Politics & Policy
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Schumer vows to advance all non-DHS funding bills amid spending spat
The DHS bill is likely to prove a point of contention in the upper chamber and could lead to a government shutdown, which would mark the second such occurrence of Trump's second term.
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Dem Rep. Suozzi says he 'failed' by supporting DHS spending bill
Suozzi reclaimed his seat in a 2024 special election.
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Columbia names University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor as next president, 5th leader in 4 years
The Ivy League school was effectively taken over by pro-Palestinian protesters after the start of the Gaza war and until police removed their encampments.
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Texas leads 23-state coalition to block EPA methane tax
Texas produces the greatest volume of petroleum and marketed natural gas and would likely be disproportionately impacted by the tax.
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Senate climate hawks grill nominee to head EPA on reducing emissions to stop ‘existential crisis’
Zeldin said, if confirmed, that he’d foster collaboration and balance in his approach to carrying out the mission of the EPA.
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Johnson taps Rick Crawford to chair House Intel panel
Crawford, for his part, blasted what he called abuse of the nation's intelligence agencies that " eroded trust in our institutions and compromised America’s ability to gather intelligence."
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Trump indicates he won't hire people who worked for opponents with 'TDS'
The TDS term has entered common parlance and refers to a process by which traditionally conservative Republican figures who oppose Trump gradually turn to the political left for support and become fixated on the president-elect and his supposed status as a harbinger of the nation's doom.
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Vice President Kamala Harris set to write a book before next political move: report
A Harris confidant says the vice president "owes" the American people a book.
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Trump-Vance team announces more inauguration weekend acts including Billy Ray Cyrus, Rascal Flatts
Opera tenor Christopher Macchio will sing the national anthem
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Trump Factor Strikes Again: President-elect and his envoy impact Mideast before inauguration
Multiple officials tell Just the News that Trump pressure helped Qataris to quickly close Hamas-Israel ceasefire that Biden had negotiated months earlier.
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Trump touts hires for second admin, asks public not to recommend people supported by his critics
Trump listed some of the critics as former Vice Presidents Mike Pence and Dick Cheney, Nikki Haley, Liz Cheney, Charles Koch, and former Utah GOP Sen. Mitt Romney, whom he claimed all suffered from "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
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Nonprofit started by Stacey Abrams to pay $300K fine, largest for violating GA campaign finance laws
The Georgia Ethics Commission voted unanimously to impose the fine after it found that the nonprofit New Georgia Project, and the New Georgia Project Action Fund, did not disclose its campaign contributions to Abrams' candidacy despite advocating for her.
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California abandons e-trucking mandate citing Trump’s promise to block the rule
“While we are disappointed that U.S. EPA was unable to act on all the requests in time," a state official said.