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One Year Later, Trump’s ‘Takeover’ Has Changed D.C. Is It Better Off?
The deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents into the streets has been expensive. How effective it has been is debatable.
10 Aug 2026 1 min 0
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Wisconsin’s Roller Coaster of a Democratic Primary Race for Governor Crashes to an End
Democrats appear likely to nominate a democratic socialist for governor. How did they get here?
10 Aug 2026 1 min 0
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Sanders Calls on A.I. Companies to Pause Development to ‘Avoid Disaster’
Senator Bernie Sanders warned that corporations have already lost control of technology that could cause “potentially cataclysmic results” for millions of people.
10 Aug 2026 1 min 0
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D.C.-Area Airport to Close for 3 Hours for Grand Prix Event
The Federal Aviation Administration has imposed other closures at Reagan National Airport over events for the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding.
10 Aug 2026 1 min 0
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How a Counterintelligence Inquiry Into Trump’s Russia Ties Was Derailed
Documents released by the White House shed new light on the demise of an often-overlooked 2017 F.B.I. investigation.
10 Aug 2026 1 min 0
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Hegseth Renames Base for Lindsey Graham
Joint Base Charleston will now be known as Joint Base Lindsey Graham. The senator served as a judge advocate general before retiring as a colonel in 2015.
10 Aug 2026 1 min 0
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One Source of Paxton’s Wealth: A Cell Tower at a Hospital He Knew Well
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, makes six-figure income from a cellphone tower on the grounds of a hospital where he was a board member.
10 Aug 2026 1 min 0
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Will Wisconsin Voters Think Francesca Hong Is Too Radical? Here’s Where She Stands.
The democratic socialist is the front-runner to win the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin on Tuesday.
10 Aug 2026 1 min 0
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Trump Concedes There Was ‘Some Contractor Error’ in Reflecting Pool Renovations
The president had insisted for weeks that the landmarks’ algae-stained waters and peeling lining were the fault of vandals, not the project itself.
10 Aug 2026 1 min 0
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Minnesota’s Democratic Senate Primary Pits Angie Craig Against Peggy Flanagan
The Senate primary race in Minnesota will be the latest test of left-wing energy in the party, in a state that was convulsed by the Trump administration’s deadly immigration crackdown this winter.
10 Aug 2026 1 min 0
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GOP prepared to block vote to replace Feinstein on Senate Judiciary
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday that he hopes to replace Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee with Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland and aims to set up a floor vote on the issue this afternoon, which Republicans are expected to block.
18 Apr 2023 5 min 0
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Supreme Court seems sympathetic to postal worker who didn't work Sundays in dispute over religious accommodations
The Supreme Court seemed to side with a former mail carrier, an evangelical Christian, who says the US Postal Service failed to accommodate his request to not work on Sundays.
18 Apr 2023 5 min 0