Politics
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D.C. mayor to ditch 'Black Lives Matter' mural, street name to avoid scrum with GOP on Capitol Hill
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday her plan to remove the huge "Black Lives Matter" road mural and street name was because the city has...
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Social Security downplays Trump's numbers on dead people still on the books
The Social Security Administration said Wednesday that it does have people with impossible ages still on its books, as President Trump said earlier...
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Vance tours border, touts plummet in border crossings
Vice President J.D. Vance visited the border in Texas on Wednesday and said the lower illegal immigration numbers are proof that the Biden migrant...
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Judge rejects NYC's request to order immediate return of $80 million from FEMA to shelter migrants
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the Federal Emergency Management Agency doesn't need to immediately return more than $80 million that it...
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White House confirms 'ongoing talks and discussions' with Hamas officials amid ceasefire uncertainty
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that U.S. officials have had "ongoing talks and discussions" with Hamas officials.
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Trump gives incoming cars one-month delay on tariffs
President Trump said he's giving a short-term tariff delay on cars coming from Mexico and Canada.
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Maryland, Virginia, D.C. officials predict economic woes for the region as Trump shrinks government
Maryland, Virginia and D.C. officials say President Trump's plan for downsizing the federal government could hurt the metropolitan region's economy.
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GSA erases public list of federal properties to be sold
The General Services Administration already has removed an online list of more than 400 "non-core" federal properties it said it wanted to sell off.
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Texas Democrat Rep. Sylvester Turner, 70, dies two months into first congressional term
Rep. Sylvester Turner, Texas Democrat and former mayor of Houston, died suddenly at age 70, just two months into his first congressional term.
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Starmer praises sacrifice of British troops in Afghanistan and Iraq in oblique rebuke to Vance
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday praised the hundreds of British troops who died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq "alongside our...
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Supreme Court orders Trump administration to pay out $2 billion in foreign assistance funds
The Supreme Court on Wednesday delivered an early victory to President Trump's opponents, ruling that a federal judge can order the administration...
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Mayors from Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York will testify before Congress on 'sanctuary cities'
Mayors from four major cities are set to testify Wednesday in Congress as Republicans take aim at "sanctuary cities," arguing that they impede the...