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Republicans rush to redraw maps after Supreme Court deals blow to VRA

The Supreme Court just triggered a second wave of the redistricting wars — and Republicans are on the march.The court blew a hole in the Voting Rights Act on Wednesday, triggering immediate calls f...

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Immigrants with temporary legal status could score slim win at Supreme Court

The Supreme Court may block the Trump administration's efforts to strip temporary legal status from more than a million immigrants.After about two hours of oral arguments Wednesday, it appeared pos...

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ICE Watchers Worry Democrats Are Trying to Co-Opt Their Movements For Votes

A seventeen-second video shows a dark-haired man rapping his pale knuckles gently below the tinted windows of a silver minivan. He stands back, shoving his hands into the pockets of his puffer coat...

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The Voting Rights Act is now a ‘dead letter’ after latest Supreme Court decision

A long-held goal of the conservative legal movement came to fruition on Wednesday: The gutting of the Voting Rights Act.The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, a case challenging ...

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The ‘Fight Club’ Rule on Gerrymandering

Florida Republicans have approved a new congressional map that could hand them as many as four House seats that Democrats currently hold. Their goal is straightforward and universally understood: T...

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Warsh, Trump's Fed chair pick, moves closer to confirmation

The Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday voted 13-11 to advance Kevin Warsh’s nomination to chair the Federal Reserve board, bringing him a step closer to replacing Jerome Powell atop the central ...

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The DeSantis Gerrymander Shows the Wisdom of Virginia Democrats

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis this week is pushing his state’s GOP-dominated legislature to adopt a gerrymandering scheme that could create four new Republican U.S. House districts in th...

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Once-rising Trump aide sidelined from Iran, Ukraine work

Josh Gruenbaum, a former adviser to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, will no longer work with the pair on Russia-Ukraine or Iran, according to two people familiar with the matter.On foreign policy ...

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Pentagon official: Iran war has cost $25B

The Iran war has already cost the Pentagon $25 billion, a top Defense Department official said Wednesday, providing the first official price tag for a U.S. military campaign with little public supp...

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Mamdani would ask King Charles to return crown jewel to India

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday he would urge King Charles III to return a massive crown jewel to India if the two were to speak privately — a comment marking the first...

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Who Is the Real Base of the Democratic Party?

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. David exami...

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White House meets with Chevron, oil traders amid Iran standoff

White House officials huddled with oil industry executives Tuesday to discuss steps to tamp down the surge in energy prices in the event the U.S. keeps its blockade of Iranian ships in place for mo...

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Mamdani to meet the monarchs

NEW YORK — The British royals were once welcomed to New York City with a ticker tape parade. This week, they’ll have to settle for a solemn appearance with Mayor Zohran Mamdani.King Charles III and...

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2 high-profile Texas Democrats try to keep their careers alive after GOP gerrymander

DALLAS — They were once rising Democratic stars who could shape the future of their party. Now, their political futures hinge on a bizarre circumstance of Republicans’ making.Thanks in large part t...

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This billionaire could be California’s next governor — and he wants to arrest Stephen Miller

Tom Steyer is trying to solidify himself as the most progressive candidate in the California gubernatorial race. The state will hold its primary election on June 2, where the top two fini...

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Government Shouldn't Be Important Enough To Fight Over

Government shouldn't be important enough to motivate people to kill others to gain control. Moreover, people willing to engage in violence t...

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Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander the Great—And Trump

Had President Trump, we wondered, possibly been reading or at least thumbing through—just maybe—the works of … Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel?Impossible. And yet. Hegel’s theory of “world-historical...

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Supreme Court limits Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court significantly narrowed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in a 6-3 ruling Wednesday, further eroding the impact of the landmark civil rights-era law.For decades, Section 2 —...

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How FIFA turned the World Cup into the biggest grift in sports

Gianni Infantino, president of the Federation International Football Association (FIFA), at the Semafor World Economy Summit during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Sp...

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Trump saw 2 kings, Charles saw something much different

King Charles III on Tuesday stood before a joint session of Congress and delivered among the most pointed comments any allied leader has given on American soil during President Donald Trump’s secon...

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DeSantis' Florida redistricting map advances — but draws GOP no votes, legal scrutiny

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature on Tuesday began quickly advancing new congressional maps that could deliver four more seats to the GOP. But legal questions still...

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