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☆ Trump Cheers the Defeat of Rapinoe and the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Maggie Astor | More About Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the United States lost to Sweden in the Women’s World Cup on Sunday, many American viewers saw it as a painful collapse on the grandest stage — the sort of agonizing moment that happens in sports. For former President Donald J. Trump, it was a sign of national decline. The loss was “fully emblematic of what is happening to the our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden,” Mr. Trump wrote on his social media platform. MAGA.”The taunt was an extension of a longstanding feud between Mr. Trump and Megan Rapinoe, the retiring soccer star who once refused to visit the Trump White House, and whose missed penalty kick contributed to the team’s loss. (After the game, Ms. Rapinoe summed up the miss as a sort of “sick joke.”)

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Appearing on five television networks Sunday morning, a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump argued that his actions in the effort to overturn the 2020 election fell short of crimes and were merely “aspirational.”The remarks from his lawyer, John F. Lauro, came as Mr. Trump was blanketing his social media platform, Truth Social, with posts suggesting that his legal team was going to seek the recusal of Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, the federal judge overseeing the case, and try to move his trial out of Washington. With his client facing charges carrying decades in prison after a federal grand jury indicted Mr. Trump for his role in trying to overturn the election, his third criminal case this year, Mr. Lauro appeared in interviews on CNN, ABC, Fox, NBC and CBS. He endeavored to defend Mr. Trump, including against evidence that, as president, he pressured his vice president, Mike Pence, to reject legitimate votes for Joseph R. Biden Jr. in favor of false electors pledged to Mr. Trump. “What President Trump didn’t do is direct Vice President Pence to do anything,” Mr. Lauro said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “He asked him in an aspirational way.”

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☆ Back in Competition, It’s Like Simone Biles Never Left
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Maggie Astor | More About Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It did not look like Simone Biles had been gone. Her full-twisting double-back dismount from the balance beam, hastily scrapped the last time she was seen in competition two years ago, was back. Oh, and yes: She finished the competition with a Yurchenko double pike, a vault not contemplated, much less competed, before Biles introduced it in 2021. The margin — 5 points over the second-place finisher, Leanne Wong — was normal by Biles’s standards, which are not anybody else’s. That margin between first and second was about the same as the margin between second and 17th.

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“You’re too honest,” Mr. Trump told him. Mr. Pence met with federal prosecutors this year and appears to have cooperated with them by describing the discussions he had with Mr. Trump between the election and Jan. 6. For months, Mr. Pence has maintained that “history will hold Donald Trump accountable” for his actions on Jan. 6. After repeating on Tuesday that Mr. Trump should never again be president, Mr. Pence added that he had not yet “reviewed” the indictment and reserved further comment for when he had. Mr. Pence is still cautious when criticizing a man who retains the intense loyalty of the party’s base, but he also wants to beat him for the Republican nomination.

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☆ Where the Republican Candidates Stand on the Trump Indictments
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Maggie Astor | More About Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There’s an investigation into election interference in Georgia, too. Mr. Trump has cast every investigation as politically motivated and legally meritless — and, with few exceptions, the Republicans looking to beat him next year have gone along. Ron DeSantisLike most of the Republican field, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has framed the charges as products of a corrupt justice system, while offering muted criticism of Mr. Trump’s actions. “The weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society,” he wrote on Twitter after the indictment in the documents case.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, ’, There’s, —, Ron DeSantis, ” Organizations: Republican, Twitter, CNN Locations: New York City, Georgia, Florida, Washington

☆ Where the Republican Candidates Stand on Border Security and Immigration
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Maggie Astor | More About Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The blistering immigration policy that Donald J. Trump enacted when he was in the White House shifted his party’s baseline on the issue to the right. His policies are now standard Republican fare: Calls to “build the wall” once set apart the right-wing fringe, but several Republican candidates now support even more exceptional measures, such as using military force to secure the border or ending birthright citizenship. Here is a look at where the candidates stand. Donald J. TrumpHis policies cemented hard-line immigration stances in the G.O.P. As recently as May, during a CNN event, he did not rule out reinstating that policy.

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Scores of people set off on a 40-mile trek on foot from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. On Tuesday, President Biden held a meeting with Mr. Herzog, who serves as Israel’s mostly ceremonial president, at the White House. Several lawmakers critical of Israel said they would boycott Mr. Herzog’s speech to Congress to protest the Israeli government’s policies. Some members of the Israeli military reserves have campaigned against the law, and labor unions have threatened general strikes. Scores of protesters were also marching from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, carrying blue-and-white Israeli flags and chanting “De-mo-cra-tya!” — Hebrew for democracy.

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Weeks later, Mr. Trump is the former President Trump. Instead, in a brief televised address shortly before 2:30 a.m., Mr. Trump furiously laid down his postelection lie. For weeks, Mr. Trump had been peppering him with tips of fraud that, upon investigation by federal authorities, proved baseless. The cavalry “is coming, Mr. President,” Kylie Kremer tweeted to Mr. Trump on Dec. 19. On Jan. 15, Mr. Trump acquiesced to an Oval Office meeting with Mr. Lindell, who arrived with two sets of documents.

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“This is part of a national coordinated” effort to stop Mr. Trump, she added. The Michigan charges were announced on the same day that Mr. Trump said he received another so-called target letter from Jack Smith, the special counsel for the Justice Department who is investigating his efforts to hold onto power after he lost the 2020 election. Both investigations are part of a reckoning over the conspiracy theories Mr. Trump and his allies have promoted about the election. Outside of Michigan, supporters of Mr. Trump, then the president, pushed to convene slates of fake electors in six other swing states that Mr. Biden actually won. One of those states, Georgia, is the site of a separate criminal investigation involving Mr. Trump himself, who pressured state officials to help him overturn his loss.

Persons: Trump, Kathy Berden, Marian Sheridan, Jack Smith, Joseph R, Biden, Mr, —, Mike Pence, Matthew DePerno, Nessel Organizations: Republican National Committee, Justice Department, Capitol, Mr, Trump, Biden, Republican Locations: Michigan, Georgia

☆ Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Relatives Condemn His Comments Once More
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Maggie Astor | More About Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Several members of the Kennedy family have condemned a bigoted conspiracy theory from the Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who suggested that the coronavirus was “ethnically targeted” to spare Jews and Chinese people. In comments at a recent event in New York City, a recording of which was first published by The New York Post, Mr. Kennedy said: “Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” He added, “We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not.”His sister Kerry Kennedy called his remarks “deplorable and untruthful” and said they did not represent the principles espoused by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the organization she leads — named after their father, the former attorney general and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. His brother Joseph Kennedy II issued a similar statement, telling The Boston Globe: “Bobby’s comments are morally and factually wrong. His remarks in no way reflect the words and actions of our father, Robert F. Kennedy.”

Persons: Kennedy, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, “, ”, Kerry Kennedy, —, Joseph Kennedy II Organizations: Democratic, The New, Kennedy Human Rights, Boston Globe Locations: New York City, The New York

☆ Where the Republican Candidates Stand on Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Maggie Astor | More About Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Few issues have been more divisive among the Republican presidential candidates than the war in Ukraine and how, if at all, the United States should be involved. It has illuminated one of the biggest ideological divides within the Republican Party: between traditional members who see the United States as having a significant role to play in world affairs, and an anti-interventionist wing that sees foreign involvement as a distraction from more important issues at home. The old school has more adherents in the 2024 field, including Nikki Haley, Mike Pence and Tim Scott, who support sending Ukraine military equipment and weapons but not troops. This aligns with President Biden’s strategy, though they maintain that Mr. Biden is executing it wrong. But the anti-interventionist wing is dominant in terms of influence, with two members, Donald J. Trump and Ron DeSantis, far outpolling everybody else.

Persons: Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Tim Scott, Biden’s, Biden, Donald J, Trump, Ron DeSantis Organizations: Republican, Republican Party, Ukraine Locations: Ukraine, United States

☆ Republicans Have to Sign a Loyalty Pledge to Debate. Who Will and Who Won’t?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To participate in the first Republican presidential debate on Aug. 23, candidates must meet challenging new criteria, including having at least 40,000 donors and voter support of at least 1 percent in three approved polls. But the requirement causing the most consternation is a pledge to support the eventual nominee. Former President Donald J. Trump has not said whether he will sign the pledge. He signed the same pledge in 2015 and then reneged on it. Asked last month whether he would support Mr. Trump in a general election, Gov.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Hugh Hewitt, Ron DeSantis Organizations: Trump, Republican National Committee, Gov Locations: Florida

your moneyThere are still plenty of ways to get your student debt wiped away. That’s because the Supreme Court’s disapproval of the plan does not change laws and regulations that already give many federal student loan borrowers an escape hatch. What follows is a list of ways to eliminate your federal student loan balance aside from paying in full. If you know someone who is struggling with student loan debt, suggest that the borrower review every last option. Bankruptcy DischargeYes, you can discharge your student loan debt by filing for personal bankruptcy.

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☆ 5 Things to Know About Will Hurd
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Former Representative Will Hurd, a Republican from a swing district in Texas who served three terms, faces the daunting task of establishing himself in a field of much better-known presidential candidates. Here are five things to know about Mr. Hurd, who announced his 2024 bid on Thursday. Mr. Hurd got a job with the C.I.A. straight out of college in 2000 and spent more than eight years as an undercover agent, with stints in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. His next assignment came after Sept. 11.

Persons: Will Hurd, Hurd, Al Qaeda, Cole Organizations: Republican, Guardian Locations: Texas, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, American, Islamabad

☆ Report Cites More Than 350 Anti-L.G.B.T.Q. Incidents Over 11 Months
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The report uses similar methodology to what A.D.L. and GLAAD have compiled a report on homophobic and transphobic incidents. and GLAAD had documented 101 such incidents in the first three weeks of June, which is Pride Month. An upcoming report from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino shows a 52 percent increase in anti-L.G.B.T.Q. It also shows a 47 percent increase in hate crimes against gender-nonconforming people, which the report defines as including drag performers.

Persons: Sarah Moore, ”, Sarah Kate Ellis, “, Brian Levin Organizations: GLAAD, Center, California State University, San Locations: A.D.L, San Bernardino

☆ 5 Things to Know About Francis Suarez
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In a speech at the Reagan Library in California on Thursday evening, brimming with callbacks to decades-old Republican catchphrases like George H.W. Bush’s “thousand points of light,” Mr. Suarez declared his candidacy with a reference to one more — and to his own catchphrase from a Twitter post he made in 2021 in response to a venture capitalist who suggested moving Silicon Valley to Miami. It needs a mayor. My name is Francis Suarez, and I am here to help.”Here are five things to know about Mr. Suarez. Mr. Suarez was elected as mayor in 2017 with 86 percent of the vote and re-elected in 2021 with 79 percent of the vote — striking margins made possible by the fact that he faced only token opposition.

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☆ Francis Suarez, Miami Mayor, Files for a Republican Presidential Run
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Maggie Astor | Patricia Mazzei | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mayor Francis X. Suarez of Miami filed the paperwork for a presidential campaign on Wednesday, setting him up to join an increasingly crowded field of candidates jockeying to overtake former President Donald J. Trump for the Republican nomination. Mr. Suarez, a 45-year-old Cuban American elected overwhelmingly twice to his post leading one of Florida’s biggest cities, is presenting himself as a fresh face for a party that has struggled in three consecutive elections as general-election voters soured on Mr. Trump. He is scheduled to give a speech on Thursday night at the Reagan Library in California. Supporters of Mr. Suarez announced a super PAC on Wednesday in tandem with his filing, beginning with an initial “six figure” ad buy in three early-voting states: Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. The committee, SOS America PAC, is starting off on solid financial footing, with almost $6 million left over from its previous iteration.

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☆ Christie Attacks Trump, Calling Conduct Detailed in Indictment ‘Awful’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Katie Glueck | Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“He’s saying, ‘I’m more important than the country,’” Mr. Christie said at another point, as he questioned why Mr. Trump had, according to prosecutors, refused to turn over critical government documents. He kept — he took documents he wasn’t supposed to take.”When he was not tearing into the current Republican front-runner, Mr. Christie could sound like a pre-Trump-era politician. “With all due respect to these governors from red states who have Republican legislatures — man, I’m telling you, I would have given my own right arm to have a Republican legislature for a week,” Mr. Christie said at one point, seeming to draw an implicit contrast with Gov. Ron DeSantis, the powerful and pugnacious Florida Republican and another 2024 candidate who enjoys a supportive legislature in Tallahassee. We can all fight to get headlines.”

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☆ Where Republican Presidential Candidates Stand on Climate Change
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Maggie Astor | Lisa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As wildfires in Canada have sent masses of smoke over the United States this week, engulfing much of the Northeast in a yellow haze of hazardous air pollution, scientists are clear that we are seeing the effects of climate change. But the Republicans campaigning for the presidency have largely downplayed the issue and rejected policies that would slow rising temperatures. His response reflected what has become a pattern among Republican officials. Many of the candidates acknowledge that climate change is real, in contrast to party members’ years of outright denial. Here is a look at where some of the major Republican candidates stand.

Persons: Mike Pence, ”, Donald J, Trump, Scott Pruitt Organizations: New, CNN, Republican, Environmental Protection Agency Locations: Canada, United States, New York City, Paris

☆ 5 Things to Know About Doug Burgum
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Doug Burgum has at least a couple of things going for him: He is a sitting governor, which is the most common steppingstone to the United States presidency, and he has deep pockets. But Mr. Burgum, the two-term Republican governor of North Dakota, nonetheless entered the 2024 presidential race on Wednesday with a notable disadvantage: The 99.8 percent of Americans who don’t live in North Dakota are unlikely to know much about him. Here are five things to know about Mr. Burgum. When Mr. Burgum began running for governor in January 2016, few people in North Dakota knew who he was either. A poll conducted the next month found him running 49 percentage points behind the state attorney general Wayne Stenehjem, who was the chosen candidate of the North Dakota Republican Party, the departing governor Jack Dalrymple and Senator John Hoeven.

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☆ 5 Things to Know About Mike Pence
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Now he is one of a growing number of Mr. Trump’s opponents in the Republican presidential primary. He dropped his campaign for re-election as governor when Mr. Trump named him as his running mate in 2016. Here are five things to know about Mr. Pence. Before Mr. Trump was nominated in 2016, Mr. Pence — like many Republicans — was critical of him. Among other things, in 2015, he called Mr. Trump’s suggestion to bar Muslims from entering the United States “offensive and unconstitutional.”But once Mr. Pence agreed to be Mr. Trump’s running mate, he went all in.

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☆ 5 Things to Know About Chris Christie
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Chris Christie of New Jersey, who announced a second campaign for president on Tuesday after a disappointing run in 2016, has had a roller coaster of a political career in more ways than one. In the span of four years, he went from star presidential recruit to scandal-dogged sixth-place finisher in New Hampshire. Here are five things to know about Mr. Christie. He had a meteoric rise in his first term as governor …Mr. Christie first drew national attention in 2009, when he was elected governor of New Jersey over a Democratic incumbent, Jon Corzine. He quickly notched legislative victories for Republicans in a Democratic-leaning state, including passing a major overhaul of New Jersey’s public employee pension system.

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☆ Cornel West, Progressive Scholar, Announces Third-Party Bid for President
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Cornel West, the progressive activist and professor, announced a presidential campaign on Monday with the People’s Party, a third party led by a former campaign staff member for Senator Bernie Sanders. “I enter in the quest for truth, I enter in the quest for justice, and the presidency is just one vehicle to pursue that truth and justice — what I’ve been trying to do all of my life,” Dr. West said in a campaign video posted on Twitter. In the video, Dr. West said he had decided to run as a third-party candidate because “neither political party wants to tell the truth about Wall Street, about Ukraine, about the Pentagon, about Big Tech.” He called former President Donald J. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, a “neo-fascist,” and President Biden a “milquetoast neoliberal.”Dr. West has taught at Yale, Princeton and Harvard and is currently a professor of philosophy at Union Theological Seminary. He is known for his progressive activism, including his sharp criticism of former President Barack Obama.

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☆ Chris Sununu Says He Won’t Run for President
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Chris Sununu of New Hampshire will not enter the Republican presidential race, he said on Monday, forgoing a campaign that would have tested the appetite of his party’s voters for a self-described “normal” candidate. He bowed out in an interview on CNN, saying he wanted to be able to have a more “candid, a little more unleashed voice” in the primary than he would be able to as a candidate — particularly in moving the party away from former President Donald J. Trump. “I want more independents on the Republican Party team. I want more young voters on the Republican Party team,” he said, adding, “I think more folks in the Republican Party have to have that kind of voice, that kind of emphasis of message, in making sure this is about the Republican Party, not just about the former president.”Mr. Sununu, 48, whose political mantra is “be normal,” is generally considered a moderate. Compared with other Republicans, he is — though he is in line with the rest of his party on many issues, including fiscal policy.

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The moment was a culmination for Dev, who began competing in spelling bees in third grade and has studied 10 hours each day for the past year, according to his mother. When his parents rushed the stage to hug him, he felt overwhelmed, Dev said in an interview after the competition. A fan of Roger Federer and the movie “La La Land,” Dev had competed in previous national spelling bees, tying for 76th place in 2021 and 51st place in 2019. In 2021, organizers introduced a vocabulary round, in which spellers have to identify the correct meaning of the word. Harini Logan, an eighth grader from San Antonio, won by correctly spelling 21 words.

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