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In the early summer of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Washington in raucous protests against the police killing of George Floyd.In the l...
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Former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison is jumping on the Substack trend, but he seems to have overlooked the fine print.Harrison appears to have run afoul of Substack’s terms of service by mass-subscribin...
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The Atlantic is announcing four new members of its editorial staff: Emily Bobrow and Katie Zezima will join as senior editors, both as part of the politics, global, and ideas team; Will Gottsegen w...
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President Trump on Thursday promised “interesting times ahead” as he raised the prospect of Ukraine launching an offensive against Russia, amid signs that the Kremlin could be slow-walkin...
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Donald Trump has strong-arming Congress down to a science. Now his redistricting gambit is putting his methods through a stress test.It’s a strategy of intensifying levels of private coercion and p...
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NEW YORK — An appeals court on Thursday tossed a roughly $500 million civil fraud judgment against President Donald Trump and his family business, marking a significant victory for the president in...
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The number of immigrants lacking permanent legal status in the United States hit an all-time high of 14 million people in 2023 amid a surge that followed the COVID-19 pandemic and policy ...
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President Donald Trump may recently have called for Ukraine and Russia to skip a ceasefire and hammer out a comprehensive peace agreement. But the conditions for that kind of deal don’t exist yet —...
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President Donald Trump said Thursday he would join law enforcement and National Guard troops on patrol in Washington, D.C. — the latest in a series of high-profile photo ops by the administration t...
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Republicans are facing a major obstacle as they try to tout the potential benefits of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill:” They need voters to take their word on it for now.GOP lawmakers...
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NAVAL AIR STATION OCEANA, Va. (WAVY) – A Navy pilot is recovering after ejecting from an F/A-18E Super Hornet off the coast of Virginia. Lt. Jackie Parashar, a public affairs offic...
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As fascism has returned to political power, elite liberalism seems to have been caught off guard, left unsure how to respond, how to argue for itself. Why?Pre-Trump liberalism did not cause or prov...
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Texas Democrat James Talarico has built a national profile railing against GOP billionaires in politics — but has quietly accepted funds from a PAC backed by one of the wealthiest donors in the Rep...
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Democratic voters loathe partisan redistricting, but support California doing it to counter Texas, according to a new national poll on Gavin Newsom’s high-stakes gerrymander.The POLITICO-UC Berkele...
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The first thing Laura Loomer wanted to know when I called her earlier this month was whether this was going to be a “hit piece.” The self-described investigative journalist and unofficial adviser t...
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The idea, it seems, came from the Russian president. “Vladimir Putin, smart guy,” Donald Trump told the Fox News television host Sean Hannity following the summit between the two leaders in Anchora...
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THE SUN THE 2028 US Presidential Election may be three years away, but it is already on the radar of top UK betting sites and punters. Interest in political betting h...
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The EU’s performance of obedience for the US president will haunt future generations American politics has always been part performance, part ...
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The EU’s performance of obedience for the US president will haunt future generations American politics has always been part performance, part ...
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SACRAMENTO, California — Katie Porter was the biggest beneficiary of Kamala Harris passing on a run for California governor, according to a new poll from POLITICO and its partners, with the former ...
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The former top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been charged in four separate bribery schemes, according to indictments released this morning by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.F...