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Dean Phillips supporters launch ads attacking Biden’s electability
The spots, focused on generational change and the president’s current polling, will initially run in New Hampshire and the Washington area.
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Democratic congresswoman Anna Eshoo won’t seek reelection in 2024
The California Democrat, who was first elected to Congress in 1992, is among more than three dozen House members who have announced they will not seek another term.
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Many now see Haley as Trump’s top GOP challenger. She faces hurdles ahead.
Jockeying in a tier below the former president has moved, with Haley surging into a distant second place.
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Democrats’ border problem is getting real
The pro-immigration moment that Donald Trump unwittingly ushered in has suddenly waned. And even many Democrats are quite concerned.
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A boom of ballot initiatives is reshaping this state’s democracy
In Nebraska, senators refused to even debate paid sick leave. Now advocates want to give voters a direct say.
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Elon Musk provides yet another platform for far-right attacks
Those seeking favor from the world’s richest man are now doing time trials on the slippery slope to government repression of media.
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White House joins the social media platform Threads
The official White House accounts on Threads include the four principals: President Biden, first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff. In addition to its official White House account, the Biden administration launched a Spanish language account, LaCasaBlanca, on the platform.
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Here are the facts to prepare you for your Thanksgiving arguments
Here’s a news guide to this year’s Thanksgiving arguments over politics, pop culture, the economy, international news, sports and more. Good luck.
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Dreams dying in a Texas city where immigrants fought for an education
Undocumented people who came to the U.S. as children are seeing their ambitions thwarted amid legal uncertainty, despite public support.
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Appeals court decision could limit enforcement of Voting Rights Act
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that private citizens and groups cannot sue under a statute that forbids discrimination in state and local elections laws.
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Hispanic conservatives defend Univision amid backlash over Trump interview
Several prominent Hispanic conservatives are pushing back against the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’s effort to seek a meeting with the Spanish-language network.
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Appeals court suggests it may pare back Trump’s D.C. gag order
A three-judge panel struggled over how to protect Donald Trump’s “core political speech” but also ensure a fair D.C. election-obstruction trial.
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Trump’s improved image: Is it approval — or amnesia?
Like other recent former presidents, Trump has become at least somewhat more popular as an ex-president. A major 2024 question is whether that will hold up.
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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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