Politics

GOP’s education tax credit puts Democratic governors in a bind

Democratic governors eyeing a tax incentive created by the GOP’s “big, beautiful” bill have one big reason not to sign up: teachers unions hate it. The GOP’s domestic policy law established a tax c...

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The sleeper referendum that could reshape the national judiciary

A ballot referendum in Kansas that’s generated little national attention could set off a nationwide arms race to politicize state courts.Kansans on Tuesday will decide whether to amend the state co...

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Trump dings longtime ally Jeanine Pirro for dropping Reflecting Pool vandalism case

President Donald Trump publicly broke with one of his closest political allies Saturday, criticizing U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro over her office’s decision to drop a hi...

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It might take ‘a lightning bolt from God’ to get these Senate Democratic hopefuls to bow for independents

Democrats vying for a pair of deep-red Senate seats are facing increasingly desperate calls from within their party to step aside for more promising independent candidates.But they say they won’t d...

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Are Young Republicans Too Based to Work for Congress?

The grownups are worried. In group chats and at happy hours, some GOP veterans fret about the rising generation of young staffers in their party. The recurring complaint: The pipeline that feeds yo...

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‘My Mom’s Trapped in There’: Quakes Shake Confidence in Venezuela's Trump-Backed Regime

LA GUAIRA, Venezuela — Cristian knows that his mother lies lifeless beneath the rubble. The only question is where.The boyish 22-year-old uses his hands to show how the 12-story building where he u...

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MIKE DAVIS: After SCOTUS fumbles birthright citizenship, we need sensible census solutions

The Supreme Court just punched America in the gut. In Trump v. Barbara, five justices stole We The People’s most crucial sovereign power of deciding who becomes fellow citizens by illegally constit...

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“If I Prove That You Can Win Statewide Taking on AIPAC, That is Catastrophic”

On July 8, Abdul El-Sayed had just wrapped up a campaign stop inside a sweltering church auditorium in Ferndale, Michigan. The room was packed with supporters fanning themselves with ca...

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America’s Most Divided State Loves Its Extremes

Wisconsin has been the nation’s most closely divided state for a quarter century. Since 2000, only one presidential candidate—Barack Obama, twice—has carried the state by more than a single percent...

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Why AIPAC could see its biggest defeat ever

Michigan Democratic Rep. Andy Levin holds a campaign rally on July 29, 2022 in Pontiac, Michigan. He lost his primary that year to Haley Stevens, who is now embroiled in a fierce Senate p...

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‘Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating

Public scrutiny of domestic abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller is quickly mounting. His Republican colleagues have been slow to respond.New reporting on government documents claiming that Mi...

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Trump blames Minnesota water hacks on Walz, while evidence points to Iran

President Donald Trump on Friday blamed a spate of recent hacks impacting water utilities in Minnesota on Gov. Tim Walz — contradicting preliminary findings from U.S. and industry officials who sus...

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Reflecting pool damage was the result of botched work, not vandals, DOJ says

President Donald Trump’s botched renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of a “hasty” installation by the contractor, and not vandalism, the Department of Justice revealed...

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SEC and Big Ten agree to support college sports bill after weeks of negotiations

The Southeastern Conference and the Big Ten — the country’s two most powerful college athletics conferences — agreed Friday night to support a sweeping Senate bill that would impose new federal rul...

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How the Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case Fell Apart

As government prosecutors examined the Reflecting Pool to build their case against a three-time Olympic canoeist accused of violently ripping the lining with his bare hands, everything fell apart. ...

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AIPAC helped knock him out of Congress. Now, he says, they’re losing.

Michigan Democratic Rep. Andy Levin holds a campaign rally on July 29, 2022 in Pontiac, Michigan. He lost his primary that year to Haley Stevens, who is now embroiled in a fierce Senate p...

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Shocking percentage of Democrats identify as 'democratic socialists' according to new poll: 'Toxic policies'

Approximately one-third of Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults now identify as "democratic socialists," a shocking CNN poll revealed, as once-fringe groups like the Democratic Socialists of Ame...

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Trump says anti-weaponization fund is ‘dead’

President Donald Trump said Friday that the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund for so-called victims of government abuse is “dead” – as much as he’d like it not to be.“It’s dead, but you know, I ...

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Iran-backed militant group's threat to Saudi energy hub could upend Trump's midterm message

The Yemeni militant Houthi group says it’s targeting vital Saudi Arabian energy facilities – a situation that threatens to harden high gasoline prices at a precarious moment for Republicans ahead o...

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New disclosures reveal $9M in corporate donations to Trump's Freedom 250

Chevron, United Airlines and defense contractor RTX contributed a total of $9 million to Freedom 250, the group President Donald Trump created to plan celebrations of the nation’s 250th birthday th...

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Pentagon ends leadership of Ukraine aid group as US distances from Europe

The Pentagon is giving up leadership of a U.S.-led NATO command in Germany that coordinates military aid to Ukraine, the latest sign of a broader American withdrawal from its closest allies.Another...

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