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Wisconsin’s gerrymandering rides to the rescue of its gerrymandering
The red-imbalanced state has a new idea for protecting its disproportionate power.
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Trump endorsements helped win primaries … and lose in November
New research shows that Trump’s endorsed candidates from 2018 to 2022 took an estimated 1.5-point hit in general elections.
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Mitch McConnell says there’s ‘no excuse’ not to support more Ukraine aid
“Now is not the time to go wobbly,” the Senate Republican leader said Wednesday.
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Atlanta ‘Cop City’ protesters indicted under law used to target mob bosses
Georgia grand jury indicts 61 people on racketeering charges connected to protests against planned police and firefighter training facility.
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Donald Trump’s eternally unrealized dream of swaying the Black vote
There’s a big difference between apathy toward one candidate and enthusiasm for his opponent.
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Former GOP representative Mike Rogers launches Senate campaign in Michigan
Rogers, a former FBI special agent, is seeking to give the GOP a viable path to flipping a seat held by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), who is retiring at the end of her term.
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James Comer claims that Biden pseudonym email was code. That’s nonsense.
The Republican leading the Hunter Biden inquiry earns Four Pinocchios.
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Former Biden aide wins special Democratic congressional primary in Rhode Island
The Rhode Island congressional race won by a former Biden aide became a case study of factions within the Democratic Party.
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Biden awards Medal of Honor to retired Army Capt. Larry Taylor
Taylor, a retired Vietnam War helicopter pilot, risked his life by flying into enemy fire to rescue four soldiers in 1968.
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‘No evidence’ McConnell has seizure disorder, congressional physician says
Brian P. Monahan, the attending physician, wrote that he had examined McConnell after his second public freeze-up last week.
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Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years for Jan. 6
Convicted of seditious conspiracy, he recruited a group of 200 to march on the Capitol, though he wasn’t in D.C. that day.
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Rudy Giuliani’s stunning fall from grace, in one chart
A new poll punctuates his descent from the man nearly everyone could agree on post-9/11 to a starkly unpopular criminal defendant.
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Why it’s not surprising that 2024 polling is close
It’s not surprising that 2024 polling is close. This is the new normal.
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Biden didn’t protest or fight in Vietnam. Now he’s making a crucial visit.
Biden, who largely sat out his generation’s defining conflict, could cement the U.S.-Vietnam alliance.
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Alabama congressional map struck down again for diluting Black voting power
The judges said in the order that they are “deeply troubled that the State enacted a map that the State readily admits does not provide the remedy we said federal law requires.”
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Court undoes ruling allowing DOJ access to Scott Perry’s phone
An appellate court partially overturned the order of a judge who allowed investigators to look at the Republican lawmaker’s communications around Jan. 6.
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Would Trump pardon the Proud Boys?
One convicted member of the group seems to think he would.
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Could the 14th Amendment keep Trump off the ballot in 2024?
A legal theory gaining traction argues that Donald Trump’s actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection disqualify him from being president.
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Truth Social investment partner extends deadline, avoiding liquidation
The extension was granted three days before Digital World would have been required to dissolve itself and return money to investors.
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Biden’s age may be a growing problem for his reelection
Polls show increases in those who say Biden is too old, a group that now includes even two-thirds of Democrats. How much could it matter?
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