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Garland comes before Congress with his record in the spotlight

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 4:00am
The attorney general who vowed to keep the Justice Department free of politics has led it through two indictments of Donald Trump and one of Hunter Biden.
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House flounders as GOP fails to appease hard-right members on funding

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 7:52pm
House Republicans will return to negotiations over the continuing resolution as a Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government and avert a shutdown looms.
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Letter from Republican senators slams change in dress code enforcement

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 7:17pm
At the center of much of the GOP ire is Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who often dons hoodies and shorts while working — although not on the Senate floor.
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Biden’s efforts to court India challenged by assassination claim

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 6:58pm
Biden has aggressively wooed India’s Modi as a counterweight to China. A claim that India killed a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil complicates that effort.
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Biden to create new office of gun violence prevention

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 5:09pm
The move, long been pushed by gun control groups, comes amid stalled progress on gun-safety legislation
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John Fetterman would be particularly hard to body-double

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 4:23pm
The very large senator has been the target of particularly dumb online conspiracies.
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Biden, at U.N., urges leaders not to abandon Ukraine

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 3:15pm
In New York, the president seeks to reignite backing for Ukraine amid signs that support for aid is flagging.
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Ukraine live briefing: At U.N. General Assembly, Zelensky calls for complete Russian withdrawal

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 2:56pm
“Mass destruction is gaining momentum,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
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The age gap in U.S. politics contributes to the cynicism gap

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 2:02pm
The clear divide between old and young Americans overlaps with confidence in the system itself.
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First Biden impeachment inquiry hearing set for next week

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 1:23pm
A White House spokesman called the effort a “baseless, evidence-free impeachment stunt” and suggested Republicans should instead focus on avoiding a government shutdown.
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Kevin McCarthy and his caucus contest valuable terrain: Attention

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 1:03pm
The House speaker gets more mentions on Fox — but falls behind on other metrics.
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Trump hits new poll highs with Black, Hispanic voters. What to make of it?

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 12:44pm
Either Trump’s standing in early 2024 polls is inflated, or we are headed for a sizable realignment in how people of color cast their ballots.
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Nikki Haley wants to make the presidential race about Kamala Harris

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 10:13am
Haley’s attacks on Harris are renewing questions about gender in the 2024 campaign
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Both politically and legally, Trump’s classified docs defense weakens

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 10:01am
New reporting from ABC News suggests both Trump’s indifference to classifications and efforts to shield his possession of such documents.
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Rudy Giuliani’s former lawyer sues him for $1.36M over alleged unpaid fees

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 8:26am
Attorney Robert Costello says the fees are owed for years of unpaid work. It is the latest in a series of legal obstacles faced by Rudy Giuliani.
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How not to fix Social Security, by a GOP group and Biden

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 2:00am
President Biden bashed a plan he says would cut benefits, but the timeline for adopting a House GOP plan would do little to solve Social Security’s fiscal woes.
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Trump to address Detroit autoworkers instead of attending Republican debate

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 09/18/2023 - 7:07pm
The former president’s speech will take place before current and former striking union autoworkers, according to an adviser to Trump involved in the planning.
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Anxiety ripples through the Democratic Party over Biden

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 09/18/2023 - 5:07pm
Persistent concerns over Biden’s age come amid a series of polls showing he’s neck-and-neck with Trump
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What the unsparing anti-impeachment op-ed by the GOP’s Ken Buck betrays

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 09/18/2023 - 4:07pm
Buck accused his fellow Republicans of essentially inventing a justification to impeach. The pushback from within the impeaching party wasn’t like this with Trump.
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Deep-pocketed group backing Joe Biden launches Latino outreach campaign

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 09/18/2023 - 4:00pm
The costly, early advertising spending by Future Forward USA Action echoes a similar early Biden campaign ad strategy to sell the president’s accomplishments.
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