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With Hyundai raid, Trump’s immigration crackdown runs into his push for foreign investment

By DIDI TANG and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s push to revitalize American manufacturing by luring foreign investment into the U.S. has run smack into one of his other priorities: cracking down on illegal immigration. Hardly a week after immigration authorities raided a sprawling Hyundai battery plant in Georgia, detained

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US Rep. Emanuel Cleaver faces off with Missouri lawmakers seeking to reshape his district

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Facing those seeking to oust him from office, Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver warned Missouri lawmakers on Thursday that a redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump is reopening decades-old racial divisions in Kansas City. Cleaver flew from the nation’s Capitol to Missouri’s statehouse

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Disputed charter school funding measure gets a pivotal hearing before the Kentucky Supreme Court

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press School choice resurfaced Thursday as a hotly debated issue in Kentucky, where the state’s highest court heard arguments in a bitter dispute over the constitutionality of a measure to publicly fund charter schools. The measure, known as House Bill 9, was enacted by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature in 2022 over

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Charlie Kirk’s shooting death exposes security gaps at political events

By JIM MUSTIAN, MICHAEL BIESECKER, JACK BROOK and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press OREM, Utah (AP) — The assassination of Charlie Kirk offers the latest example of how ordinary security measures can be defeated in an era of escalating political violence, when anyone associated with the political process is a potential target, including influencers. Kirk was

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The Latest: Pentagon 9/11 ceremony moved inside due to security concerns

By The Associated Press President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump marked 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at a service at the Pentagon on Thursday. While traditionally observed near the building’s memorial outside the Pentagon’s walls, it was moved to the internal courtyard following the “heartbreaking political assassination” of activist Charlie

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Utah governor pleads for public’s help in finding person who shot Charlie Kirk on university campus

By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, JESSE BEDAYN and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press OREM, Utah (AP) — The shooter who assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk and then vanished off a roof and into the woods remained at large more than 24 hours later Thursday as federal investigators appealed for the public’s help by releasing photos

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Graphic video of Kirk shooting was everywhere online, showing how media gatekeeper role has changed

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer They were careful with the explicit imagery — as usual. But did it make any difference? Traditional news organizations were cautious in their midafternoon coverage of Charlie Kirk’s assassination Wednesday not to depict the moment he was shot, instead showing video of him tossing a hat to his audience

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Texas drops lawsuit against doctor accused of illegally providing care to transgender youth

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — One of the nation’s first doctors accused of illegally providing care to transgender youth under GOP-led bans was found to have not violated the law, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office says, nearly a year after the state sued the physician. Dr. Hector Granados, a pediatric endocrinologist

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Senate Republicans defeat Democrats’ effort to force the release of Epstein files

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a close vote, Senate Republicans defeated an effort Wednesday by Democrats to insert language into Congress’ annual defense authorization bill that would have forced the public release of case files on the sex trafficking investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein. The Senate voted 51-49 to dismiss

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