The chief of the Shawnee Tribe grew up playing video games, including hundreds of hours colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.
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How Biden helped end strike that threatened Democrats in November
The agreement provides collective if temporary relief to skittish Democrats from the White House to Capitol Hill, while buoying Vice President Kamala Harris, along with Friday’s strong jobs report.
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White House calls Trump’s false claims on disaster relief ‘poison’
A White House memo said Republicans’ claims that hurricane money was spent to house illegal immigrants was ‘bald-faced lies.’
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Robust hiring adds 254,000 jobs, unemployment dips to 4.1%
Last month’s gain was far more than economists had expected, and it was up sharply from the 159,000 jobs that were added in August.
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Filing in Trump case details remarkable schism with Pence over rejecting 2020 election loss
Mike Pence is no longer standing beside Donald Trump and has refused to endorse the Republican nominee’s bid to return to the White House.
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Prosecutors to review new evidence in Menendez brothers’ murder conviction
The brothers have said they killed their parents out of self-defense after enduring a lifetime of physical, emotional and sexual abuse from them.
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As search for Helene’s victims drags on, sheriff says rescuers ‘will not rest’
Roughly half the victims were in North Carolina, while dozens more were killed in South Carolina and Georgia.
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Donald Trump says DOJ violated its own election rules. Lawyers disagree.
Department of Justice policy advises against taking overt steps in political cases close to elections. Experts say prosecutors were following court orders in the latest Trump filing.
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Dockworkers union suspends strike; ports reopen on East, Gulf coasts
The union, the International Longshoremen’s Association, representing 45,000 U.S. dockworkers, went on strike early Tuesday after its contract expired in a dispute over pay and the automation of tasks at 36 ports stretching from Maine to Texas.
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Mixed verdict for 3 Memphis officers convicted in Tyre Nichols’ fatal beating
All 3 former Memphis police officers were convicted of at least one charge, but Tadarrius Bean and Justin Smith were acquitted of the civil rights charges.