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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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Epstein Returns at the Worst Time for Trump

Since his return to office, President Donald Trump has missed few chances to flex the power he wields over the nation’s most formidable institutions and its wealthiest people. So when the White Hou...

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Sheldon Whitehouse heading to Brazil as sole US federal official at COP30

BELÉM, Brazil — Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) will arrive Friday at the COP30 climate summit — making him the sole U.S. federal representative at United Nations talks that the Trump administrati...

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Nevada Supreme Court revives criminal case over Trump elector gambit

A unanimous Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday revived the criminal case against six prominent allies of President Donald Trump who falsely claimed to be legitimate presidential electors amid Trump’s...

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Mamdani and Hochul have to work together. It won’t be easy.

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul and mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani are facing a political high-wire act next year, one that will test whether a moderate Democrat can govern alongside a democratic socialis...

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Republicans in Congress lukewarm on Trump idea of tariff rebate checks

President Donald Trump’s push to send a tariff rebate check to Americans would take an act of Congress, his top economic advisers acknowledge. Support among Republicans on Capitol Hill is lukewarm,...

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Jeffries stalls effort to restore federal workers’ bargaining rights

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' staff on Wednesday night blocked an effort to sidestep Speaker Mike Johnson and force a vote on a bipartisan bill that would restore collective bargaining rig...

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Trump taps Ingrassia for new role after texting scandal

Paul Ingrassia, a conservative activist who withdrew his nomination to oversee a government watchdog agency last month after POLITICO reported he made racist comments in a group chat, said Thursday...

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Democrats eye Trump country for a special election surprise

Democrats’ sweeping victories last week have the party eyeing gains in even Trumpier territory, where voters in a deep-red Tennessee House seat will soon pick their next member of Congress in a spe...

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