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Democrats are embracing the f-bomb in congressional campaign messaging as they seek to tap into their party's anger. In recent weeks, a number of newly launched Democratic hopefuls for key House and Senate seats have pledged to "unf‑‑‑ our country" or have urged their party to "drop the excuses and grow a f‑‑‑ing spine." The ads are indicative of the rising temperature in American politics generally, but they also underscore the ways politicians are trying to resonate with base voters, many of whom have expressed frustration with Democratic leaders. |
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House Republicans are under the gun to get specific on how they will offset President Trump's domestic policy agenda, and they will soon need to decide if they will touch the political stove by trying to scale back Medicaid benefits.
Medicaid is at the heart of the GOP plan to pass a "big beautiful bill" and make budget space for an extension of Trump's tax cuts. Party leaders have been vague about their plans, but the topic has divided members who are facing a menu of politically perilous cuts to the program that provides health coverage to more than 70 million people. |
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Despite signs of a thaw earlier this week, Washington and Beijing are locked in a standoff on tariffs, and global supply chains are feeling the pressure.
Disruption from tariffs is occurring at multiple points in commercial supply lines — from factory floors in East Asia, through the shipping and transportation industry, at U.S. ports of entry, and by U.S. retailers who are warning of empty shelves. |
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio's announcement of a major reorganization of the State Department this week was meant to signal a leaner foreign policy machine, removing layers of bureaucracy that he says slowed down quick action in a crisis-ridden world.
But critics are warning that the Trump administration is kneecapping America's influence on the international stage, having already gutted U.S. foreign policy tools including U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Voice of America and offices focused on economic development abroad. |
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"I understand very well why it is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler's Third Reich to any other movement," former Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore conceded Monday as he rallied a crowd during San Francisco's Climate Week. "It was uniquely evil, full stop. I get it," he added. Then came the "but." |
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A new poll shows that about 4 in 10 Americans say President Trump has been a "terrible" leader in his second term. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also found that about 2 in 10 think he has done an average job in his presidency and 3 in 10 says he's been a great or good president. |
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Former national security adviser John Bolton said the Saturday meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Rome is a "significant" step towards reestablishing a better channel of communication between the heads of state. "I think the meeting was significant. I think this is a significant step back toward sensible conversation between the two leaders," Bolton, a frequent Trump critic, said during his Saturday appearance on CNN. |
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Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) said that President Trump's recent executive actions "should chill us to the bone" and claimed that his "authoritarian impulses" are a danger to American democracy. "I think it's clear. We have never seen a president try to wield the federal government to crush his critics and political adversaries. That's something new in American history, and it is, in my view, un-American. And it's something that should chill us to the bone, no matter our politics, no matter our policy preferences," Ossoff said in an interview with The Associated Press (AP) that was published Saturday. |
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President Trump said Saturday that American commercial and military ships should not have to pay to travel through the Panama Canal and Suez Canal. "American Ships, both Military and Commercial, should be allowed to travel, free of charge, through the Panama and Suez Canals! Those Canals would not exist without the United States of America," Trump wrote in a Saturday post on Truth Social. | |
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BY REP. RASHIDA TLAIB (D-MICH.) |
OPINION | I come from the Motor City, where our communities have been denied access to reliable public mass transit for decades. Residents have told me stories about our rail tracks being paved over as auto companies bought up and then dismantled our public streetcar system. Detroit's suburbs resisted the expansion of public transit as a way to enforce racial segregation. The story of Detroit is not isolated, as this familiar story played out in countless cities all across our country. |
BY ANDY POTTER AND MATTHEW CHARLES |
OPINION | We have lived on opposite sides of prison bars. One of us spent 22 years incarcerated for a nonviolent drug offense. The other dedicated over 20 years of career service in maximum and medium security prisons. We both landed in prison, in a sense, trying to escape broken homes and poverty. |
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BY KATE KELLY AND MARK WALKER |
New details revealed by The Times show the complex failures on Jan. 29 before an Army helicopter crashed into a jet near Washington's Reagan National Airport. |
Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla are collectively off to their worst start since the 2022 slide, worrying investors. |
BY VANESSA GERA AND SILVIA STELLACCI |
Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary Major Basilica a day after he was bade farewell by the powerful of the world and a crowd of hundreds of thousands. |
BY DAN BALZ, SCOTT CLEMENT AND EMILY GUSKIN |
President Donald Trump's 100 days poll finds a lower approval rating, growing opposition to his agenda and opposition to many of his major initiatives. |
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