Politics & Government

Politics & Government

Chris Christie is set to announce his presidential bid in New Hampshire

10:31am June 06, 2023

The former New Jersey governor will appear in Manchester Tuesday evening and announce that he's making another run for the GOP nomination. Christie was one of more than a dozen GOP hopefuls in 2016.

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Morning news brief

5:06am June 06, 2023

A major dam near a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine collapses. Former N.J. Gov. Chris Christie is to officially announce his GOP presidential bid. The SEC sues a major crypto exchange.

Christie to join growing field of presidential candidates vying for GOP nomination

5:06am June 06, 2023

by Josh Rogers

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will announce his presidential bid at an event in New Hampshire Tuesday evening. An early voting state, New Hampshire looms large in White House ambitions.

Three more candidates are expected to jump into Republican presidential primary race

11:20pm June 05, 2023

by Domenico Montanaro

With announcements expected from former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Vice President Mike Pence, the GOP field is growing as candidates try to stand out with voters.

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Sen. Robert Kennedy speaks at an election rally in 1968.

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Robert Kennedy was killed 55 years ago. How should he be remembered?

5:48pm June 05, 2023

by Ashley Montgomery

On June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down in a hotel in Los Angeles. Kennedy, a presidential hopeful who was memorialized as a liberal icon, was complicated and contradictory.

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Texas voting laws target Harris County, which contains the blue-leaning Houston

4:58pm June 05, 2023

by Andrew Schneider / Houston Public Media

Harris County in Texas is home to Houston, and has tended to vote blue in the last decade. Republican state lawmakers recently passed bills that target how elections are run there.

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken wants Saudi Arabia to normalize ties with Israel

4:58pm June 05, 2023

by Michele Kelemen

Secretary of State Antony Blinken goes to Saudi Arabia to work on ending the war in Yemen and encouraging peace deal with Israel. But some say the U.S. has forgotten about human rights in the kingdom.

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North Carolina Democrats blast GOP elections bill, but may need help from public, courts to stop it

4:36pm June 05, 2023

by Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

North Carolina Democratic lawmakers said Monday that a Republican bill containing election and ballot changes that Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper previously vetoed, as well as new measures, would harm democracy and embrace unfounded election fraud allegations if enacted.

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Examining how the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud

9:13am June 05, 2023

The Electronic Registration Information Center — a multistate effort to fight voter fraud — was a rare bipartisan success story, until it was targeted by a far-right campaign to dismantle it.

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Migrants crossing the border illegally has slowed, but there are still issues

7:29am June 05, 2023

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas, who represents the 16th Congressional District in El Paso, about U.S.- Mexico border concerns and immigration reform.

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