BY EMILY BROOKS AND MYCHAEL SCHNELL |
The House GOP's inability to coalesce around a strategy to address a looming government funding deadline is sparking a blame game among Republicans, after opposition from multiple factions helped thwart Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) strategy to avert a shutdown at the end of the month. Grappling with his razor-thin House majority, Johnson opted to try the spending plan proposed by hard-liners in the House Freedom Caucus: attach a conservative proposal, a bill to require proof of citizenship to vote, to a six-month extension of funding as an opening salvo to the Democratic-controlled Senate. Former President Trump has also called to condition government funding on the voting bill. |
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Republicans and Democrats are engaged in a blame game over the withdrawal in Afghanistan, feuding over who carries responsibility for fallout from America's longest war.
The battle has sparked concern that arguing over the past undercuts ongoing efforts to help Afghans in the present. |
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Republicans are reprising efforts to legally challenge election law in three key battleground states that could help decide who wins in November.
Michigan, North Carolina and Nevada are targets of the blitz, led by the Republican National Committee alongside state parties who are questioning election integrity when it comes to absentee ballots, the use of digital voter cards and whether noncitizens are being allowed to vote. |
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Former President Trump threatened to withhold federal aid to battle California wildfires, should he be reelected, if Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) does not change a policy that protects an endangered species of fish. Trump said during a roughly hourlong press conference Friday at his Los Angeles area golf club that if elected, he would give California "more water than almost anybody has," allowing farmers to have full use of their land. |
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House Democrats have adopted an aggressive strategy of linking Project 2025 to House Republicans in the final stretch of this year's campaign, hoping the controversial conservative document will help them flip control of the lower chamber in November's elections. The Democrats are invoking Project 2025 at every turn — in leadership press conferences, chamber-floor debates, public committee hearings and private hallway conversations — warning that Republicans in Congress are already pulling pages from the right-wing policy paper and will return to the same playbook again next year if voters keep the GOP in control of the House. |
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Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told Julie Mason he thinks it is unlikely former President George W. Bush would ever endorse Vice President Harris. Bush, who was president during Gonzales's attorney general tenure, announced last week that he would not publicly support a candidate in 2024. "That would be so contrary to his nature and what I know about the man," Gonzales said to Mason on SiriusXM. |
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North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis has joined other Republican leaders in voicing concerns about former President Trump's close relationship with far-right provocateur Laura Loomer in the final stretch of his presidential campaign. "Laura Loomer is a crazy conspiracy theorist who regularly utters disgusting garbage intended to divide Republicans. A DNC plant couldn't do a better job than she is doing to hurt President Trump's chances of winning re-election. Enough," Tillis wrote on social media Friday. |
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Former President Trump said in a Truth Social post Friday that he did not agree with statements made by far-right activist Laura Loomer, who has come under scrutiny after traveling with the former president and battling with various other Republicans friendly with Trump. In the post, Trump wrote that he disagreed with the statements Loomer made, though he didn't specify any particular comments. He otherwise described her as a "private citizen and longtime supporter." |
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Vice President Harris on Friday pledged to end "unnecessary degree requirements" for some federal jobs as she courted middle-class voters in the critical battleground of Pennsylvania. "For far too long, our nation has encouraged only one path to success: a four-year college degree. Our nation needs to recognize the value of other paths, additional paths, such as apprenticeships and technical programs," Harris told the crowd in Wilkes-Barre, prompting applause. |
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OPINION | If you are among the 70 percent of Americans who do not know a transgender person: Hi! My name is Leigh Finke, my pronouns are she/her/hers. I'm a parent, I'm a renter, I have a lovely girlfriend, and a strong community here in Minnesota, where I also serve in the House of Representatives. I was elected in 2022 as the first out transgender state legislator. For the last two years, I have worked with Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan to successfully pass at least a half-dozen laws protecting the rights of transgender people, and access to healthcare. Many of those bills I authored. I love being trans, I love my community, and I'm honored to have the chance to fight for our future. |
OPINION | Public displays of antisemitism on college campus over the last year have focused attention on foreign entities funding American higher education. But less publicized — and more insidious — are foreign influences in K-12 schools. Many young adults are arriving on their college campuses already radicalized. Much of that is due to the subtle, hostile influences that they're exposed to in grade school. Congress must address this critical problem for the sake of the next generation. |
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BY CHARLES HOMANS AND ALAN FEUER |
When a moderator asked Donald J. Trump about Jan. 6, 2021, at the presidential debate, the former president slipped immediately into a now-familiar revisionist history of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
He falsely claimed that he had nothing to do with the assault. But then Mr. Trump made a brief but telling remark: He used the pronoun "we" to describe some of the rioters, grammatically placing himself among those who have been charged with storming into the Capitol. |
With detentions at the U.S. border plunging to a four-year low, everyone is angling for the credit.
But a major reason for the drop can be seen 800 miles south of the border in this sleepy, palm-shaded city closer to Guatemala than to the United States. Here, sleek white government buses roll in, one after another, to disgorge groups of bewildered migrants. |
PHOENIX — Arizona's Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions officially is being repealed Saturday. |
Signs that Americans are struggling to keep up with their bills are setting off alarms on Wall Street.
Shares of consumer-lending companies slid this past week after executives raised warnings about lower-income borrowers who are struggling to make payments. Dour remarks from banking executives at the Barclays banking conference rattled investors, who were already on edge about the health of the U.S. economy. |
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