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New polling memo urges Senate Dems to ‘play hardball’ on ICE

Democrats should “play hardball” ahead of a looming partial government shutdown and use their “leverage to reform ICE,” according to a new polling memo circulating among Democratic senators Tuesday...

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Elon’s back: The tech mogul’s checkbook and platform are galvanizing the GOP

Just six months ago, most congressional Republicans kept their distance from Elon Musk after the tech mogul’s messy political breakup with President Donald Trump and his feverish attempt to kill th...

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The Crisis in Minnesota Signals a Rupture for Law Enforcement

The Trump administration and the Republican Party are currently scrambling to deal with the fallout after the unjustifiable killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis. Homeland Securit...

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Top Hunt aide charged taxpayers $44,000 in hotel expenses

The travel expenses of a Republican campaign manager in the crowded Texas Senate race have raised eyebrows for their seemingly exorbitant amount.James Kyrkanides, the campaign manager for Senate ca...

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RFK Jr. promised a revolution in psychedelic medicine. It hasn’t happened.

People who think psychedelic drugs are the key to treating intractable mental illness could not have been more psyched when Donald Trump named one of their own to lead the government’s health agenc...

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California super PAC debuts with $10M from Big Tech

SAN FRANCISCO — A new super PAC with millions of dollars from tech giants Google and Meta has launched to back candidates for the California Legislature.The initial money for the group, California ...

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Trump and Newsom are both tugging at water supplies. Trump is winning.

SACRAMENTO, California — President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom are so in sync on California water that they're in a race to capture as much of it as possible — even at each other’...

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Trump downplays changes in Minnesota amid uproar over shootings

President Donald Trump on Tuesday minimized the extent to which his administration plans to tone down its immigration operations in Minnesota amid outrage over the killing of two people by federal ...

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Trump asks federal court to hit pause on abortion pill case, citing ongoing study

The Trump administration on Tuesday asked a federal court to put on hold a lawsuit from Louisiana seeking sweeping national restrictions on abortion pills while the Food and Drug Administration rev...

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It Wasn’t Democrats Who Persuaded Trump to Change Course

The statements from congressional Republicans after Saturday’s shooting of Alex Pretti were relatively mild. Lawmakers said that they were “deeply troubled” or “disturbed” by the second killing of ...

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Meta blocks posts sharing database of ICE agents

Meta has stopped Facebook, Instagram and Threads users from sharing a database claiming to contain thousands of names and photos of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, citing privacy c...

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Trump keeps defending Noem. Allies see a warning sign.

Publicly, the Trump administration is standing behind Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, casting her as an effective secretary with a big job.Inside Trump’s orbit, President Donald Trump’s de...

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Newsom urges California law enforcement to investigate possible federal agent crimes

SACRAMENTO, California — Gavin Newsom called on California law enforcement agencies on Tuesday to exercise their “full authority” in investigating possible crimes involving federal agents amid a na...

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Trump in Iowa tries to shift the conversation back to the economy

President Donald Trump returned to Iowa on Tuesday to deliver the kind of speech his advisers have been pressing him to give — a sweeping economic victory lap, tailored to a farm-state audience and...

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Susan Collins’ spending bill — and her reelection — are under siege

Susan Collins is stuck in the middle of an ICE storm.The Maine Republican and Senate Appropriations Committee chair is working overtime to salvage a package of six funding bills hanging by a thread...

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RNC pushed Bovino’s false claims as talking points hours before his removal

The RNC distributed talking points highlighting Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino’s false statements about the killing of Alex Pretti just hours before he was sidelined by President Donald Trump ...

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Even Stephen Miller is jumping on CBP for the killing of Alex Pretti

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is distancing himself from the Department of Homeland Security amid widespread outrage over the killing of Alex Pretti by immigration agents in Minn...

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‘Systemic failures’ caused Washington midair crash, says NTSB chair

The fatal midair collision in Washington last year was the result of “deep, underlying, systemic failures” that aligned to cause the worst aviation disaster in more than two decades, the nation’s t...

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Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT

The interim head of the country’s cyber defense agency uploaded sensitive contracting documents into a public version of ChatGPT last summer, triggering multiple automated security warnings that ar...

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Virginia state court blocks Democrats’ redistricting push

A Virginia state court blocked Democrats’ plans to redistrict this year, a blow to the party’s hopes of redrawing the state’s congressional lines ahead of the midterms.Jack Hurley Jr., a judge on t...

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Minnesota’s chief judge, a veteran in conservative legal circles, takes on ICE

When Patrick Schiltz became chief of the federal district court in Minnesota, his plan was to be nearly invisible, a hidden guiding hand for a low-key courthouse."My hope is to be the Benjamin Harr...

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