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By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed Curtis Sliwa — his own party’s New York City mayoral candidate — as “not exactly prime time” and even disparaged his affinity for cats, as pressure mounts for Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani ‘s rivals to drop out of the race.

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a suspect who tried to evade arrest Friday in a Chicago suburb by driving his car at officers and dragging one of them, officials said. The shooting outside the city follows days of threats by

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. government employs a sizable staff of 150 Venezuelans and spends upward of $6.7 million annually for upkeep of the shuttered American embassy and other diplomatic properties in Caracas, despite having broken relations with President Nicolás Maduro’s government in 2019, according to a new watchdog report.

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer Political analyst Matthew Dowd says MSNBC reacted to a “right wing media mob” in firing him for commentary about hateful rhetoric that aired on the network shortly after early reports this week that conservative activist Charlie Kirk had been shot. In a Substack post Friday, Dowd admitted to being

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republicans handed President Donald Trump a political victory Friday, giving final legislative approval to a redistricting plan that could help Republicans win an additional U.S. House seat in next year’s elections. The Senate vote sends the redistricting plan to Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe,

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California state lawmakers have passed legislation that would ban most law enforcement officers from covering their faces while carrying out operations, a response to recent immigration raids in Los Angeles. But even if the governor signs the measure into law, it’s unclear whether the state could

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, immigration crackdowns and sweeping tax and spending law are expected to increase jobless rates and inflation and lower overall growth this year before they improve next year, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The CBO on Friday

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, long an advocate for civility, made an impassioned plea on Friday for Americans and young people in particular to use the horror of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s public assassination as an inflection point to turn the country away from political violence and

OREM, Utah (AP) — Suspect in assassination of Charlie Kirk is arrested on suspicion of capital murder, weapons and obstruction offenses.

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press During her three years as the 24th poet laureate, Ada Limón said her travels around the United States taught her just how many poets the country has. Limón said people would approach her during appearances to tell her they wrote poems regularly in a journal, or on a full moon