Tag: politics
All the articles with the tag "politics".
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Republicans keep voting for the Iran war they promise to end
Eleven votes. Two hundred and eight days. Congress still has not authorized the war Donald Trump started on February 28.
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Interior pledged nearly $4 billion to kill offshore wind
The Associated Press reported that Donald Trump has said his goal is to stop any "windmills" from being built. In December 2025, his administration tried to make that happen by ordering five offshore…
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The EPA asked Bayer to choose its own dicamba restrictions
The Environmental Protection Agency had to decide how to contain a weedkiller that escapes soybean and cotton fields, damages neighboring crops, and has twice lost federal approval in court. Its…
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Trump's wildlife agency just decriminalized killing endangered animals by accident
The Endangered Species Act has prohibited foreseeably killing protected wildlife since 1973. On September 14, the agency Congress built to enforce that law instructed its own officers to stop…
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Leon Black refuses to tell Congress what $158 million bought from Jeffrey Epstein
The House oversight committee voted 41 to 0 on Tuesday to recommend that the full House hold billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress. Every Republican and every Democrat on the committee…
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$5,000 of borrowed money for your vote, if Republicans keep Congress
Donald Trump stood in front of a half-empty convention hall in Dallas on Wednesday and told the country he would send every adult citizen a check for $5,000 if Republicans held Congress in November.…
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Texas is teaching a generation of students that Islam is uniquely violent
Last Friday, the Texas State Board of Education voted to approve new high school social studies standards that frame Islam as a religion of violence and conquest. The Republican majority on the…
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Trump is asking the Supreme Court to let him control your mail ballot for the third time
Two federal courts told Donald Trump the Constitution does not give him power over elections. He asked the Supreme Court to override them. The justices let the rulemaking proceed on a procedural…
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Trump's Justice Department left an ICE shooting out of its federal case
Federal prosecutors have charged ICE agent Christian Castro with lying to investigators after he allegedly shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis through the front door of a Minneapolis home. The prosecutor who…
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CMS is holding Texas hospital care hostage for $27 million a day
Texas hospitals entered a new fiscal year on Tuesday without federal approval for nearly $10 billion in Medicaid payments. The Texas Tribune reports that the Trump administration has not approved…