Politics
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Beto O’Rourke Announces Run for Texas Governor, Testing Democrats’ Strength
HOUSTON — Beto O’Rourke entered the race for Texas governor on Monday, challenging an ultraconservative and well-financed two-term Republican ...
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Republicans Gain Heavy House Edge in 2022 as Gerrymandered Maps Emerge
WASHINGTON — A year before the polls open in the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans are already poised to flip at…
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Faith Groups Push to Scrap New Mandates in Biden’s Child Care Plan
WASHINGTON — A coalition of religious groups is waging an intensive lobbying effort to remove a nondiscrimination provision from President…
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Flooding and Nuclear Waste Eat Away at a Tribe’s Ancestral Home
For decades, chronic flooding and nuclear waste have encroached on the ancestral lands in southeastern Minnesota that the Prairie Island…
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Appeals Court Extends Block on Biden’s Vaccine Mandate for Employers
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has kept its block in place against a federal mandate that all large employers…
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Bannon Indicted on Contempt Charges Over House’s Capitol Riot Inquiry
WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon, a onetime aide to former President Donald J. Trump, was indicted by a federal grand…
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Menace, as a Political Tool, Enters the Republican Mainstream
At a conservative rally in western Idaho last month, a young man stepped up to a microphone to ask when…
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Biden Got His Infrastructure Bill. Now He Has to Sell It to Voters.
Joe Biden is selling. But is anyone buying? The president, a used-car salesman’s son who sees himself as a consummate…
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Swift Ruling Tests Trump’s Tactic of Running Out the Clock
WASHINGTON — On the surface, a judge’s ruling on Tuesday night that Congress can obtain Trump White House files related…
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House Republicans Who Backed Infrastructure Bill Face Vicious Backlash
WASHINGTON — One caller instructed Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois to slit his wrists and “rot in hell.” Another hoped…