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Nov 12, 2025
House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein sent messages to his longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell and the author Michael Wolff suggesting that Donald J. Trump knew more about the convicted sex offender's abuse than he had acknowledged.
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Nov 12, 2025
Plus, why private air travel is booming.
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Nov 12, 2025
After a 54-day break, the House is expected to vote on the Senate-passed spending deal. Approval would clear it for President Trump's signature.
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Nov 12, 2025
Dale Romans, pitching himself as an independent-minded Democrat in the mold of Joe Manchin, will try to win a seat for the party in the deep-red state.
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Nov 12, 2025
U.S. representatives traveled by plane, train and motorcycle to Washington in order to vote on a bill that would end the government shutdown.
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Nov 11, 2025
Mr. Schlossberg, the son of Caroline Kennedy, said the Democratic Party needed someone who could stand up to President Trump and his allies.
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Nov 11, 2025
Despite considerable hand-wringing in the party about caving to Republicans in the government closure, some Democrats see potential upsides in the outcome.
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Nov 11, 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson had refused to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat of Arizona, claiming he lacked the power to do so.
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Nov 11, 2025
The shutdown still may be a net gain for Democrats.
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Nov 11, 2025
The state's top Republicans wanted to join President Trump's push to redraw congressional maps. But plans for a special session fell apart when some lawmakers resisted.
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Nov 11, 2025
Si yo estuviera en el Senado, no habría votado a favor de este acuerdo. Los cierres son una oportunidad para argumentar, y el país estaba empezando a prestar atención.
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Nov 11, 2025
Our reporter Karoun Demirjian in Washington describes the Senate deal to end the shutdown and why it happened now.
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Nov 11, 2025
El presidente de EE. UU. presionó a los demócratas tomando medidas punitivas que ningún gobierno anterior había tomado nunca durante un cierre.
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Nov 11, 2025
The Senate passed legislation to end the government shutdown. We explain what's happening.
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Nov 11, 2025
Plus, a new gambling scandal in pro sports.
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Nov 11, 2025
The shutdown still may be a net gain for Democrats.
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Nov 11, 2025
The senator from Pennsylvania chronicles his stroke, unlikely election victory and battle with depression. Just don't expect him to try to win you over.
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Nov 10, 2025
President Trump pressured Democrats by taking punishing actions no previous administration ever took during a shutdown.
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Nov 10, 2025
A bipartisan group of senators agreed on a deal to reopen the government.
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Nov 10, 2025
President Trump pressured Democrats by taking punishing actions no previous administration ever took during a shutdown.
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Nov 10, 2025
The agreement prompted a backlash within the party, not only against the Democratic defectors who supported it, but against Senator Chuck Schumer, the leader who did not.
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Nov 10, 2025
Robert Harshbarger Jr. pleaded guilty in 2013 to health care fraud and distributing a misbranded drug. His wife, Diana Harshbarger, is a member of Congress.
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Nov 10, 2025
Chi Ossé, a New York City councilman, has told allies he is preparing to challenge Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader of the House.
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Nov 10, 2025
Ms. Watson Coleman, 80, the first Black woman to represent New Jersey in Congress, said she would not run for a seventh term in the state's 12th Congressional District, near Trenton.
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Nov 10, 2025
Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers' phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each.
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Nov 10, 2025
Christine Pelosi, a Democratic activist, announced that she will run instead for a California State Senate seat, ending speculation that she would try to succeed Nancy Pelosi in the U.S. House.
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Nov 10, 2025
Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire voted to move to end the shutdown. But her daughter Stefany Shaheen, a congressional candidate in their state, sharply criticized the deal.
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Nov 10, 2025
Airlines brace for further chaos, even as eight Democratic senators broke ranks with their party to back a deal that could end the shutdown.
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Nov 10, 2025
Tras 40 días, un pequeño grupo de senadores demócratas se separó de su partido y votó con los republicanos a favor de una ley que pondría fin al cierre gubernamental más largo de la historia.
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Nov 10, 2025
This is how the shutdown ends?
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Nov 10, 2025
On Sunday the Senate took a crucial step toward reopening the government when a small group of Democrats joined Republicans to advance a bill.
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Nov 10, 2025
Senator Bernie Sanders is backing Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in her state's Democratic primary race for Senate, his latest attempt to pull the party to the left.
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Nov 10, 2025
On Sunday the Senate took a crucial step toward reopening the government when a small group of Democrats joined Republicans to advance a bill.
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Nov 10, 2025
Two of them are retiring, and none of the others face re-election in 2026.
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Nov 10, 2025
Congress moved closer to ending the government shutdown. We explain what's happening.
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Nov 10, 2025
Plus, a house-size spider web.
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Nov 10, 2025
This is how the shutdown ends?
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Nov 10, 2025
Eight senators broke from the Democratic caucus and agreed to a deal giving Republicans the 60 votes they needed to end the government shutdown. The measure still needs to be voted on in both chambers of Congress.
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Nov 10, 2025
For 40 days, Senator Chuck Schumer kept his caucus unified. But an end approached without Democrats achieving an extension of expiring health insurance subsidies.
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Nov 09, 2025
A small but critical group of Democrats backed legislation to fund the government, providing the votes to move forward with a spending package that would end the shutdown in coming days.
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Nov 09, 2025
A small but critical group of Democrats were said to support legislation to fund the government, providing the votes to eventually end the shutdown.
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Nov 09, 2025
The top Senate Republican sounded hopeful on Sunday that enough Democrats could be brought on board to move forward quickly on a measure that would reopen the government.
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Nov 09, 2025
The president claimed that the Affordable Care Act benefited insurance companies over people, saying he would work with both parties on the issue "once the Government is open."
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Nov 09, 2025
In Michigan, Maine and many other states, primary candidates will decide the party's direction on a host of policy issues, and ultimately whether it has a center-left or left-wing vision.
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Nov 08, 2025
Celebrating his recent redistricting victory, the California governor swooped into a state led by a Republican rival and sent the latest signal about his presidential ambitions.
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Nov 08, 2025
President Trump raged after Democrats won multiple elections this week. And now he's calling on lawmakers to take action: To do more gerrymandering, to outlaw mail-in ballots and to make voter ID laws more strict. Why is Trump so afraid of American voters? He's afraid of losing his majority in the midterm elections, argues Times Opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury.
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Nov 07, 2025
As Ms. Pelosi announced her retirement, she was celebrated for her long tenure in Washington. But back home, she was remembered for showing up at a terrifying moment when others turned away.
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Nov 07, 2025
A fight brewing in Massachusetts could preview Democrats' age battles.
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Nov 07, 2025
After weeks of stalemate, Senate Democrats said they were willing to reopen the government in exchange for a one-year extension of health care subsidies. Republicans ruled it out.
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Nov 07, 2025
After weeks of stalemate, Senate Democrats said they would be willing to reopen the government in exchange for a one-year extension of expiring health care subsidies.
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Nov 07, 2025
The first woman to hold the post also made history as one of the most significant speakers in modern times.
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Nov 07, 2025
The first female speaker of the House may be the last to truly rule the increasingly unruly chamber.
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Nov 07, 2025
The government shutdown, now the longest on record, is growing increasingly painful as more Americans start to feel its effects.
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Nov 07, 2025
She has shown herself more willing than most to put aside her own ego for the greater good.
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Nov 06, 2025
Representative Nancy Pelosi, after announcing her retirement, was praised by many San Franciscans for her tireless efforts on behalf of the city. Some of her work went unheralded.
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Nov 06, 2025
The daughter of a politician, she didn't expect to become one. But once she ran for office in 1987, there was no stopping her.
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Nov 06, 2025
President Trump has called on Republicans to end the filibuster as both parties search for a path out of the shutdown.
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Nov 06, 2025
The G.O.P. teed up a vote on a new spending package, but Democrats were insisting on a deal that would address expiring health care subsidies.
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Nov 06, 2025
All but two G.O.P. senators voted against a resolution to stop the president from expanding his military campaign against drug traffickers to include land targets inside Venezuela.
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Nov 06, 2025
The G.O.P. teed up a vote on a new spending package, but Democrats were insisting on a deal that would address expiring health care subsidies.
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Nov 06, 2025
Two Democrats have already announced their campaigns to replace Representative Nancy Pelosi in her San Francisco district, and others may join the race soon.
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Nov 06, 2025
She'll rightly be lionized as the first woman speaker, but in one sense, that was the most incidental of her myriad accomplishments.
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Nov 06, 2025
The first and only woman to be speaker of the House also was the most powerful and prominent woman in Washington to effectively confront President Trump.
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Nov 06, 2025
Representative Nancy Pelosi, the only female House speaker, said she will not run for re-election. She wielded immense power and became a Democratic icon, while she was demonized by conservatives.
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Nov 06, 2025
Representative Nancy Pelosi, the only female House speaker, said she will not run for re-election. She wielded immense power and became a Democratic icon, while she was demonized by conservatives.
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Nov 06, 2025
We explain a California vote to flip as many as five House seats for Democrats next year.
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Nov 05, 2025
Representatives Ken Calvert and Young Kim will vie for the same district, underscoring the dilemma faced by state Republicans as their territory dwindles after the passage of Proposition 50.
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Nov 05, 2025
State Senator Julia Salazar of New York said the officers accused of assault and sexual abuse in a 2023 case should face consequences.
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Nov 05, 2025
Pointing to "the plain nastiness" of politics and threats he has faced, Representative Jared Golden of Maine will retire instead of trying to keep the reddest House seat held by a Democrat.
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Nov 05, 2025
President Trump's declaration that the closure had hurt his party on Tuesday appeared to have stiffened Democrats' resolve and put at least a temporary damper on talks to end the crisis.
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Nov 05, 2025
First, Texas redistricted. Other states followed, and now California. Some legal experts say it's a crisis: "The wheels are coming off the car right now."
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Nov 05, 2025
Voters in California approved a redistricting plan intended to partially neutralize a push by President Trump to draw up more safe Republican House seats before next year's election. Kellen Browning, a political reporter for The New York Times based in San Francisco, explains how it happened and what's next.
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Nov 05, 2025
Republicans asked a federal court to block newly approved maps in California that were designed to flip as many as five House seats for Democrats.
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Nov 05, 2025
El presidente Trump y funcionarios de su gobierno indicaron que las consecuencias podrían intensificarse en los próximos días, aunque él se ha mantenido al margen de la crisis.
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Nov 05, 2025
The seat, long held by Black Houston leaders, has been vacant since March. The winner is likely to face Representative Al Green in a district altered by Republican gerrymandering.
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Nov 05, 2025
The partisan divisions in Washington are as deep as ever, but some voters in both parties have grown weary of the standoff and want it to end.
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Nov 05, 2025
The aggressive gerrymander could help Democrats flip as many as five House seats next year. While that could neutralize new maps in Texas, Republicans are redrawing more district lines elsewhere.
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Nov 05, 2025
Five districts held by Republicans become potential Democratic pickups, but some remain highly competitive. And a number of incumbent lawmakers have easier pathways to re-election.
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Nov 05, 2025
President Trump and administration officials indicated the fallout could intensify in the coming days, even as he has kept himself at a remove from the crisis.
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Nov 04, 2025
The aggressive gerrymander could help Democrats flip as many as five House seats next year. While that could neutralize new maps in Texas, Republicans are redrawing more district lines elsewhere.
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Nov 04, 2025
President Trump and administration officials indicated the fallout could intensify in the coming days, even as he has kept himself at a remove from the crisis.
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Nov 04, 2025
The county processes election ballots in a massive complex, where workers are monitored by live cameras and visitors are welcome.
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Nov 04, 2025
Mr. Padilla, a Democrat, held an impromptu news conference to announce he would not run for California's top office.
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Nov 04, 2025
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Texas special election.
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Nov 04, 2025
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Texas elections.
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Nov 04, 2025
Gov. Wes Moore said in a statement on Tuesday that the state would "explore every avenue possible to make sure Maryland has fair and representative maps."
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Nov 04, 2025
When Republicans sing Kumbaya.
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Nov 04, 2025
Mr. Youngkin signaled his national ambitions with trips to Iowa and South Carolina earlier this year, but he has said little about his future plans.
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Nov 04, 2025
Gov. Wes Moore said in a statement on Tuesday that the state would "explore every avenue possible to make sure Maryland has fair and representative maps."
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Nov 04, 2025
President Trump is showing mounting frustration at his inability to win confirmation of U.S. attorneys in blue states or break the filibuster's grip on the Senate. The G.O.P. has been uncharacteristically uncooperative.
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Nov 04, 2025
When Republicans sing Kumbaya.
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Nov 03, 2025
The former special counsel has told people in his orbit he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against the president denied to him by adverse court rulings and the 2024 election.
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Nov 03, 2025
President Trump is imploring lawmakers to redraw their congressional maps to stave off Democratic control of the House. But the debate over redistricting has revealed fissures within both parties.
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Nov 03, 2025
What began with Texas drawing what could be five new Republican districts in the House of Representatives at President Trump's behest has spiraled into a nationwide redistricting race. Nick Corasaniti, a New York Times reporter covering national politics, gives an overview.
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Nov 03, 2025
Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex.
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Nov 01, 2025
Congress is dying in real time.
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Nov 01, 2025
El líder de la mayoría del Senado no está dispuesto a recurrir a la "opción nuclear" para superar la obstrucción parlamentaria demócrata y reabrir el gobierno.
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Nov 01, 2025
Five Republicans just voted with Democrats to block Trump's tariffs. This proves Congress can act. So why isn't it using that same power to address hunger, health care costs or undeclared wars? The New York Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, explains.
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Nov 01, 2025
This is what happens when no one wants to govern.
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Nov 01, 2025
A 2013 attempt to leverage minority power in a health care fight blew up on Republicans. Can today be different for Democrats?
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