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NY Times – Politics

The resolution has little chance of advancing in the Republican-controlled Senate, given growing G.O.P. opposition to a two-state solution in the Israel-Palestinian conflict. [...]

A pattern of getting rid of statistics has emerged that echoes the president’s first term, when he suggested if the nation stopped testing for Covid, it would have few cases. [...]

After rejecting a G.O.P.-written plan to keep federal funding flowing, Democrats released a counteroffer that would add more than $1 trillion in health spending. [...]

The seating chart at the state dinner for President Trump was a cross-section of the rich and the powerful hoping to get on his good side. [...]

President Trump has long sought to imbue the nonpartisan idea of civics — the rights, responsibilities and duties of citizenship — with his politics. [...]

Some Republicans are starting to worry that the issue of health care could cost them politically. [...]