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Trump’s GOP rivals nudge primary voters to consider the promise of eight years vs. four

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center, leaves a fundraising picnic for Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, May 13, 2023, in Sioux Center, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

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Former President Donald Trump dominates the GOP primary field in early polling but his rivals are ready to exploit a potential weakness: He can only serve one term if he wins in 2024.

North Korea’s Kim channels inner Trump as wall arises on border with supposed critical ally China

A North Korean flag flutters in North Korea's village Gijungdong as seen from an South Korea's observation post inside the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea during a media tour, March 3, 2023. The United States, its Western allies and experts shone a spotlight on the dire human rights situation and increasing repression in North Korea at a U.N. meeting Friday, March17, 2023 that China and Russia denounced as a politicized move likely to escalate tensions on the Korean peninsula. (Jeon Heon-Kyun/Pool Photo via AP, File)

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Was North Korean leader Kim Jong-un so inspired by his meetings with President Trump in 2018 and 2019 that he adopted one of the former president’s flagship policies?

A North Korean flag flutters in North Korea's village Gijungdong as seen from an South Korea's observation post inside the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea during a media tour, March 3, 2023. The United States, its Western allies and experts shone a spotlight on the dire human rights situation and increasing repression in North Korea at a U.N. meeting Friday, March17, 2023 that China and Russia denounced as a politicized move likely to escalate tensions on the Korean peninsula. (Jeon Heon-Kyun/Pool Photo via AP, File)

North Korea’s Kim channels inner Trump as wall arises on border with supposed critical ally China

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President Joe Biden lays a wreath at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Memorial Day, Monday, May 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden mentions personal loss in Memorial Day address honoring fallen service members

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

This photo, in New York, Thursday, May 18, 2023, shows the ChatGPT app on an iPhone. The free app started to become available on iPhones in the U.S. on Thursday and will later be coming to Android phones. Unlike the web version, you can also ask it questions using your voice. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Confidently incorrect: For ChatGPT, the truth isn’t always out there

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Multiple people shot near Florida beach boardwalk, police say

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In this file photo, China's People's Liberation Army displays DF-26 ballistic missiles in a parade. Over just the past several months, major revelations about the extent of China's hypersonic weapons capabilities, its nuclear arms stockpile, and even the size of its navy have sparked concerns that Washington may not have a full window into exactly what its 21st-century rival has up its sleeve, or what may be under development deep inside the communist nation. (Associated Press/File)

China’s growing arsenal boosts risk of nuclear war, study says

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In this file photo, China's People's Liberation Army displays DF-26 ballistic missiles in a parade. Over just the past several months, major revelations about the extent of China's hypersonic weapons capabilities, its nuclear arms stockpile, and even the size of its navy have sparked concerns that Washington may not have a full window into exactly what its 21st-century rival has up its sleeve, or what may be under development deep inside the communist nation. (Associated Press/File)

China’s growing arsenal boosts risk of nuclear war, study says

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A motorist charges his electric vehicle at a Tesla Supercharger station in Detroit, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. New Jersey residents looking to buy or lease an electric vehicle won’t be able to get a government rebate — at least temporarily — because the state program has been so popular that it's already running out of money, officials said, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Biden’s lofty EV goals face big barriers as federal funds flow to new chargers

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Pride month merchandise is displayed at a Target store Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Target is removing certain items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ+ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month, after an intense backlash from some customers including violent confrontations with its workers. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Pride Month pushback: Conservatives target corporations over woke merch

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This undated photo provided by Ben Crump Law on Monday, April 17, 2023, shows Ralph Yarl, the teenager shot by a homeowner in Kansas City, Mo. (Ben Crump Law via AP)

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Pride month merchandise is displayed at a Target store Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Target is removing certain items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ+ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month, after an intense backlash from some customers including violent confrontations with its workers. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Kirk Cameron reads his illustrated children's book "Pride Comes Before The Fall," published by Brave Books, at the Seattle Public Library on May 27, 2023. Photo courtesy Amplifi Agency.

Kirk Cameron’s book on dangers of ‘pride’: ‘It’s not anti-gay, it’s pro-humility’

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FILE - Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. Top Republicans, including some of former President Donald Trump’s potential rivals for the party’s nomination, rushed to his defense on Saturday after Trump said he is bracing for possible arrest. Stefanik, the House Republican Conference Chair and an early Trump endorser, called potential action “unAmerican.” (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

House GOP sells deal with Biden as restoring ‘fiscal sanity’ amid backlash from right

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump during the LIV Golf Pro-Am at Trump National Golf Club, Thursday, May 25, 2023, in Sterling, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump campaign ad calls out ‘Trump imposters’

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

This photo, in New York, Thursday, May 18, 2023, shows the ChatGPT app on an iPhone. The free app started to become available on iPhones in the U.S. on Thursday and will later be coming to Android phones. Unlike the web version, you can also ask it questions using your voice. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a political roundtable, Friday, May 19, 2023, in Bedford, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Ron DeSantis trashes McCarthy-Biden debt limit deal, says it puts U.S. ‘careening toward bankruptcy’

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A Bible sits open as Pastor Rick Mannon stands at the pulpit at Calvary Assembly of God in Wilson, Wis., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. Mannon's church is an outpost in the culture wars tearing at America, and a haven for people who feel shoved aside by a changing nation. Homosexuality is seen as dangerous here. Abortion is evil. The specter of one-world government looms. &quot;If Christians don't get involved in politics, then we shouldn't have a say,&quot; Mannon says. &quot;We can't just let evil win.&quot; (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw (22) plays ball with his daughter before the start of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres Sunday, May 14, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner)

Dodgers relaunch Christian Faith Day amid Catholic backlash over drag-queen nuns

Attendees wave placards during a rally to protest the one-year anniversary of Colorado's abortion law, the Reproductive Health Equity Act, on April 4, 2023, outside the State Capitol in downtown Denver. After Colorado’s Democratic governor signed a bill Friday, April 14, outlawing what experts consider unproven treatments to “reverse” medical abortions, a federal judge temporarily halted enforcement following a lawsuit from a religious clinic. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) **FILE**

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Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Erin Wilcox speaks at a news conference outside the federal courthouse on March 10, 2021, in Alexandria, Va., where her organization filed a lawsuit against Fairfax County's school board, alleging discrimination against Asian Americans over its revised admissions process for the elite Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, upheld the constitutionality of a new admissions policy at the elite public high school in Virginia that critics say discriminates against highly qualified Asian Americans. (AP Photo/Matthew Barakat, File)

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Sailors and military personnel disembark the USS Wasp aircraft carrier after docking on the Hudson River during fleet week, Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Surgeon general warns rampant social media use imperils mental health of teens, adolescents

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Texas state Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, wife of impeached state Attorney General Ken Paxton, sits in the Senate Chamber at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, Monday, May 29, 2023. The historic impeachment of Paxton is plunging Republicans into a bruising fight over whether to banish one of their own in America's biggest red state. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Ken Paxton impeachment trial jury could include his wife

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Unit 3’s reactor and cooling tower stand at Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant on Jan. 20, 2023, in Waynesboro, Ga. Company officials announced Wednesday, May 24, 2023, that Unit 3, one of two new reactors at the site, would reach full power in coming days, after years of delays and billions in cost overruns. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Third nuclear reactor reaches 100% power output at Georgia’s Plant Vogtle

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In this Monday, March 1, 2010, file photo, an Arby's restaurant sign is shown in Cutler Bay, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

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FILE - South Korean army's multiple launch rocket systems fire rockets during a South Korea-U.S. joint military drills at Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, South Korea, Thursday, May 25, 2023. North Korea on Tuesday, May 30, confirmed plans to launch its first military spy satellite in June and described such capacities as crucial for monitoring the United States' "reckless" military exercises with rival South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

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A North Korean flag flutters in North Korea's village Gijungdong as seen from an South Korea's observation post inside the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea during a media tour, March 3, 2023. The United States, its Western allies and experts shone a spotlight on the dire human rights situation and increasing repression in North Korea at a U.N. meeting Friday, March17, 2023 that China and Russia denounced as a politicized move likely to escalate tensions on the Korean peninsula. (Jeon Heon-Kyun/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Climate activists of the youth-led organization Auroras march in Stockholm, Sweden, Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. A crane-operated camera was used to strike climate activists (not pictured) who interrupted a celebrity dance competition finale in Sweden on Friday. Writing on banner reads in Swedish &quot;Now we sue the State&quot; (Christine Ohlsson/TT News Agency via AP)

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Supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrate in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, May 28, 2023. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dissipated a challenge by an opponent who sought to reverse his increasingly authoritarian leanings, securing five more years to oversee the country at the crossroads of Europe and Asia that plays a key role in NATO. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

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Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse gestures during the first half of the team's NBA basketball game against the Charlotte Hornets in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, April 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacob Kupferman)

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Washington Nationals starting pitcher MacKenzie Gore throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres in Washington, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

MacKenzie Gore, Nationals focusing on efficiency for emerging pitcher

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Mage (8), with Javier Castellano aboard, wins the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 6, 2023, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Horse racing authority calls for emergency summit with Churchill Downs in wake of 12 deaths

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Cleveland Guardians starting pitcher Logan Allen throws a pitch to the Baltimore Orioles during the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, May 29, 2023, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Texas state Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, wife of impeached state Attorney General Ken Paxton, sits in the Senate Chamber at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, Monday, May 29, 2023. The historic impeachment of Paxton is plunging Republicans into a bruising fight over whether to banish one of their own in America's biggest red state. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Climate activists of the youth-led organization Auroras march in Stockholm, Sweden, Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. A crane-operated camera was used to strike climate activists (not pictured) who interrupted a celebrity dance competition finale in Sweden on Friday. Writing on banner reads in Swedish &quot;Now we sue the State&quot; (Christine Ohlsson/TT News Agency via AP)

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