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| Trump appeals Colorado ruling: The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether former President Donald Trump should be disqualified from the ballot in Colorado, thrusting the justices into the heart of the 2024 presidential campaign. The Colorado Supreme Court last month barred the former president -- the current GOP frontrunner -- from the ballot because of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The unprecedented decision cited a section of the 14th Amendment, which says candidates are ineligible from holding public office if they've "engaged in insurrection."
But it’s not just Colorado: Last week, Maine became the second state to deem former President Trump ineligible for office because of what he did leading up to, and on, Jan. 6, 2021. Maine Sec. of State Shenna Bellows told NPR’s Scott Detrow, “The United States Constitution does not tolerate an assault on the foundations of our government. And under Maine election law, I was required to act in response.”
A new report highlights foreign payments to Trump businesses: Businesses owned by then-President Trump received more than $7.8 million from foreign governments during two years of his presidential term, according to a report by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. The report says at least 20 foreign governments – including China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar – and their state-controlled businesses paid Trump-owned businesses during his presidential term. It’s illegal for presidents to receive money from foreign governments under the “emoluments clause” of Article I of the Constitution.
Biden is running “like the fate of our democracy depends on it.” The president’s reelection campaign is kicking into a higher gear in the new year, with a stark and unmistakable message: That Trump is a threat to democracy. NPR White House Correspondent Tamara Keith has this preview.
Some help for American parents: In 2021, an expanded federal tax credit for families with children cut child poverty in half. But at the end of that year, it expired, and poverty rates shot right back up. Now, states are stepping in to offer their own credits for working families. Fourteen states now offer child tax credits, a number that’s doubled since the federal credit expired. |
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Going Deeper: Trump Trials |
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In addition to those ballot battles in Colorado and Maine, Trump also faces four criminal trials while he runs for reelection.
🎧 We covered Trump’s legal woes this week on the NPR Politics Podcast.
🎧 And you can stay up to speed every week on NPR’s Trump's Trials podcast. |
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Before last month, no human had ever been known to beat the original Nintendo version of Tetris. Then came Willis Gibson, who only needed 39 minutes.
At level 157, the Oklahoma 13-year-old reached the notorious "kill screen" — the point in a game where it becomes unplayable because of limitations with the game's original programming.
Gibson says he’s been playing Tetris since he was 11, and in October he was the youngest person to make it to the Classic Tetris World Championship, where he placed third. |
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