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Trump's mirage economy is putting America in foreclosure

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President Donald Trump likes to brand himself a business genius. But for average Americans staring at flat paychecks, shrinking opportunities, and higher grocery bills, his “Art of the Deal” looks more like a private equity raid: strip the assets, juice the numbers, and leave someone else holding the bag.

Economic policymaking under Trump ...Read more

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Don't let Trump destroy higher education

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I’ve lived the first half of my adult life in darkness. Prison, gangs, conflict, violence. By the time I turned 30, I had spent more than 13 years in correctional facilities, including a total of nearly a decade in solitary confinement.

That same year, education saved my life. A grant from the Sunshine Lady Foundation funded a two-year degree...Read more

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Life after Congress: Former Rep. Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota has no regrets about his career-defining vote

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WASHINGTON — On the night the House passed the Affordable Care Act in March 2010, Democratic Rep. Earl Pomeroy, then the lone House member from North Dakota, was escorted by his staff to the House floor, where he cast the 218th out of 219 votes to pass the bill.

There was glee among Democrats that night, but Pomeroy saw the writing on the ...Read more

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Trump announces crackdown on drug ads on TV, social media

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The Trump administration announced plans to crack down on pharmaceutical advertising on television and social media platforms that could disrupt billions of dollars in annual ad spending.

President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Tuesday that calls on federal health agencies to require pharmaceutical companies to disclose more ...Read more

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Nevada group files initiatives for independent redistricting, open primaries

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The group behind attempts to bring an independent redistricting commission to Nevada is giving it another go in 2026 and launching a renewed effort to open up primaries.

Vote Nevada PAC filed two constitutional amendment ballot initiatives Tuesday. One would create an independent commission responsible for the once-in-a-decade process of ...Read more

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Critics fault Supreme Court for allowing immigration stops that consider race and ethnicity

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WASHINGTON — Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that U.S. Border Patrol agents violated the Constitution when they stopped a car on a freeway near San Clemente, California, because its occupants appeared to be “of Mexican ancestry.”

The Fourth Amendment protects Americans from unreasonable searches, the justices said ...Read more

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Trump floats new tariffs on China, India to squeeze Russia

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told European officials he’s willing to impose sweeping new tariffs on India and China to push Russian leader Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table with Ukraine — but only if EU nations do so as well.

Trump made the ask when he called into a meeting with senior U.S. and EU officials in Washington, ...Read more

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White House 'anomalies' list kick-starts stopgap funding talks

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration wants flexibility in the stopgap funding bill to properly finance nutrition benefits for pregnant and nursing mothers; low-income housing vouchers; services for veterans exposed to toxins overseas; and the “D.C. fix” enabling local officials to spend more of the city’s own funds, among other requests...Read more

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Supreme Court to decide challenge to Trump's tariff power

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Tuesday it would decide the legality of the majority of President Donald Trump’s worldwide tariff regime, a signature policy priority of the president.

The justices announced they will hear oral arguments in November on the Trump administration request to overturn lower court rulings that found the ...Read more

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Supreme Court for now allows US to hold funds it wants to rescind

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily allowed the Trump administration to hold on to billions in foreign aid funds that it wants to cancel, setting up a high-stakes battle over the president’s power to unilaterally cancel funds mandated by Congress.

The one-page order, signed by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., paused the ...Read more

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Idyllic small Florida town divided by move to add Trump's name to iconic street

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Sea Grape Drive could soon sound less idyllic if Lauderdale-by-the-Sea town commissioners approve a proposal to add a second name to the road: “President Donald J. Trump Drive.”

The proposal has generated a furious debate and opened a divide in the oceanfront community, where residents and business owners extol the...Read more

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Trump downplays Jeffrey Epstein letter that reignited an uproar

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump called a birthday note he allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein a “dead issue,” seeking to tamp down mounting questions over his past interactions with the late disgraced financier.

“I don’t comment on something that’s a dead issue,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News on Tuesday, a day after ...Read more

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Up next on Congress' transparency list: UFOs

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WASHINGTON — Dylan Borland was stationed at Langley Air Force Base in summer 2012 when in the middle of the night he observed a triangular craft shrouded in light in the sky above his barracks, he told members of Congress. The craft approached him noiselessly, hovered above where he stood, and then quickly ascended tens of thousands of feet ...Read more

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Despite Trump's hawkish moves, GOP lawmakers back his Nobel push -- with a twist

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WASHINGTON — Some Republican lawmakers say Donald Trump still deserves the Nobel Peace Prize despite his recent drug cartel-targeting military operation in the Caribbean and a revival of the Department of War, another sign of their enduring loyalty to the commander in chief.

The president has raised eyebrows, even among some allies, with the ...Read more

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Bill Clinton birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein released along with Trump's

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A “Happy 50th” letter from former President Bill Clinton to Jeffrey Epstein has been released by congressional investigators along with the one apparently written by President Donald Trump in a birthday album for the late notorious pedophile.

“It’s reassuring isn’t it, to have lasted as long, across all the years of learning and ...Read more

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Is Trump's troop buildup in US cities a declaration of war -- or something else?

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LOS ANGELES — Over the weekend, President Donald Trump shared a doctored AI image of himself as Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, the crazed cavalry commander in the 1979 Vietnam War film, "Apocalypse Now," crouched in a black Stetson hat in front of a flaming Chicago skyline abuzz with black helicopters.

"'I love the smell of deportations in the ...Read more

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How Donald Trump can safeguard our drug supply

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The Trump administration believes — correctly — that the existing prescription drug supply chain endangers our national security, especially when global demand surges as it did during the COVID-19 pandemic.

China, a military adversary under a communist regime, plays a key role in 90% of generic antibiotics and 8% of all active ...Read more

An initiative that aims to reduce gun violence by cleaning up litter is expanding to West Philly

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The Safe Steps public-private initiative, which deploys litter cleanup workers in sections of the city with a history of gun violence, is moving into West Philadelphia.

Glitter, a street-cleaning service that uses a crowdfunding model, and the Episcopal Community Services St. Barnabas Community Resource Center, which is located at 6006 W. ...Read more

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Alex Jones takes $1 billion Sandy Hook judgment to Supreme Court

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Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is asking the US Supreme Court to review a Connecticut court’s nearly $1.4 billion judgment against him and Infowars stemming from his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax.

The default judgment entered against Jones and his Infowars parent company in 2022 after “...Read more

 

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