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Trips on Monday and Wednesday are planned to the sites of the natural disasters.
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Caracas released seven Americans in a trade for two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady who had been convicted on drug charges. Separately, Tehran released its longest-held American prisoner.
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The archives said in a letter to the House Oversight Committee that it was seeking electronic messages from unnamed White House officials sent through personal accounts.
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Aerial imagery taken before and after Hurricane Ian made landfall revealed the extent of the damage to parts of Florida’s Gulf Coast.
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Tudor Dixon, the Republican taking on Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in November's midterm election, is turning to tactics that have worked for other Republican winners in competitive governor's races as she seeks to turn the race into a cultural battle over education, transgender athletes and more.
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Violent political speech has increasingly crossed into the realm of in-person confrontation for members of Congress in both parties, raising the prospect of a disastrous event.
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The pair found themselves at the center of what Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida on Friday called “ground zero.”
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The worst trouble was in Lee County, where a badly damaged water system was affecting a population of nearly 760,000 people.
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Tudor Dixon, the party’s nominee for governor, has ground to make up in her race against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. She is hoping the former president can rally their party’s base.
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As programs expire, federal spending is returning to prior levels: $1 for every $6 spent on older adults.
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Proponents say the ability to check drugs for the presence of lethal fentanyl may save lives. But critics say the strips enable drug use.
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President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Friday that includes a provision reestablishing the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, a panel that was dissolved in 2017 when the committee's members resigned over then-President Donald Trump's handling of a deadly White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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A U.S. District Court judge found that the sections of the state’s election law that cover absentee ballots, voter rolls and voter applications “violate neither the constitution nor the Voting Rights Act.”
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A day of hesitation in Lee County came despite warnings that the Fort Myers and Cape Coral area could see mass flooding. Now authorities are encountering mass death.
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The storm, which had pummeled Florida, made landfall again in South Carolina, but with less fury than it had earlier in the week.
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The measure passed on an overwhelming bipartisan vote, the last action in the House before lawmakers departed to campaign ahead of the November midterm elections.
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