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President Donald Trump’s gerrymandering war has never looked riskier for his party.Prodded by Trump, Republicans earlier this year launched an audacious plan to entrench their congressional majorit...
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The one Republican elected official who has a serious and workable plan to end the government shutdown is, surprisingly enough, Donald Trump. The president’s idea is for the Senate to change its ru...
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Inside the White House, there are two main takeaways from last night’s miserable performance for the Republican Party.The first one – that fielding quality candidates matters – is the one GOP offic...
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Dick Cheney, who rose to become one of most powerful figures in American politics as the 46th vice president of the United States, made an indelible mark on foreign policy and the reach o...
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A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is demanding more answers from President Trump’s administration about the ongoing U.S. military strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the...
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The faux “party of free speech” strikes again. For years, the MAGA GOP has insisted that it is the true “party of free” speech even as all evidence suggests this administration is the most censoria...
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Zohran Mamdani’s historic mayoral victory marks a new chapter for democratic socialism in America. Like Bernie Sanders before him, he’s shown that relentless focus on a unifying message of economic...
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Going into Election Day, New Jersey Republicans were as confident as a perennial minority party could be about reclaiming the governor’s office.They believed the stars had finally aligned, pointing...
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday contemplated the process for paying back billions in tariffs the Trump administration has collected, should the justices rule those duties are illegal.“How would this...
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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he arrives at Palm Beach International Airport on October 31, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Florida. | Samuel Corum/Getty Images The Republic...
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Senate Democrats ended their workday Tuesday agonizing over what to do about the record-setting government shutdown. Many of those same lawmakers woke up Wednesday morning ready to fight on.The swe...
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Wednesday that he would support President Trump should he follow through on his earlier threat to send U.S. troops into Nigeria to defend the country’s...
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MIAMI – Hours after voters in key races elected Democrats who promised to address cost of living increases, President Donald Trump issued a laundry list of statistics projecting the economy’s stren...
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For President Donald Trump, tariffs were never just about trade.The president has spent several months wielding the threat of massive tariffs to negotiate peace deals, influence countries’ domestic...
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The White House is rallying behind Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary after the abrupt ousting of one of his top deputies over the weekend, the latest tumult in an agency that’s...
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President Donald Trump has picked Jared Isaacman to run NASA, handing the former nominee a remarkable second chance to lead the agency.“Jared’s passion for Space, astronaut experience, and dedicati...
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With just hours until the government shutdown becomes the longest in U.S. history, Senate Democrats privately agonized behind closed doors Tuesday about bringing it to an end.A two-hour-plus lunch ...
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President Donald Trump is increasingly antsy about the soon-to-be-record-long government shutdown, but until now, he hasn’t furiously worked the phones or waded into the details of a deal to end it...
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OTTAWA — Canada’s prime minister unveiled his first federal budget plan on Tuesday, a long-awaited moment in the annual cycle of Canadian politics when Ottawa tells the country how it wants to spen...
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NEW YORK — The divisive mayoral race between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo has led nearly 1.75 million New Yorkers to cast ballots at poll sites and another 124,000 to send in absentee ballots — ...
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On the first day of every month, Ethel Ingram goes to the grocery store with $171 in federally funded food stamps and a nearly impossible mission: Buy enough food for the next 30 days. She usually ...