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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., leaves the Senate chamber after a live quorum call at the U.S. Capitol this week.

After months of speculation, Sen. Joe Manchin will not run for president in 2024

2:03pm February 16, 2024

by Elena Moore

After speculation the powerful centrist Democrat would run third-party, Manchin announced Friday he would not be running for president in the 2024 election. But he did not endorse a candidate.

Vice President Harris speaks at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Friday..

Harris says Russia is responsible for Navalny's death

1:59pm February 16, 2024

by Franco Ordoñez

Vice President Harris says Russia is responsible for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, "whatever story they tell," and said it was "a further sign of Putin's brutality."

President Biden delivers remarks Thursday at the White House. Biden addressed the special counsel's report on his handling of classified material, and the status of the war in Gaza.

How ageism against Biden and Trump puts older folks at risk

1:32pm February 16, 2024

by Leah Donnella

Recently, conversation about the age of the 2024 presidential candidates has risen to a fever pitch. That's the sign of a deeper problem with how our culture views aging.

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein at a campaign speech

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Steady ascent or sudden splash? North Carolina governor's race features men who took different paths

12:05pm February 16, 2024

by Gary Robertson, Associated Press

One candidate is an Ivy League-educated attorney who over 25 years amassed allies as he climbed North Carolina's Democratic ladder. The other is a former furniture factory worker with a history of blunt commentary who plowed into Republican politics four years ago after a viral video on gun rights vaulted him to prominence.

Toby Keith performs during a 2014 "Salute to the Troops" concert in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Toby Keith's 'Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue' lives on in MAGA country

11:27am February 16, 2024

by Danielle Kurtzleben

Keith's death shined a new spotlight on his music, particularly political anthem "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue," best known for its lyric: "We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way."

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Why sending more aid to Ukraine has become a divisive issue within the GOP

5:10am February 16, 2024

NPR's A Martinez speaks with American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Danielle Pletka about why some Republicans strongly oppose sending more aid to Ukraine.

Hunter Biden, son of President Biden, talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, on Dec. 13, 2023. An FBI informant has been charged with lying to his handler about ties between Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and a Ukrainian energy company.

FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden's ties to Ukrainian firm

9:15pm February 15, 2024

by The Associated Press

Alexander Smirnov falsely told FBI agents in 2020 that executives associated with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid Hunter and Joe Biden $5 million each in 2015 or 2016, prosecutors said.

Montana Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale files paperwork to run for U.S. Senate on Feb. 9 at the state Capitol in Helena, Mt. Rosendale announced Thursday, Feb. 15, that he was ending his campaign after former President Donald Trump endorsed his Republican opponent, former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy.

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Montana GOP lawmaker quickly drops Senate bid, citing Trump's endorsement of opponent

7:48pm February 15, 2024

by Shaylee Ragar

Rep. Matt Rosendale has ended his bid for the Senate less than a week after he launched his campaign. He said in a statement he lacks resources and that the "hill was just too steep to climb."

Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., is among the members using Spanglish — meaning a mix of English and Spanish — to communicate with constituents.

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Latino Democrats launch 'Our Lucha' war room using Spanglish to combat GOP

6:57pm February 15, 2024

by Claudia Grisales

The campaign arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus is calling the new effort "Our Lucha War Room," or their fight for Latinos and boosting their representation in Congress.

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A New York Medical Examiner's car is parked outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center where financier Jeffrey Epstein was being held in New York. Epstein committed suicide in prison.

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DOJ watchdog finds 187 inmate suicides in federal prisons over 8-year period

5:55pm February 15, 2024

by Ryan Lucas

The watchdog's reporting comes in the wake of several high-profile deaths in federal lockups in recent years, most notably the murder James "Whitey" Bulger and the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein.