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Trump economic adviser plays down fears of looming recession
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser is trying to play down fears of a looming recession after last week’s sharp drop in the financial markets. Larry Kudlow says the
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Sanders’ criminal justice plan aims to cut prison population
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is proposing a criminal justice overhaul that aims to cut the nation’s prison population in half, end mandatory minimum sentencing, ban private prisons and legalize
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Trump wields sanctions hammer; experts wonder to what end
WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the diplomacy of coercion. The Trump administration is aggressively pursuing economic sanctions as a primary foreign policy tool to an extent unseen in decades, or perhaps ever. Many are
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Suburban voters are pressuring Republicans to act on guns
GILBERT, Ariz. (AP) — Following the news has grown stressful for Angela Tetschner, a 39-year-old nurse raising four children in this sprawling Phoenix suburb of tile roofs, desert yards, young families and voters who
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Portland ‘ground zero’ for protests between right, left-wing
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Hundreds of far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators swarmed downtown Portland, Oregon, on Saturday for a long-hyped rally that attracted President Donald Trump’s attention and resulted in at least 13 arrests.
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Argentina’s treasury minister resigns, senior official says
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A senior official in Argentina’s presidential office says the country’s treasury minister resigned Saturday. The resignation comes three days after President Nicolas Macri announced his conservative administration is temporarily
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Gun control advocates call for new gun laws at rallies
Gun control advocates have rallied around the country, seeking to pressure Congress to tighten the nation’s gun laws after the recent mass shootings in Texas, Ohio and California. Dozens of demonstrators gathered in Providence,
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Sanders, Warren are courting black pastors, millennials
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are in Georgia making election appeals to thousands of black millennial Christians. The senators are competing to be the leading progressive
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House speaker as US emissary: Pelosi emerges as force abroad
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is emerging as an alternative American ambassador abroad, an emissary for bedrock democratic values and the promise of stability that some see as diminishing in the Trump
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Bullock tries to find middle ground on guns
As a Democratic politician in deep-red Montana, Steve Bullock has long searched for a middle ground on guns. Now a presidential candidate in a party pushing hard for new gun-control laws, he still is.
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