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Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

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Wall Street falls the most since May after employers slash hiring and tariffs roll out The stock market had its worst day since May after the government reported a sharp slowdown in hiring and President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from a number of U.S. trading partn...

Wall Street falls the most since May after employers slash hiring and tariffs roll out

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been a cornerstone of American culture for three generations.

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ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now?

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Trump calls GOP's Hawley 'second tier' senator after bill to ban stock trades in government advances President Donald Trump has lashed out at Sen. Josh Hawley after the Republican’s proposal to ban stock trading by members of Congress — and the president and vice president — advanced in a committee v...

Trump calls GOP's Hawley 'second tier' senator after bill to ban stock trades in government advances

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Georgia alleges First Liberty-linked PAC ‘illegally influenced elections’ The State Ethics Commission alleges that a political action committee linked to failed lender First Liberty Building & Loan violated Georgia campaign finance law.

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Trump’s Name Is on Contributor List for Epstein Birthday Book

Trump’s Name Is on Contributor List for Epstein Birthday Book www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

Award-winning AP photographer Bob Daugherty captured history with speed and persistence Robert A. Daugherty, who made photos of nine presidents and countless other news and sporting events in a 43-year career with The Associated Press, has died. He was 86.

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Georgia Republican apologizes for $140M Ponzi scheme as judge freezes assets A prominent Georgia Republican accused of running a $140 million Ponzi scheme has publicly apologized.

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FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing ...

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State Department to Soon Begin Mass Layoffs

State Department to Soon Begin Mass Layoffs www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

A decade of missed opportunities: Texas couldn't find $1M for flood warning system near camps Over the last decade, an array of local and state agencies have missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert the type of disaster that swept away dozens of youth campers and o...

A decade of missed opportunities: Texas couldn't find $1M for flood warning system near camps

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Comey Tracked by Secret Service After Post Critical of Trump

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Death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth weekend surpasses 100 The urgent search for the missing continues following a holiday weekend deluge that killed at least 82 people including children at summer camps.

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Analysis shows Trump's tariffs would cost US employers $82.3 billion An analysis finds a critical group of U.S. employers would face a direct cost of $82.3 billion from President Donald Trump’s current tariff plans.

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Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation

Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into Russia

Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into Russia www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

Republican Bill Puts Nation on New, More Perilous Fiscal Path

Republican Bill Puts Nation on New, More Perilous Fiscal Path www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

California Democrats Agree to Roll Back Landmark Environmental Law

California Rolls Back Its Landmark Environmental Law www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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A List of Nearly Everything in the Senate G.O.P. Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save The legislation includes tax cuts as well as big cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs, and it would add more than $3 trillion to the national debt.

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2 Dead as Firefighters Targeted in Shooting in Idaho, Officials Say

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2 Dead as Firefighters Targeted in Shooting in Idaho, Officials Say

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Senate Debates Bill That Would Add at Least $3.3 Trillion to Debt

Senate Debates Bill That Would Add at Least $3.3 Trillion to Debt www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but fate of Trump birthright citizenship order unclear A divided Supreme Court has ruled that individual judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions, but the decision leaves unclear the fate of President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthr...

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Right-wing Republicans in Congress attack Mamdani with Islamophobic comments.

Right-wing Republicans in Congress attack Mamdani with Islamophobic comments. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Live Updates: Iran Fires Missiles at U.S. Base in Qatar

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Live updates: Iran says it launched attack on US forces at Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base Iran launched a missile attack Monday on a U.S. military base in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear sites.

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Live updates: Iran says it launched attack on US forces at Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base Iran launched a missile attack Monday on a U.S. military base in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear sites.

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