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Trump teases new policy for migrant farm labor

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration will release new rules and regulations on migrant farm labor, as the country’s need for workers and the food they help produce clashes wi...

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Trump escalates nuclear tensions as Russia deadline nears

President Trump is rattling the U.S.’s formidable nuclear saber amid his growing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin's refusal to halt the war in Ukraine, just days ahead of...

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Schwarzenegger ready to fight Newsom on redistricting

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to campaign against a partisan gerrymandering plan that current officeholder Gavin Newsom is hoping to place on the November ballot, according to a spokes...

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Toppled Confederate statue will rise again in Washington

A bronze statue of a Confederate general that was torn off its pedestal in Washington’s Judiciary Square by demonstrators during the civil justice protests in 2020 will be restored and reinstalled,...

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Texas Democrats dig in as Abbott promises fines, extradition and arrests

CHICAGO — About two-dozen Texas Democrats huddled around a monitor inside a hotel auditorium just west of Chicago Monday to watch as their Republican colleagues gaveled back into session and threat...

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Charlamagne tha God swipes at Trump after president’s criticism

Radio host Charlamagne tha God fired back at President Donald Trump, accusing the president of pushing authoritarian tactics after Trump called the radio host a “dope” in a recent social media post...

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As Russia deadline nears, Trump starts nuclear saber rattling

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter{beacon} Defense &National Security The Big Story As Russia deadline nears, Trump starts nuclear saber rattling ...

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State Department to charge some travelers $10,000 bond to get visas

The State Department is launching a pilot program wherein it will require travelers entering the United States on tourism and business visas to pay a hefty bond as a guarantee they will not stay in...

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Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, the first major action by the former Fox News host as the interim NASA administra...

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This DOGE project is still full steam ahead

Even as the influence of DOGE wanes across Washington, at least one initiative from the once-feared project is thriving.The effort to digitize the federal government’s paper-based retirement system...

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Trump enters the Sydney Sweeney discourse

President Donald Trump on Monday weighed in on actress Sydney Sweeney’s controversial American Eagle jeans ad, writing that product is “flying off the shelves” and continuing his inclination to com...

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‘Talk about affordability’: Warren boosts Mamdani as model for Democratic victory

NEW YORK — Elizabeth Warren doesn’t have a problem with Zohran Mamdani being the face of the Democrats. In fact, she wants the rest of the party to follow his example on affordability.The progressi...

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Rwanda agrees to take up to 250 migrant deportees

Rwanda has agreed to accept up to 250 migrant deportees from the U.S., making it the latest country to acquiesce to diplomatic pressure from the Trump administration to take in some of the thousand...

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The Great Gerrymander War: California fires back at Texas power play

California’s Texas-thwarting gerrymander has swiftly transformed from fantasy to reality.Democrats in the House and the state Legislature are coalescing around a plan to draw a half-dozen Republica...

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Democrats ‘forfeited their seats’: Abbott blasts lawmakers who fled Texas amid redistricting

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott doubled down on his promise to expel Texas Democrats from the legislature if they do not return to the state for its ongoing special session, where Republicans are working to...

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Gov. Greg Abbott’s options to force a redistricting vote are more limited than they appear

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had a message Sunday for the dozens of Democratic legislators who fled the state to derail a mega-partisan gerrymander: “This truancy ends now.”But Abbott’s options to compel...

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Hochul embraces gerrymandering in New York

ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul openly embraced the full-fledged gerrymandering of congressional districts in New York to favor Democrats on Monday, marking a significant shift in her push to ...

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CBO: Republican megabill to cost $4.1T, due to higher borrowing costs

Interest rates will be higher over the next decade because of the GOP’s megabill and drive up borrowing costs even for the federal government, Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper predicts in a new re...

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Trump says nuclear submarines 'in the region' of Russia

President Trump confirmed Sunday that nuclear submarines “are in the region” two days after saying the U.S. was positioning two nuclear submarines close to Russia. “I've already pu...

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How the Kavanaugh confirmation saga still haunts the Senate

As the Senate prepared to vote last week to confirm Emil Bove to a lifetime seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, one familiar name kept cropping up: Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.It ...

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Congress is on summer break. Funding 'chaos' awaits.

When the House and Senate return from their month-long August recess, lawmakers will have just four weeks to avert a government shutdown — and some kind of kick-the-can funding patch is all but gua...

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