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The latest news, analysis, updates and results for the 2021 U.S. Presidential Election.
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Has Obamacare been a success?
The Affordable Care Act was once a major political liability for Democrats, but today President Biden is campaigning on a promise to protect it.
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Trump Advisers Talk of Palestinian Expulsions, but Activists Focus on Biden
Even as Palestinian-rights organizers focus their ire on President Joe Biden, the advisers who shaped Donald Trump’s Middle East policies when he was president have amplified calls for the expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and the annexation of the West Bank by Israel. Those policy prescriptions, voiced by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his former ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, suggest a right-wing approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict exceeding even the Trump adm
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Obama, Fearing Biden Loss to Trump, Is on the Phone to Strategize
WASHINGTON — As the election approaches, President Joe Biden is making regular calls to former President Barack Obama to catch up on the race or to talk about family. But Obama is making calls of his own to Jeffrey Zients, the White House chief of staff, and to top aides at the Biden campaign to strategize and relay advice. This level of engagement illustrates Obama’s support for Biden, but also what one of his senior aides characterized as Obama’s grave concern that Biden could lose to former P
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Erin Hawley: The Woman Arguing Against the Abortion Pill
It was 2014, and Erin Morrow Hawley was fighting against the egg-laying hens of Missouri. Specifically, a new requirement that chicken cages have enough space for the hens to stand up, turn around and stretch out. A law professor from five generations of ranchers and the wife of Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Hawley joined a challenge to California, which required more spacious enclosures for hens laying eggs to be sold there. The state where she taught, Missouri, sold a third of its eggs to Californi
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Who Could Sway the Outcome of the U.S. Election? Mexico’s President
MEXICO CITY — Migrants were streaming across the U.S. southern border in record numbers, international rail bridges were abruptly shut down and official ports of entry closed. Desperate for help in December, President Joe Biden called President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, who told him to quickly send a delegation to the Mexican capital, according to several U.S. officials. The White House rushed to do so. Soon after, Mexico beefed up enforcement. Illegal border crossings into the Unit
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VideoLead attorney attempting to disqualify Fani Willis speaks out
Ashleigh Merchant is in the process of appealing the judge's decision to allow Fani Willis to remain on the election interference case against Donald Trump.
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VideoWho said it: Biden, Trump or someone from 'The Bachelor'?
We quizzed the 538 staff with 12 quotes about finding love — or votes.
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Trump Will Face His Greatest Fears as Two Legal Threats Coincide Monday
NEW YORK — Donald Trump is expected to spend his Monday morning in the courtroom of a New York judge who might soon preside over his criminal trial and, ultimately, throw him behind bars. And that’s not even the legal predicament that worries Trump most that day. The hearing in his Manhattan criminal prosecution — in which he is accused of covering up a sex scandal to pave his way to the presidency — comes as he races to fend off a financial crisis arising from a $454 million judgment in another
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Biden, Promising Corporate Tax Increases, Has Cut Taxes Overall
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, amping up a populist pitch in his reelection campaign, has repeatedly said he would raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations to make them pay their “fair share.” Republicans say Biden has “an unquenchable thirst for taxing the American people.” His Republican opponent in the election, former President Donald Trump, said recently that Biden was “going to give you the greatest, biggest, ugliest tax hike in the history of our country.” So it might come as a surp
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Inside the Republican Attacks on Electric Vehicles
The electric vehicle, a breakthrough achievement in automotive technology, has driven into this year’s presidential election, inflaming partisan fights that have come to define much of American culture. One reason is that President Joe Biden has made electric vehicles central to his strategy to combat climate change. This week, his administration announced the most ambitious climate regulation in the nation’s history: a measure designed to accelerate a transition toward electric vehicles and awa