Politics

Trump tried to appease MAHA’s fury over Roundup. It backfired.

On a 200-acre farm and cattle ranch in Bandera, Texas, Mollie Engelhart grows organic produce, sells raw milk, and writes a daily column about the power of regenerative agriculture. She’s a farmer ...

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US launches ‘powerful’ strikes on Iran as ceasefire frays

U.S. forces have launched new strikes against Iran, placing further strain on a ceasefire that has been under increasing strain in recent days.U.S. Central Command said in a statement Tuesday that ...

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Justice Department cannot demand Fulton County elections workers’ personal information, judge rules

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the Department of Justice may not subpoena the names and contact information of those who worked during the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County, a blow to...

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Trump rips NATO allies, dashing European hopes for a kumbaya summit

ANKARA, Turkey — President Donald Trump lashed out at NATO on Tuesday, spoiling the feel-good mood at an alliance summit and reminding allies that he’s not letting go of his grievances. But while T...

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Mamdani calls on Platner to drop out of Maine Senate race

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called on Graham Platner to end his campaign for Maine Senate on Tuesday, becoming one of the most prominent voices on the American left to urge the em...

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Bernie Sanders says he told Graham Platner to ‘step aside’

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he told Maine Democrat Graham Platner to end his Senate bid on Tuesday, in the wake of a POLITICO report that a woman who Platner dated said he forced her to have s...

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More than half of Senate Democrats have urged Platner to drop out

More than half of the Senate Democratic caucus has called for Graham Platner to drop out of the Maine Senate race, less than 24 hours after POLITICO reported that a woman the oysterman once dated h...

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Maine Dems are already throwing elbows as they jostle to replace Graham Platner

BRUNSWICK, Maine — Maine Democrats are already jockeying to replace Senate candidate Graham Platner.Gobs of Democrats have called for Platner to drop out of the race after POLITICO reported that a ...

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‘Can you help us?’: US oil execs turn to Trump to topple Europe's climate rules

The U.S. oil and gas industry has succeeded in exporting massive amounts of natural gas to Europe. Now, with the help of White House officials, it looks like it might also succeed in exporting the ...

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‘A Grand Canyon sort of disagreement': How clinics and a union leader sparred over Prop 44

SACRAMENTO, California — From the moment union leader Dave Regan floated the idea of a ballot measure targeting the state’s health clinics, leaders in the clinic industry questioned his intentions....

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‘Breathtaking assertion of power’: Appeals court slams door on Florida ‘Stop Woke’ law championed by DeSantis

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida’s anti-woke law restricting how lessons on race and gender can be taught in colleges and universities — policies championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis — violates the free s...

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Transcript: Trump 250 Crowd Size Claims Collapse in Final Humiliation

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 7 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented ...

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The cost of Khanna’s Platner alliance

In the blast radius from the sexual assault allegations against Graham Platner, few politicians are taking a harder hit than Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna.Khanna, arguably more than any other natio...

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The Demon Next Door

Photographs by Houston CofieldFrom the outside, the church looked like a plain brick storefront, the mirrored windows peeling, a sign above painted white with blue letters. THE WELL, it read, and u...

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Democratic leaders have abandoned Graham Platner

GORHAM, Maine — The dam has broken on Graham Platner’s candidacy.Democratic leaders in Maine and Washington, along with a growing pack of Platner’s close supporters, abandoned his Senate campaign o...

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With Graham Platner, Democrats Got Drunk on the Beer Test

Last September, the progressive strategist Morris Katz confessed to The New Yorker that the process by which he decided that Graham Platner was qualified to run for U.S. Senate required less time t...

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Supreme Court declines to block Texas app store law

Texas can enforce a law limiting children’s ability to purchase or download apps while a challenge to it plays out in court, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a one-sentence order Monday.The Texas Ap...

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The Other Celebration of America

The celebrations of America’s 250th birthday, though they offered many wonderful moments, did not provide the sweeping sense of national unity for which some people had hoped. Some Americans found ...

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Gianni Infantino’s Trumpification of Fifa will have repercussions well beyond this stained World Cup

There’s an axiom in American politics that has formed the title of a best-selling book: “Everything Trump touches dies.”US Soccer duly saw the ultimate pride before a fall. After Donald Trump had b...

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The likely next Congressional Black Caucus chair has big plans for the shrinking powerhouse

The Congressional Black Caucus is, for now, at the pinnacle of its power, with record-high membership, deep influence on the House Democratic agenda and one of its own members in line to claim the ...

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‘Everything I’ve ever asked him for, he’s done’: Erdoğan takes the stage as NATO’s Trump whisperer

Thirty-one NATO leaders need President Donald Trump to show up to their Turkey summit.One is getting him there.When Trump lands in Ankara on Tuesday, he'll be a guest of the NATO ally with whom he ...

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