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Northern Virginia schools at risk of losing funding over transgender bathroom policies

Five northern Virginia school districts are at risk of losing their federal funding after they rejected the terms of an agreement with the Education Department to resolve probes into their transgen...

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White House aims to fast-track key Federal Reserve pick

The White House is working over the August recess to build momentum for a key Federal Reserve nominee the administration wants in place next month.Stephen Miran, whom President Donald Trump tapped ...

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Trump bypasses the Senate — and the courts — to install loyal US attorneys

Around the country, President Donald Trump is circumventing the Senate to install top federal prosecutors, using loopholes to keep loyalists in place.In U.S. attorney’s offices in Los Angeles, Neva...

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Trump gives his ‘assurance’ for no US boots on the ground in Ukraine

President Donald Trump on Tuesday pledged that American troops would not be on the ground in Ukraine — but provided little other insight into the scale of U.S. security guarantees as he pushes to e...

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Poilievre’s back, but 5 more fights could define his future

OTTAWA — With a win in rural Alberta, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is returning to the House of Commons — the next step on his mission to become Canada's next prime minister.Poilievre didn'...

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Big Money Is Still Warping US Politics

Though the issue has been put on the back burner in recent years, the influence of big money is still wreaking havoc on US politics. Zohran Mamdani’s grassroots-powered, publicly funded campaign fo...

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Trump Energy secretary: ‘We’re going to get blamed’ for rising power prices — but they’re Democrats’ fault

DES MOINES, Iowa — Energy Secretary Chris Wright said he knows Republicans could suffer political pain for the electricity prices that are rising before next year’s midterm elections. But he hopes ...

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Trump floats air support for Ukraine as part of security guarantees

President Trump is floating providing U.S. pilots and warplanes as part of security guarantees for post-war Ukraine as he pushes for an end to Russia’s war against the country. Tru...

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White House eyes Budapest for peace talks with Zelenskyy and Putin

The White House is planning for a possible trilateral meeting between the U.S., Russian and Ukrainian presidents in the Hungarian capital of Budapest as the next step in negotiating an end to the y...

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MORNING GLORY: Can President Trump deliver a ceasefire or even a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine?

"To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge" is a saying attributed to Confucius, versions of which are also in the writings of Plato and probably every great thinker am...

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How to make clean energy progress under Trump in the states—blue and red alike

The second Trump administration is proving to be more disastrous for the climate and the clean energy economy than many had feared. Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act repealed mo...

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Trump adds firepower to National Guard presence in DC

The number of National Guard troops patrolling Washington, D.C., will more than double in the coming days after Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia in the past several day...

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Trump Accidentally Lets Slip Dark Truth About His Plot to Rig Midterms

On Monday, President Trump unleashed a tortured Truth Social rant that lied relentlessly about vote-by-mail and announced a forthcoming executive order that would end mail voting entirely. That’s n...

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Why Senate Republicans won’t scrap the ‘blue slip’

President Donald Trump last month tried to goad Sen. Chuck Grassley into ending the practice of giving deference to home-state senators in the judicial nominations process — a pressure campaign tha...

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The Existential Meets the Absurd in Latest Ukraine Talks

It’s hard enough to negotiate with an enemy you do not trust. But imagine not being able to trust your most critical ally, either.When President Donald Trump said Monday that he’d offer Ukraine “ve...

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Maine oyster farmer wants to upend Democratic politics with Senate bid

A little-known oyster farmer is looking to upend top Democrats’ plans in Maine.Democrat Graham Platner, the 40-year-old owner of Waukeag Neck Oyster Co. and an Iraq and Afghanistan War veteran, ann...

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Inside Trump world's reaction to the Zelenskyy reset

For Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Monday began with a diplomatic whirlwind. It ended with a great sigh of relief.Hours of meetings in Washington — Zelenskyy with President Donald Trump, ...

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Transcript: Trump Lets Slip Dark Truth About His Plot to Rig Midterms

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 19 episode of theDaily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presente...

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Trump offers assurance of no US boots on the ground in Ukraine

President Trump on Tuesday offered his assurances that U.S. boots would not be on the ground to defend the Ukraine-Russia border as part of any security assurances for Kyiv to end the war...

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Air Force chief of staff to retire after only two years in role

The Air Force’s chief of staff, Gen. David Allvin, will retire this November after serving only two years of his four-year term, the service has announced, making him the latest senior mi...

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Looming Medicaid cuts could hurt Black children, advocates warn

Advocates are warning the Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law will disproportionately harm Black women and children who depend on the program, worsening already disparate...

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