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What extremism looks like to Sean Hannity and his party
The Fox News host offered a litany of extremist transgressions from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — such as having supported affirmative action.
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Election 2024 latest news: Biden heading west on fundraising swing; Trump back in court
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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Noncitizen voting is rare. Republicans are focusing on it anyway.
GOP leaders at the state and federal level are pushing measures to ban noncitizen voting even though it is already illegal in nearly all cases.
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As co-rulers of the House, the Democratic majority-in-waiting may have already arrived
In a House with a single-vote GOP majority, many argue that Democrats are no longer just the majority-in-waiting — but that they have already arrived. Lawmakers of both parties, including Republicans with a distinct bitterness, say that Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries doesn’t just sit atop his party but also the entire House.
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Barron Trump makes political debut as Florida delegate for GOP convention
Donald Trump’s son Barron, 18 and about to graduate high school, was named as a delegate at large for the GOP national convention in Milwaukee.
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Green Party alleges it’s the target of mischief in Arizona Senate race
Democrats and Republicans appear to be meddling in Arizona’s third-party primary in order to boost their candidates’ chances in a hotly contested Senate race this November.
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What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign
Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy, and other initiatives opposed by the fossil fuel industry.
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Greene booed as Republicans turn on her over bid to oust Speaker Johnson
The Georgia lawmaker’s bid to remove the speaker angers GOP colleagues who have expressed a growing distaste for her antics during her three years in Congress.
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Judge keeps tying Trump to possible intimidation
Juan Merchan has cited at least three instances of Trump’s potentially intimidating a witness or jurors. But experts say it’s hard to police.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) officially filed her motion Monday to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as leader of the House, starting a two-day clock for lawmakers to decide his fate.
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Pete McCloskey, GOP congressman who called for Nixon’s resignation, dies at 96
A decorated Marine, he led dissent against the Vietnam War and called for President Richard M. Nixon’s impeachment over his conduct of the war.
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Stormy Daniels takes the stand (and Trump curses)
This week in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president, Stormy Daniels gave explicit and disturbing testimony and sparked an angry reaction from Donald Trump.
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The 2020-was-stolen crew is here to stoke fears of noncitizen voters
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) led a news conference featuring key Trump allies in which he tried to amplify baseless warnings about non-citizen voters.
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Trump’s classified documents trial blown apart by Cannon
Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee in charge of the Florida prosecution, has repeatedly given Trump’s team exactly what it wants. His fans have noticed.
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Biden and Trump’s day of contrasts marks a surreal campaign
Biden speaks at a Holocaust event at the U.S. Capitol while Trump sits through a day of court testimony about his alleged affair.
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U.S. delays arms shipments to Israel amid Rafah tensions
The U.S. is delaying the sale of at least two arms shipments to Israel amid mounting concern about the country’s plan to expand its military operation in Rafah.
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Stormy Daniels testifies about alleged sexual encounter with Trump
Stormy Daniels, the adult-film actress at the center of Donald Trump’s hush money trial, testified about a sexual encounter she says she had with him.
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The legal — and political — stakes of Stormy Daniels on the stand
The adult-film actress provided the most significant counterpoint to date to Trump’s consistent denials of a 2006 tryst. Will it matter?
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Mike Johnson wants to continue as House speaker, despite the hurdles
Speaker Mike Johnson intends to continue leading House Republicans after the 2024 election, a bold declaration that defies many GOP lawmakers displeased with his leadership who may not support any future bid for him to remain as speaker.
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Judge indefinitely delays Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida
U.S. Judge Aileen M. Cannon said there are too many pre-trial issues to address to set a new trial date now.
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Stormy Daniels testifies that her obviously false denial was false
In early 2018, Daniels released a carefully worded statement denying an “affair” with Trump. Soon after its release and again Tuesday under oath, she said that the claims she made in that statement were false.
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Why Stormy Daniels’s account of sex with Trump may be problematic, and other takeaways
Key takeaways from day 13 of Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial.
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No, posting is not better political activism than talking to voters
It’s easier, sure. But targeted outreach bears dividends that social media can’t.
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‘The people call Stormy Daniels’: Trump faces woman at center of hush money case
The courtroom confrontation Tuesday was the first face-to-face encounter between Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump in years.
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Trump’s bad evidence of his alleged legal persecution
Republicans have broadly adopted Trump’s claims of political targeting and unfairness — even as he keeps undermining them with ridiculous supposed evidence.
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Six years later, 1,400 children remain separated from their families
More than 3,200 children pulled away from their families at the border have been reunified with them.
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TikTok files court challenge to U.S. law that could lead to ban
The filing ignites a high-stakes court battle in Washington that could prove to be an existential fight for one of the world’s most popular apps.
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