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Ex-Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper enters presidential race

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper says he’s running for president because he believes he can beat Donald Trump and can “bring people together on the other side and actually get stuff done.”


Proposed order on campus speech follows wave of complaints

President Donald Trump’s proposed executive order to protect free speech on college campuses follows a growing number of complaints from conservatives that universities are attempting to silence them


Adviser says Trump ‘gave nothing away’ in North Korea talks

President Donald Trump’s national security adviser is portraying the president’s meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a success despite the lack of an agreement providing for the verifiable dismantling of the North’s nuclear sites


Senate seems to have votes to reject Trump’s wall move

Opponents of President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border appear to have enough Senate votes to reject his move, now that Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky has said he can’t go along with the White House


Trial over redistrictingSFlbin Ohio to begin Monday

Associated Press CINCINNATI Voting-rights groups that charge that Ohio’s congressional map was


Sanders returns to NY roots, says he can defeat Trump

Bernie Sanders has kicked off his presidential campaign – miles from the rent-controlled apartment where he grew up in Brooklyn


Trump delivers a slashing speech that rouses the right

In a slashing speech packed with braggadocio and grievance, President Donald Trump denounced Democrats as the party of ’the socialist nightmare’


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sunday news shows Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC’s “This Week”: Reps. Jerrold


Washington Gov. Inslee focuses on climate change in 2020 bid

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is launching his bid for president, joining a growing Democratic presidential field


Trump claims Cohen book transcript would prove ex-aide lied

President Donald Trump is claiming that his former lawyer Michael Cohen shopped a book to publishers that portrayed Trump in a favorable light, at odds with Cohen’s damning testimony to Congress


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Valley’s state legislators land on several committees

Rep. Michael O’Brien is the only chairman from the local delegation.


Hunter terminated from Ohev Tzedek-Shaarei Torah

Hunter said in a statement he believes the firing is a result of his statements against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.


Political operative arrested in NC scandal

Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. The political operative at the center of an election fraud


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Lewandowski: Sherrod Brown would be weighty Trump opponent

But he questions what Brown has done for Ohio.

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State defends school takeover law in Ohio Supreme Court case

Lawmakers didn’t violate the Ohio Constitution or a procedural rule when they passed a law that shifted control of poor-performing school districts, the state argued in a new filing at the Ohio Supreme Court, which is considering a case challenging the law.