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Republicans reel as Dem over-performances hit a swing state and MAGA country — Democrats clinched a landslide victory in Wisconsin and made inroads in two deep-red Florida districts, spelling trouble for Republicans. — Republicans emerged from Tuesday's elections on shaky footing.
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Republican Randy Fine wins Florida special election for Waltz seat — Florida state Sen. Randy Fine (R) has won the special election for Florida's 6th Congressional District on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, defeating Democrat Josh Weil in what became a closely contested race in the deep-red district.
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Does Higher Turnout Now Help Republicans? A Data-Driven Analysis of Partisan Turnout Dynamics (Part 1) — Data analysis reveals Democrats' problem isn't high turnout—it's losing the mobilization battle — A provocative claim has been echoing through Democratic circles since the 2024 election …
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Wisconsin and Florida elections provide early warning signs to Trump and Republicans

A message to Musk — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — Embed:
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G.O.P. Bolsters House Majority by Retaining Two Seats in Florida
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Results — ‹ See all Wisconsin state results — Wisconsin voters will choose a new State Supreme Court justice in an election that will determine whether liberals retain a 4-to-3 majority or whether conservatives take control of the state's judiciary.
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Wisconsin supreme court race: liberal Susan Crawford beats Musk-backed candidate — Liberal judge says victory is against ‘unprecedented attack on our democracy’ after defeating Brad Schimel in the most expensive judicial election in US history — Susan Crawford won the race for a seat …
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Liberal Wins Wisconsin Court Race, Despite Musk's Millions — Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court. — Susan Crawford, the liberal candidate for a pivotal seat …


Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, defying Elon Musk
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Liberal candidate wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race in blow to Trump, Musk
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Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65 — A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade. — Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor …
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Trump Tariff Plans Still in Limbo Ahead of Rose Garden Event — President Donald Trump's deliberations over his plans to impose reciprocal tariffs are coming down to the wire, with his team said to be still finalizing the level and scope of new import taxes he is slated to unveil on Wednesday afternoon.
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Trump to escalate global trade tensions with new reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners
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On Eve of Trump's Tariffs Announcement, Israel Says It Will Lift All Duties on U.S. Imports
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Trump's day of clarity, but without the clarity
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Costa Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa — Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like “a Roman emperor.”
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Watch the moment when Cory Booker ended his 25-hour speech, the longest in Senate history — Sen. Cory Booker started and finished his record-breaking speech protesting the Trump administration's aggressive policy blitz by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.
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Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
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Booker's speech tops 350M likes on TikTok live
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Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say — Trump's national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team's operational security are piling up in the inbox. — Just now — Members of President Donald …


Adam Schiff places hold on Ed Martin's nomination to be D.C. U.S. attorney — President Trump's controversial choice to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, faces an uncertain future, as a Senate Democrat plans to put an indefinite hold on his nomination.
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White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump's sights — It's the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump's desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage. — Just now
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Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson's Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH — Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US's leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz. — Several top scientists charged …
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US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally — U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs … - Max Kozlov — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar — On health economist Jay Bhattacharya's first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) …


No Tariff Exemptions for American Farmers — They voted for the tariffs when they voted for Trump. — American farmers are pleading for exemptions from President Donald Trump's tariffs. Republican members of Congress from farm states are working to deliver the relief farmers want.
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Some Conservative Voices Raise Alarm Over Trump's Immigration Tactics — The cracks in support show how seriously some conservatives are taking the administration's aggressive and at times slapdash tactics. — Influential figures on the right have largely cheered on the opening months of the Trump presidency.


Bice: Elon Musk group removes video from $1M winner after she says she got money to ‘vote’ — Elon Musk's super PAC replaced a video featuring a $1 million giveaway winner who said she got the money, in part, to vote. — Experts suggest that offering money in exchange for voting …
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‘We were lied to:’ Two women the Trump administration tried to send to El Salvador prison speak out — The women's accounts raise questions about the thoroughness of the administration's vetting of migrants it has sent to the notorious prison. — On March 15, the Trump administration loaded …
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Inside Elite Law Firms, Protests and Quitting After Trump Deals — The discontent does not appear to be resonating with leaders at Paul Weiss and Skadden, but it could hamstring their recruitment efforts. — Ever since the elite law firms Paul Weiss and Skadden reached deals with President Trump …
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Washington Post and Above the Law


Xavier Becerra announces bid for California governor — The former state attorney general plans on making his decades-long political resume a central selling point in his campaign. — Xavier Becerra, the former health secretary under President Joe Biden, is joining the burgeoning field …
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Why We Train With Allies—Even When It's Dangerous — IN EVERY ARMORED FORMATION I COMMANDED—and there were many—there were a few soldiers who never made headlines, never sought the limelight, and never once complained about the cold, the rain, the mud, the grease, or the long nights spent working on hulking steel beasts.
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He Got Clemency From Trump. Now He's Facing Charges of Injuring a Child. — Jonathan Braun, who has had a string of legal issues since President Trump commuted his drug sentence four years ago, was arrested after allegedly punching an acquaintance and shoving a 3-year-old.
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The Lawlessness Is the Point — If JD Vance were capable of shame, he'd be embarrassed by what just happened. After the news broke that President Trump's administration admitted to deporting a Maryland man in “error,” Vance lashed out at podcaster Jon Favreau, who had asked him to comment on what had transpired.


Where the right's defense of free speech ends — In God and Man at Yale, the 1951 book that made William F. Buckley famous, American conservatism's founding father argues that academic freedom is premised on a fiction. — While professors claim that they are merely attempting to equip …