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Democrats in Congress Decry Trump’s Iran Strikes as Unconstitutional

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On Saturday night, President Donald Trump announced to the world that the US carried out what he called “massive precision strikes” on three nuclear facilities in Iran. The announcement put an end to over a week of speculation about whether Trump would join Israel’s offensive; just Wednesday, Trump told reporters, “Nobody knows what I’m going […]

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Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Will Fund His Failed Border Wall

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Tucked into Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” spending bill—which passed in the House last month, and promises major cuts to Medicaid—is a provision to spend $46.5 billion in taxpayer dollars on building his long-promised wall along the US-Mexico border. The White House says that the funding will provide an additional 701 miles of primary wall and 900 […]

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“A Direct Attack on Women”: Lawmakers Demand Labor Secretary Preserve the Women’s Bureau

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Democratic lawmakers are demanding Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer preserve the Women’s Bureau following recent reporting from Mother Jones that the Trump administration is seeking to eliminate the 105-year-old, congressionally mandated office charged with supporting women in the workforce. On Monday afternoon, 34 members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus sent Chavez-DeRemer a letter demanding the labor […]

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Hodl Be Thy Name: My Adventures With Bitcoin’s True Believers

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I was told there would be a diamond-encrusted steak. One hot May morning in Las Vegas, I was wandering through the art gallery section of the cavernous convention hall at The Venetian Resort’s hotel and casino—where 35,000 crypto enthusiasts were gathered for the seventh annual Bitcoin conference—in search of Rare, by artist Maxfield Mellenbruch. He […]

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Hodl Be Thy Name: My Adventures With Bitcoin’s True Believers

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I was told there would be a diamond-encrusted steak. One hot May morning in Las Vegas, I was wandering through the art gallery section of the cavernous convention hall at The Venetian Resort’s hotel and casino—where 35,000 crypto enthusiasts were gathered for the seventh annual Bitcoin conference—in search of Rare, by artist Maxfield Mellenbruch. He […]

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Rand Paul Says He’s “Not a Big Fan” of Donald Trump’s Military Parade

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Many Republicans quietly but noticeably skipped Trump’s military-slash-birthday parade on Saturday. According to a survey Politico did earlier this week of 50 congressional Republicans, only seven said they planned to stay in Washington, DC, for the weekend to attend the festivities. One Republican—Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)—was more direct about his opposition to the event. “I […]

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Rep. Sarah McBride on GOP Attacks: “They’re Employing the Strategies of Reality TV.”

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My red carpet interview with Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) at the Saturday premiere of a new documentary on her history-making election as the first openly transgender member of Congress was interrupted by an adoring passerby. “Sarah, I love you!” the man shouted. “I’m a donor and I don’t even live in the district!” (“Thank you […]

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“No,” Trump Says, He Does Not Want to Repair Relationship with Musk

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Trump has made it official: He and Elon Musk are (probably) never getting back together. In an interview with NBC News on Saturday, the president was uncharacteristically restrained when asked if he had any desire to repair the relationship with the ex-DOGE head following Musk’s meltdown on X this week. Asked if he wanted to […]

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Poll Shows GOP Senators Who Vote to Cut Medicaid Could Face Political Peril

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A KFF Health Tracking Poll shows anxiety is high about looming Medicaid cuts among voters across the political spectrum.

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“Green Aviation” Exception in GOP Budget Bill Is a “Big, Beautiful” Bipartisan Boondoggle

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This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The “Big, Beautiful Bill” that Republicans are pushing under President Trump would roll back almost all the clean energy incentives that Democrats enacted under President Biden, shredding federal support for solar, wind, nuclear, electric vehicles, and other climate-friendly technologies. […]

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Trump’s Budget Bill Is Going to Spike Energy Costs for Households Across the US

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Congress is poised to increase energy bills by hundreds of dollars in order to block renewable energy projects.

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Republicans Want to Ban Pets From Domestic Violence Shelters

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A new Trump-backed attack on domestic violence services just dropped—and this time, it’s targeting survivors’ pets. Tucked inside the 1,200-page appendix to the White House’s budget request to Congress is a proposal to eliminate a grant program, funded by the Agriculture Department and administered by the Department of Justice, that provides domestic violence shelters with […]

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