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Chocolate cake slice with nutrition label in magnifying glass off to the side.

Commentary—Project 2025 to Rural America: Let Them Eat Cake (Without a Nutrition Label)

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Project 2025 has been so much in the news lately that former President Donald Trump had to respond to the right-wing policy proposals, which the Heritage Foundation put together.
NATIONAL POLITICS - Cardinal & Pine

What to know about Donald Trump’s apparent assassination attempt

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The Secret Service shot and killed the would-be assassin, identified as a 20-year-old from a Pittsburgh suburb not far from the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. One spectator was killed and two others were critically injured.
NATIONAL POLITICS - Cardinal & Pine

In Greensboro, Kamala Harris denounces Project 2025, Trump’s call to ‘terminate’ the Constitution 

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Harris highlighted Trump’s intentions to further restrict reproductive rights and make healthcare more expensive.
Supreme Court

‘A king above the law’: Supreme Court gives Trump nearly unlimited power

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The massively consequential ruling from the Supreme Court grants Trump and any future leaders the right to claim immunity from criminal prosecution for “official” acts carried out in office. 
NATIONAL POLITICS - Cardinal & Pine

Biden gives a forceful speech in Raleigh the day after a rough debate 

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Biden’s return to North Carolina was met with a raucous crowd that hardly reflected the narrative presented in the media Friday morning that Democrats had fallen into panicked despair over the president’s uneven debate performance against Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 18: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito attend a private ceremony for retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor before public repose in the Great Hall at the Supreme Court on December 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. O’Connor, the first woman appointed to be a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, died at 93 on December 1. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images)

The right-wing Supreme Court just made it easier to bribe government officials

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The Supreme Court declared that gifts or payments made to state or local officials after they implement certain political or social actions don’t violate the law. In other words, if you want to bribe a public official, as long as you wait until after they do what you want to pay them or give them a gift, it’s totally legal.