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‘The national make-or-break issue of the year’: Redistricting fight gets reset after Trump’s Supreme Court win

INDIANAPOLIS — Republicans scored a major win in the redistricting fight when the Supreme Court reinstated Texas’ newly drawn congressional map on Thursday. But President Donald Trump and his allie...

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Supreme Court to rule on Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump’s plan to end automatic birthright citizenship for children born on U.S. soil is unconstitutional.The justices announced Friday...

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'Puppets on a string': ACIP chair airs independence concerns

The newly appointed chair of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel privately expressed concerns about the committee’s independence, according to a transcript of remarks obtained by POLITICO.Kirk Milhoan...

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Rep. Adelita Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed during ICE raid

Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said Friday she was pepper-sprayed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during a raid near a restaurant in Tucson.“I was here … and was sprayed in the fac...

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Gianni Infantino’s Trump problem

Soccer may be the world’s most popular pastime, but much about Friday’s lottery draw setting the match schedule for next summer’s World Cup has been programmed with just one fan in mind. Never befo...

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RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel says not all newborns need Hep B shots

ATLANTA — The CDC’s committee of vaccine advisers voted Friday to do away with the universal hepatitis B birth dose recommendation — fulfilling a longtime priority of the anti-vaccine movement.By a...

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Israel uses video from Gaza genocide to market arms to European, Asian countries

Israel uses video from Gaza genocide to market arms to European, Asian countries Submitted by MEE staff on Fri, 12...

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How Russia keeps raising an army to replace its dead

For Russian men, war now advertises itself like any other job.Offers for front-line contracts appear on the messaging app Telegram alongside group chats and news alerts, promising signing bonuses o...

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Graham Platner Has Some Regrets

CARIBOU, Maine — Onstage at American Legion Post 15 in this state’s northeast nook in early October, Graham Platner wrapped up a speech in his deep, gravelly political howitzer of a voice, saying h...

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‘Yes, There’s a Strategy’: Trump’s Trade Chief Hits Back at Tariff Critics

President Donald Trump has changed his position on more than a few things over the years, but in at least one area he’s been consistent: tariffs. The president is a tariff man, as he’s fond of sayi...

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The world game’s Washington problem

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Trump Keeps Squeezing the Next Fed Chair

President Donald Trump’s future Federal Reserve chair was already facing a daunting task: juggling wary financial markets, hard-to-interpret economic indicators, the sprawling and complex internal ...

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Trump reveals what he wants for the world

President Donald Trump intends for the U.S. to keep a bigger military presence in the Western Hemisphere going forward to battle migration, drugs and the rise of adversarial powers in the region, a...

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Democrats test an affordability message in one of the nation’s richest districts

For many of the Democrats running in New Jersey’s 7th District, Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill’s resounding win last month reinforced a strategy they were already testing on the ground: make the campaig...

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Trump will have speaking role at World Cup draw

President Donald Trump will take the stage at Friday’s World Cup final draw ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington where he will accept FIFA’s inaugural peace prize, according to a draft of t...

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Mike Johnson scrambles to pass Pentagon bill as GOP ranks seethe

House Republicans spent this week venting about Mike Johnson, questioning the speaker’s hold on his tenuous House majority. Next week, he has to prove he’s capable of governing.The annual Pentagon ...

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Grand jury rejects new indictment for Letitia James

A federal grand jury turned down the Trump administration’s latest bid to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to two people familiar with the matter, who were granted anonymit...

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Stephen A. Smith locks horns with Whoopi, says Dems must focus on affordability and safety, not culture war

Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith and "The View" host Whoopi Goldberg debated Thursday about what key issues the Democratic Party must focus on to take back power and serve the American people.Sm...

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What Democratic Leaders Still Don’t Understand About Populism

The convergence of Republican President Donald Trump with, of all people, New York’s Incumbent Democratic Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani in recent weeks is the kind of head-scratching...

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GOP electoral worries shift to Miami’s mayoral runoff

MIAMI — Republicans may not have to wait long for their next opportunity for soul-searching and midterm panic, thanks to next week’s Miami mayoral runoff.The GOP is bracing for a possible loss in o...

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Lawmakers sharply divided as Congress probes killings at sea

The first classified briefings of a deadly U.S. strike in the Caribbean produced a striking split screen on Capitol Hill, with a top Republican saying the unedited video showed nothing illegal whil...

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