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Today, as Trump was busy trying (and failing) to convince his own people that “affordability” is a word made up by Democrats, the courts were having a field day with him.

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John Hudson of the Washington Post reported this evening that the Trump administration is openly defying Congress, taking $52 million in military assistance lawmakers appropriated for European and Mid...

 

Cease-and-desist letter alleges the Republican is defaming his Democratic challenger with fake videos.

Ukraine showed European partners what it said were intercepted Russian plans to cut off major cities from power, heat and water this winter.

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"Today’s dismissal with prejudice ensures that the DOJ cannot bring this case against him again," the judge wrote.

The fatal shooting of Ms. Good set off protests during the Trump administration’s immigration operation early this year in Minnesota.

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After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.

Plus: GOP members privately agree on Iran

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

Plus, 50 years of the Hyde Amendment

After two hours of testimony, planners unanimously backed a one-year halt on new facilities citywide.

The real reason Americans are paying more under Trump Republicans

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said the office would give military chaplains a "direct line" to him and improve spiritual support for service members.

**He Held the Line on January 6th. Now He's Coming to Wisconsin to Do It Again.** U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn stood between a violent mob and the heart of American democracy. He was call...

Christa Pike tortured and murdered a classmate in 1995. She had been set to die on Wednesday, the first woman executed in the state in 200 years, until a lower court paused the execution.

People in ICE detention are being denied adequate nutrition, medications, and medical care. Medical associations must demand answers, transparency, and accountability.

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Experts at PERI present a radical plan to overhaul US foreign policy, reduce military spending, and invest in programs benefiting working-class Americans.

Two votes today. Two bills that say one thing and do another. Here’s what to tell your Senators.

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

It’s not that Trump’s allies made an effort but fell short; it’s that they didn’t even try to contest the underlying criminal indictments.

The findings concluded that investigators “did not identify administrative misconduct” or any “reasonable grounds” to think a crime had occurred.

America.gov, which the president described as “damn good,” presented the public with facts that were wholly at odds with Trump’s alternate reality.

Three times, Republicans have summoned the former special counsel to Capitol Hill. Each time, they have left humiliated.

Our two-part conversation covering the on-the-ground reality amid all the noise on the data center issue in Wisconsin. Featuring Andrew Weiland, editor of BizTimes Milwaukee.

Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.

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Legal news roundup: Jack Smith’s Senate hearing, the D.C. Circuit’s en banc hearing, and the potential unraveling of the “grand conspiracy’ investigation.