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Americans are buying guns — but maybe not the Americans you think
Last week, NBC News presented a surprising bit of data: for the first time in its two decades of asking, a majority of respondents to its national poll indicated that they lived in a home with a firearm. The number deserves some context.
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Ron DeSantis meets with potential GOP donors to new super PAC
A newly formed super PAC, Fight Right, is backing Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign, amid tensions between his top allies.
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How risky for Biden is Arab American anger over Israel?
The question is less about numbers than about broad, shared frustration.
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Roommates file $16 million suit against police who shot their dog
The owners of a dog that was shot by officers in Prince George’s County, Md., and later had to be euthanized, are suing the police.
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Murder trial begins for Prince George’s officer charged with killing man
In 2020, Prince George’s police Cpl. Michael Owen Jr. was charged with shooting William Green during a traffic stop. Nearly four years later, his trial begins.
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Trump wants a do-over on repealing Obamacare. That seems unwise.
The former president previewed a new effort to “terminate” the law in his potential second term, even though the American people — including Republicans — are not really asking for that.
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With Trump moving closer to renomination, rewriting Jan. 6 attack gains urgency
The causes of the Capitol riot are clear. So is the motivation of those who are trying to blur the question.
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This lawsuit could disrupt the U.S. tax system. Key facts are in dispute.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Dec. 5 in Moore v. United States, a challenge to an offshore earnings tax passed in 2017 to offset the Trump tax cuts.
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Donations to GOP drop as worries mount about the party’s finances
Donors have not cut as many large checks to the RNC in recent years, and the party’s small-dollar program has also suffered ahead of the 2024 elections
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Univision anchor Jorge Ramos rebukes network for not challenging Trump
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos said Saturday that reporters should ask hard questions of Donald Trump in the wake of a widely criticized interview by the network.
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White House grapples with internal divisions on Israel-Gaza
The Hamas attacks and Israeli reaction have roiled the administration like no other issue.
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Biden hails hostage deal as progress — but huge challenges lie ahead
The president highlighted the U.S. role in helping to broker a pause in fighting, a rare bit of good news in a conflict that poses serious political risks for him.
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Democratic presidential candidate Phillips announces he won’t run for reelection in House
The 54-year-old told the Star Tribune it would be “irresponsible to continue to string both my constituents along and the other candidates who both have entered the race and who might be interested in entering the race.”
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Charles Peters, Washington Monthly founder, dies at 96
He vowed his magazine, a training ground for generations of reporters, would probe official Washington “the way that an anthropologist looks at a South Sea island.”
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Biden’s resistance to cease-fire could alienate youth voters in 2024
As the death toll rises in the Middle East, some young U.S. voters dissatisfied with President Biden’s response are considering a third-party vote or sitting out.
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New York Mayor Eric Adams is accused of sexual assault
The summons, filed under New York’s Adult Survivors Action, the plaintiff also accuses Adams of employment discrimination and retaliation in 1993, when they both worked for the city.
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OpenAI and X: Promises of populist technology, shaped by a single man
In the end, power in Silicon Valley is largely held by a small cadre of believers and loyalists who deliberate in secrecy and answer to no one.
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CEO of pro-DeSantis super PAC resigns amid rising tensions
Never Back Down CEO Chris Jankowski stepped down on Wednesday amid increasingly public divisions over strategy.
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Jerry Doolittle, who wrote White House jokes and murder mysteries, dies at 90
A former Post journalist, Mr. Doolittle left the diplomatic corps after helping disclose details of the U.S. bombing of Laos during the Vietnam War.
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How to argue about politics this Thanksgiving
Could Biden lose? What to make of Trump’s authoritarian lean?
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