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Hats, T-shirts and dolls reflect outgoing Mexican president’s outsized presence in upcoming election

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MEXICO CITY — Souvenirs bearing the image of 70-year-old Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sell like T-shirts at a Taylor Swift concert. Just outside of Mexico’s presidential palace, throngs of mostly Mexicans crowd around a booth selling plush talking dolls, earrings, plastic sandals, stickers, hats, mugs, lighters and even coloring books plastered with the … Read more

US supreme court to have outsized influence in 2024 election

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The US supreme court, stacked with rightwing justices appointed by Donald Trump and facing a crisis of public confidence in its impartiality, has been thrust into the thick of the 2024 presidential election through a number of highly charged and critical cases. Last week’s dynamite ruling from the Colorado supreme court disqualifying Trump from the … Read more