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Biden-Trump is the rematch many voters don't want. Could the debate change their minds?
When President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump square off on Thursday, they will especially be looking to appeal to undecided or independent voters – but many who spoke with ABC News are not looking forward to the rematch. While the CNN debate marks the first real showdown between the two candidates in 2024, they debated before in 2020. Thalia Flores from Nashua, New Hampshire, said she voted for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in the GOP primary and is now leaning toward casting her vote for Biden, but said she wishes there would be other candidates on the debate stage.
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5 things to watch in the first 2024 general election debate
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will face off in-person Thursday for the first of two presidential debates this year, offering the two a high-profile opportunity to try to gain an edge in a race characterized by persistently narrow polling margins. The debate, moderated by CNN, is occurring unusually early in the election cycle and features the atypical combination of a president and a former president both having to defend their White House records. Biden and Trump both come into the debate with widespread worries over the fitness for office and character, as well as universal name recognition -- and thus hardened voter opinions -- that leave few opportunities for fluctuations in the White House contest.
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President Biden to pardon veterans convicted under regulation used to keep LGBT members from serving
President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he will pardon U.S. veterans who were convicted by the military under a regulation that allowed people to be kicked out for being gay. The White House says the move will impact thousands of military veterans, though officials declined to give a specific number. "Today, I am righting an historic wrong by using my clemency authority to pardon many former service members who were convicted simply for being themselves," Biden said in a statement.
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Biden administration's asylum executive action decreased encounters by 40%: DHS
President Joe Biden's executive action on asylum, which was rolled out three weeks ago, has decreased encounters along the border by 40%, the Biden administration said. The executive action established a rule to turn away migrants who are claiming asylum between ports of entry after there have been seven consecutive days of more than 2,500 encounters along the southern border. The restrictions on asylum claims would remain in place for an additional 14 days once daily encounters at the border fall to a seven-day average of 1,500 or less.
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Everything to know about Kevin Costner's 'Horizon: An American Saga'
Kevin Costner returns to the big screen in just days, this Friday, in the highly anticipated "Horizon: An American Saga" followed by a second chapter coming later in the summer. Here is everything you need to know about the Warner Bros. Pictures headliner coming to theaters this summer. "Horizon: An American Saga" Chapter 1 hits theaters on June 28 followed by Chapter Two which hits theaters seven weeks later on August 16.
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American reporter Evan Gershkovich arrives in Russian court for secret espionage trial
The trial of Evan Gershkovich, an American journalist charged with espionage in Russia, was convened on Wednesday behind closed doors, as U.S. officials accused the Kremlin of using the case "to achieve its political objectives." The proceedings in Sverdlovsk Regional Court in Yekaterinburg, a city hundreds of miles from Moscow, will mark the first time prosecutors have laid out their evidence against the Wall Street Journal reporter, who they’ve accused of working for the CIA. The case against the journalist has been widely denounced by U.S. officials and press-freedom advocates, along with Gershkovich's editor and publisher.
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Timeline of Julian Assange's 14-year-long saga to dodge extradition
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to an espionage charge in a deal hashed out with federal prosecutors, ending his 14-year-long fight to avoid extradition to the United States to face prosecution. April to July 2010 -- WikiLeaks begins releasing hundreds of thousands of classified documents related to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, provided to the website by Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, then known as Bradley Manning. August 2010 -- Prosecutors in Sweden announce that an arrest warrant has been issued for Assange after two women accused him of rape and molestation.
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Julian Assange pleads guilty at hearing in the Northern Mariana Islands
Julian Assange pleaded guilty to a felony at a United States federal courthouse in the Northern Mariana Islands on Wednesday and walked out of court a free man. The Justice Department had reached an agreement for Assange to plead guilty to a single felony count of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified information. The judge in the case sentenced Assange to time served.
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NY16 Democratic primary: Jamaal Bowman defeated in most expensive House primary on record, in blow for progressives
The Associated Press has projected that Westchester County Executive George Latimer will defeat incumbent Rep. Jamaal Bowman in a contentious Democratic primary in New York’s 16th Congressional district. As of 9:38 PM, with 51% of the votes counted, Latimer leads Bowman with 54.8% of the vote. Bowman has 45.2%.
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American woman goes missing while attending yoga retreat in the Bahamas
An American who traveled to the Bahamas to attend a yoga retreat has been missing for nearly a week, her family and police said. Taylor Casey, 41, of Chicago, was last seen on June 19 in the area of Paradise Island, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force. The search for Casey continued on Tuesday, with authorities searching by ground and with drones, the police force told ABC News.
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New York, Colorado and Utah primaries 2024: Bowman loses, Boebert wins
June 25 was one of the most jam-packed primary election days of the year: Democrats and Republicans in Colorado, New York, Utah and parts of South Carolina picked their party's nominees for this fall's elections. Two incumbent representatives — Jamaal Bowman and Lauren Boebert — who have made enemies inside and outside their own parties faced serious challengers in their primaries, but they met with different fates. Bowman lost to a more moderate Democrat, George Latimer, in what was the most expensive congressional primary in history.
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Minnesota's Rapidan Dam at risk of 'failure' amid severe flooding
As southern Minnesota battles an onslaught of rain and severe flooding, the fate of the RapidanDam hangs in the balance, with officials saying the dam is in "imminent failure condition." The Rapidan Dam, built in 1910, is located on the Blue Earth River, which begins in Iowa and runs outside Mankato, Minnesota, about 85 miles southwest of Minneapolis. The Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office reported the dam was in precarious standing amid the overflow of the river, which has caused "erosion and slope-cutting" to the dam as well as a buildup of debris in the area.
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26-year-old woman drowns after slipping into creek at Glacier National Park
The woman slipped on slick rocks and fell into Virginia Creek between St. Mary Falls and Virginia Falls at Glacier National Park late Sunday afternoon, according to the National Park Service (NPS). The agency identified the woman on Tuesday as Gillian Tones from North Apollo, Pennsylvania. NPS initially reported that Tones was swept over St. Mary's Falls, though said in an update Tuesday that witnesses later clarified that she slipped and fell into the creek.
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US military delivers supplies to Gaza via pier, but there's no one to distribute them
U.S. officials are defending President Joe Biden's decision to build a $230 million temporary pier off Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid as a better-than-nothing solution to the worsening crisis there, even as rough waves have forced its closure several times in the past month and aid workers on shore say it's nearly impossible to distribute the supplies due to safety concerns. The amount is roughly equivalent to what the U.N. says can fit inside 200 to 600 of its ground trucks -- less than half of what aid organizations say Gaza's 2 million residents might need in a day. Biden's decision to build the pier came amid frustration with the Israelis that they were allowing too few aid trucks inside Gaza, citing security concerns.
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Special counsel criticizes Trump for storing national secrets amid 'cluttered collection of keepsakes'
In an overnight court filing in Donald Trump's classified documents case, special counsel Jack Smith defended the August 2022 search of the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate, following Trump's lawyers' request to dismiss the case on the basis that some of the documents were shuffled around during the search. The filing, which came before the judge overseeing the case, Aileen Cannon, heard arguments Tuesday on defense requests to have the case dismissed, provides perhaps the most detailed account of the search and the state of Trump's boxes that were seized by the FBI -- including never-before-seen photos of some of the boxes to illustrate how Trump stored his materials. "Trump personally chose to keep documents containing some of the nation’s most highly guarded secrets in cardboard boxes along with a collection of other personally chosen keepsakes of various sizes and shapes from his presidency -- newspapers, thank-you notes, Christmas ornaments, magazines, clothing, and photographs of himself and others," the filing says.
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NASA astronauts stuck waiting aboard ISS to return to Earth amid issues with Boeing's Starliner
Two NASA astronauts have no set date to return to Earth and are stuck waiting aboard the International Space Station (ISS) due to several mechanical issues with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. The mission is part of the larger Commercial Crew Program at NASA, which was testing if Boeing's spacecrafts could be certified to perform routine missions to and from the ISS.
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Courts block aspects of Biden’s hallmark student loan repayment plan
In two court rulings Monday night, federal judges in Kansas and Missouri halted key aspects of President Joe Biden's hallmark student loan repayment program. The SAVE plan, a student loan repayment plan that ties how much someone pays each month to what their income is, has been in place for almost a year and is the jewel of Biden's surviving student loan efforts -- one that he has touted heavily in his reelection campaign. The rulings will stop the Biden administration from any further implementation of the program for now, including a plan to slash payments next month and to continue granting debt relief to certain enrollees.
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Prosecutor accuses Trump's lawyers of 'hijacking' hearing in classified docs case
The third and final day of hearings in Donald Trump's classified documents case reached a heated conclusion after prosecutor for special counsel Jack Smith accused the former president's lawyers of "hijacking" the hearings with far-fetched allegations about the case. "There is no hijacking going on -- it's about to end," U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon responded, cutting off prosecutor David Harbach. "It's not fair," Harbach responded, arguing that Trump's lawyers effectively "hijacked" the hearing by raising issues that have "nothing to do" with the matters before the court.
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Trump green card comments could signal some moderation on immigration
Former President Donald Trump -- who has made opposition to immigration a defining message of the GOP -- last week pitched what would be one of the most significant expansions of U.S. immigration in decades. Speaking on a podcast hosted by tech businessmen, Trump announced his support for giving a green card to every noncitizen graduate of a U.S. college ("staple a green card to every diploma," said the former president). Hours later, following outrage from some anti-immigration Republicans, he issued a clarification.
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As Trump weighs vice presidential pick, abortion becomes issue of focus
With the Republican National Convention less than a month away, former President Donald Trump's timeline to select a vice president is dwindling. While Trump continues to weigh his options on who he might select for the No. 2 slot, the abortion stances held by prospective shortlist candidates have become an issue of focus. In April 2023, Burgum banned abortion in his state with very limited exceptions -- some of which only apply up to six weeks' gestation, before many women know they are pregnant.
