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NEWS — Seven Supreme Court justices released their financial disclosure forms on Wednesday amid increased criticism that the court is...
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NEWS — Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday signed into law two bills targeting the rights of transgender people...
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Washington NEWS — Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch were flown to Italy. Justice Ketanji...
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NEWS — Hunter Biden’s lawyers hope a recent federal appeals court ruling on access to firearms could help convince the...
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NEWS — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will travel to southern Arizona on Wednesday – his first visit to the US-Mexico...
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NEWS — Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former White House communications director during the Trump administration who is now a NEWS...
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NEWS — Senate Republicans say they’ll keep pushing for more funding for Ukraine and defense even in the wake of...
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NEWS — Louisiana’s Republican-led legislature Tuesday passed a ban on gender-affirming care for most minors in the state, sending the...
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NEWS — US and western officials see signs that Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia is beginning and have noted a...
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Colleville-sur-Mer, France NEWS — Thousands gathered by the beaches of Normandy on Tuesday to remember those who died fighting for...
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Washington NEWS — The pharmaceutical company Merck sued the US government Tuesday over a law passed last year that empowers...
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NEWS — Denver voters will choose their next mayor Tuesday in a runoff contest that could see Colorado’s largest city...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden is set to convene his Cabinet Tuesday, bringing his top lieutenants together to discuss a...
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NEWS — When Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas appeared for the first time before the Florida Federalist Society in January...
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NEWS — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is set to enter the 2024 Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, launching...
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NEWS — When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered his initial speech as a declared presidential candidate in Iowa last week,...
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NEWS — The Republican presidential field is growing almost by the day, but no candidate has yet offered an effective...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden welcomed the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs to the White House Monday, offering effusive...
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NEWS — Speaker Kevin McCarthy is rejecting GOP criticism of the debt limit deal he struck with President Joe Biden...
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NEWS — House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Monday said he will move ahead this week with efforts to hold...
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NEWS — Top US State Department and National Security Council officials “had candid and productive discussions” with Chinese officials in...
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Washington NEWS — An employee at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence drained the resort’s swimming pool last October and ended up...
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Washington NEWS — Former President Donald Trump, now a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, claimed in a television interview...
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NEWS — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are meeting with Justice Department officials on Monday following a public request...
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NEWS — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a trademark dispute over an individual’s wish to register “Trump...
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NEWS — As the Supreme Court races to issue all outstanding opinions by a self-imposed early July deadline, there is...
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Washington NEWS — Ukraine has cultivated a network of agents and sympathizers inside Russia working to carry out acts of...
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NEWS — Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and 2024 Republican presidential contender, sharply criticized the party’s top-polling candidates...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden will “at some point” meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to White House national...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden sat behind the Resolute Desk in his first evening Oval Office address with a clear...
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Washington NEWS — President Joe Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office on Friday evening – his first...
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NEWS — The Justice Department has closed its investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents found at former Vice...
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NEWS — US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin “spoke briefly” with his Chinese counterpart in Singapore on Friday, a Pentagon...
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NEWS — A federal judge who was presiding over the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts case against Florida Gov. Ron...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden tripped on a sandbag and fell as he completed handing out diplomas at the US...
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NEWS — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is attacking former President Donald Trump for “turning the country over to Fauci...
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Washington NEWS — Both the Senate and the House have now passed a bill to block President Joe Biden’s student...
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Washington NEWS — The Biden administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials accused of plotting...
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Washington NEWS — The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a cement mixing company that seeks to bypass federal labor...
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NEWS — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said it was “unfortunate” China declined a US offer to speak at a defense...
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NEWS — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in February made a bold prediction about the GOP and the debt ceiling,...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden ended the month of May the same way he began it: with a phone call...
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NEWS — Former President Donald Trump’s history of making inappropriate or questionable comments on tape got another chapter on Wednesday...
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NEWS — Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said Wednesday that nine days of negotiations with state Senate Republican leadership in an...
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NEWS — The Pentagon forced an Air Force base in Nevada to cancel a drag show at the start of...
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NEWS — Federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former President Donald Trump...
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Washington NEWS — The Justice Department announced a lawsuit Wednesday against West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s coal empire, seeking more...
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Washington NEWS — If passed into law, the bipartisan debt ceiling deal will dash any hope borrowers might have that...
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NEWS — A lawyer for a Texas man urged the Supreme Court late Tuesday to let stand a lower court...
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NEWS — Sen. Joe Manchin’s monthslong effort to greenlight the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline – a project that will pipe...
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NEWS — The US government took one step back from self-inflicted economic disaster on Tuesday. House Republicans avoided the first...
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NEWS — There will be “significant costs for US diplomacy” if Congress doesn’t renew a controversial intelligence program gathering communications...
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NEWS — The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a case from a victim of sex trafficking who...
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NEWS — Two of the nation’s most intractable problems might have the same solution – if the idea was not...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy convinced themselves of a compromise deal to slow federal spending...
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NEWS — Party leaders in Washington are waging an urgent campaign Monday to convince Democrats and Republicans to get behind...
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Washington NEWS — Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said Sunday that White House negotiators...
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Wilmington, Delaware NEWS — The “agreement in principle” clinched by House Republicans and the White House late Saturday to raise...
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NEWS — After several weeks of tense negotiations, President Joe Biden and House Republicans have reached an agreement in principle...
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NEWS — Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Friday that rolls back child labor protections by...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden welcomed the 2023 NCAA women’s basketball champions, the Louisiana...
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NEWS — A South Carolina judge has temporarily blocked the state’s new abortion restrictions from going into effect, just one...
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NEWS — US officials believe Chinese hackers could still have access to sensitive US computer networks they’ve targeted in recent...
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NEWS — In a sign pointing toward a possible Republican presidential bid, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is set to...
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NEWS — Just six days remain before America could run out of money to pay its bills in a calamity...
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NEWS — Rep. Susan Wild, one of the country’s most politically vulnerable Democrats, made her displeasure known over the White...
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NEWS — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, now officially a candidate for president, is no longer tiptoeing around former President Donald...
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NEWS — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, now officially a candidate for president, is no longer tiptoeing around former President Donald...
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NEWS — Nearly five months before the US was projected to hit the debt ceiling, a small team inside the...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden unveiled his administration’s new “whole of society” plan to combat antisemitism Thursday, which he called...
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Washington NEWS — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster on Thursday signed a bill into law that will limit most abortions...
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Washington NEWS — The Supreme Court on Thursday cut back on the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate wetlands under...
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NEWS — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appears set to send members home after votes on Thursday, signaling that debt negotiations...
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NEWS — Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch fizzled like one of Elon Musk’s early rocket prototypes. The Florida governor has been...
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NEWS — A 14-year veteran of the Internal Revenue Service went public for the first time Wednesday as the whistleblower...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden is set to announce on Thursday that he will nominate Air Force chief of staff...
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NEWS — Donald Trump’s legal team is arguing that the Justice Department should close the federal probes into the former...
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NEWS — US officials have picked up chatter amongst Ukrainian officials blaming each other for a drone attack on the...
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NEWS — When Tesla CEO Elon Musk first mused about buying Twitter in early 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was...
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NEWS — Here’s a look at the life of Mike Pence, the 48th vice president of the United States. Birth...
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Here’s a look at the life of former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Birth date: June 10, 1971 Birth place: Baton...
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NEWS — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose clashes with Disney and aggressive pursuit of conservative victories has made him a...
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Washington NEWS — A bill signed by Montana Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte this week enacts far-reaching limits on the presence...
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Washington NEWS — In January, as Kevin McCarthy fought to win the House speakership through 15 rounds of grinding votes...
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NEWS — Donald Trump and his allies are planning a coordinated effort to upend the media cycle around the presidential...
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NEWS — Investors and the public have been content to largely brush off the slow-motion Washington march toward a self-imposed...
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NEWS — When news broke of a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, one year ago, President Joe...
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NEWS — The issue of so-called judge shopping – the funneling of lawsuits through courthouses where a particular judge is...
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Washington NEWS — The Biden administration’s one-time student loan forgiveness program is facing a fresh threat from House Republicans while...
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NEWS — Negotiations are continuing to unfold in an attempt to reach a debt limit deal, but major differences between...
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NEWS — Florida lawmakers were poised this year to protect election workers from harassment. Then, conservative “election integrity” activists worked...
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Supreme Court approval rating declines amid controversy over ethics and transparency: Marquette poll
Washington NEWS — Americans’ approval of the Supreme Court has fallen since the start of the year, according to a...
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NEWS — Ron DeSantis’ decision to announce his 2024 White House bid in a conversation with Elon Musk on Twitter...
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NEWS — Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday night that he wants to assure the public that the Supreme Court...
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NEWS — The House Ethics Committee announced it has ended its investigation into Rep. Eric Swalwell, according to a new...
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NEWS — The senior general in charge of US forces in the Middle East ordered that his command announce on...
