Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024 (www.washingtonpost.com)
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A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending. (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Ukraine running out of options to retake significant territory (www.washingtonpost.com)
Gen Z might be the MAGA movement’s undoing (www.washingtonpost.com)
Four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump has been successfully selling white Christian nostalgia, racism and xenophobia to his base. However, the Public Religion Research Institute’s massive poll of 6,616 participants suggests that what works with his base might pose an insurmountable problem with Gen Z teens and Gen...
She hung a Pride flag at her shop. She was killed over it, officials say. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Students reported her for a lesson on race. Then she taught it again. (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Biden said to be increasingly frustrated by dismal poll numbers (www.washingtonpost.com)
Rep. George Santos expelled from Congress on bipartisan vote (www.washingtonpost.com)
11 arrested in protest at Sen. Bernie Sanders’s office over war in Ukraine (www.washingtonpost.com)
Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Israel and Hamas reach tentative U.S.-brokered deal to pause conflict, free dozens of hostages (www.washingtonpost.com)
Israel, the United States and Hamas are close to an agreement to free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza, in exchange for the first sustained pause in conflict in Gaza, according to people familiar with its provisions.
Twitter is throttling traffic to websites Elon dislikes (www.washingtonpost.com)
U.S. oil production has hit a record under Biden, but he seldom mentions it. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Most Republicans aren’t aware of Trump’s various legal issues (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Walgreens pharmacy staff walk out, citing unsafe working conditions (www.washingtonpost.com)
Trump pleads not guilty to charges that he plotted to overturn election (www.washingtonpost.com)
Former president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, appearing in the federal courthouse that sits just blocks away from where his angry supporters stormed the Capitol building in an effort to keep him in power.
Trump says on Univision he could weaponize FBI, DOJ against his enemies (www.washingtonpost.com)
Trump’s Truth Social may be days away from liquidation (www.washingtonpost.com)
When former president Donald Trump’s media start-up announced in October 2021 that it planned to merge with a Miami-based company called Digital World Acquisition, the deal was an instant stock-market hit....
With the House GOP in full meltdown, Democrats could offer a way out (www.washingtonpost.com)
The crackup in the House GOP has gotten so bad that some Republicans are now asking Democrats for help in electing a speaker. So far, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the current favorite among the right, hasn’t gotten anywhere close to the 217 votes he needs to secure the job....
Domino’s pulls out of Russia 18 months after Ukraine invasion (www.washingtonpost.com)
The company that oversees the Domino’s Pizza brand in Russia said it will file for bankruptcy there, signaling a definitive end to its operations in that country nearly 18 months after President Vladimir Putin launched an unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine....
Georgia teacher fired after reading book on gender to fifth-grade class (www.washingtonpost.com)
A decision to fire an elementary school teacher from Georgia has been upheld, after she read a children’s book on gender identity to her fifth-grade class earlier this year....
Conservative Christian women in red states are rising up to defend IVF (www.washingtonpost.com)
“They were attacking my faith. It bothered me to the core,” said Sara, a Southern Baptist who identifies as pro-life. “Because I had never viewed [IVF] as wrong, as anything other than beautiful and bringing another life into the world. … I’ve actually had a lot of friends pray for me and encourage me and help me along...
Kevin McCarthy directs House to open impeachment inquiry into Biden (www.washingtonpost.com)
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday he is directing House committees to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, amid pressure from some hard-right members of the Republican caucus to do so....