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Unions sound alarm on last-minute push for robot farm equipment

Labor leaders are up in arms over a proposal lawmakers are mulling in the final days of the Legislature’s season that would allow automated agricultural equipment to operate alongside workers in Ca...

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The real reason voters hate data centers so much

A protest against data centers in central Texas. | Sara Diggins/The Austin American-Statesman Welcome to The Midterms, Actually. Every week I’ll be writing about two things: one big i...

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Darline Graham Is Not Her Brother

It’s something that happens so often in politics that there’s a name for it: widow’s succession. Dozens of times over the past century, women have filled a seat previously occupied by their late hu...

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‘Another Trump Attempt to Rig Elections’: Lawmakers Respond to Supreme Court Win for Trump Mail-in Voting Restrictions

Signage of mail-in voting drop off at the Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections Office during a primary election in Doral, Florida, on Aug. 18, 2026. —Eva Marie Uzcategui - Bloomberg via Getty ...

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Trump denies US pushed Canada on French language

President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning denied that the White House had sought to interfere with the French language spoken in Quebec, as the two countries trade jabs over who is at fault for the...

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Hochul talks House races, Mamdani and Albany struggles

ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to prove she can be a strong top of the ticket this year to sweep down-ballot Democrats into office and help her party regain control of the House.The sta...

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Donalds picks Florida legislator Bryan Ávila as running mate, leaning into anti-communist message

MIAMI — Florida GOP gubernatorial nominee Byron Donalds announced Tuesday he’s tapping state Sen. Bryan Ávila as his running mate, a move that could help bolster the House lawmaker's support in the...

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Is Trump Only The Worst President — Or Is He The Worst American — Ever?

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) The pandemic was good for at least one thing: It prompted some old law school buddies and me to begin meeting occasionally by Zoom. Although the pandemic...

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Abdul El-Sayed distances himself from Hasan Piker’s comments on American Jews

Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed put some distance between himself and his ally, progressive Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, after the latter faced intense criticism for suggesting that American...

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Abdul El-Sayed grilled on past statements on Sharia law and White supremacy, taxing the rich

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed was grilled in a fiery interview on "Jesse Watters Primetime" Monday on his progressive policy positions as he sparred over his high-stakes Senate ...

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‘He’s all in’: Trump tests his sway over the GOP with Darline Graham

Donald Trump is facing one of his biggest tests of the midterms — and it’s of his own making.The president has spent a significant amount of time and money trying to help Sen. Darline Graham defeat...

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The US has the economic strength to withstand a Canadian trade war. Does it have the political will?

President Donald Trump is threatening Canada with economic destruction amid an escalating trade war. He’s not factoring in one key U.S. disadvantage.Americans are not nearly as gung-ho for a tariff...

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On the Rise of White Christian Nationalism in the US

UC Santa Barbara in the 1980s felt like the counterculture’s afterparty: sun-drenched, restless, and still echoing defiance. Palm trees swayed over a serene campus where students surfed at Campus ...

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Hochul expects ‘helpful’ Mamdani in her reelection bid

ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul expects Big Apple Mayor Zohran Mamdani will aid her reelection bid this year — support that stands to harness the base of young, left-leaning backers who propel...

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Trump’s MAGA Inc. makes last-minute buy for Darline Graham in South Carolina runoff

President Donald Trump is using a bit of his mostly untapped $400 million MAGA Inc. warchest to boost Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina — the first significant expenditure his team has made thi...

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Supreme Court lifts one block on Trump mail-in voting plan

The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a block on President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at limiting mail-in voting but left uncertain whether it will allow him to implement major changes to th...

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Trump Is Losing Touch With the Public

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Vance asks Mainers to vote Republican — as Trump ups the trade war with Canada

BREWER, Maine — Vice President JD Vance on Monday brought his anti-fraud crusade back to Maine, with a pitch for voters to elect Republicans because they’re bringing down prices for consumers.But P...

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Trump scores Supreme Court win on mail-in voting restrictions before midterms

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a victory on Monday, allowing it to enforce President Donald Trump’s "election integrity" executive order restricting mail-in vo...

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Fragments: August 24

I was listening to Ezra Klein’s interview with Helen Toner about the recent OpenAI hack of Hugging Face and the subsequent discovery that there were swarms of agents inside OpenAI doing unsanctione...

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Bessent unveils new effort to cripple Iran’s economy

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday unveiled a sweeping new effort to economically isolate Iran, warning foreign governments and companies that they could lose access to the U.S. financial s...

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