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Month: September 2025

Michigan dismissal highlights the challenges in prosecuting cases against Trump’s 2020 fake electors

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Before the abandoned federal attempt to prosecute Donald Trump for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, state and local prosecutors brought cases against his fake electors. The term referred to the people who, in several of the swing states won by former

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Trump appeals ruling blocking his attempt to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook

By Dan Berman, Bryan Mena, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge late Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. The Trump administration said Wednesday it will appeal to the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals. “President Trump has not identified anything related to Cook’s conduct or job performance

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Trump dines at a restaurant near the White House to promote his federal law enforcement surge in DC

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump had dinner Tuesday night at a seafood restaurant near the White House, promoting his deployment of the National Guard and federalizing the police force in an effort to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital. His motorcade made the short distance to Joe’s

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Trump is upsetting the US allies needed to counter China

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, DIDI TANG and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade and immigration policies are undermining relationships that have been cornerstones of American foreign policy to counter China’s growing influence, eroding years of diplomatic investments spanning administrations. The latest fracture came Friday, when hundreds of South Korean workers

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Ethiopia inaugurates Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam as neighbors eye power imports

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI, SAMUEL GETACHEW and AMANUEL GEBREMEDHIN BIRHANE Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia on Tuesday inaugurated Africa’s largest dam to boost the economy, end frequent blackouts and support the growth of electric vehicle development in a country that has banned the importation of gasoline-powered vehicles. As reservoir waters flowed into the

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Over 350 Greenlandic women and girls forcibly given contraception by Danish officials, report says

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, reported that they were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that date to the 1960s, according to an independent investigation’s findings released Tuesday. The Inuit victims, many of them teenagers at the time,

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters outside the restaurant Joe's Seafood

Trump dines out in DC for first time in his second term, asserting crime crackdown made city safe

By Donald Judd, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump dined at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab in Washington, DC, Tuesday evening, his first foray to an outside eatery in the district since taking office in January. Trump has eschewed the capital’s restaurant scene since returning to Washington, choosing instead to dine

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RFK Jr.’s latest ‘Make America Healthy Again’ report calls for more scrutiny of vaccines and autism

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration directed the nation’s public health and environmental agencies to prioritize investigations into vaccine injuries, prescription drug use and autism’s causes in its latest “Make America Healthy Again” report released Tuesday. The 20-page report, overseen by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,

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