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What happens after Donald Trump’s ‘final battle’?
The former president’s invocation of an electoral apocalypse is worth heeding.
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The demand for Capitol riot footage reaches its misinformation endgame
For years, the right insisted that the government was hiding information undermining the riot “narrative.” Now that they have some video, they’re trying to prove themselves right.
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A judge says Trump incited insurrection. Other judges have come close.
The Colorado judge is the first to rule that Trump incited an insurrection. She is not the first to lay blame at his feet for Jan. 6.
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Appeals panel grills both sides on Trump’s D.C. gag order
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is hearing arguments about whether Donald Trump should be subject to a gag order in his election subversion case in Washington.
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Young voters are not interested in the institutions Biden needs
A generation raised on gig economics is making political decisions that aren’t rooted in party loyalty.
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Jimmy Carter’s most exciting moment was ‘when Rosalynn said she’d marry me’
After former president Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, he said getting Rosalynn Carter to marry him was the happiest moment of his life.
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Tracking Biden administration political appointees to fill top roles
Follow the president's progress filling nearly 800 positions, among the 1,200 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
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Many former Trump aides say he shouldn’t be president. Will it matter?
Critics are grappling with how they can puncture Donald Trump’s candidacy in 2024, whether they should coordinate and whether their voices can affect the race.
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With Rosalynn’s passing, Jimmy Carter faces life alone
The Carters, who met as small children in Plains, Ga., were married for 77 years. Friends say it is ‘hard to imagine one without the other.’
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Congress averted a government shutdown, but the real fiscal fight is ahead
The House and Senate remain billions of dollars apart on their bills that would fund all government departments until Sept. 30.
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Biden campaign works to ease Democratic anxiety over reelection chances
The president and his team are facing calls to become more active and aggressive in highlighting the contrast with his most likely opponent, Donald Trump.
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Vulgarities, insults, baseless attacks: Trump backers follow his lead
Many GOP voters are not just tolerating but relishing and emulating Trump’s often crass and cruel approach to politics.
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Rosalynn Carter, first lady who championed mental health, dies at 96
She sat in on Cabinet meetings of her husband, Jimmy Carter, advised on policy issues and pushed Congress to pass mental health legislation.
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Antisemitism was rising online. Then Elon Musk’s X supercharged it.
Antisemitism has long festered on the internet, but the Israel-Gaza war and the loosening of content moderation on X have propelled it to unprecedented levels.
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Antisemitism was rising online. Then Elon Musk’s X supercharged it.
Antisemitism has long festered on the internet, but the Israel-Gaza war and the loosening of content moderation on X have propelled it to unprecedented levels.
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Latino backlash grows over Donald Trump’s friendly Univision interview
Members of Congress plan to ask for a meeting with a company executive as a famous actor, one of Univision’s founders and Latino rights advocacy groups speak out.
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Voters must take Trump seriously and literally. The stakes are that high.
Trump may be a performance artist, but with his shocking provocations, he is telling us what he would do in a second term as president. That’s why taking him seriously and literally is required.
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Trump and Biden take shots at each other, looking past rest of GOP field
The rhetoric of the two leading candidates often suggests that the general-election campaign has already begun.
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Lawmakers bracing for many congressional retirements, even from younger members
In recent weeks, several relatively new members of the House have announced retirements, setting off fears that the institutional dysfunction is causing a political brain drain.
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Hunter Biden’s career of benefiting from his father’s name
The president’s son has had a complex, even tortured relationship with the ‘Biden brand’
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