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How Jamaica-born Judge Tanya S. Chutkan became Trump’s latest target

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 5:11pm
Tayna Chutkan has been a public defender, a high-powered private attorney and a Jan. 6 judge. Now she presides over Donald Trump’s D.C. election case.
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The partisan gap on vaccines isn’t limited to covid

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 3:13pm
It’s just particularly pronounced in that case.
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Menendez, facing more calls to resign, to address fellow Senate Democrats

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 3:11pm
More than half of the Democratic caucus has encouraged Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) to step down following his indictment last week on bribery charges.
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Republicans are doing their best to get blamed for a shutdown

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 2:27pm
The GOP usually gets blamed for shutdowns anyway. But a series of developments and comments appear to make that more likely.
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Will this be the least important presidential debate in U.S. history?

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 1:49pm
The first Republican debate didn’t change things much. With the stage combining for less than half the support of GOP voters, the second one isn’t likely to either.
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Court rulings poised to play pivotal role in battle for Congress

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 1:39pm
The Supreme Court’s Alabama decision was just one among a series of redistricting cases expected to influence the balance of power on Capitol Hill.
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The impeachment inquiry is starting exactly as might have been expected

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 11:54am
The unreliable chairman of the House Oversight Committee offers a dubious new allegation as he prepares to take second-hand testimony.
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A judge’s conspicuous note on Trump, the Saudis and ‘influence buying’

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 10:53am
Donald Trump argued that his inflated property values were legitimate because the Saudis would pay them. Judge Arthur Engoron was seemingly taken aback.
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How much would your house be worth if the Trump Organization owned it?

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 10:29am
See how your home price would look if you applied the same level of inflation that a New York judge laid out in a ruling in a fraud case against Trump.
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Bidens’ dog bites Secret Service officer in 11th known aggressive incident

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 9:13am
Commander, a German shepherd, previously bit several people between late 2022 and early 2023.
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That wasn’t on my 2023 Republican debate bingo game card...

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 8:44am
Pick which topics the candidates might discuss and play along while you watch the debate.
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Lina Khan’s Amazon lawsuit is nothing like her famous law article

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 7:00am
The Amazon lawsuit the FTC filed Tuesday shows how Lina Khan has evolved as a regulator.
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What Republican voters think of candidates before the second debate

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 5:00am
Our poll found Donald Trump has the most positive image among potential Republican voters.
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What to watch and who is participating in the second Republican debate

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 4:00am
Seven candidates have qualified for the second GOP presidential debate. Here’s what’s at stake for each candidate.
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Sen. Bob Menendez faces rapidly growing calls from colleagues to resign

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 8:25pm
A growing list of Democrats in the Senate are calling for the senator from New Jersey to resign after being indicted on bribery-related charges.
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Republican candidates embrace Reagan. But he’d be out of step in Trump’s GOP.

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 6:35pm
The 40th president’s legacy will be the backdrop of the Republican race Wednesday, when seven candidates will debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
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Senate moves forward on short-term deal to avert government shutdown

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 6:29pm
The measure would fund the government for six weeks and include additional money for Ukraine and domestic disaster relief. But its future in the House is unclear.
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The GOP’s defenses of Bob Menendez, and what they ignore

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 4:47pm
Cotton’s and Rubio’s defenses aren’t really about Menendez, of course. But they reinforce a vastly — and increasingly — different standard of accountability between the parties.
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Fentanyl smuggling is hard to stop — but easy to use as a cudgel

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 4:45pm
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy keeps using fentanyl deaths to criticize the Biden administration, but it’s not clear he has a solution.
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Supreme Court won’t let Alabama use disputed House map for 2024

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 2:53pm
The Supreme Court refused Alabama’s request to hold 2024 elections under a congressional map judged to be an unlawful effort to dilute Black voters’ power.
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