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Tina Peters’ attorneys are trying to convince a Colorado court to overturn a conviction for voting violations

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✨ Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: colorado,Donald Trump news,Tina Peters,voting system 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: DENVER (AP) — Lawyers for former Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters will try to persuade the state appeals court Wednesday to overturn her conviction in a case related to the 2020 presidential election as her supporters, including President Donald Trump, continue to pressure the state to release her. Peters, a former Mesa County employee, was convicted of state crimes for organizing a data breach of county election equipment, prompted by false claims about voting machine fraud after Trump…

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Democrats believe that the path is narrow to win the Senate, but there is no room for error

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🔥 Read this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Democrats,senate,Vote 2026 ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leaders believe they have a path to winning a majority in November, though it's a path with little room to maneuver. The party got a new boost of confidence when former Rep. Marie Peltola announced Monday that she will run for the Alaska Senate. Her bid gives Democrats an important fourth candidate with statewide recognition in states where Republican senators are seeking re-election this year. Nationally, Democrats must pick up four seats to keep Republicans out…

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A new poll shows that most Americans believe Trump has “gone too far” in military operations abroad

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,U.S. military,venezuela 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON — More than half of American adults believe President Donald Trump has “gone too far” in using the U.S. military to intervene in other countries, according to a new AP-NORC poll. The poll, conducted by The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, was conducted from Jan. 8 to 11, after the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The poll found that 56% of American adults believe that Trump has gone beyond military interventions abroad,…

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The Supreme Court has revived a GOP congressman’s challenge to a late mail-in ballot law

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✨ Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: mail-in ballots,mail-in voting,Mike Bost,Supreme Court ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday revived a Republican challenge to a law allowing late mail ballots to be counted, a goal of President Donald Trump. The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that Rep. Mike Bost, Republican of Illinois. Trump has the legal right to challenge the law, although the ballots had little impact on the race, which he easily won. He watches: How this new mail-in rule could affect your ballot, tax return and more…

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GOP senators disagree with Trump on both points

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🚀 Read this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: congress,Donald Trump news,Federal reserve,Jerome Powell,venezuela 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: For more political coverage and analysis, subscribe to Here's the Deal, our weekly political newsletter, here. Congress is the first branch listed in the US Constitution. But for many years executive power has clearly risen. This was before President Donald Trump's second term. In some ways, Trump is a continuation of this trend. But in many cases, he is trying to expand his presidential powers in unprecedented ways, including by deploying the National Guard widely across the country,…

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The newspaper says that the FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter

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🔥 Discover this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: classified documents,fbi,Washington Post ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI agents searched the home of a Washington Post reporter Wednesday as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of taking government secrets into the home, the newspaper reported. The newspaper said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched journalist Hannah Natanson's devices and confiscated a phone and a Garmin watch from her home in Virginia. Natanson covers the Trump administration's transformation of the federal government, and recently published an article describing how she acquired…

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Trump: Anything less than US control of Greenland is unacceptable

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✨ Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Denmark,Donald Trump news,greenland,JD Vance 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: NUK, Greenland (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that NATO must help the United States get Greenland and anything less than putting the island in U.S. hands is unacceptable, hours before Vice President J.D. Vance hosted Danish and Greenlandic officials for talks. In a post on his social media site, Trump repeated his argument that the United States “needs Greenland for the purpose of national security.” "NATO has to lead the way for us to get it," he…

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Top central bankers support Fed Chair Powell in ‘full solidarity’ in clash with Trump

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🚀 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Department of Justice,Donald Trump news,Federal reserve,Jerome Powell ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Central bankers from around the world said Tuesday they "stand in full solidarity" with U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, after President Donald Trump dramatically escalated his standoff with the Fed with the Justice Department investigating and threatening to bring criminal charges. The statement, signed by nine national central bank heads, including European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, said Powell “acted with integrity, focused on…

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Watch: Trump attacks the Federal Reserve in his speech to the Detroit Economic Club

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✨ Read this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: automakers,Dearborn,detroit,Donald Trump news,ford,Michigan 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: US President Donald Trump criticized the Federal Reserve during a speech in Detroit on Thursday. Watch the full speech in the video player above. The president essentially accused the Fed of stealing his joy by not being optimistic about cutting interest rates. Read more: Trump is scheduled to visit the Ford plant and promote manufacturing in Detroit “If you announce big numbers, they raise interest rates,” Trump said in his speech. “When the market goes up, they have to lower…

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Protesters and federal agents frequently clash in Minnesota

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: minneapolis,minnesota,Renee Good,u.s. immigration and customs enforcement 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal officers dropped tear gas and sprayed eye irritants on activists in Minneapolis on Tuesday as students walked out of a suburban school to protest the Trump administration's bold immigration crackdowns. The government crackdown then heads to federal court, where the state of Minnesota and two mayors are asking a judge to immediately suspend the operation. A hearing on the request has not been scheduled. Read more: Minnesota and the Twin Cities sue the…

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