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Sports Betting’s Next Big Election Battles Are in California
TEMECULA, Calif. — Legal sports betting in the United States accelerated in 2021 as a flurry of states either overcame legislative logjams, as ...
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Politics
Senate Democrats Press Ahead With Debate on Voting Rights Bill
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats plan to press ahead this week with an effort to push new voting rights protections through Congress, in an all but ...
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Trump Rally Underscores G.O.P. Tension Over How to Win in 2022
PHOENIX — Former President Donald J. Trump returns on Saturday to Arizona, a cradle of his political movement, to headline a rally in the desert ...
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With Voting Bills Dead, Democrats Face Costly Fight to Overcome G.O.P. Curbs
With the door slammed shut this week on federal legislation to create new protections for access to voting, Democrats face an electoral landscape ...
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Sports
Novak Djokovic’s Fight to Stay in Australia Lives Another Day
Novak Djokovic, the top men’s tennis player in the world, was detained by border authorities in Australia, on Saturday, the latest turn in a ...
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Business
New Sanctions for Russian Gas Pipeline Fall Short in Senate
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday rejected a bid to impose sanctions on a Russian natural-gas pipeline, as Democrats set themselves against a ...
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Politics
Republican Gerrymander of North Carolina Maps Is Upheld in Court
WASHINGTON — A North Carolina state court on Tuesday rejected claims by voting rights advocates that Republican gerrymanders of the state’s ...
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Biden Will Endorse Changing Senate Rules to Pass Voting Rights Legislation
WASHINGTON — President Biden will endorse changing Senate rules to pass new voting rights protections during a speech in Atlanta on Tuesday, the ...
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Playoff Fans in the Cold as College Football Plots Its Future
INDIANAPOLIS — Freezing rain had turned the downtown sidewalks here into granite-hard slip-and-slide tracks. A downtown concert stage and beer ...
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Politics
Manchin’s Choice on Build Back Better: Mine Workers or Mine Owners
WASHINGTON — For years, burly men in camouflage hunting jackets have been a constant presence in the Capitol Hill office of Senator Joe Manchin ...
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