From the States
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Trump campaigns for Collins for Senate, Jackson for governor in Georgia
"The story is this: We get 49% more votes when I'm on the ballot," Trump said. "When I'm not on the ballot, I guess it's a compliment; people don't show up so much." Trump called the midterm election the "most important" ever.
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Seattle mayor receives improved revenue forecast but not enough to close a $175 million hole
Friday’s revenue forecast improved Seattle’s budget position through 2028, but offered little room to restore cuts to services Mayor Katie Wilson proposed to close a $175 million hole.
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With election approaching, GOP attacked over 'affordability,' Dems for being 'socialist'
“If you are a communist, transgender witch, vote Democrat. But if you’re a trucker diver, steel worker, farmer, rancher, waiter, cop, firefighter, oil field worker, mom, or dad, show up and vote Republican!” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, posted on social media Friday
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Republicans defend, Democrats decry changes at the USPS, as losses in 2024 were nearly $10B
Trump has suggested a move to privatize the agency or merge it into the Department of Commerce.
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2 GOP congressmen slap articles of impeachment on federal judges for being 'partisan activists'
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., reportedly seems uninterested in moving the impeachment articles forward. Only 15 federal judges have been impeached in U.S. history.
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Pentagon looking at 'monster' challenges in creating Golden Dome missile defense system
Some skeptics say the technology needed to protect a land mass the size of the U.S. still isn't ready. Israel's Iron Dome system works only against short-range rockets.
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Gov. Tim Walz says he was joking about enjoying watching Tesla's stock drop
"This guy bugs me in a way that’s probably unhealthy," Walz said, referencing Tesla CEO Elon Musk
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Chicago reigns as country’s ‘homicide capital’ for 13th straight year
Even as overall murder rates across the country dipped, Chicago also claimed the top spot for highest murder rate per capita among big cities at 21.5 per 100,000 population, or three times the levels of Los Angeles and nearly five times of New York City.
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DeSantis says he returned nearly $880 million in federal funds after meeting with Musk, DOGE
"For years, Florida has been trying to return federal funds to the federal government due to the ideological strings attached by the Biden Administration—but they couldn't even figure out how to accept it," he wrote on X.
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CA gained 76% fewer jobs in 2024 than estimated, grew just 0.3%
A 2024 state-funded report found that California private sector employment went into a downturn in 2022, with jobs growth only coming from the public sector and related employment.
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Illinois House presents package of bills to address human trafficking
Package of bills would remove the statute of
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Johnson & Johnson to invest $55 billion in American manufacturing over four years
The White House called it “the latest massive victory in President Donald J. Trump’s unrelenting pursuit of American manufacturing dominance,”
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'Virginia is ready' for education to return to states, says Gov. Youngkin
One clear example of the commonwealth exercising that control is its recent move to ban artificial food dyes in all public school meals.