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NEW YORK AP 鈥?The judge in Donald Trump hush money trial is pushing back a date for a key ruling on presidential immunity until two days before Trump scheduled sentencing.The immunity decision had been due Sept. 6, with the sentencing set for Sept. 18. But then Trumps lawyers asked Judge Juan M. Merchan last week to rule first on their renewed bid to get the judge to step aside from the case.In a letter made public Tuesday, Judg
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WASHINGTON 鈥?Opening long-awaited congressional hearings, a top Republican said Wednesday an investigation of Planned Parenthood was intended to protect taxpayers from the kind of horrors suggested by secretly recorded videos of group officials discussing the sale of tissue fro
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