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Potential VP pick Sen. J.D. Vance once liked tweets harshly critical of Trump

By Em Steck, Andrew Kaczynski and Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, a leading candidate to be Donald Trump’s vice president, liked tweets in 2016 and 2017 that harshly criticized Trump and his policies — including one speculating that Vance could serve in former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s administration. Other

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Senate GOP blocks bill to guarantee access to IVF nationwide

By Clare Foran and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — Senate Republicans voted Thursday to block a bill put forward by Democrats that would guarantee access to in vitro fertilization nationwide. The legislation failed to advance in a procedural vote by a tally of 48-47. It needed 60 votes to advance. Republicans criticized the Democrat-led legislation as unnecessary overreach and a political

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Biden campaign seizes upon Trump’s Capitol Hill visit with a televised reminder of his role on January 6

By Kevin Liptak and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s campaign is intensifying its focus on Donald Trump and his role in the January 6, 2021, riot, seizing on the presumptive Republican nominee’s Capitol Hill appearance Thursday to launch a new attack ad spotlighting the insurrection. The campaign recently announced Biden’s endorsements from

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$3.4 trillion in individual tax cuts are expiring next year. Biden and Trump would handle it very differently

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Whoever wins the presidency in November will have some especially tough financial choices to make next year. More than $3.4 trillion in individual income and estate tax cuts – heralded by Republicans for spurring economic growth and largely decried by Democrats for disproportionately benefitting the rich – are set

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Donald Trump back in Washington for meetings with vice presidential contenders, congressional allies and former foes

By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, Melanie Zanona and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is back in Washington for the first time since becoming the presumptive Republican nominee as well as a convicted felon, holding a pair of significant, closed-door meetings with key congressional allies, vice presidential hopefuls and even a few former

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Hunter Biden next faces sentencing in gun case

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Following Tuesday’s guilty verdict, Hunter Biden now faces the next phase in the criminal justice system: sentencing. While the three felonies Biden was convicted of carry a maximum sentence of more than two dozen years behind bars, the sentencing guideline, former federal prosecutor Tim Jansen told CNN, is between 15 and 21

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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a federal rule in four states that requires people who sell firearms online and at gun shows to conduct background checks on their potential customers.

Judge blocks Biden administration from closing ‘gun show loophole’ in Texas and 3 other states

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a federal rule in four states that requires people who sell firearms online and at gun shows to conduct background checks on their potential customers. In a preliminary injunction issued Tuesday, US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk said the Bureau of

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Anti-abortion groups to Trump: Don’t water down GOP platform by removing support for federal ban

By Steve Contorno and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Anti-abortion leaders are warning Republicans not to remove a federal abortion ban from the party’s platform at next month’s GOP convention even as their presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, backs away from it. The current platform – put in place during Trump’s 2016 campaign for president and

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