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Texas Democrats may have bought their party some time with their walkout, but both parties are mobilizing to redraw U.S. House maps ahead of the midterms.
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Tariffs on Indian exports to the United States will surge to 50 percent by late August, as part of an effort by President Trump to pressure Russia into resolving its war in Ukraine.
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We speak with former Labor Secretary Robert Reich about his new memoir, Coming Up Short, which tells his life story alongside the growth of inequality in America. Reich was born in 1946 as part of the baby-boom generation that enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity and social mobility in the decades after World War II. But he says those conditions were squandered as wealth concentration grew worse, labor unions were gutted and wages stagnated — helping to give rise to Donald Trump's brand of authoritarianism. "We allowed big money to take over," says Reich. "We, the baby boomers, although we did a lot of good things, we took for granted what we were given. … And Donald Trump is kind of the essence of what you do when you take your eyes off the prize."
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The battle over Republicans' push to create more red U.S. House seats seats has widened, with red and blue states now moving to counteract each other.
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The White House said the pledge would bring more of the company's supply chain and advanced manufacturing to the United States.
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The Washington Post's essential guide to power and influence in D.C. In today's edition: Democrats are growing frustrated with Gov. Susan Collins (R) in Maine.
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The effort by President Trump and his allies is the latest example of them trying to rewrite the rules to squeeze out every possible political advantage.
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Yet experts suggest that Moscow won't bow to the White House's threats.
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President Trump has been stymied for months in his efforts to find a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, after more than three years of war.
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President Trump shared a photograph that appeared to show a 19-year-old software engineer shirtless and bloodied, after an attempted carjacking in the capital.
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The Palestinian activist discusses the Columbia protests, ICE detention and free speech in America.
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As a Texas senator summoned the F.B.I. to round up Democrats, the redistricting war that began in Texas was spreading, with California aiming at five Republican House seats.
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Doing so would appease the prime minister's far-right coalition partners at a time when his grip on power remains fragile.
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Police arrested over 40 people outside the Trump International Hotel in New York City as hundreds gathered for a peaceful action led by Jewish leaders calling for the end to Israel's starvation and ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Democracy Now! was at the demonstration and spoke to some of the protesters, including Motaz Azaiza, renowned photojournalist from Gaza, and Rabbi Ari Lev Fornari, who was arrested. "We're here to say, 'Let Gaza live,' to risk everything to say, 'Never again,'" says Fornari.
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Gov. Greg Abbott filed his lawsuit as other top Republicans raised the prospect of intensifying law enforcement actions against Democrats.
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Trump has boasted of his skills brokering eace deals around the globe, and several world leaders have nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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The group would likely work with city officials, who have a strained relationship with President Trump, ahead of the 2028 Olympics.
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We get an update from the occupied West Bank, where U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson led a delegation to an illegal settlement amid escalating settler violence against Palestinians. Israel is refusing to release the body of Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin, who was shot to death by an Israeli settler a week ago. Eyewitness Ty Kavanaugh, a former U.S. Navy medic who is volunteering with Palestinian health organizations in the occupied West Bank, says Israeli soldiers worked with settlers, including the shooter, to identify both Palestinian villagers and international allies to arrest in the aftermath of the shooting. "It seemed like they were trying to pen everybody in just to antagonize people. They want them to throw rocks. … And they were trying to find excuses to arrest international observers or volunteers or the people who happened to be there," says Kavanaugh. Multiple members of Hadalin's family continue to languish in jail, even as the shooter, Yinon Levi, has been released from house arrest and now walks free. Levi owns both an illegal farming outpost in the West Bank and a demolition company that contracts with the Israeli military. "This is not [a] random attack … This is a state policy," says Basel Adra, a close friend of Hadalin's who worked with him on the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. He remembers Hadalin as a "voice of the community" who dedicated his life to advocating for Palestinian rights and existence.
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But negotiations to secure a hostage release deal have largely stalled on both sides.
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President Trump seized a moment ripe for another redistricting war.
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As Palestinians face dire starvation caused by the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, at least 181 Palestinians, including 94 children, have now died from hunger-related causes in Gaza. At the same time, in the West Bank, dozens of women are on hunger strike after an Israeli settler killed a Palestinian activist, Odeh Muhammad Hadalin. Israel is now refusing to return Hadalin's body to the family as his alleged killer walks free. Democracy Now! speaks with Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, who has family in the West Bank. "I think it's time for this idealized vision of Israel to shatter and for people to come to terms with the fact that we are funding and financing this ethnic cleansing, this genocide, this theft, day by day by day, of people's land in the West Bank," says Khalidi.
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Aware of its deeply unpopular national brand, the Democratic Party is turning to an unusually large crop of veterans to help it retake the House next year.
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Family and friends are reeling after an Israeli settler shot and killed Palestinian activist Odeh Muhammad Hadalin, an athlete, teacher and father of three young children. Hadalin helped produce the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, which follows Palestinians in the occupied West Bank community of Masafer Yatta as they struggle to stay on their land amid violent attacks by Jewish settlers. Hadalin's cousin Alaa calls him an exceptionally "humane" and "peaceful" person in an interview with 972 Magazine and Local Call reporter Oren Ziv, who joins us from Tel Aviv.
In January, the Trump administration lifted Biden-era sanctions on Hadalin's alleged killer, Yinon Levi, who has been released on house arrest. Meanwhile, multiple members of Hadalin's family are still imprisoned and awaiting hearings in Israel's military court after they were arrested by Israeli soldiers following the shooting. Ziv describes how Israeli soldiers also conducted a raid on a mourning party days after Hadalin died of his injuries. "They forced us out. And even in the entrance to the village, they started to throw stun grenades," Ziv says. "It's important to say it's not only an attack on the family, on his friends. It's an attempt to prevent us, the journalists, [from] investigating the case."
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With lawmakers out of Washington for a five-week summer recess, a field hearing in a swing state gave G.O.P. lawmakers a controlled environment for pitching a measure that polls show is unpopular.
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A major rift has formed within Donald Trump's MAGA base over his reversal of a campaign promise to release the "Epstein files" to the public. Many supporters see his denials of the existence of a "client list" belonging to Jeffrey Epstein, the powerful and well-connected investor who was charged with the sexual trafficking and assault of numerous teenage girls and young women before his death, as a betrayal of Trump's promises to "drain the swamp" and expose what many supporters believe is proof of criminal corruption among primarily Democratic "elites." Trump's insistence that his supporters drop their fixation on Epstein-related "conspiracy theories that his people have long nurtured" is "making it exceedingly difficult for some of his biggest supporters and boosters to not start at least suspecting that he has something to hide," says Rolling Stone's Asawin Suebsaeng, who has been reporting on the fallout from Trump and his Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the Epstein case.
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Despite her poor approval rating, Democratic campaign groups are praising plans for Vice President Kamala Harris to increase her presence on the campaign trail ahead of the midterms.
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