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Blue state Dem candidate who made ‘affordability’ a key issue in campaign ripped for charging $13 for water

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., is facing online mockery after his Senate campaign’s election night watch party charged customers exorbitant prices for water, despite claiming to champion affordability issues. Krishnamoorthi, a five-term House lawmaker, narrowly lost to Lt. Gov. Julianna Stratton, D-Ill., in a bruising Democratic primary Tuesday … Read more

Ex-Planned Parenthood board member beats out former congressman, state senator for Dem Senate bid

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller beat out former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., and State Sen. Robert Peters, D-Ill., in a Democratic primary race on Tuesday evening, teeing up her bid to represent one of the state’s many reliably blue seats. Miller centered her campaign on … Read more

Blue state proposal targets Trump-era ICE hires, banning them from joining local police forces

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rhode Island Democrats have introduced a bill that would bar police departments from hiring ICE agents brought on during President Donald Trump’s second term, escalating the state’s pushback against federal immigration enforcement. Immigration enforcement agents, including those within ICE, have come under fire in recent months from … Read more

Critical swing state candidates reveal where they stand on DHS funding after suspected terror attacks

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Four suspected terror attacks have taken place in the United States since the Department of Homeland Security was defunded in a partial government shutdown last month, including one in the state of Michigan where Fox News Digital reached out to all the major Senate candidates if they … Read more

State lawmakers grill former special prosecutor Nathan Wade over Georgia Trump election case

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ATLANTA — State senators on Friday grilled the former special prosecutor who led the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump about communications his team had with federal investigators. But their efforts were largely frustrated by his repeated assertions that he couldn’t remember details. Nathan Wade appeared before a subcommittee of the Special Committee … Read more

State Department slashes fee to renounce US citizenship by 80% to $450

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WASHINGTON — The State Department has slashed by about 80% the fee for Americans to formally renounce their U.S. citizenship. After years of legal battles with several groups representing Americans wanting to give up their citizenship, the department on Friday published a final rule in the Federal Register that reduces the cost from $2,350 to … Read more

Old Dominion shooter convicted of Islamic State ties released from prison just 2 years before attack

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Court documents show less than two years after Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was released from prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State, he opened fire in a classroom at Virginia’s Old Dominion University on Thursday before ROTC students subdued and killed him. The shooting that left one person dead and another two injured has raised … Read more

Legalize prostitution effort left candidate ‘shocked’ in blue state with rampant human trafficking

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Michael Allen, a Republican candidate for Colorado attorney general, said he was “shocked” by a Democratic proposal to legalize prostitution, warning it would “open the floodgates” to human trafficking in Colorado. “It’s hard for me to even decipher why they’ve decided this is the time and place … Read more

New Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei says Strait of Hormuz must remain shut in first message: State TV

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Iran’s state-run media issued on Thursday the first public statement attributed to the Islamic Republic’s new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, since his appointment in the wake of his father and predecessor Ali Khamenei’s killing on Feb. 28, in the initial U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. His statement was read out by a presenter on Iranian … Read more