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For Furloughed Workers, Trump’s Partisan Shutdown Jabs Are Just the Latest Slight

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In the past, for veteran federal employees, the weeks leading up to a potential shutdown situation have always involved a flurry of emails and meetings in preparation for a winding down of their agency. That, at least, has been the experience of an employee I spoke with at the National Institutes of Health (my former […]

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Americans Aren’t Buying Trump’s Shutdown Blame Game

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As Democrats and Republicans trade accusations over which party is responsible for the government shutdown, new polling suggests that President Donald Trump’s efforts to falsely claim—in social media posts, on television, on government agencies’ websites, and in internal directives to federal employees—that Democrats shut down the government because they want to provide “free health care […]

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Meet the Ohio Lobbyist Running Against Lobbyists

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Former Ohio state Sen. Kevin Coughlin—a self-described “husband, father, [and] small business owner”—is running to be the Republican nominee for Ohio’s 13th Congressional seat in the 2026 midterms. He promises to “put Ohio workers and their families first,” according to his campaign website. “Never politicians, lobbyists, or special interests.” What Coughlin doesn’t say is that […]

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This Republican Attempt to Scuttle Federal Land Plans Could Cause Great Upheaval

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the spring of 1996, lawmakers quietly buried a rider in a humdrum bill meant to make life easier for small businesses. That addition, the Congressional Review Act, granted Congress the power to kill new federal regulations with a simple […]

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The Full Weight of the Federal Government Is Being Used to Memorialize Charlie Kirk

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After the shocking murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk on Wednesday afternoon, tributes and expressions of grief poured in from conservative politicians and activists, along with expressions of sympathy and denunciations of political violence from both sides of the aisle. Now, however, numerous government and elected officials are taking their protection of Kirk’s legacy a […]

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Laura Loomer Is “Basically a Cabinet Member at This Point”

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Conspiracy theorist and self-described “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer continues to wield a jarring amount of power in the Trump administration. The latest example: She appears to have had a Democratic senator’s classified visit to a military spy agency canceled. On Wednesday, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that […]

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Epstein Survivors Begged Trump to Release Their Files. He Called It a “Hoax.”

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There’s one issue that is gaining rare bipartisan support in a very divided DC: Outrage over the continued stonewalling of the full release of the Epstein files. On Wednesday, a group of Democrat and Republican lawmakers—including Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)—held a press conference on Capitol […]

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Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs as Illegal and Unconstitutional

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The tariffs will remain in effect until October, giving the Trump administration time to bring the case to SCOTUS.

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Republicans Keep Getting Booed at Their Own Town Halls

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It hasn’t been a great last week of the August recess for Republican members of Congress. At town hall events across the country, attendees booed, laughed, jeered, and demanded answers as their GOP representatives tried to defend President Donald Trump’s agenda. The list of issues angering their constituents is long—everything from the Trump-backed cuts to […]

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The Conservative Nature Lovers Trying to Nudge Trump in the Right Direction

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In early July, the Bureau of Land Management quietly announced plans to trade away 2 million acres of public land along Alaska’s Dalton Highway. The immense stretch of boreal forest totters into tundra, an area almost three times the size of Rhode […]

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