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House plans to vote Tuesday on releasing Epstein files

House Republican leaders are planning to hold a vote Tuesday on legislation to force the release of federal files related to Jeffrey Epstein, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss ...

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How the left’s dark money behemoth spent its millions

The left’s preeminent dark money hub dished out nearly $311 million in 2024 backing progressive causes like abortion and voting rights, climate change and more, according to new tax filing shared f...

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How California’s ultimate power broker went down

Soon after Dana Williamson re-entered the inner echelons of California’s Democratic power structure in early 2023 — taking over as Gavin Newsom’s chief of staff — she was discussing directing a sen...

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Halligan and Bondi push back on judge’s suggestion that Comey grand jury materials were ‘missing’

Attorney General Pam Bondi and the prosecutor overseeing the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey pushed back Friday against a judge’s suggestion that records of grand jury proceed...

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House Republicans float bill mirroring Trump's health care demands

Republicans on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee are circulating a bill that would mimic President Donald Trump’s proposal to redirect health insurance subsidies directly to individual...

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Indiana likely will not push forward with redistricting despite pressure from White House

INDIANAPOLIS — President Donald Trump’s effort to force mid-decade redistricting suffered a major setback Friday, after Indiana’s GOP state Senate leader declared the chamber will not convene in De...

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Mamdani is building a universal child care team, but faces daunting financial and logistical challenges

NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is assembling a team of savvy government veterans to execute his ambitious plan to institute free child care in New York City — a push Gov. Kathy Hochul suppor...

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blasts Trump’s Epstein focus

Donald Trump says Marjorie Taylor Greene has lost her way.Greene disagrees.The Republican firebrand, once one of the president's strongest Capitol Hill allies, says it’s the president who is off co...

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Trump administration will require SNAP participants to reapply for benefits

The Trump administration will require millions of low-income people to reapply for food stamps as part of an effort to crack down on “fraud,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said.Rollins told ...

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Republicans turn on Trump’s defense policy chief

Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby has succeeded in the rarest of feats: uniting a dysfunctional Washington against him.Some of President Donald Trump’s strongest supporters are accusing him of i...

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Trump, amid Epstein furor, directs Bondi to investigate Democrats

President Donald Trump on Friday directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and the FBI to investigate links between Jeffrey Epstein and notable Democrats, the president’s latest attempt to deflect scruti...

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Eddington review: Ari Aster misfires as Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix face off

Comedy is tragedy plus time. There may be a day when critics look back on Ari Aster's COVID-19 comedy Eddington with kinder eyes. However, just five years after this virus threw the world into lock...

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Silent on Sisi: Bassem Youssef makes a ‘safe’ return to Egyptian TV screens

Silent on Sisi: Bassem Youssef makes a ‘safe’ return to Egyptian TV screens Submitted by Joseph Fahim on Fri, 11/0...

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Both Nevada senators spurned their party. They were reading the room.

In breaking ranks to end the federal government shutdown this week, Nevada’s two Democratic senators showcased the shifting politics of the once solidly blue state, home to a diverse, working-class...

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Nevada Dems, GOP battle over ‘no-tax-on-tips’

Democrats are trying to blunt the Republican advantage on the widely popular no-tax-on-tips policy as both parties look to strengthen their appeal to the working class ahead of the midterms. The mo...

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Biden’s EV Plan Failed. Or Did It?

TAKOMA PARK, Maryland — In retrospect, it might have been unwise for Pete Buttigieg to put a speedometer on former President Joe Biden’s $5 billion plan to build electric vehicle charging stations....

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Mamdani's Win Offers Terrible Temptation for Democrats

As a pessimist, I always figured it was a matter of time before Democrats would decide to counter the rise of a grievance-based populist Rig...

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Four Simple Questions for Marjorie Taylor Greene

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s critics are starting to think they got her all wrong. “You are a very different person than I thought you were,” The View’s Sunny Hostin marveled last week, when the Georgi...

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Manhattan US attorney’s office recuses in Maurene Comey case

NEW YORK — A Trump loyalist will defend the administration in a lawsuit brought by Maurene Comey over her abrupt firing after her former office recused itself from the case, according to a Thursday...

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DOJ seeks to block new California congressional map

The Trump administration is attempting to block California’s new congressional map that was approved by voters last week, which would create five additional House districts favoring Democrats.The J...

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Senate Republicans run from politically toxic payout provision designed just for them

Senate Majority Leader John Thune thought he was giving Republicans a gift when he secured a provision in the shutdown-ending government funding package that could award hundreds of thousands of do...

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