Trump's arch could disrupt the historical significance of many of Washington's sites, report says

President Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot-tall (76-meter) memorial arch could disrupt the historical significance of dozens of sites near its planned location, according to an assessment by the Natio...

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Man detained at New Jersey immigration facility dies after 'medical emergency': ICE

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, had been detained at the Delaney Hall facility.

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GOP Staffers Say the Party Has a Groyper Problem

Party veterans are concerned that the pipeline of young Republican talent is veering off course — and into terminally online extremism.

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Capital One says it closed Trump bank accounts 'for anti-money laundering reasons'

The disclosure came in a court filing from the financial institution.

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Congress May Actually Try to Put a (Temporary) Limit on Trump’s Latest Power Grab

With the prospect of another government shutdown looming, the Senate Appropriations Committee released the text of a continuing resolution (CR)...

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Shifting left, Democrats see universal health care, taxing the rich as 'essential,' Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Liberal Democrats now make up a clear majority of their party and view universal healthcare, greater abortion access and higher taxes on the rich as essential political

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Trump Announces A 'Big Decision' Over... What?!?

The president hasn’t quite made up his mind on this one yet.

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Trump administration is withholding more than $1B in Medicaid funds from California and Minnesota, in latest example of weaponizing real and imagined fraud

For six decades, politicians have blurred the distinction between protecting Medicaid from abuse and using abuse to discredit Medicaid itself.

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California Democratic Party Breaks With Newsom, Endorses Billionaire Tax

The move underscores the support that the one-time wealth tax has picked up from some Democrats.

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Democrats have a new problem as they try to win the Senate

The big hurdle for Democrats’ Senate majority hopes at the start of the 2026 election cycle seemed clear: The map was terrible for them.

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There’s a new proposal to save Social Security before $500 monthly cuts hit

Some 70 million recipients, including retirees, spouses and dependents, could see cuts of about $500 per month in seven years, studies show.

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US reporter fighting back after border patrol seized his cellphones

Max Blumenthal says he was singled out at airport after Trump ally Laura Loomer targeted him in online posts

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Trump’s mail voting appeal tests Supreme Court’s anti-chaos election rule

The president’s emergency appeal on his mail ballot order is poised to test a 20-year-old Supreme Court principle that was intended to avoid chaos before elections.

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WATCH: Jim Jordan Sputters When Asked if Alleged Reflecting Pool Vandal Should Get Cash from ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund — After Trump DOJ Dropped Case

Jim Jordan went off the rails Sunday when asked if a former Olympian charged with desecrating the Reflecting Pool should be compensated.

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Congress ended surprise medical bills — doctors and insurers hate it

Lawmakers agree that the bill is flawed. But hostilities between insurers and doctors could stymie their efforts to fix it.

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ICE agents descended on a cannabis farm. The lives of an army vet, a farmworker and professor changed forever

Raids on the Glass House Farms in California became a ‘litmus test’ for how much violence agents could inflict during Trump’s deportation campaign

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Trump slashes Medicare drug subsidies, cutting against affordability message

The end of a subsidy program that helped keep prices down for Medicare drug coverage could leave millions of seniors with higher monthly costs, a move that undermines the Trump administration’s messag...

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Acting US Attorney General Blanche rescinds 'anti-weaponization' fund before confirmation vote

Aug 2 (Reuters) - Acting U.S.

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Labor Department’s Weird New Trump Meme Backfires Spectacularly After Brutal Fact Check

The claim about the president’s record doesn’t match reality.

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5-year-old held 118 days in Connecticut immigration custody becomes focus of Senate forum

The 5-year-old girl spent 118 days in federal immigration custody.

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Maine just told ICE to get out

Hundreds of the state's police departments, school districts, and libraries are now required to refuse cooperation with the agency.

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The Brief: Trump Threatens Thune’s Job in Renewed Bid to Suppress the Vote

Good morning. It was great to meet all of you who came out to our event in New York last...

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Trump’s DOJ charged hundreds with assaulting officers. Many cases were dropped, but the damage was done

By Brad Heath, Kristina Cooke, M.B.

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‘Our country is the mission’: more than 100 ex-Nasa astronauts launch new voting campaign

Astronauts for America liken effort to instill trust and faith back in constitution’s principles and democratic institutions to ‘making a course correction’

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Trump demands another $10M from Congress to cover his disastrous Freedom 250 event costs

Democratic senator wants a ‘full accounting’ for Freedom 250’s spending after the administation’s latest request for a ‘bailout’

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GOP states join DOJ in asking Supreme Court to let Trump block some mail ballots

The states essentially contend that it’s too soon to block a very likely illegal order because we don’t yet, less than 100 days before the midterms, have any idea how the administration might attempt ...

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