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Democratic Party chair lashes officer in leaked call, prompting more infighting

By Dylan Wells — Months of infighting at the Democratic National Committee escalated into a new round of open warfare Sunday, with several top party officials accusing an embattled member of their leadership team of leaking a portion of a private and emotional meeting. During a May 15 Zoom meeting, DNC Chair Ken Martin said […]

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California sues Trump over National Guard deployment to Los Angeles

By Patrick Svitek — California sued the Trump administration Monday over its order to deploy 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles without the governor’s consent, a move with little precedent that has dramatically increased tensions between the federal government and the Democratic-led state, America’s most populous. The lawsuit argues that Trump overstepped his […]

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Trump races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people

By Hannah Natanson, Adam Taylor, Meryl Kornfield, Rachel Siegel, Scott Dance — Early this spring, the Food and Drug Administration fired nearly 50 workers in the Office of Regulatory Policy – only to turn around and order them back to the office with one day’s notice. After dismissing thousands of probationary employees for fabricated “performance” issues, the IRS reversed course and […]

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Russian officials delight in Trump-Musk rift, offer mediation, asylum

By Robyn Dixon, Natalia Abbakumova — As President Donald Trump and the world’s richest man blew up the internet by detonating their friendship, a key Kremlin point man on White House contacts used a phrase from the L.A. riots, a divisive moment in American history, to get in a dig. Posting on Elon Musk’s platform X, close […]

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Trump asks Congress to repeal $9 billion from NPR, PBS and global aid

By Jacob Bogage — Trump asks Congress to repeal $9 billion from NPR, PBS and global aid The White House budget office on Tuesday urged Congress to cancel more than $9 billion in funding for global health and for public radio and TV stations, as President Donald Trump attempts to assert more control over congressional […]

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TACO Tuesday — and why it bothers Trump

By Dan Merica, Matthew Choi — It may be TACO Tuesday, but we aren’t sure President Donald Trump is eager to pass the queso. TACO – or “Trump Always Chickens Out” – is a Wall Street acronym that suggests that the president often talks tough on tariffs but ultimately backs down. The term, coined by […]

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White House proposes shutting down chemical safety agency

By Maxine Joselow — White House proposes shutting down chemical safety agency An independent agency that investigates chemical disasters – including fatal fires and explosions at chemical plants and oil refineries nationwide – would shutter by October 2026 under little-noticed language in White House budget documents released Friday. The proposal to eliminate the Chemical Safety […]

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Trump’s clemency spree extends to ex-gangster, rapper, former congressmen

By Emily Davies — A gang leader who built a powerful criminal enterprise, an ex-congressman from New York who underreported earnings from his Manhattan restaurant and a Connecticut governor toppled in a corruption scandal all received clemency Wednesday in a sweeping series of orders signed by President Donald Trump. Trump extended relief to 25 people […]

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White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say

By Lauren Weber, Caitlin Gilbert — Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said Thursday. Of the 522 footnotes to scientific research in an initial version of the […]

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Supreme Court narrows scope of environmental reviews

By Justin Jouvenal — Supreme Court narrows scope of environmental reviews The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously narrowed the scope of government-required environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects, overturning a lower-court block on a rail line in Utah that would carry billions of gallons of oil. The case became a proxy battle over how far […]