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Ohio state Sen. Michael Rulli is seen with colleagues in Columbus on February 28, 2024.

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Republicans set to expand House majority with victory in Ohio special election

McCarthy foe Nancy Mace will repel primary challenge in South Carolina, CNN projects

‘A deep moral rot’: Coast Guard leader grilled by senators at hearing on sexual assault cover-up

Biden heralds his efforts to strengthen gun laws hours after son convicted on firearms charges

Hunter Biden’s guilty verdict punctuates long and difficult saga for the president’s family

Blinken announces more than $400M in new humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza

Jurors detail to CNN how they reached guilty verdict in Hunter Biden gun trial

Hunter Biden convicted on all 3 charges at federal gun trial

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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on an executive order limiting asylum in the East Room of the White House on June 04, 2024 in Washington, DC.

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Hunter Biden’s conviction is another painful twist for a family battered by tragedy

Years of scrutiny for a president’s son culminate in guilty verdict

How CNN’s Coast Guard Academy cover-up investigation came together

Why the far-right surge in European elections could be an omen for Trump

Young men and women are diverging politically. That could shape the 2024 election.

Hostage rescue operation and Israeli political turmoil sharpen Biden’s damaging dilemma

A major reevaluation of the most masculine president

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Biden defends democracy in Europe while Trump undermines it at home

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Former President Donald Trump speaks during a Turning Point PAC town hall at Dream City Church on June 6, 2024 in Phoenix.

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Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a dinner with members of the group Conserve the Culture at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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Independent Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. prepares to speak at a campaign rally at Los Angeles Union Station on Saturday,, March 30, 2024, in Los Angeles, Calif. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

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US President Joe Biden delivers a speech during the US ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the World War II "D-Day" Allied landings in Normandy, at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, which overlooks Omaha Beach in northwestern France, on June 6, 2024. The D-Day ceremonies on June 6 this year mark the 80th anniversary since the launch of 'Operation Overlord', a vast military operation by Allied forces in Normandy, which turned the tide of World War II, eventually leading to the liberation of occupied France and the end of the war against Nazi Germany. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

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Former US President Donald Trump leaves the courthouse after a jury found him guilty of all 34 felony counts in his criminal trial at New York State Supreme Court in New York, New York, USA, 30 May 2024. Trump faced 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. JUSTIN LANE/Pool via REUTERS

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