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Nation & World, Politics

Appeals court declines to block Trump’s sentencing in hush money case

by MICHAEL HILL, MICHAEL R. SISAK and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press January 9, 2025January 9, 2025

The incoming president has asked the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing.

Nation & World

Mexico’s President Sheinbaum offers sarcastic response to Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ comment

by MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press January 8, 2025January 9, 2025

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum noted that the Gulf of Mexico had been named that way since 1607 and proposed dryly that North America should be renamed ‘América Mexicana.’

Nation & World, Politics

Justice Department to release only part of special counsel’s Trump report

by ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press January 8, 2025January 8, 2025

The announcement lessens the likelihood that the full report on the classified documents investigation, which once seemed to carry the greatest legal threat for the incoming president, would ever be released.

Nation & World, Politics

Trump suggests he could use military force to take control of Greenland, Panama Canal

by WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press January 7, 2025January 14, 2025

Greenland, home to a large U.S. military base, is an autonomous territory of Denmark, while the canal has been solely controlled by Panama for more than 25 years.

Nation & World, Politics

Trump certified as 2024 election winner without challenge, a stark contrast to 2021 violence

by LISA MASCARO Associated Press January 6, 2025January 6, 2025

No violence, protests or even procedural objections happened this time around, and Republicans who challenged the 2020 election results when Trump lost to Joe Biden have expressed no qualms this year after he defeated Kamala Harris.

Nation & World, News

Soldier who died in Las Vegas explosion left note saying it was to be a wakeup for country’s ills

by TARA COPP, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press January 3, 2025January 3, 2025

Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret from Colorado Springs, Colorado, also wrote in the note that he needed to ‘cleanse my mind’ of the lives lost of people he knew and ‘the burden of the lives I took.’

Nation & World

Judge sets Trump’s sentencing in hush money case for Jan. 10

by MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press January 3, 2025January 3, 2025

The development marks yet another twist in the singular case. President-elect Donald Trump was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records.