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Trump administration deploys election monitors to blue states. But will it stop there?
Maya Wiley explains why Trump's decision to send election monitors to New Jersey a…
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Democrats find a post-Trump message: Make life more affordable
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Democrats are winning the shutdown. Now comes the hard part.
Democrats shut down the federal government to force Republicans to negotiate an extens…
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Trump orders Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons 'on an equal basis' with other countries
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he had instructed the Defense Department to “imm…
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Why some Republicans have major beef with the Trump administration
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Category 5 Hurricane Melissa set to slam into Jamaica
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Trump adds Chris Wray and Merrick Garland to his growing list of prosecution targets
Donald Trump now wants to see the Justice Department prosecute Chris Wray, Jack Smith,…
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President Trump in Asia for trip focused on trade, diplomacy
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MSNBC Exclusive: Zohran Mamdani responds to JD Vance: "Cheap jokes about Islamophobia”
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Misty Copeland's glorious final bow
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Hungry kids are about to become the new face of the shutdown
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'A House of Dynamite' is a reminder of the folly of our nuclear era
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Jack Smith ready to respond to GOP questions, but he wants the public to see his answers
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'Throwing a fit over an ad': Trump terminates trade talks with Canada
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The East Wing's destruction spotlights an absentee First Lady
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Trump lowers bar for lethal drug strikes abroad
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Can the White House's flood-the-zone social strategy win the shutdown?
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'Names keep piling up': House GOP calls on DOJ to prosecute former CIA Director Brennan
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'No Kings Alliance' launches in wake of massive nationwide protests as movement's next step
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Sen. Warren calls out GOP as shutdown continues: 'Just sit down and negotiate'
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This is not normal: Joe slams young Republican leaders over racist messages
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Team Trump eyes changes at the IRS that would make weaponization far easier
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With George Santos, Trump finds another convicted congressional Republican to reward
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Secret Service discovered hunting stand with direct view of Air Force One at Florida airport
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Robert De Niro: ‘We cannot let up’ on protests, or we risk Trump third term
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Kim Kardashian is capitalizing on women’s impossible beauty standards in newly twisted ways
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Young Republicans have a racism problem — they think they’re Trump
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Joe Scarborough rips ‘weak’ Republicans for not condemning Trump’s deadly boat strikes
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The Voting Rights Act is at further risk as the Roberts Court hears Louisiana map appeal
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Lawrence: Trump admin. staffer reportedly in an 'I love Hitler' chat hasn't been fired by Trump yet
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Criminal charges against John Bolton could come as early as this week
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President Trump greets Netanyahu in Tel Aviv amid hostage release
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'An important day': All living Israeli hostages freed
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The White House and Republicans want to intimidate Democrats like me. They'll fail.
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We don't know where Trump is seeing Portland 'on fire.' That's frightening.
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A pastor was peacefully praying for migrant rights. Then ICE shot him in the head with a pepper ball.
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White House hopeful Israel, Hamas framework opens door to bigger peace plan
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New reporting confirms Trump accidentally posted DM to Bondi ordering prosecutions
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Speaker Johnson on families paying more for health care: 'Boy, I hope not'
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Judge temporarily blocks the deployment of the National Guard to Portland
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Trump’s White House can’t defend the shutdown — so it’s dehumanizing immigrants again
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Trump has called himself America's 'king.' Now he's using the shutdown to govern like one.
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Stephen Miller tells law enforcement they are 'unleashed' in Memphis
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Pete Hegseth's speech to generals crossed an ominous line
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Supreme Court allows Lisa Cook to stay on Fed board for now
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Candidate rips into Trump admin over release of private data to Republican opponent
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America's top comedians are helping launder a brutal autocracy's reputation
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Democratic voters are furious with party leaders. And that disaffection has a cost.
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Trump's childhood vaccine rant shows he's clueless about science — and ordinary parenting
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Republicans all but guaranteed a shutdown this fall when they sided with Trump
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'One Battle After Another' is much more than the movie of the movement
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'Could happen to any veteran': House Dem calls for probe into release of her military records
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Read: Full text of the two-count James Comey indictment
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Trump to unveil long-awaited TikTok deal on Thursday
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3 ways to interpret Trump's shocking 180 on Russia
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Ahead of shutdown deadline, Trump cancels Democratic meeting he’d already agreed to
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Rachel Maddow’s full interview with Kamala Harris I MSNBC EXCLUSIVE
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The unsettling consequences of Trump designating antifa as a ‘major terrorist organization’
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'I hate my opponents': Trump at Charlie Kirk memorial
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Senator Schiff refuses to succumb to pressure after latest Trump post singling him out
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Trump, Vance to address mourners at Charlie Kirk memorial service
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'Act fast': Trump demands Bondi pursue enemies 'if they're guilty or not'
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Young men are participating less and less in the workforce. Why?
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After going ‘nuclear,’ Republicans confirm Trump nominees, including Guilfoyle, Gingrich
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Trump, eyeing return to Afghanistan, says U.S. is ‘trying to get’ back Bagram Airbase
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Tearful testimonies at House Democrats' 'shadow hearing' on immigration raids
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Over 24 hours, Trump’s authoritarian vision comes into focus (yes, again)
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President Trump makes second state visit to UK
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Charlie Kirk’s killing is a tragedy — the ‘reckoning’ is a moral panic
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Is Trump’s case against Fed Governor Lisa Cook about to be thrown out?
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Americans who push back against Trump are winning
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How open carry laws make securing Charlie Kirk-style events more difficult
Open carry laws make it harder to secure the kind of public events where Charlie Kirk …
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