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The Trump administration has promised to stonewall federal grants unless states “scrub” their voter rolls and to imprison state officials who refuse to comply.Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne ...
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At the far end of a dock on the banks of the Potomac, past protesters yelling SHAME! and holding signs like DEPORT HATE NOT PEOPLE, up a ramp, across a gangway and up a flight of stairs, about 200 ...
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President Donald Trump on Friday endorsed Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) for the Senate seat long held by her late brother, Lindsey Graham.In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he welcomed Graham to ...
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President Donald Trump’s elections legislation remains stalled in Congress. But his Thursday night primetime address contained hints of where he might take his whole-of-government approach to asser...
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A haze fell over the Capitol on Friday as smoke from Canadian wildfires stretched farther east, prompting the president and GOP lawmakers to level blame at Canada for forestry practices they said w...
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White House chief of staff Susie Wiles told the Cabinet in April to cut back on international travel.So they found a domestic riviera overlooking the mighty Mississippi River in southwestern Wiscon...
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President Donald Trump’s threats against broadcast television licenses are suddenly less of a laugh line to the media world and more of a real danger.Trump’s broadsides Thursday night against NBC a...
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Several American aid workers who responded to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are isolating at a facility in Kenya that the country’s highest court blocked in May.The sev...
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SACRAMENTO, California — California Democrats forcefully rejected the Department of Homeland Security’s claim that 190,832 noncitizens are registered to vote in the state, arguing the administratio...
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US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the East Room of the White House on July 16, 2026, in Washington, DC. Trump is expected to speak on election security. | Saul Loeb/Pool...
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You might have heard that Donald Trump gave a weird, rambling, nonsense speech last night full of misinformation and lies, trying to spread distrust in our electoral process ahead of the 2026 midte...
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The German chancellor has criticized a new US State Department funding program for Europe launched ahead of September’s federal vote German Ch...
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Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who has been intensely critical of the wealthy while on the campaign trail, makes enough money to put him and his wife in the top 1% of households in his s...
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When Jay Clayton, Donald Trump’s nominee for the next director of national intelligence, appeared before the Senate on Wednesday, Jon Ossoff of Georgia had a simple question for him: Who won the 20...
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NEW YORK — Nearly half a million New Yorkers recently booted from a federally funded health insurance program are confronting an expensive and confusing marketplace as they search for new coverage....
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday said officials who don’t cooperate with the administration’s election security efforts may be slapped with fines — and potentially prison time...
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House GOP leaders released text Friday for a bill to fund the vast majority of the federal government from the start of the next fiscal year on Oct. 1 until after the midterm elections — bypassing ...
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Democrats also criticize speech as ‘lies and long-debunked conspiracies’Sign up for US News Breaking emailTrump makes unverified claims of China ‘election meddling’Donald Trump used the imprimatur ...
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TODAY: In 1901, Polish poet, novelist, and playwright Bruno Jasieński is born. Henry Power tackles an age old question: How many Homers were there, actually? | Lit Hub History “The Odyssey is...
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The German chancellor has criticized a new US State Department funding program for Europe launched ahead of September’s federal vote German Ch...