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Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, said the program was aimed at counteracting potential efforts by the Trump administration to manipulate elections. [...]
After democratic socialists captured two House primaries and several state legislative contests in New York, the group’s leaders mulled how to use their expanding influence. [...]
In a late-night vote aimed at mollifying the president, Senate Republicans rejected a resolution directing him to end the war against Iran, a day after a bipartisan rebuke. [...]
The congressman, who has been absent from Washington since March, answered the door of his home on Wednesday evening. He was wearing a suit and tie. [...]
Judge Evelyn Padin ruled the Justice Department’s lawsuit was flawed because it did not also challenge a state directive limiting local cooperation with federal immigration agents. [...]
Using charts, Secretary General Mark Rutte appeared to defuse the president’s anger by showing that European countries were “equalizing” defense spending with the U.S. [...]
For the past 60 years, U.S. presidents have used and misused the concept of threat to justify the use of force on a massive scale. U.S. presidents in the post-World [...]
Any consideration of the newly opened Obama Presidential Center calls for a review of the Obama administration’s record of action. The building and its grounds are inconceivable outside of this [...]
A family arrives at a camp in Sudan carrying everything they still owned. A few cooking pots. Some blankets. Perhaps a plastic bag of clothes. They expect to stay a [...]
In a basic Marxo-Freudo 101 syllabus–which no longer complies with the spirit of Texas law–we learn that Artificial Intelligence is neither language nor labor. To speak language, you need to [...]
Remember Elon Musk running around in his DOGE garb with sunglasses and a chainsaw? The Republicans are hoping that you don’t. The ostensible point of Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” [...]