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Biden wants voters to know Trump thinks football is 'boring as hell'

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The Biden campaign has been putting out some amazing ads in the last month to remind voters of just how awful Donald Trump was in the White House and would be again. He was terrible on COVID, one ad points out. He’s dreadful on abortion,…

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House GOP manufactures new fight after Biden impeachment fails

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House Republicans’ attempt to impeach President Joe Biden has fizzled out. But the two members tasked with the job, Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan and Oversight Chair James Comer, needing to atone for their failure, have picked another fight:…

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Republicans echo Trump with demand for military response to student protests

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As anti-Israel protests have spread across many of the country’s most prestigious college campuses this week, several Republicans in Congress have sought to burnish their pro-Israel credentials by calling for the U.S. military to respond.

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Trump lawyers to grill ex-tabloid publisher as 1st week of trial testimony wraps

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After prosecutors’ lead witness painted a tawdry portrait of “catch and kill” tabloid schemes, defense lawyers in Donald Trump’s hush money trial are poised Friday to dig into an account of the former publisher of the National Enquirer and…

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Super-patriotic GOP candidate forgets words to the Pledge of Allegiance

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Eric Hovde is a deeply patriotic Republican who desperately loves the U.S., and he’s running for Senate. How do we know he loves the U.S.? Because he’s a Californian running in Wisconsin, which means he loves the U.S. at least twice as…

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Delusional Senate Republicans still believe they can control Trump

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Most GOP senators have fallen in line with Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign to return to the White House, starting from the top with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. They’re with him despite everything, including Jan. 6 when he unleashed a mob…

Thursday, Apr 25

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Polls show there's a cost to Trump alienating Haley voters

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When former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley ended her presidential bid in early March, Donald Trump and his allies emphatically told her supporters and "those" Romney-esque Republicans to take a hike. Those supporters listened, as Pennsylvania…

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Who is Arizona’s GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake? She doesn’t even know

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Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Kyrsten Sinema, is having a very difficult time figuring out just what it is she stands for, depending upon who she’s talking to. That’s leading her to swing…

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New York appeals court overturns one of Harvey Weinstein’s rape convictions

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New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious” improper rulings, including a decision to let women…

Listen live: The Supreme Court hears oral arguments over Trump's call for complete immunity

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On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments concerning Donald Trump’s claim that a president has “complete immunity” from criminal prosecution for acts taking place during his term in office. If Trump is successful in…

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Live coverage: Trump trial resumes with payoff to Stormy Daniels front and center

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The third day of testimony in Donald Trump’s criminal trial for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records begins Thursday morning. Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker is expected to resume the stand, and based on where…

What to know in the Supreme Court case about immunity for Donald Trump

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The Supreme Court has scheduled a special session to hear arguments over whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted over his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.

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Arizona indicts 18 in case over 2020 election, including Giuliani and Meadows

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An Arizona grand jury has indicted former Donald Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani along with 16 others in an election interference case.

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Trump told Haley supporters to f--- off. His plan seems to be working

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Following Donald Trump’s example is typically a very bad idea. This is the same guy who stared at an eclipse, thought it might be a good idea to inject disinfectant, and insists on flushing toilets 10 to 15 times, even though the…

Wednesday, Apr 24

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'We can stop it': Biden slams Trump's abortion extremism to Florida voters

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While Donald Trump was tied up in court Tuesday, President Joe Biden campaigned in Florida, Trump’s home state, blasting him for foisting this abortion “nightmare” on the U.S.

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Arizona House votes to repeal 1864 abortion ban upheld by the Supreme Court

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After two weeks of thwarted attempts, the Arizona House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal a near-total abortion ban from 1864, with three Republican lawmakers breaking from their party to join Democrats in striking it down.

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History’s most pro-union president delivers 2 more big wins for workers

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The Federal Trade Commission issued a new rule Tuesday imposing a nationwide ban on noncompete agreements that prevent employees from quitting their jobs and going to work for “competitor” companies. The rule doesn’t go into full effect…

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97% of voters know nothing about the Supreme Court's new abortion case

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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday that will inform what could arguably be the court's most consequential abortion ruling since it upended 50 years of abortion policy in the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision.…

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QAnon nuts muse about what happens if Trump is found guilty

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Over at QAnon’s current online home (no link or site name on purpose, but here’s some background info on this far-right cult that traffics in crazy conspiracies), they’re pondering what would happen if Donald Trump is found guilty after…

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GOP lawmakers vote to arm teachers a year after Nashville shooting

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It’s been a little over a year since a former student armed with an AR-15 assault rifle and other firearms killed three 9-year-olds and three staff members at the Covenant School, a private Christian institution in Nashville. The shooter…

'Historic importance': Senate overwhelmingly passes aid for Ukraine

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The Senate has passed $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden after months of delays and contentious debate over how involved the United States should be in foreign wars.

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The Supreme Court is hearing another abortion case. What could go wrong?

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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case brought by the state of Idaho, which wants the nation’s highest court to rule that its abortion ban preempts federal law when it comes to emergency abortion care.

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Montana Democrats call on Sheehy to release hospital report he says he lied about

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The strange story of Republican Tim Sheehy’s bullet wound just keeps getting stranger.

Tuesday, Apr 23

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Missouri lawmaker caught on video cursing out fellow Republican

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Things got spicy at a Republican county campaign event in Perryville, Missouri, last Friday, in an expletive-filled confrontation that was caught on video.

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New ad: Trump couldn’t get hired at a mall—not with his legal baggage

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As Donald Trump's campaigning is confined to a Manhattan courtroom, the never-Trump political group Republican Voters Against Trump launched a new six-figure ad campaign Monday designed to highlight the 88 felony charges lodged against him.

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Watch Steve Bannon's bonkers interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke with alleged conman and former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon on his “War Room” show Monday. The interview was what anthropologists might call … bananas.

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Senate Republicans finally forced to do the right thing on Ukraine aid

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The Senate is finally set to pass Ukraine aid, with the first procedural vote Tuesday afternoon and final passage expected as soon as Tuesday night. Now that Republicans are forced to do the right thing, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham has found a…

With no cameras allowed, Trump trial is proving power of live blogs as news tools

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They watched from the courtroom or via closed-circuit television in an overflow room — roughly 140 reporters, most with laptops or other silenced electronic devices, serving up news at its most elemental and in rapid-fire fashion.

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Here's how we beat Ted Cruz and save the Senate

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It doesn't get nearly enough attention, but Democrats have some key opportunities to go on offense this fall as they fight to retain their narrow majority in the U.S. Senate.

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4 years ago today: Trump tried to make Clorox great again

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Happy bleachiversary, non-dead Americans! If you’re reading this, you likely didn’t listen to Donald Trump four years ago while COVID-19 was ravaging the globe. And you certainly took his words with a grain of salt—if not the entire…