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Cesar Chavez allegations jolt California’s labor movement

California’s Latino leaders were stunned Tuesday by reports that the late Cesar Chavez, a civil-rights and labor icon, had been accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with young women and minors....

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Jesse Jackson Jr.’s comeback bid fails in Illinois primary

CHICAGO — Former Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. fell short in his attempt to return to Congress on Tuesday, after resigning more than a decade ago amid a federal corruption investigation.Cook Coun...

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Roberts defends Supreme Court against Trump attacks

Chief Justice John Roberts defended the Supreme Court on Tuesday against a sustained flurry of attacks President Donald Trump recently unleashed against the justices for striking down the core of h...

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AIPAC attacks fall flat as Democrat Daniel Biss wins Illinois House primary

CHICAGO — Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss won Tuesday’s Democratic primary to succeed Rep. Jan Schakowsky, dealing a blow to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in a race that had turned into a...

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Stratton wins Illinois primary, giving Dems another Black female senator

CHICAGO — Democrats are now all but certain to elect another Black woman to the U.S. Senate after Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton won Tuesday’s bitter and expensive primary in Illinois.Stratton overcame ...

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Democrat Patty García gains party’s nomination after controversial last-minute dropout by incumbent

Democrat Patty García secured her party’s nomination for Illinois’ 4th Congressional District after a controversial last-minute decision by her former boss, incumbent Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García, not ...

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King of Illinois: Pritzker swings Senate race as he targets Trump

CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker emerged as the kingmaker in deep-blue Illinois after pouring millions of dollars and staking his political reputation to deliver his hand-picked Senate candidate a primar...

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AIPAC faces calls to reassess strategy after split results in Illinois

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee saw mixed results in the first major test of its political muscle in the midterms, drawing fresh recriminations from its foes — and some allies — for it...

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On the Beautiful, Terrible Villains of Reality Television

A few minutes into the premiere of the sixth and final season of The Hills, a black Suburban drives up to a chalet-style home with a wreath on the front door on a snowy day. “Crested Butte, Colorad...

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Trump is pressuring the Hill on voter verification — but not his own housing plan

President Donald Trump is aggressively pushing the Senate to pass voter verification legislation, speaking about it at length, posting repeatedly on social media and threatening to withhold endorse...

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The Senate’s marathon elections debate is dividing Republicans, not Democrats

Senate Republicans want to use their party-line elections bill as a cudgel against Democrats. They need to stop sparring with each other first.Republicans kicked off debate Tuesday on the SAVE Amer...

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This tech-backed mayor got into California’s gov’s race with a bang. Now he’s stalling out.

SAN FRANCISCO — Matt Mahan’s late foray into the race for California governor started with a Super Bowl ad, a rush of Silicon Valley support and speculation fanned by Mahan’s camp and others about ...

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Fog of war clouds global rate cut outlook

President Donald Trump is demanding that the Federal Reserve immediately lower borrowing costs. But the war in the Middle East has now made any interest rate cuts much less likely in 2026 — not jus...

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Why Donald Trump is losing the war at home

No US president in living memory has gone to war with less public support than Donald Trump has for the war in Iran. Even Barack Obama’s much-maligned Libyan intervention began with 60% of American...

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Republicans hope Mullin will turn the page at DHS from Noem. Democrats aren’t buying it.

Republicans lawmakers are hoping that Sen. Markwayne Mullin will rescue the Department of Homeland Security from tumult they felt under outgoing Secretary Kristi Noem — and looking for assurances o...

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Trump presses allies for Hormuz pledges, but not specifics

The White House is pleading with allies to help secure the Strait of Hormuz — and privately assuring them that President Donald Trump is fine with high-level statements — as it pushes to calm finan...

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DOGE Didn’t Cut Government Waste. It Was Government Waste.

Look, I get it. Government waste is real. Bureaucratic bloat is real. The desire to have a federal government that spends taxpayer money wisely and operates without unnecessary friction? That’s a p...

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Trump Quietly Tries to Free FBI Informant Who Lied About Bidens

He worked with Russia and Republicans to build a web of lies that could incriminate President Joe Biden. Now he’s being rewarded.Alexander Smirnov’s various deceptions about Biden and his family—wh...

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‘WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE’: Trump rages after allies ignore his pleas for help in Iran

President Donald Trump on Tuesday fumed at longtime American allies he says aren’t doing enough to help the U.S. and Israel in their war against Iran, now arguing that their assistance was never ne...

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One reason Trump won’t give up on Putin peace deal — China

President Donald Trump has often frustrated European allies with his overt entreaties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and harsh words for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.But behind the ...

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MORNING GLORY: What will Donald Trump's legacy be as a wartime president?

Every American alive today has been living in wartime. Every president since December 7, 1941, has been a wartime president. All of them. They can, and should, be judged by how they have waged war,...

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