Politics: United States

CBS News - Politics (13 minutes ago)

Republican lawmakers in Texas have opened a new front in their efforts to crack down on abortion, this time with a bill that would enable lawsuits targeting the mailing of pills.

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CBS News - Politics (13 minutes ago)

Missed the second half of the show? The latest on...Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, the twice-elected Democratic governor of the red state of Kansas, praised Vice President Kamala Harris' selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, calling him a "huge asset” to the ticket, In a week with high turbulence in in the U.S. economy and jitters...

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CBS News - Politics (13 minutes ago)

The midterms "will determine whether our democracy still holds on," NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement to CBS News.

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CBS News - Politics (13 minutes ago)

A program that pays court-appointed private lawyers is facing a financial crisis, since it ran out of money in early July.

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CBS News - Politics (13 minutes ago)

President Trump has extended a temporary truce in the U.S.-China trade war, preventing tariffs on China from leaping to at least 80%.

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CBS News - Politics (13 minutes ago)

President Trump announced E.J. Antoni as his nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Monday, after he fired the former commissioner and blamed her for a weaker-than-expected jobs report.

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New York Times - Politics (19 minutes ago)

President Trump signed an executive order that offered a reprieve from the threat of escalating tariffs and export controls that have rocked the global economy.

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New York Times - Politics (19 minutes ago)

The president has threatened more tariffs on Russia and its trading partners and has imposed harsh ones on India and Brazil to try to sway matters of war and politics.

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New York Times - Politics (19 minutes ago)

A group that represents students sued the military academies over their consideration of race in admissions but dropped its case after the Trump administration rejected diversity initiatives.

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New York Times - Politics (19 minutes ago)

President Trump set a low bar for his summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, saying he was ready to walk away if no deal was forthcoming.

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New York Times - Politics (19 minutes ago)

The Trump administration had been withholding $239 million in congressionally appropriated funding from the National Endowment for Democracy when the group sued in March.

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New York Times - Politics (19 minutes ago)

Trump says he will clear out Washington's homeless population but offers few details.

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Raw Story - Politics (20 minutes ago)

President Donald Trump endorsed a candidate for governor of Georgia on Monday who is currently fighting a lawsuit over how he is financing his campaign. "As your next Governor, Burt Jones will fight hard to Grow the Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Champion American Energy DOMINANCE, Continue to Secure our now Secure...

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Raw Story - Politics (20 minutes ago)

Congressional Democrats and policy experts blasted U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers' recently signed megabill on Monday in response to a new nonpartisan analysis about its varied impacts on American households.U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), House Budget Committee Ranking Member Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Senate...

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Raw Story - Politics (20 minutes ago)

Despite all of tech billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to make his AI chatbot on X give right-wing approved answers, it once again went after President Donald Trump this week, The Daily Beast reported.Grok's response came about in response to questioning about Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard to take over the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan...

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CBS News - Politics (An hour ago)

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said President Trump will be "testing" Russian President Vladimir Putin in their meeting set for Friday as world leaders push for a ceasefire deal in Russia's war with Ukraine.

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Yahoo News - Politics (An hour ago)

The political — and historical — context of Trump's D.C. crackdown: From the Politics Desk

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Yahoo News - Politics (An hour ago)

Trump praises Intel's CEO, days after calling for him to resign

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Yahoo News - Politics (An hour ago)

Trump nominates conservative economist to head agency that compiles jobs, inflation data

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New York Times - Politics (An hour ago)

The numbers reflect the significant effort the Trump administration has put into its escalating immigration crackdown.

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New York Times - Politics (An hour ago)

President Trump has long railed about crime in blue cities. Now he's effectively put himself in charge of policing one of them.

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The Washington Post - Politics (An hour ago)

Leaked draft reports on South Africa and Brazil lean into President Donald Trump's contested claims, fueling disputes at the State Department.

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The Washington Post - Politics (An hour ago)

Get the latest news on President Donald Trump's second term and the Republican-led Congress.

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Raw Story - Politics (An hour ago)

President Donald Trump was dealt a court loss Monday afternoon from a federal judge he appointed during his first term.Trump nominated Dabney Friedrich as a United States district judge in 2017 and she was confirmed in November of that year. On Monday, that decision came back to bite him, as Friedrich ruled the Trump administration illegally...

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Raw Story - Politics (An hour ago)

President Donald Trump's federal takeover of the Washington, D.C. police is just the beginning of something much darker, University of Maryland political science professor Dr. Niambi Carter told MSNBC's Jason Johnson on Monday evening."When Trump sent in federal troops and everything else like that, you know, sending the Marines to try and take...

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Raw Story - Politics (An hour ago)

A prominent Democrat gave Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott a brutal civics lesson on Monday. Abbott has claimed that Texas Democrats who broke quorum during a special session have violated their constitutional duty and called for their removal from office. He further insulted the Democrats on Monday afternoon during "The Lead with Jake Tapper" by...

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Raw Story - Politics (An hour ago)

Critics bemoaned President Donald Trump's decision to nominate a top Heritage Foundation economist as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Trump fired Erika McEntarfer from the role earlier this month after she published a disappointing July jobs report showing a significant economic slowdown and downward revisions to previous months' job...

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Raw Story - Politics (An hour ago)

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) issued a fiery takedown of the GOP's scheme to rig the 2026 primary elections. Crockett joined "The Lead with Jake Tapper" on Monday afternoon after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appeared on the show. Crockett responded to many of the claims Abbott made, including about whether Texas's efforts to redraw its electoral map are...

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National Public Radio - Politics (An hour ago)

President Trump plans to tap an economist from the conservative Heritage Foundation to oversee the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He fired the previous leader after a disappointing jobs report.

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New York Times - Politics (2 hours ago)

Millions of people could lose access to federal food aid or Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office's latest analysis of President Trump's marquee legislation.

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Raw Story - Politics (2 hours ago)

Harvard University is close to a deal with President Donald Trump after he threatened to withdraw funding for medical research from the Ivy League school unless it met his demands. New York Times reporter Mike Schmidt said on X that the truce would ultimately cost Harvard $500 million. Writing on Monday, he said that the money would be earmarked...

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Raw Story - Politics (2 hours ago)

A CNN host confronted Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over his efforts to help the GOP fix the 2026 midterm election. Jake Tapper, host of "The Lead," spoke with Abbott about the state's redistricting efforts and Abbott's threats to remove Democrats who broke quorum from their elected seats. Abbott accused the Democrats of "failing to fulfill...

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Raw Story - Politics (2 hours ago)

President Donald Trump's trade policies are rapidly becoming a nightmare for the coffee industry, Todd Carmichael, co-founder of the coffee retailer La Colombe, warned in The Washington Post on Monday.Coffee already began to surge in price from practically the moment Trump took office, in anticipation of his tariff threats. But things are starting...

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Raw Story - Politics (2 hours ago)

The Zuckerbergs were forced to close a private school they opened during the pandemic after neighbors complained, according to a new report. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla, a pediatrician, opened what the San Francisco Chronicle described as a "pandemic pod" for their children and the children of their friends after schools closed...

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Raw Story - Politics (2 hours ago)

A top former Trump White House national security official is warning that the president's federalization of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police and deployment of the National Guard and other federal agents to the nation's capital is a "major step” toward martial law.Olivia Troye is a Republican who worked at the National Counterterrorism...

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Yahoo News - Politics (3 hours ago)

Trump's moves toward taking over Washington are unprecedented. Here's what the law says

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Raw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)

Judge Paul Englemeyer issued a blistering ruling against President Donald Trump's administration on Monday, but explained that he refused to become the patsy. Englemeyer turned down the demand to release the grand jury information around Jeffrey Epstein's case. He wrote that there was essentially nothing new in the information, and the Justice...

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Raw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) fired back at Fox News host Mark Levin after he called her a "lunatic" on social media.During a Monday interview on Real America's Voice, Greene responded to Levin's recent suggestion that she deserved to go to prison after the two disagreed about U.S. policy on Israel."I did call it a genocide in Gaza," Greene...

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Raw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)

A national security expert noted on Monday that there are a few important things President Donald Trump hasn't said ahead of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. David Sanger, CNN national security analyst, said on "The Arena" with anchor Kasie Hunt that Trump has thus far said Ukraine may need to give up some of its land to end the...

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Raw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)

President Donald Trump was slammed by The Washington Post editorial board on Monday afternoon over his new deal that orders chipmaker Nvidia to pay 15 percent of its revenue from exports to China."The deal that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hammered out with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office Wednesday might be good for his shareholders," wrote...

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Raw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)

A Texas woman accused a U.S. Marine of spiking her hot chocolate with at least 10 abortion pills, causing the loss of her pregnancy, and local police said they aren't investigating the case.According to NBC News, Liana Davis accused Christopher Cooprider of secretly dissolving nearly a dozen abortion pills into hot cocoa he prepared for her on...

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New York Times - Politics (3 hours ago)

Trump's homicide-rate chart has been making the rounds on right-wing social media.

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New York Times - Politics (3 hours ago)

The National Guard troops who will move into Washington, D.C., will not perform law enforcement tasks but may be able to detain people temporarily, officials said.

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New York Times - Politics (3 hours ago)

Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, seemed resigned to President Trump's announced takeover of local police, telling reporters that the city's home rule charter gave him the right to do so.

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New York Times - Politics (3 hours ago)

President Trump is deploying the National Guard to the streets of an American city for the second time this year, but the Guard has been used by other leaders, too.

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National Public Radio - Politics (3 hours ago)

Some European leaders say that Ukraine must be included in any talks with Russia over ending the war.

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CBS News - Politics (3 hours ago)

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is touring the country to promote state-led education plans.

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National Public Radio - Politics (4 hours ago)

President Trump took questions from reporters about his plans to boost federal law enforcement in D.C. — and his plan to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

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National Public Radio - Politics (4 hours ago)

President Trump says he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to end his war on Ukraine, but he will use a Friday summit to "feel out" his counterpart.

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Yahoo News - Politics (4 hours ago)

FACT FOCUS: Trump exaggerates, misstates facts on Washington crime

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Yahoo News - Politics (4 hours ago)

Republicans step up pressure on Democratic lawmakers to return to Texas

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Raw Story - Politics (4 hours ago)

President Donald Trump has elevated self-dealing to an unprecedented level during his presidency, according to a new deep dive by David Kirkpatrick in The New Yorker published on Monday. And experts are alarmed by his apparent lack of concern for how this appears to the public.Krikpatrick estimated Trump has raked in $3.4 billion in presidential...

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Raw Story - Politics (4 hours ago)

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell grew angry and shouted at President Donald Trump and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the continued use of voting machines in the U.S. elections.On the Monday episode of his Lindell TV program, the pillow executive claimed that Facebook censored a post linking to his broadcast."Here's what I'm going to announce right now,"...

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New York Times - Politics (4 hours ago)

The president has railed against crime in urban, largely liberal cities for decades, but Monday's announcement was an extraordinary exertion of federal power over an American city.

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New York Times - Politics (4 hours ago)

A potential $500 million settlement would end a monthslong battle that pitted the nation's wealthiest school against the Trump administration's extraordinary crackdown on higher education.

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Raw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)

The U.S. House Oversight Committee should subpoena Steve Bannon for testimony about extensive interviews with Jeffrey Epstein in which both men made clear "they both thought that [Donald] Trump was a moron, and neither could ultimately believe that Trump had become president of the United States,” Trump biographer Michael Wolff said.Wolff was...

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Raw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)

It's happening.This morning, President Donald Trump took the largest step since he took office to test the limits of his power. And he did it in a way calculated not to alarm most Americans.Trump announced that he was essentially supplanting the D.C. police with the National Guard and — most inappropriately — FBI agents to address what he...

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Raw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)

Dozens of federal officers came running when a moped and a car were in a minor traffic accident on Sunday night in Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump deployed federal agents and National Guard soldiers to Washington to fix what he claims is a crime wave across the city. The move followed an attack on one of Trump's staffers, Edward Coristine,...

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Raw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)

The artificial intelligence chatbot created for Elon Musk's social media site X was briefly suspended Monday afternoon.Musk has tweaked the functionality after he decided his chatbot was too "woke," resulting in the bot spewing antisemitic comments and hate speech. At one point, Grok called itself "MechaHitler." It claimed the name was a character...

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Raw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)

New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman attacked President Donald Trump after twisting data to make himself look better. In a Monday column for his Substack, Krugman looked at some of the charts that his ally Stephen Moore brought to the Oval Office to verify some of his claims about the economy. "What's wrong with this picture?" he...

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Yahoo News - Politics (5 hours ago)

Trump's order to deploy troops in DC is his latest use of the National Guard in cities

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Yahoo News - Politics (5 hours ago)

Trump's tax law will mostly benefit the rich, while leaving poorer Americans with less, CBO says

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The Washington Post - Politics (5 hours ago)

The standoff — with tentacles in Illinois, California and elsewhere — has no clear end.

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Yahoo News - Politics (6 hours ago)

South Carolina lawmaker awaiting trial on child sex abuse material charges resigns from office

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Raw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)

President Donald Trump decided that he would send National Guard soldiers to Washington, D.C., to deal with what he claimed was a serious crime problem. A legal reporter for Politico walked through the various bizarre laws in place that make the District a unique entity when it comes to its relationship with the federal government. Washington,...

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Raw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)

Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R) revealed that he had established a "tip line" to report Democrats who broke quorum and prevented Republicans from wiping out five U.S. House seats held by the minority party.On Monday, Burrows explained that he was again unable to establish a quorum because of the missing Democrats."The Department of Public...

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Raw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)

Over his nearly seven months as president, the administration of President Donald Trump has taken a sledgehammer to regulations on cryptocurrency. A new report sheds further light on the reasons why.The president may be profiting far more from his "rapidly-growing crypto empire" than was previously known and has used it to dramatically increase his...

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New York Times - Politics (6 hours ago)

The market for the clean-burning fuel remains nascent, costs are rising, and Congress just put a lucrative tax credit out of reach for many companies.

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New York Times - Politics (6 hours ago)

A three-day trial opened Monday in state officials' challenge of the legality of the deployment, which followed protests over immigration raids.

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New York Times - Politics (7 hours ago)

Ankit Jain, the shadow Senator for the District of Columbia, said President Trump should focus on adding judges, not policing.

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New York Times - Politics (7 hours ago)

The demonstrators said the president's actions were the latest blow to a city that has been among the hardest hit by his executive orders and policies.

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Raw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)

Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) faced jeers and heckling at a town hall event over his support for President Donald Trump and the One Big Beautiful Bill.LaMalfa began the event on Monday by noting that one member of the audience had insulted President Donald Trump by calling him "the big orange man.""No fascism in America!" a person in the crowd yelled....

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Raw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)

Judge Paul A. Engelmayer called out President Donald Trump's administration for what he called a "disingenuous" effort to unseal the grand jury documents around Jeffrey Epstein. Legal analysts were quick to point out the harshness of the judge's language. "Judge UNLOADS on Trump DOJ Maxwell grand jury gambit," described Adam Klasfeld, who runs "All...

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National Public Radio - Politics (7 hours ago)

Trump campaigned on helping American workers through his immigration policies. Now that he's revoked work authorization for thousands of immigrants, those left behind are feeling taxed by their absence.

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Raw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)

President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard onto the streets of Washington, D.C. after describing a crime-ridden nightmare he says has enveloped the city — despite it actually experiencing one of its lowest years of violent crime in recent years.Those who have seen the data were quick to point out how much safer the city has become.One of...

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Raw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)

Following Attorney General Pam Bondi's contribution to Donald Trump's rambling press conference on Monday, MSNBC reporter Jonathan Allen — a lifelong resident of Washington D.C. — expressed dismay and disgust with comments she made about his hometown.With host Anna Cabrera noting that Trump is calling in the National Guard to take over the...

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Raw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)

Try as they might, Republican members of Congress are finding that Donald Trump's relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is hanging like a dark cloud over them as they return to their districts during their summer break.Despite an attempt by Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) to downplay the chaos that is engulfing both the White House and...

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Raw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)

MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk encouraged President Donald Trump to deploy tanks and Marines onto the streets of Washington, D.C.After Trump announced that he was federalizing the D.C. police force and activating National Guard troops to address crime, Kirk applauded the move on his Monday podcast."President Donald Trump has always been a person very...

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Raw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)

MSNBC's White House briefing room camera caught a reporter rolling his eyes after Donald Trump attempted to dismiss concerns about his upcoming negotiations with Vladimir Putin Monday.Late in the long press conference where the president announced his intention to militarize the streets of Washington, D.C. to put down a non-existent crime wave,...

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New York Times - Politics (8 hours ago)

District residents say they feel safe, but occasionally unnerved.

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CBS News - Politics (8 hours ago)

This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova joins to discuss President Trump's announcement that he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15, as he continues to push for a ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte also joins to break down...

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Yahoo News - Politics (9 hours ago)

Pennsylvania House makes last-ditch effort to stave off cuts at Philadelphia's public transit agency

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Yahoo News - Politics (9 hours ago)

Ousted FDA vaccine chief Vinay Prasad is returning to the agency

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Yahoo News - Politics (9 hours ago)

Now Trump is tariffing American companies, too

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Raw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)

President Donald Trump vowed to eradicate "slums" as part of his takeover of Washington, D.C.During a Monday press conference, Trump announced that he was placing the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia under federal control and threatened to deploy troops,"We're not going to let it happen," Trump said before pointing out...

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Raw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)

No sooner did Donald Trump begin addressing the nation about federalizing the D.C. Police Department and putting National Guard on the streets despite crime being down, MSNBC posted a bright red graphic next to him that showed he was making up his numbers.Across the dial, CNN did exactly the same with a graph of the city's murder rate showing a...

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Raw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)

U.S. President Donald Trump is planning to send up to 1,000 members of the National Guard to patrol the streets of Washington, D.C. this week in a move that critics are warning is another step toward authoritarian rule.In a post on his Truth Social page on Monday morning — followed by a press conference — Trump framed the decision to deploy the...

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Raw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)

Vice President JD Vance weighed in on the ongoing drama over the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files — and it could reveal a brewing power struggle over the future of MAGA, wrote Bill Kristol, Andrew Egger and Jim Swift for The Bulwark.The saga has become an ongoing headache for the Trump administration, as his own base — which peddled...

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CBS News - Politics (10 hours ago)

President Trump is preparing to take another swing at a deal with President Putin during a high-stakes summit next Friday in Anchorage, Alaska. The president said Ukraine will have to give up some territory if there is going to be a ceasefire. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the country will never give up land. Willie James Inman has the...

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CBS News - Politics (10 hours ago)

The United Nations Security Council is set to hold a rare Sunday meeting to discuss Israel's plan to intensify its 22-month war with Hamas by taking control of Gaza City. CBS News' Debora Patta reports on the conflict and the mounting humanitarian crisis.

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Yahoo News - Politics (10 hours ago)

Trump to take over D.C. police and deploy the National Guard in effort to fight crime in the nation's capital

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Yahoo News - Politics (10 hours ago)

A US senator from Colombia emerges as a Trump link for Latin America's conservatives

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Yahoo News - Politics (10 hours ago)

Texas bill would allow lawsuits over shipping abortion pills

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Raw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)

U.S. District Court Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, appointed by former President Barack Obama, denied an effort by President Donald Trump's Justice Department to release secret grand jury materials related to Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. The move to release the grand jury materials came after Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI...

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Raw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)

Embattled Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) attempted to make himself look good to President Donald Trump on Monday amid polls showing mortal danger for him in the upcoming primary — but it didn't work out well for him.Cornyn is facing a well-funded and high-profile challenge by state Attorney General Ken Paxton, and the two have been at each other's...

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Raw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)

Before Donald Trump even hit the stage in the White House briefing room to detail his plans to reportedly militarize the streets of Washington, D.C. due to a crime wave, MSNBC's Ken. Dilanian undercut the president.With Trump late as usual, host Anna Cabrera asked Dilanian, "Talk about D.C.'s crime being down when you compare year to year?...

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Raw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)

There's a word for what happened to Lenexa City Council member Melanie Arroyo, and it begins with an "r” and ends with "ism.”Go ahead. Take a wild guess.Arroyo was forced to prove her citizenship to city police after someone left a voicemail with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. We subsequently learned that the KBI deleted the message after...

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CBS News - Politics (11 hours ago)

Adams, who served as surgeon general during the first Trump administration, said Kennedy's assertions about the efficacy of mRNA vaccines are "simply not true."

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CBS News - Politics (11 hours ago)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is thanking European leaders for backing his push to join this week's Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, insisting an end to the war must be fair. Willie James Inman has more from the White House.

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CBS News - Politics (11 hours ago)

Sen. Ruben Gallego, one of several Democrats possibly thinking ahead to the next White House race, made the trip from Arizona to work the grill at the Iowa State Fair this weekend. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe met him there.

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New York Times - Politics (11 hours ago)

Here's the latest.

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Yahoo News - Politics (11 hours ago)

Europe says a US-Russia summit this week cannot decide on Ukraine land swaps

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National Public Radio - Politics (11 hours ago)

President Trump called for the release of the grand jury transcripts after growing pressure to divulge more information about Jeffrey Epstein's case, but the judge on the case said there is nothing new to release.

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Raw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)

Hours before Donald Trump is expected to hold a press conference to address what he believes is a crime wave occurring in the nation's capital, he took to Truth Social to paint a portrait of a city under siege that does not match crime reports.The president has been promoting Monday's press availability where he will reportedly state he is...

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Raw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)

TRAVERSE CITY – U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers was scheduled as one of the keynote speakers at a glitzy Republican dinner on Friday to honor the late state Sen. George McManus of Traverse City, but after an hour of shaking hands and greeting party fixtures, Rogers left early — and never addressed the crowd.His campaign for the U.S. Senate...

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Raw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)

Vice President J.D. Vance's marriage appears to be falling apart behind the scenes, Amanda Marcotte wrote for Salon — and the two barely seem to be capable of hiding how much they "loathe each other" at this point.The tension between the vice president and Usha Vance, who has already been dispatched for some of President Donald Trump's...

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Raw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)

Reports that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is already busy fashioning another megabill after lawmakers survived a bruising battle to hand Donald Trump the one he wanted just weeks ago is not thrilling Senate Republicans.According to Politico, Johnson and his inner circle want to push through "one more domestic policy package" that they believe...

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CBS News - Politics (12 hours ago)

On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova and Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly join Margaret Brennan.

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New York Times - Politics (12 hours ago)

The deployment is part of President Trump's crackdown on street crime in the city.

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Raw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)

President Donald Trump bragged about his supposedly "aced" cognitive test Monday as pressure built in anticipation of an extremely high-stakes meeting with Russia's president.The president also hurled insults at female congresswomen as he posted on Truth Social about his level of intelligence.Particular ire was directed at Reps. Jasmine Crockett...

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Raw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)

Many of you responded to my "What You Can Do Now” post last Thursday with additional initiatives and ideas.Here's a particularly important one.As you're painfully aware, Trump's ICE is rapidly morphing into a national police-state — targeting legal immigrants as well as the undocumented, some of them awaiting their asylum hearings, others...

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Raw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)

President Donald Trump unleashed an out-of-the-blue attack on the woman who led two efforts to impeach him.Trump made a direct accusation of insider trading against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her husband in a Truth Social post over the weekend — and it showed he is clearly still smarting from her impeachment efforts.Trump was...

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New York Times - Politics (13 hours ago)

The deployment is part of President Trump's crackdown on street crime in the city.

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Raw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)

Days before Donald Trump is expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, there are more questions than answers as the American president floats multiple proposals — and his chief diplomat appears to be in over his head, experts said Monday.On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," international relations experts David Ignatius and Richard...

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Raw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)

Progressive podcast host Sam Seder mocked a MAGA darling on Sunday after she claimed Jewish students were choosing to attend schools in the Deep South over Ivy League schools in the northeast.Tomi Lahren made the comments on the right-wing "PBD Podcast," hosted by Patrick Bet-David. Lahren claimed that Jewish students were starting to enroll at...

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Raw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)

After midnight Monday — and seemingly out of nowhere — Donald Trump lashed out at the New York Times with a claim the venerable paper should be sued by people who chose to stay out of the stock market since 2016 because of the newspaper — and a former columnist's influence.The president began by focusing his ire on Nobel Prize-winning...

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Raw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)

Seven months into his second presidency, Donald Trump is bulldozing through American institutions with a focused drive towards achieving his agenda.But he's making gambles that are "huge and risky," and are threatening to leave him and his MAGA movement in extremely "perilous" territory, a CNN analyst warned Monday.The twice-impeached ex-president...

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The Washington Post - Politics (14 hours ago)

President Donald Trump, who recently threatened Russia with sanctions over its war in Ukraine, is set to meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska next week.

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The Washington Post - Politics (14 hours ago)

The Washington Post's essential guide to power and influence in D.C. In today's edition: The first Democrat in Congress to call on Biden to step down gets his own inter-generational challenge.

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CBS News - Politics (15 hours ago)

Missed the second half of the show? Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales and former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams join Margaret Brennan.

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New York Times - Politics (15 hours ago)

A Republican proposal to add five Republican congressional seats in Texas imperils Democrats' midterm prospects.

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New York Times - Politics (15 hours ago)

May Mailman is credited as an animating force behind a strategy that has intimidated independent institutions and undercut years of medical and scientific research.

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New York Times - Politics (15 hours ago)

Immigrant aid organizations in Central Texas worry that, amid an immigration crackdown, undocumented victims of the deadly floods are not receiving assistance.

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New York Times - Politics (15 hours ago)

New Hampshire is backing away from a promise to pay victims hundreds of millions of dollars. Other states are also rethinking payouts to those harmed under their care.

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Raw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)

If anyone deserves to hang by the neck until dead, it's the person who assassinated a Democratic lawmaker, murdered her spouse and shot two more people.Unfortunately, he likely won't. This horrific crime was committed in Minnesota, which abolished capital punishment in 1911 after a botched hanging.But state and federal prosecutors are looking at...

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National Public Radio - Politics (16 hours ago)

President Trump's new tariffs are pouring in. But it's still only a fraction of overall government revenues — and falls short of new spending in the recent Republican megabill.

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New York Times - Politics (16 hours ago)

In a neighborhood that appeals to people from both the right and the left, residents strive for a finely tuned state of political harmony.

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The Washington Post - Politics (17 hours ago)

Trump made no mention of whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would be attending.

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National Public Radio - Politics (18 hours ago)

Jubilee has become one of the go-to open forums for debate in the digital age. Videos like: "Flat Earthers vs Scientists," "1 Conservative vs. 20 Feminists," and, "What Makes a Real Man?" are just some of the few topics they cover. It's what caused The Atlantic staff writer Spencer Kornhaber to write his article, "Jubilee is Like...

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CBS News - Politics (18 hours ago)

This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova joins to discuss President Trump's announcement that he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15, as he continues to push for a ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte also joins to break down...

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CBS News - Politics (18 hours ago)

This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Weijia Jiang speaks with Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi of New York and the director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, in the aftermath of President Trump's newly signed "big, beautiful bill." Meanwhile, search and rescue operations are ongoing in central Texas after devastating flash...

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Yahoo News - Politics (20 hours ago)

Texas Legislature to take another swing at redistricting vote as Democrats extend their walkout

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Yahoo News - Politics (20 hours ago)

Trump is promising new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington

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Raw Story - Politics (22 hours ago)

Reports indicate President Donald Trump is interviewing candidates for the vacant Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner position, and analysts admonished one potential candidate on Sunday. The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump is considering hiring the Heritage Foundation's chief economist, E.J. Antoni, to lead the BLS. The report indicates...

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New York Times - Politics (23 hours ago)

The vice president said the White House was trying to determine "when these three leaders could sit down and discuss an end to this conflict.”

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CBS News - Politics (23 hours ago)

It would be the first face-to-face meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and an American leader since former President Joe Biden met with Putin in June 2021.

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Raw Story - Politics (23 hours ago)

President Donald Trump has created a new requirement for people to become members of the Republican Party, and those expectations appear to have some staying power, according to one analyst. Marc Elias, lawyer and founder of Democracy Docket, said in a YouTube video on Sunday that Trump and his MAGA party now require Republican Party members to be...

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Raw Story - Politics (23 hours ago)

The leader of the Texas Democrats chided the state's MAGA-aligned governor on Sunday. Texas state Democratic Rep. Gene Wu, who chairs the Texas House Democratic Caucus, talked about the redistricting fight occurring in Texas on MSNBC's "The Weekend: Primetime." He described the efforts as a way to distract from much more substantive conversations...

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Yahoo News - Politics (A day ago)

White House considers a Zelenskyy invite, and Netanyahu remains defiant over Gaza: Weekend Rundown

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New York Times - Politics (A day ago)

A Republican proposal to add five Republican congressional seats in Texas imperils Democrats' midterm prospects.

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New York Times - Politics (A day ago)

The move is part of President Trump's pledge to crack down on street crime in the nation's capital.

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Raw Story - Politics (A day ago)

The worst crimes of Donald Trump and dangers to America from the unstable, monomaniacal, lying outlaw in the White House have yet to come. He is not satisfied with tearing apart our country's social safety net for tens of millions of Americans (e.g., Medicaid and food program cuts); wrecking our scientific/medical systems, including warning people...

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Raw Story - Politics (A day ago)

President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week could have major geopolitical implications, according to one analyst. Trump and Putin plan to meet in Alaska to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine. Ahead of the meeting, Putin announced he wanted control over a wide swath of eastern Ukraine, including land his...

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Raw Story - Politics (A day ago)

An MSNBC host was floored on Sunday by the GOP's lack of reaction to President Donald Trump's latest scandal. Last week, Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred from a maximum security prison in Florida to a minimum security prison in a residential part of Texas. That's despite Maxwell serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking, a charge that...

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Raw Story - Politics (A day ago)

President Donald Trump seems infatuated with a part of America's past that never existed, according to a new column. Journalist Molly Jong-Fast argued in a recent essay for The New York Times that Trump world appears to be trying to create America's second Gilded Age. The Gilded Age refers to the period between the 1870s and 1890s, when many...

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Raw Story - Politics (A day ago)

A former Republican lawmaker expressed shock at some of President Donald Trump's efforts to control economic data in the United States. Trump's move to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, after she published a jobs report showing almost no growth during Trump's first quarter as president, set off alarm bells for...

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The Washington Post - Politics (A day ago)

He was credited with restoring trust to the two sullied agencies after the domestic-spying and Iran-contra scandals of the 1970s and '80s.

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The Washington Post - Politics (A day ago)

White House officials have suggested they are open to a meeting between President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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New York Times - Politics (A day ago)

Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona won his seat last year by outperforming national Democrats among Hispanic voters and men. He wants the party to listen to his message as it regroups.

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Raw Story - Politics (A day ago)

Fox News contributor Ted Williams, a former member of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, challenged President Donald Trump ahead of a possible move to federalize law enforcement in the district.In a post to Truth Social on Sunday, Trump said that homeless people would have to move "far" away from the nation's capital and that...

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CBS News - Politics (A day ago)

President Trump is hinting at further federal police action in D.C., teasing a press conference on Monday aimed at "ending the Crime, Murder, and Death."

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Raw Story - Politics (A day ago)

Analysts and advocates for people who are homeless were outraged on Sunday after President Donald Trump issued a warning to the unhoused in Washington, D.C.Trump posted on Truth Social that people experiencing unsheltered homelessness must "move out immediately." It was issued at a time when federal data shows homelessness increased by 18% between...

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Raw Story - Politics (A day ago)

A judge hated by Donald Trump was just assigned a major case seeking to get the Trump administration to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein, according to analysts.Commentator Brian Tyler Cohen published a video over the weekend featuring former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner. The video, called "Trump gets what he DESERVES in court over...

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Raw Story - Politics (A day ago)

Dr. Phil McGraw insisted that he was not "qualified" to talk about politics just weeks after tagging along with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on migrants.McGraw made the remarks in an interview with The New York Times that was published on Sunday."I don't think I'm qualified to talk about politics," he said despite becoming a MAGA...

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Raw Story - Politics (A day ago)

As a man who slings opinion, and is an expert on all that is wrong, I am often asked what we can do to stave off all this evil, and make things right?Occasionally, I'll have a pretty good answer, but more times than not, I am just a writer with a leaky pen, who can spell out a problem with no real idea how to cross it out.When seemingly...

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National Public Radio - Politics (A day ago)

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Trump has the power to deploy the National Guard, but "none of the conditions exist" for the president to take over the city's police.

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The Washington Post - Politics (A day ago)

Leaders of the two nations visited the White House to declare a truce in their war over Nagorno-Karabakh, which Azerbaijan won by force in 2023.

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CBS News - Politics (A day ago)

The U.S. officially began levying higher tariffs on dozens of countries, just as the economic fallout of President Trump's months-long tariffs threats was beginning to create visible damage to the U.S. economy.

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New York Times - Politics (A day ago)

JD Vance says U.S. is working for a meeting with Trump, Putin and Zelensky.

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Raw Story - Politics (A day ago)

AriZona's famously low-priced iced teas may not be around for long, according to company leadership.The New York Times on Sunday published an article called, "Can AriZona's 99-Cent Iced Tea Survive Trump's Tariffs?" in which the outlet notes that "the price has been AriZona's calling card for nearly three decades," yet Trump's touted "50 percent...

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