A coalition of Democratic senators and representatives is calling on the Biden administration to finalize its plans to limit marijuana prosecutions at the federal level before he leaves office. In a Tuesday letter drafted by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) along with Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Earl …
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Seth Moulton’s had a tough few weeks. Two days after the election, The New York Times published a post-mortem of the 2024 general election contest in which the Democratic Massachusetts congressman appeared to blame his party’s poor performance on its support for trans rights. The comments came after Donald Trump …
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This story was published in partnership with Drilled, a global multimedia reporting project focused on climate accountability, and was supported by the Pulitzer Center. It’s become increasingly common in coverage of the annual United Nations climate negotiations — the Conference of the Parties, or COP — to see stories about …
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Matt Gaetz may have withdrawn his name from consideration to become Donald Trump’s attorney general over sexual misconduct accusations — but alleged sexual abuser Pete Hegseth is still fighting to persuade Republican senators to confirm him to one of the most powerful positions in government. Hegseth was already facing an …
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Most figures at the forefront of America’s anti-abortion movement were less than enthusiastic when Donald Trump announced last week he plans to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services — the agency that governs federal policy related to reproductive health. RFK Jr.’s …
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Russia’s unprecedented use of a massive ballistic missile against a city in central Ukraine is a message to Kyiv and its allies, and shows the war is escalating in unpredictable ways with just two months left in the Biden administration. In the early morning on Thursday, Russia struck Dnipro, an …
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Matt Gaetz was Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general for eight days. The former Florida congressman’s historically short stint as a presidential pickcame to an end on Thursday when he bowed out of consideration, claiming he no longer wanted the frenzy over the sexual misconduct allegations against him to distract …
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Had Donald Trump lost the 2024 election, several Republicans close to him, GOP lawmakers, and conservative megadonors would have been quick to blame his top billionaire surrogate: Elon Musk. In fact, in the weeks leading up to Election Day, a number of these sources — including one senior Trump campaign …
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WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was on a roll, seeming to thoroughly enjoy himself as he commanded the stage at the annual black-tie dinner gala hosted by the Federalist Society in Washington, D.C. The Nov. 14 dinner came midway through the organization’s three-day National Lawyers Convention, a gathering …
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SPRINGFIELD, OHIO — It’s been two weeks since Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, in part on a pledge to aggressively purge the small city of Springfield, Ohio, of its large Haitian immigrant population. To the president-elect, it doesn’t matter that the Haitian workers and families are there legally; …
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