 20th congressional district in Bakersfield, vacant after former House speaker’s resignation California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, has set a mid-March special election date to fill the US House seat vacated by the former speaker Kevin McCarthy. In a statement, Newsom set the 19 March primary date for … Read more

NBC News’ Yamiche Alcindor discusses the arguments made by lawyers for former President Trump and special counsel Jack Smith over his claim of presidential immunity in the federal election interference case.

A federal appeals court struck down Department of Energy (DOE) regulatory actions targeting dishwashers as part of the Biden administration’s aggressive climate and energy efficiency agenda. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a ruling late Monday overturning the DOE’s decision in 2022 to repeal a Trump-era regulation governing water use in … Read more

Alan Wilmer Sr, who died aged 63, would be charged if he were alive, police say, over three unsolved murders in late 1980s A small-time fisher who died in 2017 has been linked to three cold-case murders in Virginia from the 1980s, including two that were among a series of unsolved killings of couples known … Read more

Billionaire vows to tackle ‘problems with how our media operates’ after Neri Oxman accused of plagiarism in PhD thesis After the resignation of the Harvard president, Claudine Gay, amid accusations of plagiarism, some might have expected Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager, to step back from what became a rightwing push against academia. Instead, … Read more