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In deep red West Virginia, Biden’s $3.5tn spending proposal is immensely popular
Working-class people – even Trump voters – understand the Build Back Better plan will benefit them Elizabeth Masters isn’t a natural Joe Biden supporter. A…
‘The No. 1 issue’: Trump whips up election falsehoods after flawed Arizona report
Friday’s flawed report from the Republicans investigating Arizona’s 2020 election isn’t changing minds or dampening enthusiasm among election conspiracy theorists. Instead, the movement keeps gaining…
Jan. 6 investigation accelerates as it turns toward Trump
The march to unearth Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 secrets has shifted into a sprint. In interviews, six members of the House panel investigating the Capitol…
Democrats’ 2022 midterms map is rapidly dwindling
Democrats are trying to unseat only about half as many Republican House members next year as they did in 2020, trimming their target list from…
Press freedoms crumble as authoritarianism spreads
The press is being pulverized in places where democracy is deteriorating, leaving the world with little visibility into how those regions are transforming under authoritarian…
Trump is already claiming the California recall is rigged
OAKLAND — Donald Trump opened his presidency by falsely claiming massive voter fraud in California. Now he’s returned to the subject, raising the prospect that…
McConnell: ‘Why we went’ to Afghanistan has been lost
Amid the ongoing efforts to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, “why we went there in the first place” has been lost, Senate Majority Leader Mitch…
A program that pays farmers not to farm isn’t saving the planet
President Joe Biden wants to combat climate change by paying more farmers not to farm. But he’s already finding it’s hard to make that work….
Drought, fires and politics put Biden’s California water plans on hold
As climate-driven drought and wildfires rage in California, the Biden administration is struggling to navigate the hard politics that come with deciding who gets access…
McCarthy faces speakership test on infrastructure vote
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blessed President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure deal, but with the House majority on the line, Kevin McCarthy is facing a…
Video Of Trump Bragging About Ordering Afghanistan Withdrawal Goes Viral As Right-Wing Trolls Blame Biden
Former President Donald Trump speaks to a crowd gathered at the Lorain County Fair Grounds in Wellington, Ohio, on June 26, 2021. | Source: Anadolu…
Defiant Biden stands ‘squarely behind’ decision to withdraw from Afghanistan
President shifts blame to his predecessor, Donald Trump, and the unwillingness of Afghan forces to fight the Taliban US politics – live coverage A defiant…
The GOP waves white flag in the same-sex marriage wars
To mark the beginning of Pride Month this year, Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel did what party leaders do on these types of occasions:…
Inside America’s Covid-reporting breakdown
There were too many cases to count. Covid-19 was spreading rapidly throughout the United States, as cold winter weather began to drive people indoors, but…
Texas hold ’em: Biden aides push Cruz to lift ‘death grip’ on nominees
The secretary of State is lighting up Capitol Hill phone lines. His underlings are using committee hearings and private exchanges to raise alarms. An outside…
Yellen urges Congress to act on debt ceiling
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday implored Congress to address the creeping debt limit, the latest in a series of warnings in recent weeks. Yellen…
President Biden wants half of new vehicles to be zero-emissions by 2030
President Biden is throwing more of his weight behind electric cars. Biden is signing an Executive Order that sets a target for half of all…
Poll: Public opinion of Supreme Court sags over past year
The Supreme Court’s standing with the American public has dipped over the past year, as the high court and its makeup have taken on greater…
CDC extends policy allowing fast-track deportations of immigrants
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday extended a controversial Trump-era policy that expels migrants to prevent the spread of COVID. Why…
Call notes show Trump urged DOJ to declare election “corrupt” and “leave the rest to me”
Then-President Trump pressed top Justice Department officials in a December phone call to “just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to…
Trump’s false election fraud claims fuel Michigan GOP meltdown
Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by more than 150,000 votes in Michigan last November. Trump and the Michigan Republican Party still aren’t over it. The…
Can Rob Portman seal the big bipartisan deal?
If you called central casting for a senator to cut a bipartisan infrastructure deal, you’d get Rob Portman. The Ohio Republican, a former White House…
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