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Biden's Approval Hits 33 Percent; Democrats Want 2024 Options, Poll Shows — With the country gripped by a pervasive sense of pessimism, the president is hemorrhaging support. — President Biden is facing an alarming level of doubt from inside his own party, with 64 percent …
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Dueling Weaknesses — The Times has released its first poll of the 2022 midterm cycle. — Give this article- - - Read in app — In 2016, when The New York Times's pollsters asked Americans whether they planned to vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, more than 10 percent said they would not support either one.


As worries about Biden in 2024 grow, other Democrats aren't stepping forward to challenge him — (CNN)A challenge requires a challenger — and all the Democrats being discussed as potential primary opponents to President Joe Biden tell CNN they're ruling out runs and warning others to follow suit.
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Trump lawyer interviewed with FBI about Bannon contempt case — Former President Donald Trump's attorney Justin Clark interviewed with federal investigators two weeks ago, the Justice Department revealed in a court filing early Monday morning, a significant development that could reverberate …
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Steve Bannon's ‘eleventh-hour’ reversal on Jan. 6 testimony is a stunt, DOJ says — WASHINGTON - One week ahead of jury selection in Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress trial, the Justice Department said the Trump associate's purported desire to reverse his stance and testify …
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Oath Keepers lawyer says Stewart Rhodes wanted her Trump contacts before Jan. 6 Capitol attack — The Jan. 6 Committee will explore links between the Trump White House and right-wing militia groups on Tuesday. They've spoken to Kellye SoRelle, who might be a key.
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Strongest Evidence of Guilt: Chart Tracking Trump's Knowledge and Intent in Efforts to Overturn the Election — The January 6th House Select Committee has produced substantial evidence about former President Donald Trump's knowledge and beliefs as he tried to overturn the 2020 election.
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Merrick Garland Should Investigate Trump's 2020 Election Schemes as a ‘Hub and Spoke’ Conspiracy — The tenacious work of the Jan. 6 committee has transformed how we think about the Jan. 6 rebellion. It should also transform the Justice Department's investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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January 6 hearing to focus on Trump's tweet to extremist group
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Team Normal Is Doing It Again — When it feels icky they'll dish out another anonymous quote. — Herschel Walker is, by any measure, a flawed candidate. It's a fact readily observable to anyone with a basic familiarity with his confessed history of self-harm, acts of violence against others …
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Ron DeSantis Would Kill Democracy Slowly and Methodically … During the Donald Trump era, democracy itself has become the preeminent question of American politics. Yet Trump himself has played a paradoxical role in this development. While his overtly authoritarian personality brought …


Former Saudi official calls Mohammed bin Salman a “psychopath,” says Saudi crown prince fears what he knows — Much of the world was horrified when Saudi Arabia sent a hit squad to Turkey to murder Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Tonight, the man you are about to meet …
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Biden's Saudi trip spotlights age-old tension between human rights agenda and political reality
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tests positive for Covid
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Biden heads to the Middle East with a world of trouble at his back
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State-level abortion laws threaten to split Republicans and boost Democrats — The opposition to abortion that unified Republicans for a generation is poised to disintegrate, with internecine battles arising over how far the party should go with laws affecting when a woman could terminate her pregnancy.
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Future college students rethink schools in states banning abortions
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From the editor: Guest column about Proud Boys did not meet our standards — To our readers: — The Herald-Tribune erred Sunday in publishing a guest column on our opinion page and website with the headline “Attacking Proud Boys does disservice to caring parents.”
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Affordable housing in one of NYC's most expensive neighborhoods becomes litmus test in competitive congressional race — The idea seemed like a pipe dream. — But in the highly competitive race for the open 10th Congressional District seat, a grassroots advocacy campaign calling …


Are We Looking At Another Civil War? — Consider the logic of the left and it's no wonder that many people are considering the unspeakable - whether America will devolve into actual violent conflict. But I dare speak about it at length in my brand-new book We'll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America …


Emmanuel Macron secretly aided Uber lobbying drive in France, leak reveals — Leaked messages show then French economy minister told Uber executives he had brokered secret ‘deal’ — Emmanuel Macron went to extraordinary lengths to support Uber's lobbying campaign to help …
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Democrat Tim Ryan chases after Fox News viewers in Ohio Senate race — Rep. Tim Ryan — a Democrat angling to flip what many believed would be a safe Republican Senate seat in increasingly red Ohio — is unsubtly ratcheting up his efforts to woo GOP voters.


Paul Ryan was ‘sobbing’ as he watched the US Capitol attack unfold, new book says — Washington (CNN)Former House Speaker Paul Ryan was “sobbing” as he watched the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol unfold on television, a new book reports. — Ryan, who has criticized former President Donald Trump …
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Potemkin Feminism — We were told the big battles had been won. They hadn't. — We were told a lie about feminism. We were told that it had won. — By “we,” I mean women like me—the mostly white, mostly middle-class millennials who grew up in the 90s and 2000s.


MAGA Preacher Sean Feucht Scored Millions From His Trump-Loving Flock — He's also pulling in millions for his ministry — and recently bought houses in Southern California and Montana — As the Supreme Court was handing down its decision to end a constitutional right to abortion …


House GOP marches into deeper blue terrain as Dem prospects fade — Rep. Kim Schrier called it an “honor” to welcome President Joe Biden to suburban Seattle for a health care speech in April. Then, nearly three months later, the Washington Democrat used a TV ad to boast about “taking on” the Biden administration over gas prices.


Cassidy Hutchinson: Why the Jan. 6 Committee Rushed Her Testimony — Sequestered with family and security, Ms. Hutchinson, 26, has in the process developed an unlikely bond with Representative Liz Cheney, the panel's vice chairwoman. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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