WASHINGTON (AP) — For most of her life, Angela Crawford considered herself a fairly conservative Republican — and she voted that way. But then a wave of court rulings and Republican-led actions in states restricted abortion and later in vitro fertilization, the very procedure that had helped her conceive her daughter. It helped change her […]
Dollar Tree (DLTR) is marking down its footprint as it continues to struggle with its Family Dollar acquisition. The dollar store chain announced on Wednesday plans to close 600 Family Dollar stores in the first half of fiscal 2024. It’ll shutter another 370 Family Dollar and 30 Dollar Tree locations once their current leases expire, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — While Joe Biden and Donald Trump are marching toward their respective presidential nominations, Michigan’s primary on Tuesday could reveal significant political perils for both of them. Trump, despite his undoubted dominance of the Republican contests this year, is facing a bloc of stubbornly persistent GOP voters who favor his lone remaining rival, […]
Fresh off unveiling $399 Trump-branded gold sneakers a day after a judge leveled a nearly $355 million fraud penalty against him, former President Donald Trump wasted no time on stage in battleground Michigan lambasting, well, everything. Ten days before the state’s GOP primary, the former president immediately unleashed an angry tirade against the country’s legal […]
Tucker Carlson left Moscow more than a week ago, riding high from an interview with President Vladimir Putin of Russia that returned him to the spotlight after his abrupt cancellation by Fox News last spring. But the interview with the wartime autocrat, mocked in various corners of the political media world for its soft touch, […]
WASHINGTON — In January 2023, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents to avoid any perception that he was protecting his boss entering an election year. The man Garland tapped for the job, Robert Hur, has not been quite as cautious. On Thursday, Hur, 50, […]
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden wants Americans to grasp the extraordinary stakes of this year’s presidential election, as he sees them. As part of that effort, he’s revisiting some of the nation’s worst traumas to highlight what can happen when hate is allowed to fester. On Monday, Biden heads to Charleston, South Carolina, […]
A group of Phoenix City Council members is considering a new partial ban on homeless encampments, a move likely to reignite moral and legal controversy about how the city navigates the homeless crisis if it advances. Phoenix has been here before. Its ban on camping at city-owned properties, still on the books but rarely enforced, […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio was in the throes of a bitter debate over abortion rights this fall when Brittany Watts, 21 weeks and 5 days pregnant, began passing thick blood clots. The 33-year-old Watts, who had not shared the news of her pregnancy even with her family, made her first prenatal visit to a […]