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Both sides launch ad campaigns over budget vote as bill moves to Senate

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WASHINGTON — Last week’s House vote on a sweeping reconciliation bill encompassing much of Republicans’ legislative agenda is already becoming a focal point in the nascent campaign for control of Congress next year.

Party campaign committees and outside groups have already announced ad campaigns centered on the measure.

The National ...Read more

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Mayor Adams sues NYC Campaign Finance Board for $3.4 million in denied funds

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NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams has sued the city’s Campaign Finance Board over its repeated denial of matching funds for his reelection campaign.

The lawsuit, first reported by Politico on Tuesday, seeks $3.4 million that the mayor has been denied by the CFB, which has cited Adams’ five-count federal indictment in its decisions.

“An ...Read more

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Planned Parenthood cancels Kansas City abortions after Missouri Supreme Court ruling

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Planned Parenthood clinics in Kansas City and Columbia on Tuesday canceled all abortion appointments after the Missouri Supreme Court issued an order that temporarily paused abortions in the state.

Emily Wales, the president and CEO of Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, confirmed the cancellations in a...Read more

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California changes rules around trans athletes after Trump's threat to halt funding

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The state organization that oversees school sports in California will allow cisgender female athletes to compete in an upcoming statewide championship track meet if they lost a qualifying position to a transgender competitor, a change that was announced hours after President Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal ...Read more

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NYC high schoolers protest Trump administration's policies on education, immigration

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NEW YORK — Several hundred New York City high school students walked out of class Tuesday to protest the Trump administration’s threats to immigrant students and higher education.

Around noon, students from at least 25 schools, including the Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School and Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, descended...Read more

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Trump threatens to strip federal funds to California over transgender youth athletes

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to cut federal funding to California if the state continues allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports.

Trump blasted Gov. Gavin Newsom in an early morning post on Truth Social, saying the state under his leadership “continues to ILLEGALLY allow MEN TO PLAY IN WOMEN’S SPORTS.”...Read more

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Trump set to pardon former reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley

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ATLANTA — President Donald Trump is set to pardon former reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, the Atlanta multimillionaires currently serving prison time on bank fraud and tax evasion charges.

On Tuesday, Trump’s communications manager Margo Martin posted a video of the president calling the couple’s children from the White ...Read more

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Analysis: Trump diverts from 'America First' as he seeks to end wars, snag foreign dollars

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has pivoted from his “America First” philosophy in recent weeks with his pursuit of trillions in foreign investment dollars and his prolonged efforts to end two foreign wars, as congressional Democrats raise new concerns.

Trump has been using the powers of his office to conduct foreign policy mostly ...Read more

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NPR and public radio stations sue Trump White House over funding cuts

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NPR and three of its member stations filed suit in federal court Tuesday against President Trump's White House over his executive order to block funding for public media.

Trump's order called for an end to government dollars for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the taxpayer-backed entity that provides funding to NPR and PBS. He called ...Read more

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Supreme Court not hearing Massachusetts student's two genders shirt case 'a setback for free speech'

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The Supreme Court not hearing the case of a local student who was banned from wearing an “only two genders” shirt to middle school is a “setback for free speech,” according to the group defending the student.

The country’s highest court on Tuesday announced that it will not hear Liam Morrison’s case against the town of Middleboro.

...Read more

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Missouri abortion access in danger after state Supreme Court ruling

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a Jackson County judge to vacate rulings that allowed abortions to resume in the state, a potentially seismic ruling that could imperil access to the procedure.

The ruling, signed by Chief Justice Mary R. Russell, targets two preliminary injunctions from Jackson County ...Read more

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Trump insults 'decrepit corpse' Biden days after cancer diagnosis

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President Donald Trump’s derogatory swipes against his predecessor Joe Biden continued with a post calling the ailing Democrat a “decrepit corpse.”

The latest attack comes a week after Trump wished his predecessor a “fast and successful recovery” from aggressive stage 4 prostate cancer. It took the form of the current president ...Read more

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High-profile lawyers with Georgia ties face lasting consequences of election fraud claims

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ATLANTA — The consequences of supporting President Donald Trump when he cried foul over his loss in the 2020 election are still being felt by several high-profile attorneys with Georgia ties.

Disbarment, imprisonment and legal sanctions are among the penalties doled out to Rudy Giuliani, McCall Calhoun, Sidney Powell and Lin Wood for their ...Read more

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Editorial: Attacking academic independence: Trump assault on Harvard and all of higher ed

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For Harvard University’s admirable standing up to the Trump administration’s attempts to dictate its campus policies, the White House is now trying to punish the school by revoking the Ivy League university’s ability to enroll international students through the Student and Exchange Visitor Information Program that enables foreign students ...Read more

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Trump threatens to strip federal funds to California over transgender youth athletes

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to cut federal funding to California if the state continues allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports.

Trump blasted Gov. Gavin Newsom in an early morning post on Truth Social saying the state under his leadership “continues to ILLEGALLY allow MEN TO PLAY IN WOMEN’S SPORTS.” ...Read more

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Supreme Court denies student's right to wear 'only two genders' T-shirt at school

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a middle-school student's claim he had a free-speech right to wear a T-shirt stating there are "only two genders."

Over two dissents, the justices let stand a ruling that said a school may enforce a dress code to protect students from "hate speech" or bullying.

After three months of ...Read more

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NPR and public radio stations sue Trump White House over funding cuts

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NPR and three of its member stations filed suit in federal court Tuesday against President Donald Trump's White House over the president's executive order to block funding for public media.

Trump's order called for an end to government dollars for the Corp. for Public Broadcasting, the taxpayer-backed entity that provides funding to NPR and PBS...Read more

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'First and last lines of defense': How Santa Clara County, San Francisco are leading the Bay Area's legal fight against Trump

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — The onslaught of executive actions emerging from President Donald Trump’s second administration — some of which have aimed to entirely reshape the federal government — has had attorneys for Santa Clara County and San Francisco working at breakneck pace.

The counties are at the forefront of the resistance against the ...Read more

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Commentary: We all saw Biden's decline in real time. The scandal is how few people cared

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For weeks now, Americans — left, right and terminally online — have been obsessed with former President Joe Biden’s fitness as president.

The whispers about cognitive decline, once the province of Fox News pundits and dinner table cranks, have gone mainstream. And now, with the release of a couple of high-profile books and a report ...Read more

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Trump to pardon sheriff found guilty of 'cash-for-badges' scheme

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President Donald Trump said he would be pardoning a former Virginia sheriff facing a 10-year prison sentence after being convicted of bribery and fraud charges.

Scott Jenkins and his family “have been dragged through HELL by a Corrupt and Weaponized Biden DOJ,” Trump said in a post on social media.

“He is a wonderful person, who was ...Read more

 

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