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Trump says US will stop giving Israel aid after year-end

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The US president said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed months ago to end the payments, which he put at about $4 billion a year. It was not clear what form of aid he meant.

Politics · 13 h ago

Florida picks a governor: Republican Byron Donalds or Democrat David Jolly

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No Democrat has won the Florida governor's race since Lawton Chiles in 1994. Jolly, a former Republican congressman who switched parties, ran as a centrist.

Politics · 13 h ago

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California votes on first state tax on billionaires' wealth

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Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5 per cent tax on Californians whose net worth exceeds $1 billion. Most of the money would replace federal healthcare funding cuts.

Politics · 13 h ago

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US Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to block California ballot count

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The justices denied the Justice Department's emergency request just hours after it was filed on Monday, with no justice publicly dissenting.

Politics · 13 h ago

Since early October, federal agents have fanned out across California's Central Valley in a 45-day operation called Operation Save California.

Politics · 13 h ago

Democrats win Congress as US voters rebuke Trump in the midterms

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Democrats flipped Senate seats in conservative strongholds, including Texas, Kansas, Iowa, South Carolina and North Carolina. Kansas will have its first Democratic senator in 94 years.

Politics · 1 d ago

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Stephen Harper publishes his memoirs, Here for Canada

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In the book, out Tuesday, the former prime minister recounts how the House of Commons came to recognize in 2006 that the Québécois form a nation within a united Canada.

Politics · 1 d ago

A grassroots group called Write-In Ralph urges voters to write in Congressman Ralph Norman for the US Senate. It rejects Senator Darline Graham, the Republican nominee endorsed by Donald Trump.