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Democrats fighting to retain their majorities in this year's midterm are grappling with a disappointed electorate that sees their party as having promised more than it has delivered. Much of the last year was focused on the Democratic effort to pass a huge social spending and climate change package known as the Build Back Better agenda, which toppled in the face of opposition from a Democratic senator — Joe Manchin of West Virginia. |
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Democrats are struggling with how to talk about crime ahead of the midterms. Most acknowledge the "defund the police" movement has fallen out of favor with much of the party and voters. But there is still disagreement over how to allocate resources to fight crime while presenting a united tough-on-crime message to voters. |
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Retired Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), former president pro tempore of the Senate and the longest serving Republican senator in history, died at the age of 88 years old on Saturday in Salt Lake City, his foundation announced. |
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Former President Trump stumped for Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance on Saturday, while acknowledging during his rally that Vance has "said some bad sh– about me." |
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Supporters and critics of former President Trump are showing surprising unity in how they react to a new furor. |
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The U.S. holds a key stake in France's presidential election on Sunday, when voters in one of America's oldest allies will choose between incumbent President Emmanuel Macron and his far-right opponent Marine Le Pen. |
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The Biden administration's strategy of accepting fleeing Ukrainians through methods outside the U.S. refugee program will leave tens of thousands of people navigating life in the U.S. without the help or resources that refugees are typically offered. |
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| BY REP. JACKIE SPEIER (D-CALIF.) |
OPINION | It's been two years since the brutal murder of Army SPC Vanessa Guillén, and mere months since Congress came together to pass monumental and sweeping bipartisan legislation to ensure cases of sexual assault, murder, kidnapping, and other serious crimes are taken out of the chain of command. To some, that time has felt like an eternity. For others, it's passed in the blink of an eye. For me, it's proved that Congress is capable of breaking through the partisan politics that paralyzes us if we have the willpower to do so. On this anniversary of Vanessa's untimely death, I'm here to say that we have more to do. |
OPINION | In recent weeks, Russian oligarchs have dominated headlines as the United States has joined a host of other countries in imposing economic sanctions on elites close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, what may be less obvious to the American public is that we have our own class of oligarchs here at home. They are America's 735 billionaires because the economy is rigged in their favor, and they pay virtually nothing in return in the way of taxes. |
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| BY PAVEL POLITYUK AND NATALIA ZINETS |
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit Kyiv on Sunday to discuss Ukraine's call for more powerful weapons, two months after Russia's invasion began. |
BY DAN LAMOTHE AND KAROUN DEMIRJIAN |
He has taken on a major, behind-the-scenes role in countering the Russian invasion, officials say. |
A dizzying week featured Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, caught lying and another lawmaker, Marjorie Taylor Greene, grilled under oath about her role in the Jan. 6 attack. |
Beth Bowers grew up in the 1960s and 1970s with parents who marched in protests, wrote letters to members of Congress and voted in elections big and small. Her father, a World War II veteran, and her mother, an educational counselor, did not use social media sites in their lifetimes. But Bowers is sure they would be disheartened to see how easily falsehoods about the U.S. elections are disseminated online to millions and millions of people. |
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