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Congress Might Vote on Health Care Subsidies, But First: Vacation

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There may be hope for millions of Americans whose health insurance premiums are set to skyrocket in the new year, but not before Congress gets back from its two-week holiday vacation. Four moderate Republicans signed on to a Democratic petition to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years on Wednesday, effectively giving Democrats the […]

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Powerful Influencers Are Spreading a Vile Rumor About the Brown Shooting

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Four days after a shooting at Brown University killed two students and wounded nine others, neither the shooter’s identity nor motive is known. But that hasn’t stopped internet sleuths from insisting that they know who did it. Now, powerful influencers are amplifying their claims. Almost as soon as the shooting happened, conservative influencers were quick […]

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Watching Providence Retreat Into Itself After the Brown Shooting

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It has been four days since a man entered a finals review session inside a building at Brown University—two miles from my house in Providence, Rhode Island—and started shooting. The FBI, US Marshals, and police from across the state have descended on my neighborhood in a manhunt for the gunman. He killed two students, Ella […]

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How Benny Johnson Went From BuzzFeed Plagiarist to MAGA’s Chief Content Creator

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Not long ago, plagiarist-turned-MAGA-influencer Benny Johnson stood in a parking garage underneath Chicago’s Trump International Hotel and Tower. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem emerged; the two embraced, then loaded into SUVs to drive outside the city to ICE’s Broadview detainment facility. Johnson filmed the road in front of him for a video, which he posted […]

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FEMA Downsizing Plan Is a Disaster, Survivors Say

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Flood, storm, and fire survivors gathered in Washington, DC, on Monday to express their alarm over a leaked report from the FEMA Review Council that proposes halving the agency’s workforce and scaling back federal disaster assistance.  Holding images of the devastation […]

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Why Trump Deemed Basic Sanitation Illegal DEI

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For many Americans, proper sanitation and clean water seem like issues for developing countries. But much of rural America—and even parts of US cities—still struggles to provide the basics we all need to survive. And as infrastructure ages and strains under the threat of climate change, the problems will likely get worse. Environmental justice activist […]

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Susie Wiles Disavows Her Own On-the-Record Admissions Revealing White House Chaos

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Hours after a Vanity Fair piece in which President Donald Trump’s chief of staff made a series of damaging, on-the-record remarks about the president, his policies, and allies, Susie Wiles appears to be attempting damage control. “A disingenuously framed hit piece,” she said on X, claiming that it had been “done to paint an overwhelmingly […]

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The Most Despicable Lie From the Guns-Over-All Gang

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A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. Every school shooting is horrific—a reminder of the worst form […]

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“I’ve Never Seen So Many Police Cars”

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On a dark November evening, I find myself outside one of the units at a garden-style apartment complex in Memphis, its parking lot alight in flashing blues and reds. The police are here—about a dozen cars—responding to reports of a violent crime. I’m accompanied by Mauricio Calvo, a 50-year-old local whose friend Diego lives here. […]

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Gazans Face “Not Just a Humanitarian Catastrophe but an Ecological Collapse”

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every day when Rajaa Musleh wakes up and checks her phone, she fears she will see news that another member of her family has been killed in Gaza.  Musleh, a nurse and humanitarian worker who evacuated from Gaza […]

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The 24 Best Books We Read in 2025

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Nonfiction What if we had international law—a rules-based order that bound every country, big or small, rich or poor, to shared standards? I was taught that those were American questions, sparked mainly by the world wars. They are indeed, the historian Greg Grandin argues in America, América—encompassing the entire North and South American continents. Within […]

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Rob Reiner Was a Mensch. In Death, He Showed Us Trump’s a Schmuck

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In death, Rob Reiner, an accomplished actor and filmmaker and a passionate progressive advocate, landed one last blow on Donald Trump and showed us how small and indecent a man the president is. Reiner was a star on many fronts. He was a comedy pioneer, writing with Steve Martin for the Smothers Brothers in the […]

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