Politics & Policy
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Eight candidates take stage in perhaps one-and-only debate in bid to replace Planter in Maine
Originally, the sponsor of the event had invited a few candidates but later decided to invite everyone who had so far submitted paperwork to run for the seat Platner was seeking before he was forced to withdraw following sexual assault allegations.
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Republican frontrunner Mike Rogers rips El-Sayed and Stevens in bid for Michigan Senate race
As the Michigan Senate primary heats up, Trump-endorsed Republican Mike Rogers rips Democratic rivals Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens for radical policies and woke ideology
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Senate GOP poised for largest turnover of the millennium due to Trump primaries, retirements
Republicans currently have 53 seats in the upper chamber, but are essentially guaranteed to see at least eight of their ranks not return for the next Congress, marking what will be the largest instance of intra-party turnover in the past quarter-century.
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Already among highest in nation, California gas price goes up again with another state tax hike
The state’s gas tax goes up every year on July 1 under a 2017 law in order to pay for roads, highways and public transportation.
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Political science professor blames civic knowledge decline on failures in U.S. education
Most Americans today can’t name all five freedoms within the First Amendment, according to a survey released in September 2025.
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Supreme Court confirms Title IX doesn't require boys be allowed in girls' sports
Some governments and courts have interpreted SCOTUS protections for transgender workers to mean girls' sports are open to gender-confused males, but this is a "very different statutory and factual context," girls' basketball coach Justice Kavanaugh writes.
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S&P 500 closes with strongest quarter since 2020
The S&P 500 rose nearly 15% in the past quarter alone, marking its best quarterly showing since the same period in 2020 when the world was beginning to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Melania Trump urges support for LGBT community while supporting SCOTUS transgender ruling
The first lady highlighted an excerpt from her book "Melania," which emphasized her allyship with the LGBTQIA+ community while also encouraging the nation to ensure that female athletes are protected and respected.
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Education Department cuts loan eligibility for college degree programs yielding 'low-earning' jobs
Federal agency made the decision despite opposition in drafting process this spring from supporters of the arts, religious studies programs
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Many Democratic Socialist leaders are self-professed communists, DSA caucus statements show
This isn't John F. Kennedy's Democratic Party: Marxist and communist caucuses boast significant influence in the national leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America. One member of the DSA's national committee came right out and said it: “Our goal is liberation. Our goal is communism.”
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Johnson denounces birthright citizenship ruling: 'Antithetical to the rule of law'
Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined with the court's liberal justices in Trump v. Barbara in finding that children born in the U.S. to persons unlawfully or temporarily in the country were citizens at birth.
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Trump welcomes freed ex-county clerk Tina Peters to the White House
Peters was recently released from prison after Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colo., commuted her sentence earlier this year. She was serving nine years over a 2020 election case.
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Colorado primaries a test for appeal of Mamdani-like candidates in Middle America
The state currently has two Democratic senators and four Democratic House members, with Republicans holding the other four House seats.