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NY Times – Politics

Even though President Trump held a movie premiere for his wife’s new film there last week, he said the state of the building was “actually sort of dangerous.” [...]

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said addiction is a “spiritual disease” that calls out for the involvement of religious organizations. [...]

The Justice Department did not address a 1980 law that generally bars warrants for reporting material when it sought to seize a Washington Post reporter’s devices, an unsealed filing shows. [...]

First came a remarkable State Senate upset. Next up: two high-octane U.S. Senate primaries. [...]

The change comes as the federal government has provided accounts of fatal shootings that have sometimes conflicted with local officials and witness videos. [...]

The state’s House of Delegates passed a new map that would be likely to eliminate Maryland’s lone remaining Republican seat in the U.S. House, but the State Senate may well block the measure. [...]





