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Inside Hochul’s Emergency Plan to Keep Trump Out of New York

New York is quietly preparing for a Donald Trump takeover of the country’s largest city.A wide range of New York’s most prominent civic leaders have for weeks been meeting behind the scenes to plan...

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Dick Cheney Didn’t Care What You Thought

Back when he was a House member from Wyoming, Dick Cheney was part of a congressional delegation that visited the Soviet Union in the 1980s. During a lull in the schedule, Cheney and his colleagues...

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Democrats see Spanberger's victory as a blueprint to win rural voters

Helping propel Abigail Spanberger’s dominant win in the Virginia governor’s race Tuesday are dissatisfied rural voters who have supported Donald Trump.Spanberger’s victory was largely driven by mas...

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Desperate airlines plead with Congress to end shutdown

With flights across the country being canceled by the hundreds at understaffed airports, the airline industry is ratcheting up efforts to persuade lawmakers to end the government shutdown.Widesprea...

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Pelosi had two announcement videos ready. Only one saw daylight.

SAN FRANCISCO — Nancy Pelosi’s decision to retire was such a closely-held secret that she filmed two versions of the video she released on Thursday — one to tee up a reelection campaign and the oth...

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Looming air travel cuts get Congress’ attention but don’t break the stalemate

The prospect of flight cancellations disrupting travel at dozens of major airports Friday is jolting lawmakers — but not enough to get either party out of the trenches they’ve dug during the five-w...

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Free mofongo? Mamdani dazzles Democratic insiders in San Juan

SAN JUAN — Zohran Mamdani wants to be a new kind of leader for New York. But in his second day as mayor-elect, he embraced an old political tradition: partying in Puerto Rico.New York’s Democrats —...

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Democrats ready to reject latest GOP shutdown offer

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is dangling another carrot for Democrats. They still aren’t ready to bite.In his latest pressure tactic, the South Dakota Republican is teeing up yet another vote ...

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FAA releases details on flight cuts that start at 6 a.m. Friday

The Federal Aviation Administration released an emergency order late Thursday that directs airlines to phase in a 10 percent reduction in domestic flights at dozens of major airports nationwide, st...

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Just When It Looked Like the Shutdown Might End

In the hours before Democrats’ electoral victories Tuesday night, the end of the government shutdown seemed near. Several Democratic senators had spent the day quietly discussing a potential bipart...

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These Are The Most Viewed Wikipedia Pages Of 2025 (So Far)

These Are The Most Viewed Wikipedia Pages Of 2025 (So Far) The most visited Wikipedia pages of 2025 reveal a mix of politics, entertainment, and timeless curiosities. As Visual Ca...

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Hegseth says military struck alleged drug boat in Caribbean, killing 3 ‘narco-terrorists’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said late Thursday that the U.S. military took out another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean, killing three “narco-terrorists.” Hegseth...

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Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh to conservative law students: Don’t give up

Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh had a message Thursday for conservative law students: Keep up the fight.Speaking at an annual Federalist Society gala in Washington, Bar...

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Newsom will rally Democrats in Texas on heels of redistricting win

SACRAMENTO, California — Gavin Newsom will headline a rally in Texas on Saturday alongside Lone Star state House members and dignitaries — an event designed as an aggressive show of force in the wa...

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Can a socialist mayor and Wall Street coexist? New York is about to find out.

NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is facing a deeply skeptical business community that has long called the shots in New York. But don’t go looking for the moving vans just yet.Gotham’s business...

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‘Trump is against humankind’: World leaders at climate summit take swipes at absent president

Donald Trump isn’t at the global climate summit in Brazil. But he was on the minds of some of his fellow world leaders Thursday, who used their time on stage to try to isolate the U.S. president an...

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Mast comes under pressure to approve Trump's directive to lift Syria sanctions

A coalition of civil society groups are pressuring Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, to greenlight the full repeal of U.S. sanctions in Syria, a key ...

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An Antidote to Shamelessness

There are many fair questions following Zohran Mamdani’s decisive victory. Will his campaign be a template for others? Will he be able or allowed to follow through on his campaign promises? Will th...

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How Dick Cheney’s Lack of Restraint Paved the Way for Donald Trump

In a profile of Dick Cheney published on April 30, 2001, the journalist Nicholas Lemann asked the new vice president to identify the “main organizing event in the world today,” something serving th...

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Nancy Pelosi retires from legendary career as Obama hails ‘one of the best speakers the House of Representatives has ever had’

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection to the U.S. House, bringing to a close her storied career as not only the first woman in the speaker’s office but arguably the most powerful in...

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Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Playing Three-Dimensional Chess?

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has been bucking the Republican party line with increasing frequency—standing with Democrats to demand that the Justice Department release the Epstein files, d...

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