By Philip Bump, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Earlier this month, Pennsylvania state Sen. Camera Bartolotta (R) repeatedly found herself challenging anti-immigrant rhetoric from the leader of her party and his allies. Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, had isolated Charleroi, Pa., in Bartolotta’s district as an example of the sort of place under […]
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Biden urges Israel and Lebanon to step back from all-out war
Yasmeen Abutaleb, Michael Birnbaum, John Hudson, The Washington Post (c) 2024 NEW YORK – President Joe Biden urged Israel and Hezbollah to step away from the precipice of all-out war on Tuesday, warning in a major speech before the United Nations that such a conflict could be catastrophic and arguing that there was still time for the […]
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Harris voices support for eliminating filibuster to secure abortion rights
Mariana Alfaro, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris voiced support Tuesday for eliminating the Senate filibuster to pass a law restoring the protections of Roe v. Wadeand securing abortion rights nationwide. “I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe,” Harris told Wisconsin Public Radio. “To actually put back in law the protections […]
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Tension in the Middle East looms over Biden’s last big U.N. meeting
By Yasmeen Abutaleb, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden will head to the U.N. General Assembly on Monday, seeking to cement his foreign policy legacy amid the growing threat of war between Israel and Hezbollah and questions about his administration’s handling of Gaza. The annual gathering, which brings together world leaders in New […]
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House moves toward averting a shutdown, sidestepping a Trump demand
By Jacob Bogage, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Defying former president Donald Trump’s demand for a government shutdown, the Republican-controlled House appears poised Monday to advance a bipartisan funding bill to keep federal agencies open on the cusp of November’s elections. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) late on Sunday introduced a three-month funding extension with […]
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Project 2025 is a huge blunder from Trump’s allies
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 There is vanishingly little doubt that Project 2025 has become one of the most unpopular political programs or ideas in recent history. The question is increasingly how much voters intend to hang that millstone around Donald Trump’s neck. A new NBC News poll Sunday is the latest […]
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Supreme Court rejects bid to put Green Party’s Jill Stein on Nevada ballot
Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post (c) 2024 The Supreme Court refused Friday to intervene in the Green Party’s efforts to put presidential candidate Jill Stein on the ballot in the battleground state of Nevada for the November election. The Nevada Green Party had asked the justices to halt a ruling from the state’s high […]
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Democrats hope Mark Robinson scandal will damage Trump and change 2024 map
Hannah Knowles, The Washington Post (c) 2024RALEIGH, N.C. – Democrats hope that the scandal enveloping Mark Robinson, the GOP pick for governor in North Carolina, could not only derail Robinson’s own campaign but also hurt Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in the critical battleground state. CNN reported Thursday that Robinson, the lieutenant governor of North […]
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Pro-Trump Georgia election board votes to require hand counts of ballots
By Amy Gardner, The Washington Post (c) 2024 ATLANTA – The Georgia State Election Board approved a rule Friday requiring counties in the critical presidential battleground to hand-count all ballots this year, potentially upending the November election by delaying the reporting of results. The change was spearheaded by a pro-Trump majority that has enacted a […]
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The politics of immigration play differently along the US-Mexico border
By Morgan Lee, Associated Press SUNLAND PARK, N.M. (AP) — The politics of immigration look different from the back patio of Ardovino’s Desert Crossing restaurant. That’s where Robert Ardovino sees a Border Patrol horse trailer rumbling across his property on a sweltering summer morning. It’s where a surveillance helicopter traces a line in the sky, […]