A quarter mile from the White House, the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in downtown Washington was once Abraham Lincoln’s place of worship. A black hitching pole where he would tie up the family carriage is still here. Lincoln would come here most Sundays during the Civil War, burying his …
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The Democratic Party is in trouble. Donald Trump swept the battleground states to defeat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, while Democrats ceded control of Congress to Republicans. The president has not been popular over his first months in office, yet Democrats haven’t been able to block Trump’s tax cuts …
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This story is being published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. In the weeks since President Donald Trump targeted American cities for “the single largest Mass Deportation Program in history” and deployed U.S. troops to the streets of Los Angeles, federal and local law enforcement officers have …
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President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders on Monday in a follow up to last week’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. While the back-to-back, high-stakes meetings between the warring leaders and their regional partners are aimed at finally bringing in an end to Russia’s …
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Donald Trump isn’t happy with the state of Washington, D.C. The president ordered the National Guard into the nation’s capital earlier this month —supposedly to crack down on crime, even though it’s been steadily declining. Now, he’s going after the city’s museums, including those that are part of the venerated …
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The New York City mayoral race is quickly becoming a full-blown social media war between Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and former Governor Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani, a self-described Democratic Socialist, blew away Cuomo in June’s primary election. The disgraced former governor refused to bow out of the race, choosing instead to …
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President Donald Trump pledged Monday that he will try to eliminate mail-in voting, after telling Fox News that authoritarian Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed with him on the subject during their meeting last week. Despite lacking any sort of constitutional power on the matter, Trump declared in a Truth Social …
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Almost three months before Zohran Mamdani’s earthquake of a victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary this summer, a substitute teacher and long-time union organizer named Alex Brower shocked Milwaukee City Hall by winning a special election for city council as a Democratic Socialist. Brower ran on highly specific …
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio scrambled to justify the administration’s lack of progress toward a Ukraine–Russia ceasefire during Donald Trump‘s recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. In a round of interviews on four Sunday news programs, Rubio, who used to be strongly anti-Putin, struggled to defend the …
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Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows food prices have spiked by 2.9 percent since last July, and wholesale prices on fresh and dry vegetables increased by nearly 40 percent last month — the biggest increase in the last three years. And rising prices are likely to continue. Why? Donald Trump‘s …
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