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Democrats gather in California feeling sunny once again

As Democratic Party leaders gathered in Los Angeles for their annual winter meetings this week, for the first time in a long time the mood was warm.Optimism coursed through the hotel ballrooms, fol...

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European Diplomats Are Dissociating in Trump’s Washington

What’s been chilling Europe’s Washington-based diplomats more: the seasonally frigid weather or the icy blasts of Trumpian disdain for America’s supposed transatlantic allies?Hard to tell.From the ...

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The anti-machine movement is having a moment in New Jersey

More than a year after Andy Kim became New Jersey’s junior senator by running an insurgent campaign against Democratic power brokers, the anti-machine movement is notching even more wins in the Gar...

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2 US soldiers and 1 civilian interpreter killed in ambush in Syria

Two U.S. Army soldiers and one U.S. civilian interpreter were killed while three service members were left wounded in an ambush attack on Saturday in Palmyra, Syria, U.S. officials confirmed.Sean P...

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Trump seems to wave the white flag on his US attorneys gambit

For months, President Donald Trump has used unconventional tactics to install loyalists as top federal prosecutors across the country, and battled challenges to their authority. Now, he appears to ...

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The Geographic Roots of Our Immigration Divide

It is said that America is a nation of immigrants, and for a truism, that’s pretty accurate. But it’s also true that the United States hasn’t always been a nation of immigrants — or at least not al...

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The Last MAGA Prisoner

Tina Peters is supposed to spend the next eight years of her life in prison. The former Colorado county clerk was convicted last year of charges tied to tampering with voting equipment under her co...

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‘Safety whitewash’: Defense bill spawns uproar over military helicopters in DC

Almost a year after the nation’s worst aviation disaster in decades, Congress is poised to give the military free rein to resume flying helicopters on training missions in Washington without using ...

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20 states lodge lawsuit against Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee

SAN FRANCISCO — California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Friday that he and 19 other states are suing the Trump administration over its policy to hike fees on new H-1B visa petitions to $100...

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DOJ skewers judge as it seeks to quash contempt proceedings

The Trump administration’s showdown with Judge James Boasberg escalated further on Friday, as the Justice Department asked a federal appeals court to block the judge from holding a hearing next wee...

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Indiana GOP’s Trump rebuke could lead to temporary redistricting detente

Indiana Republicans’ redistricting rejection marks a rare ceasefire in the gerrymandering wars — and could lead to other state leaders backing off their own plans.The result gives cover for some De...

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The lawyer behind Vought’s bureaucracy crackdown

If Russ Vought sees his quest to dismantle the federal bureaucracy as a race against time, his lawyer sidekick Mark Paoletta is holding the stopwatch.“Political capital is not the scarcest resource...

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Bad Bunny Didn’t Just Make History in 2025 — He Defined the Year

“You might not know this, but I’m doing the Super Bowl halftime show,” quipped Bad Bunny during his Saturday Night Live opening monologue in Octobe...

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Trump, Clinton, Gates included in Epstein photo trove

Photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein tie the late, convicted sex offender to President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, tech billionaire Bill Gates and former Treasury Secretary La...

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Trump’s support is collapsing — but why?

President Donald Trump delivers remarks about his administration's economic agenda and its efforts to lower the cost of living during an event on December 9, 2025, in Mount Pocono, Pennsy...

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Bill Gates appears in newly released photos from Epstein estate

The billionaire Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, has become the world's leading global health philanthropist, but his overture to the late, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continues to haunt h...

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GOP health care chaos spills into battleground midterm races

Republicans’ failure to get on the same page on expiring Obamacare subsidies is creating significant rifts between GOP primary contenders and causing heartburn for some of the party’s most vulnerab...

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Trump’s Affordability Weave

During last year’s presidential campaign, Donald Trump coined a term for his pinballing speaking style—“the weave.” This was on display Tuesday in Pennsylvania, in remarks that included, but were n...

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Bill Gates Won’t Sugarcoat It: Slashing Global Aid Fueled a Surge of Death

To this day, Bill Gates remains a relatively mild-mannered, non-political guy. But he’s also not going to ignore reality.For the first time in 25 years, the number of child deaths is on track to ri...

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3 theories that explain Trump’s collapsing support

President Donald Trump delivers remarks about his administration's economic agenda and its efforts to lower the cost of living during an event on December 9, 2025, in Mount Pocono, Pennsy...

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Menin and Mamdani could find common ground on child care push

NEW YORK — Democratic socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and moderate presumptive City Council Speaker Julie Menin are seemingly on an ideological collision course. But free child care is emergin...

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