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Washington D.C. implements safety precautions for Election Day

By Lauren Willardson
December 10, 2024 03:30 PM
Capitol police and construction crews worked late into the night hours to establish safety precautions around Washington, D.C. in the days leading up to the presidential election on Nov. 4.
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D.C. churches hold candlelight vigil to promote democracy

By Jackie Durfey
December 10, 2024 02:55 PM
A number of churches offered refuge from a tense election season by holding candlelight vigils.
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President Biden joins White House Christmas tree lighting

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By Emmeline Blythe
December 10, 2024 06:30 AM
(CNN Newsource/POOL)
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Trump wins the White House in a political comeback rooted in appeals to frustrated voters

By Associated Press
November 06, 2024 10:15 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts.
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Nation

Trump injured but ‘fine’ after attempted assassination at rally, shooter and one attendee are dead

By Associated Press
July 13, 2024 12:00 AM
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Former PresidentDonald Trumpwas the target of an apparent assassination attempt Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally, days before he was to accept the Republican nomination for a third time. A barrage of gunfire set off panic, and a bloodied Trump, who said he was shot in the ear, was surrounded by Secret Service and hurried to his SUV as he pumped his fist in a show of defiance.
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Biden spotlights support for NATO as he looks to use summit to help reset stumbling campaign

By Associated Press
July 10, 2024 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden welcomed NATO leaders to Washington on Tuesday by celebrating their unity against Russia’s Ukraine aggression and underscoring America’s ironclad commitment to the alliance under his watch — a message that seemed aimed at bucking up his own wobbly Democratic supporters as much as allies confronting the prospect of a return to the White House of NATO skeptic Donald Trump.
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President Biden to make first visit to Utah, speak on PACT Act

By Emma Everett Johnson
August 08, 2023 12:00 AM
President Joe Biden will arrive in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Aug. 9 as part of a three-state tour leading up to midterms.
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Biden goes west to talk about his administration’s efforts to combat climate change

By Associated Press
July 31, 2023 12:00 AM
President Joe Biden will travel to Arizona, New Mexico and Utah next week and is expected to talk about his administration’s efforts to combat climate change as the region endures a brutally hot summer with soaring temperatures, the White House said Monday.
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Jan. 6 probe: Trump sets rally after ‘unhinged’ WH meeting

By Associated Press
July 13, 2022 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a heated, “unhinged” dispute, Donald Trump fought objections from his White House lawyers to a plan, eventually discarded, to seize states’ voting machines and then, in a last ditch effort to salvage his presidency, summoned supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol for what turned into the deadly riot, the House Jan. 6 committee revealed Tuesday.
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Grappling with governing: Sen. Mike Lee's view of Trump from 'unelectable' to 'Captain Moroni'

By Whitney Bigelow
January 11, 2021 12:00 AM
Editor's note: Daily Universe reporters examined how Utah's congressional delegation responded not only to the Capitol breach on Jan. 6 but the shift in the Republican Party over the last four years in a series of stories.
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Primary general president offers prayer at White House

By Lauren Lethbridge
May 02, 2019 12:00 AM
Sister Joy D. Jones offers a prayer at the National Day of Prayer celebration at the White House on Thursday. (wh.gov)
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Senate slaps down Trump border emergency; Republicans defect

By Associated Press
March 14, 2019 12:00 AM
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, arrives in the Senate where she has said she will vote for a resolution to annul President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the southwest border, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 14, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Trump calls for bipartisanship, a hard line on immigration

By Associated Press
February 06, 2019 12:00 AM
President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., watch, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Trump argues he 'never directed' longtime fixer to break law

By Associated Press
December 13, 2018 12:00 AM
In this Dec. 11 photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a meets with Democratic leaders the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. The parent company of magazines including the National Enquirer, Us Weekly and In Touch has admitted to engaging in a journalistically dubious practice known as “catch-and-kill” in order to help Trump become president. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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The Latest: Trump says he'll meet with Bushes at guesthouse

By Associated Press
December 04, 2018 12:00 AM
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump leave the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol after paying their respects to former President George H. W. Bush, Monday, Dec. 3, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Why wait? Democrats openly flirt with 2020 White House bids

By Associated Press
November 23, 2018 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON — In the days after the midterm election, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker worked the phones with Democratic luminaries in Iowa. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock courted high-dollar donors in New York. Other Democrats openly mused about their White House ambitions on live television.
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Music

Kanye West to visit Trump, discuss prison reform, violence

By Associated Press
October 09, 2018 12:00 AM
In this Aug. 28, 2016 file photo, Kim Kardashian West, left, and Kanye West arrive at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York. Kanye West will visit the White House on Thursday to meet with President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner talk about manufacturing in America, gang violence, prison reform and Chicago violence. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
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State

Kennedy, Romney vie for US Senate

By Sahalie Donaldson
June 05, 2018 12:00 AM
Utah Senate candidates, state Rep. Mike Kennedy, R-Alpine, left, and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney shake hands at the beginning of a Senate Republican primary debate, Tuesday, May 29, 2018, in Provo. (Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP, Pool)
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