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Inside the MAGA Divide Over Trump’s Venezuela Gambit

The looming threat of U.S. military intervention in Venezuela is once again exposing the rift between the Republican Party’s foreign policy hawks and its anti-interventionist wing. But the fault li...

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Regime change is back. MAGA is getting comfortable with it.

President Donald Trump built his America First movement, in part, on the promise of keeping the U.S. out of foreign entanglements.On Tuesday, he teased an imminent land strike against Venezuela and...

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US airstrike in Caribbean draws complaint before human rights watchdog

The family of a Colombian man killed in a U.S. airstrike in the Caribbean filed a formal complaint Tuesday with a multinational human rights commission accusing the Trump administration of violatin...

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Republicans want a health care plan. They don’t know what will go in it.

Republican lawmakers are looking to craft their own health care policy overhauls by the end of next week, when Senate Democrats get a vote on expiring Obamacare subsidies. So far they don’t agree o...

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Incoming New Jersey governor will work with Trump if he gets ‘on the team’

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey — Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill’s top aide on Tuesday night said the incoming New Jersey governor is willing to work with the Trump administration if they “get on the team” t...

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Elise Stefanik is Johnson’s latest challenge as he struggles to keep control of the House

Even by the high standards of chaos for the 119th Congress, Speaker Mike Johnson being accused Tuesday by a member of his own leadership team of protecting the “deep state” was a remarkable develop...

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Judge blocks provision of law that strips Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood affiliates

A federal judge has again blocked a provision Congress passed in July that stripped federal Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood affiliates, ruling that the language likely places an unconstitu...

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Progressive topples former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey in Jersey City mayoral runoff

James Solomon, a 41-year-old city councilmember elected with the support of anti-machine progressives, will be the next mayor of New Jersey’s second largest city.Shortly after polls closed, Solomon...

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Despite loss, Democrats overperformed in bright red Tennessee House race

Democrats notched an off-cycle achievement Tuesday night, as Tennessee state lawmaker Aftyn Behn sliced into President Donald Trump’s double-digit victory in a deep-red House district. It marked th...

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New Jersey has ‘to be open’ to mid-decade redistricting, Sherrill adviser says

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey — Mid-decade redistricting is on the table in New Jersey, a top adviser to Democratic Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said on Tuesday. Just don’t expect it to happen before the...

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GOP frets ‘dangerous’ result in Tennessee

Republicans won Tuesday’s special election in Tennessee. But instead of celebrating, many are dreading what it means about the midterms.Republican Rep.-elect Matt Van Epps’ roughly nine point win m...

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The Leopard Has Come For A Small Town Kansas Mayor & Its Residents

I suppose we might all be tiring of the whole “the leopard you voted for eventually comes to eat your face” cliche at this point, but when the allegory fits you have to use it. And in this case, it...

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The FDA’s top drug regulator submits his resignation to the agency

Rick Pazdur, the FDA’s top drug regulator, told staff Tuesday he submitted his resignation to the agency, an abrupt departure weeks after he was convinced by Commissioner Marty Makary to take the p...

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Trump: Jack Smith classified documents report should remain secret

President Donald Trump argued Tuesday that former special counsel Jack Smith’s final report — chronicling the criminal case against him for hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago — should neve...

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OpenAI critics ask billionaires for help to take their fight to the ballot

SAN FRANCISCO — Critics of OpenAI’s multibillion dollar corporate restructuring want to bring the matter to California voters, launching two different ballot initiatives as well as a campaign websi...

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Justices seem poised to side with crisis pregnancy centers in New Jersey subpoena fight

The Supreme Court waded into the abortion wars again Tuesday, but managed to do so while barely mentioning the subject.Arguments pitting a chain of anti-abortion, faith-based pregnancy clinics agai...

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When squabbling neighbors become World Cup co-hosts

When Tsuneyasu Miyamoto took the field as captain of Japan’s “Samurai Blue” team in the 2002 World Cup, he did not fully appreciate the extent to which he had also become a player in a geopolitical...

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DHS’s $7,500 Self-Deportations

The Department of Homeland Security launched a $200 million advertising campaign this past spring that urged migrants to “self-deport,” dangling an offer that sounded like a darker version of a cre...

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Florida becomes the GOP’s biggest redistricting test — and a messy one

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida is barreling into a mid-decade redistricting fight with Republicans in and out of the state pushing for action — but party leaders are split on how far to go and when...

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Top Mace adviser leaves her campaign, citing loyalty to Trump

A top consultant to Rep. Nancy Mace’s campaign for South Carolina governor announced his resignation Monday, saying the gubernatorial hopeful has “decided to turn her back on MAGA.”Austin McCubbin,...

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Doctors call Ozempic a miracle drug. Medicaid officials aren’t so sure.

Breakthroughs in weight-loss medicine are presenting state Medicaid officials with what looks like a sure bet: Spend big now to cover the drugs and reap savings when diabetes, heart disease and can...

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