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Oct 20, 2025
More than any other presidential actions, clemencies tell us who presidents are.
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Oct 20, 2025
The remarks by Representative Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, align with efforts by the president and G.O.P. leaders to portray the political left as un-American.
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Oct 20, 2025
Lessons from a Democrat who won in a Republican state.
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Oct 20, 2025
Alex Bores, a second-term state lawmaker and former software engineer, joins a growing primary field for the seat in a deeply Democratic district.
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Oct 20, 2025
Alex Bores, a second-term state lawmaker and former software engineer, joins a growing primary field for the seat in a deeply Democratic district.
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Oct 20, 2025
Senator Ruben Gallego says Democrats must strategize more shrewdly. President Trump's base has "already set up the field to fight in," he says. "They have all the information and we're just playing catch-up.
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Oct 20, 2025
Lessons from a Democrat who won in a Republican state.
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Oct 20, 2025
The antidote to our polarized politics is a creative, re-energized political center.
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Oct 19, 2025
The spending showdown has highlighted Republicans' failure to produce an alternative to Obamacare, which many of them assail but concede is too politically risky to undo.
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Oct 18, 2025
On Friday evening, President Trump commuted the sentence of former Representative George Santos. "Good luck George, have a great life!" the president said.
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Oct 18, 2025
The Trump administration risks squandering the progress it has made in securing the border.
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Oct 18, 2025
La medida tiene pocas posibilidades, dada la falta de voluntad de la mayoría de los legisladores republicanos para desafiar al presidente Donald Trump, quien con toda seguridad la vetaría.
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Oct 18, 2025
What explains the Republican Party's posture toward these protests?
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Oct 18, 2025
As the shutdown nears a fourth week, President Trump has pushed his political opponents to further dig in.
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Oct 18, 2025
Why Congress should take up Insurrection Act reform.
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Oct 18, 2025
George Santos's lawyer said the disgraced former congressman was freed from a New Jersey prison around 10 p.m. on Friday. He served less than three months on his fraud conviction.
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Oct 18, 2025
George Santos's lawyer said the disgraced former congressman was freed from a New Jersey prison around 10 p.m. on Friday. He served less than three months on his fraud conviction.
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Oct 17, 2025
Democrats are battling each other over age, with the nation's oldest president in office.
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Oct 17, 2025
The bid comes after the Senate rejected a similar measure to curb President Trump's attacks against alleged drug runners in the Caribbean Sea.
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Oct 17, 2025
Ms. Pelosi, 85, has not yet said whether she will run again. The challenge would be the latest example of the Democratic Party facing a push for generational change.
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Oct 16, 2025
After the Supreme Court appeared poised to weaken a key provision of the landmark civil rights law, both parties began to reckon with an uncertain future.
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Oct 16, 2025
Democrats want guarantees that President Trump will not continue to claw back spending, ignoring any agreement they strike. But he has promised to keep defying Congress.
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Oct 16, 2025
The former Senate Republican leader has had a series of health episodes, including falls, in recent years. He plans to retire in 2027.
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Oct 16, 2025
El representante Dave Taylor por Ohio condenó el símbolo como "vil" y dijo que su oficina estaba investigando con la Policía del Capitolio de EE. UU.
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Oct 16, 2025
For Jon Ossoff, the most endangered Senate Democrat, the shutdown fight could rally support among some voters, but risks alienating others in a state President Trump won in 2024.
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Oct 16, 2025
Representative Dave Taylor of Ohio condemned the symbol as "vile" and said his office was investigating with the U.S. Capitol Police.
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Oct 15, 2025
In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the justices grappled with whether there should be a time limit on using race as a factor in carving up voting districts.
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Oct 15, 2025
Representative Kevin Kiley of California has criticized his own party for keeping the House out of session during the shutdown. He is battling boredom and disaffection as the stalemate drags on.
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Oct 15, 2025
The top Senate Democrat said the president and Republican leaders had an "obligation to denounce vile rhetoric," even when it comes from within their own party.
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Oct 15, 2025
In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the justices grappled with whether there should be a time limit on using race as a factor in carving up voting districts.
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Oct 15, 2025
Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva appeared at the Capitol with other Arizona Democrats on Wednesday to criticize the Republican speaker for continuing to refuse to swear her in.
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Oct 15, 2025
Democrats would be in danger of losing around a dozen majority-minority districts across the South if the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.
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Oct 15, 2025
Mr. Moulton, a 46-year-old fellow Democrat, released a video emphasizing the age difference between himself and Mr. Markey, 79.
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Oct 15, 2025
If the justices decide that lawmakers cannot consider race in drafting maps, redistricting could result in congressional seats flipping from blue to red throughout the country.
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Oct 14, 2025
Representative Cory Mills's former girlfriend, Lindsey Langston, the reigning Miss United States, told a judge that he had threatened to release sexually explicit videos of her.
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Oct 14, 2025
A two-term Democratic governor, Ms. Mills called herself "battle tested" in an interview. But she faces a Democratic primary before she can challenge the Republican incumbent.
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Oct 14, 2025
The justices have shown a willingness to chip away at the landmark civil rights legislation. A Louisiana case could unravel much of its remaining power.
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Oct 13, 2025
The Trump administration has pushed Republican leaders to redraw House district maps before the midterm elections next year. His party already holds 10 of North Carolina's 14 congressional seats.
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Oct 12, 2025
There is little information in court filings about the dozen plaintiffs who challenged the state's voting map as an illegal racial gerrymander.
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Oct 11, 2025
The president said he had identified funds even though Congress has not appropriated new money for the military.
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Oct 11, 2025
In 1955, a New York Times copy editor refused to say whether he had once belonged to the Communist Party and was subsequently fired.
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Oct 11, 2025
The president's move to fire federal workers and his threats to make others go without pay were aimed at pressuring Democrats to cut a deal to reopen the government. The tactics have fueled Democrats' resolve.
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Oct 10, 2025
Over seven terms, she garnered millions in funds in helping to revitalize the city. But the political scandals of her son, an ex-mayor, came to shadow her career.
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Oct 10, 2025
Most Democrats left President Trump conspicuously unmentioned as they cheered a potential end to the conflict, reflecting the tricky politics around the war and their party's deep hostility to Mr. Trump.
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Oct 10, 2025
It is a well-worn strategy to temporarily create a government benefit and hope that its eventual expiration will create a standoff like the shutdown fight.
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Oct 10, 2025
What the polling says, who's up, who's down — and when it might end.
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Oct 09, 2025
The legislation would provide a 3.8 percent pay raise for American troops, while funding weapons and overhauling military procurement.
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Oct 09, 2025
The threat of rising Obamacare premiums has been Democrats' main focus in the public debate, but the president's defiance of laws, norms and congressional constraints has helped hold them together in opposition.
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Oct 08, 2025
Republicans in the Senate blocked a measure that would terminate the president's legally disputed campaign targeting alleged drug runners.
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Oct 08, 2025
The roughly five-minute confrontation, initiated by Representative Mike Lawler of New York, was intended to draw attention to Democrats' role in the government shutdown.
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Oct 08, 2025
Two Democratic senators from Arizona confronted Speaker Mike Johnson over his refusal to swear in a newly elected House Democrat, Adelita Grijalva, who had won a special election in their state last month. They also fought over the government shutdown and the Epstein files.
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Oct 08, 2025
A pair of Democratic senators confronted the Republican speaker of the House over his refusal to swear in a colleague during the shutdown.
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Oct 08, 2025
As the federal closure slides into a second week, Republicans are working to peel off five more Democratic senators to join them in voting to reopen the government.
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Oct 08, 2025
Mr. Pearson, a member of the Tennessee General Assembly, was briefly expelled in 2023 after leading a gun control protest from the chamber floor.
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Oct 08, 2025
Mr. Pearson, a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives since 2023, will challenge U.S. Representative Steve Cohen, a fellow Democrat.
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Oct 07, 2025
Matt Van Epps won the Republican nomination for a December special election in the state's Seventh Congressional District. State Representative Aftyn Behn won the Democratic primary.
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Oct 07, 2025
At a Senate committee hearing, the attorney general avoided answering pointed queries by repeatedly laying into her questioners and casting her responses as a defense of the Trump administration.
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Oct 07, 2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi sidestepped many questions from Democrats during a combative Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, often instead launching personal attacks on her questioners.
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Oct 07, 2025
Even President Trump has conceded that he and his party could face political pain from rising premiums, stiffening Democrats' spines as they demand a subsidy extension.
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Oct 07, 2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to take questions from Democrats during a combative Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. She dodged questioning on the Jeffrey Epstein files and the White House border czar Tom Homan's dropped investigation, and launched personal attacks against Democratic senators.
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Oct 07, 2025
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Tennessee special primary election.
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Oct 07, 2025
The government shutdown fight has spotlighted a debate between Republicans and Democrats about whether and how much the government should subsidize health care.
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Oct 07, 2025
At a Senate committee hearing, the attorney general avoided answering pointed queries by repeatedly laying into her questioners and casting her responses as a defense of the Trump administration.
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Oct 07, 2025
At a hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi, Republican senators seized on the collection of their phone records by the F.B.I. as proof of politicization by the Biden administration.
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Oct 07, 2025
More than a dozen candidates are vying to represent the state's Seventh Congressional District, which includes part of Nashville but was redrawn to favor Republicans.
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Oct 06, 2025
As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.
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Oct 06, 2025
As the president cancels projects in Democratic-run states, he is cutting money that benefits his own party's lawmakers in some of the most competitive House districts.
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Oct 06, 2025
Mr. Hunt, a U.S. House member, and Senator John Cornyn will be competing for voters who dislike the state's attorney general, Ken Paxton, who has led in many polls.
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Oct 06, 2025
The Democratic representative-elect won her Arizona seat overwhelmingly. But so far, the Republican speaker will not swear her in.
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Oct 06, 2025
Republicans' exploitation of the government's closure is the tell that they prefer it this way.
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Oct 05, 2025
Senator Chuck Schumer and Speaker Mike Johnson each accused the other of not being "serious" about talks to end the shutdown as the government was closed for a fifth day.
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Oct 05, 2025
Republicans, who hold a governing trifecta, have adopted a mostly passive stance while Democrats dig in for a fight, with both feeling they have the political upper hand.
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Oct 04, 2025
This week, the round table convenes to discuss who wins and who loses when the government shuts down.
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Oct 04, 2025
The Democrats need to understand that woke can be good business.
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Oct 04, 2025
The Democrats need to understand that woke can be good business.
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Oct 04, 2025
The California politician on his "wake-up call" at an earlier moment of political upheaval, and the one he's experiencing today.
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Oct 02, 2025
Republicans are proposing a straight extension of government spending, while Democrats are demanding the addition of over $1 trillion for health programs.
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Oct 02, 2025
It's the second day of a shutdown of the federal government. We explain what's happening.
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Oct 01, 2025
Unlike in shutdowns past, President Trump is the wild card.
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Oct 01, 2025
President Trump posted the video meme, which Representative Hakeem Jeffries called racist and bigoted. Vice President JD Vance said the president was "joking, and we're having a good time."
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Oct 01, 2025
Trump administration officials also directed federal employees to include Republican talking points in automated email replies explaining that they had been furloughed.
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Oct 01, 2025
Dueling proposals to end the government shutdown failed in the Senate on Wednesday. There was no end in sight to the deadlock as neither party showed signs of bowing to the other's government spending demands.
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Oct 01, 2025
President Trump posted the meme, which Representative Hakeem Jeffries called racist and bigoted. Vice President JD Vance said the president was "joking, and we're having a good time."
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Oct 01, 2025
Two Democratic senators and one independent who caucuses with them crossed party lines to support the G.O.P. plan to keep government funding flowing.
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Oct 01, 2025
The inboxes of some employees of the Small Business Administration are returning automated email replies that deliver a partisan message on the shutdown.
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Oct 01, 2025
New York Democrats, led by Gov. Kathy Hochul, warned of the damage the government shutdown could cause across the state and blamed Republicans.
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Oct 01, 2025
Dueling proposals to extend government funding both failed for the third time in two weeks, as neither party could muster the bipartisan coalition needed to move forward.
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Oct 01, 2025
The U.S. government shut down on Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. Senator Chuck Schumer explains his decision-making moments before the vote.
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Oct 01, 2025
President Trump is seeking to deprive millions of Americans of their health insurance. Senate Democrats are refusing to acquiesce.
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Oct 01, 2025
James Talarico sees a spiritual void at the center of our society.
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Oct 01, 2025
The last time Senate Democrats found themselves taking the blame for a government shutdown, they quickly caved. That's less likely to happen now.
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Oct 01, 2025
A bitter spending deadlock between President Trump and Democrats plunged the federal government into the first shutdown since 2019.
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Sep 30, 2025
With few senators from conservative states in their ranks, Democrats feel less pressure to capitulate, while more conservative Republicans are not inclined to cut a deal.
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Sep 30, 2025
Dueling proposals to extend government funding failed in the Senate in the final hours before a midnight deadline when neither could draw the bipartisan support necessary to pass.
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Sep 30, 2025
The Senate failed to reach the 60 votes necessary to avoid a shutdown.
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Sep 30, 2025
Democrats have misused budget jargon to assail the Republican budget proposal as "dirty," but the bill is considered "clean."
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Sep 30, 2025
Senators fought over a chart. The speaker displayed a big-screen TV. And hundreds of House Democrats took to the floor as the two parties blamed each other for the crisis.
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Sep 30, 2025
Shutdowns are complicated and could have wide-ranging consequences. Your input can help steer our coverage.
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Sep 30, 2025
Hundreds of Democrats showed up in the House chamber for a routine session, seeking to highlight the absence of Republicans as a government funding deadline loomed.
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Sep 30, 2025
President Trump's posting of a deepfake video mocking and insulting the top two Democrats in Congress underscored the lack of progress toward any deal to extend funding.
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