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No end declared for FAA flight cuts despite shutdown deal

Federally ordered flight reductions are still scheduled, for now, to ramp up this week despite the Senate deal to end the government shutdown — which means travelers may not see any quick relief fr...

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Mamdani picks his top 2 City Hall deputies

NEW YORK — In picking his top-ranking aides for City Hall, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is balancing a track record in government with experience on his own team.Mamdani announced Monday that Dean Fu...

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‘Band-aid,’ ‘distraction’: Experts slam Pulte, Trump 50-year mortgage idea

The Trump administration is entertaining a potential plan for the government to back 50-year mortgages to address a housing affordability crisis.But, in a housing market defined by low supply, indu...

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Hemp rule creates turbulence for Senate vote to end shutdown

A proposed ban on intoxicating hemp products emerged as an obstacle Monday to ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he would oppose a package that woul...

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The anti-vaccine movement isn’t satisfied with winning over the GOP

AUSTIN, Texas — The anti-vaccine movement once led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making a play for the mainstream.More Republicans are embracing it as part of the GOP coalition. But ...

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Supreme Court to decide whether states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether federal law prohibits states from counting ballots that arrive after Election Day.President Donald Trump has long railed against mail-in voting and ha...

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Is American history reminding you of dark, tumultuous periods from the past? Consider the Gilded Age of the late 19th century

People trying to understand politics in the United States today often turn to history for precedents and perspective. Are our current divisions like the ones that preceded the American Revolution o...

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Trump administration seeks SCOTUS stay on paying full SNAP benefits

The Trump administration told the Supreme Court on Monday that it intends to pursue a stay of a lower court order requiring federal officials to distribute full food stamp benefits in November.The ...

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‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’

President Donald Trump on Monday railed against air traffic controllers who took time off from their high-stress jobs during the federal shutdown and threatened to replace them with “true Patriots....

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2026 Democrats jump to pan the shutdown deal

Senate Democrats’ embrace of a shutdown deal that doesn’t guarantee extended health care subsidies is already an electoral issue.Nearly every major Democratic Senate candidate panned the deal, from...

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Ghislaine Maxwell to seek commutation, document indicates

Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is preparing a commutation application to be reviewed by the Trump administration, according to a ...

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People don’t want to visit the U.S. Can this new ad convince them otherwise?

If you are reading this from outside the U.S., you may have already seen the videos. Clouds rolling over the Grand Canyon. Kids screaming down roller coasters. Snowboarders gliding through white fo...

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What can a former KGB agent teach us about what’s in store for America?

We have already seen many articles and interviews from the American right (and no doubt will in the foreseeable future) that bemoan the likely downward spiral New York City will face with the elect...

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Why They Mask

A few days after President Donald Trump took office, I got an invitation from ICE officials to observe the administration’s new “surge operations” in New York City. They told me to show up at 4 a.m...

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Trump pardons top allies who aided bid to subvert the 2020 election

President Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of prominent allies who backed his effort to subvert the 2020 election, according to Justice Department Pardon Attorney Ed Martin, who posted the rel...

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Legal immigrants face loss of Obamacare help, threatening insurance markets

Congress remains mired in a bitter debate over the fate of enhanced Obamacare subsidies that could subject some Americans to triple-digit premium hikes if allowed to expire at the end of this year....

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What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century

Earlier this year, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, a graveyard was spared by the fire that sent thousands of Los Angeles residents fleeing into the coal-black night. Here, in Mountai...

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What does ‘pro-life’ mean? There’s no one answer – even for advocacy groups that oppose abortion

Pope Leo XIV arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, on Oct. 22, 2025. AP Photo/Andrew MedichiniAs the first American pope, Leo XIV has largely avoided speaki...

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What America’s divided and tumultuous politics of the late-19th century can teach us

Can today's divided America learn something from the divisions of the past? zimmytws, iStock/Getty Images PlusPeople trying to understand politics in the United States today often turn to history f...

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California is ready for its climate closeup — with some concealer

SÃO PAULO — Gavin Newsom is about to take the stage at a global climate summit where world leaders are scarce — and a turn in the spotlight is wide open.The California governor's task at United Nat...

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‘Schumer is no longer effective’: Dems outraged over shutdown deal

Congressional Democrats are livid after a handful of their Senate colleagues voted Sunday to advance the House-passed stopgap and end the government shutdown.Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called it a...

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