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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 2, 2025.

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Wide majority of Americans oppose impeaching judges who rule against Trump, new poll shows

Tracking Trump’s executive actions

Congress appropriated some FEMA money to house and aid migrants. Trump officials want it used to detain them

Four Senate Republicans join with Democrats to rebuke Trump tariff policy in key vote

Wisconsin loss a warning sign for GOP about Musk’s campaign role

Lawyer for Trump co-defendant and alleged US Capitol rioters picked for major role at DOJ

Senate GOP unveils new budget blueprint and braces for another vote-a-rama

Cory Booker’s historic speech energizes a discouraged Democratic base

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U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order, on the day of his remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 2, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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Trump is right: Everyone will remember the day he launched a total trade war

Turnout in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race was remarkable for an off-year election

Musk keeps giving select voters $1 million checks. How is this legal?

Trump has the world on edge as he mulls fateful tariffs decades in the making

Democrats have image problems. That may not matter much in 2026

Trump sounds dead serious about a third term, no matter what’s in the Constitution

Why Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariff transformation is so risky

A warning sign flares as the Trump White House refuses to moderate its shock politics

Why the American consumer is fed up

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President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.

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Fact check: Trump’s false claims about tariffs and trade

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (not pictured) in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 21, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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Fact check: Trump exaggerates trade deficits, his 2024 vote total, Ukraine aid, border crossings and fentanyl deaths

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Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Ben Ferguson at the Gaylord National Resort in Oxon Hill, MD on Thursday, 20, 2025.

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Trump Justice officials demanded charges for Hillary, Biden for classified docs scandals. They’re silent on SignalGate

National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, listen to a question from a reporter during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13, in Washington, DC.

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‘Nobody is above the law’: Trump officials who criticized Clinton’s emails now under scrutiny for leaked war plans

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President Donald Trump displays an executive order after signing it during a meeting with US Ambassadors in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2025.

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Trump’s favorite F-word is getting a workout

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President Donald Trump and White House senior adviser and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk deliver remarks next to a Tesla Model S on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025, in Washington, DC.

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Trump’s moves to hollow out government could be difficult to undo

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California man to plead guilty to attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh in 2022

Republicans hold two seats in Florida congressional races, shoring up narrow House majority

Liberals win majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court

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Cory Booker makes history with longest Senate floor speech in protest of Trump agenda

Trump announces deal with law firm that employs Doug Emhoff

Speaker Johnson suffers defeat as GOP rebels tank effort to block remote voting for new parents

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the Strom Thurmond room in the U.S. Capitol building, in Washington D.C, on December 19, 2018. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)

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