Half of Every Dollar: How Household Debt Eats Into Workers’ Income Gains

Executive Summary For years, the headline economic data describing workers’ well-being have been weak: over the year ending in August, the most recent

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Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now

The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.

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The Grim Reality Behind a New Census Report

Trump administration and Republican policies are pushing more households into poverty. Immigrants are hit hardest.

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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting

ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...

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Taking Back Our Democracy, an FCDC National Affairs Committee Forum (Sept. 23, 2026)

YouTube video by Fairfax County Democratic Committee

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AI’s Anti-Woman Problem

As regulators tackle AI safety, they should also consider bias.

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Opinion | ‘They Picked the Wrong Candidate’: 12 Texas Swing Voters on the Paxton-Talarico Race

The group discusses the economy, the president and the U.S. Senate race in Texas.

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Inside Trump’s plan for the ‘biggest DOJ election observer effort in history’ | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump and his allies inside and outside his administration are aiming to blanket polling places with an expanding network of party and federal election monitors this November, intensi...

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Lawmakers Give Hegseth Deadline as 12 Transgender Service Members Allegedly Never Received Separation Pay After Forced Exits

Democratic lawmakers wants Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to respond to a legislative inquiry by Oct. 14 following claims of broken promises.

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USDA Replaces Food Stamps With One Giant Rutabaga

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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access

The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...

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‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues

James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.

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The U.S. Will Admit ‘Primarily’ White South Africans as Refugees

The country’s refugee cap will more than double in October for next fiscal year, the State Department informed Congress on Tuesday.

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Economic Frustration Tests Trump’s Standing With Rural Voters, New KFF-AP Poll Finds - KFF Health News

Rural voters rank the cost of living and cost of healthcare as top issues they want to hear about from midterm candidates as they face a tightening pocketbook pinch.

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Trump officials plan to cut hundreds of thousands from ACA, claiming fraud

Vance targeted ACA enrollment as part of a broader administration crackdown on suspected fraud.

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Exclusive | Bill Pulte Scrutinized Mortgages of Trump’s Political Rivals—and Todd Blanche

The episode, which the housing chief denied, occurred as Pulte and Blanche clashed over an investigation into Sen. Adam Schiff.

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Immigrants with final deportation orders disappear from ICE detainee locator

The change will make it harder for many families and attorneys to determine where an immigrant is being held after being taken into ICE custody.

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The Precarious Future of Vote by Mail

Democracy’s defenders won round one, but Donald Trump has done plenty of damage to Americans’ faith in voting at home.

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Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies in a Testing Breakout, Google Says

A third-party test company inadvertently gave internet access to Google’s Gemini and other artificial intelligence models during cybersecurity testing.

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Trump Says He Has Banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico From White House

In an insult-laden post on Truth Social, President Trump said he was instituting the ban because of reporting from the outlets that he deemed “fake news.”

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Judge says Trump’s board may not demolish Kennedy Center without warning

Rep. Joyce Beatty asked a federal judge to clarify that the center cannot be torn down after images surfaced of the president reviewing what appeared to be a printout related to the institution.

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Trump’s arch will harm historic sites but must proceed, federal officials say

National Park Service officials acknowledge that President Donald Trump’s planned arch would harm dozens of historic sites but say it must move forward anyway.

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Could "Trump Regretters" Decide the Midterm Elections? | Tina Tang

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Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress

Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt

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GOP candidates are largely ignoring Trump’s midterm advice, Post analysis shows

A review of over a million social media messages reveals that Republicans haven’t heeded the president’s call to act like he’s on the ballot and promise $5,000 payouts.

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More than a third of D.C.-area households say they face food insecurity

A Capital Area Food Bank study found the worst conditions in five years as job losses, rising costs and federal program cuts hit residents.

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Pennsylvania Officials Report Fourth Measles Death, as Outbreak Grows

This year has become the deadliest year for measles in the United States since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000.

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