Voters are dissatisfied with President Biden’s job performance, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll — but they don’t like their Republican alternatives either, reflecting a disconnect between what Americans want and the options available to them.
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The Biden administration is preparing to lift an emergency health rule that has been used to prevent hundreds of thousands of migrants from entering the U.S., setting the stage for what could be a new immigration surge at the southern border.
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Weeks after revelations that migrant children are being regularly exploited for cheap labor prompted outrage, Congress has moved no closer to addressing the issue, which has become mired in a long-running partisan war over immigration policy.
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Before American central bankers make policy changes — as they did on Wednesday, when they raised interest rates for the 10th consecutive time — they often publicly hint at them in a process known as “socializing.” Here's how it works.
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A bipartisan group of senators is working on a long-shot bid to orchestrate a two-year extension of an expiring pandemic-era expulsion authority that allows officials to speedily send migrants out of the U.S.
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Vivek Ramaswamy, a 37-year-old entrepreneur and author running for president as a Republican, has never run for elective office before. But he has gotten applause on the campaign trail in New Hampshire.
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Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, will step down from her position on June 30, she announced on Friday, capping a tumultuous tenure at the nation’s leading public health agency as it struggled to rein in the Covid-19 pandemic.
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In South Carolina, Nikki Haley encouraged the crowd to “leave the drama of the past” behind — a thinly veiled allusion to former President Donald J. Trump’s administration.
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Even after hard-won convictions, law enforcement is still confronting threats from sometimes violent groups and individuals on the right.
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Roy Saltman, the federal government’s leading expert on computerized voting whose warning about the vulnerability of punch-card ballots presaged Florida's hanging chad fiasco that came to symbolize the 2000 presidential election recount, died on April 21.
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News Analysis: Could ChatGPT empower bad actors who previously wouldn’t have easy access to destructive technology? Could it speed up confrontations between superpowers, leaving little time for diplomacy and negotiation?
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The Supreme Court granted a stay of execution on Friday to Richard Glossip, a death row inmate in Oklahoma, after the state’s attorney general, Gentner Drummond, a Republican, told the justices that he agreed that Mr. Glossip’s execution should be halted.
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The Justice Department said it had reached an agreement with Alabama health departments that will be “a new chapter for Black residents of Lowndes County, Ala., who have endured health dangers, indignities and racial injustice for far too long."
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There is a new wrinkle in the ongoing tussle between Ron DeSantis and Disney after the Florida governor signed a bill into law giving a board that oversees government services at Disney World the ability to void previously approved development agreements.
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LIV Golf, the league financed with billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and facing scrutiny over its motives and ambitions, has hired one of Washington’s most influential consulting conglomerates.
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Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, will step down from her position on June 30, she announced on Friday, capping a tumultuous tenure at the nation’s leading public health agency as it struggled to rein in the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Tucker Carlson is making it clear to people close to him that he would like to be back on the air somewhere soon. But he first needs Fox News to agree to a deal that would allow him to work elsewhere.
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News Analysis: Justice Clarence Thomas’s behavior has underscored that financial disclosure rules for justices are porous. But the court has shown no interest in adopting a binding code of ethical conduct, and proposals in Congress face steep hurdles.
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Peter Schwartz, a Pennsylvania welder who attacked police officers on Jan. 6, 2021 at the Capitol with a chair and then chemical spray, was sentenced on Friday to more than 14 years in prison, the most severe penalty handed so far.
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The Justice Department has obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked at Mar-a-Lago to determine if Donald Trump hid documents.
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As the Biden administration moves to curb health threats caused by toxic chemicals, the debate hits home for families living near petrochemical plants.
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Vivek Ramaswamy, a long-shot 2024 contender, is lavishly wealthy and astoundingly confident. He also promises to exert breathtaking power in ways that Donald Trump never did.
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Neera Tanden, a longtime Democratic adviser who is currently President Biden’s staff secretary, will serve as the director of the Domestic Policy Council, the president announced on Friday.
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A text message sent by Tucker Carlson that set off a panic at the highest levels of Fox on the eve of its billion-dollar defamation trial showed its most popular host sharing his private, inflammatory views about violence and race. Read more:
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At 25, Anderson Clayton is currently the youngest state party leader. She took over the North Carolina Democratic Party with goals to reconnect with rural voters and engage the younger generation.
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South African officials allowed a cargo plane targeted by U.S. sanctions for supporting Russia’s military efforts to land at an air force base near the capital, Pretoria, last week, a move that could further increase tensions with the United States.
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The Senate voted to reinstate tariffs on Chinese solar panels coming into the U.S. in violation of trade rules. The Biden administration had temporarily halted tariffs to try to ensure an adequate supply of solar panels in the fight against climate change.
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No matter who bears the political blame for a default, aides acknowledge that President Biden has a lot to lose if the nation tips into recession just as he is moving into his re-election campaign.
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The White House on Thursday pushed Silicon Valley chief executives to limit the risks of artificial intelligence, in the administration’s most visible effort to confront rising questions and calls to regulate the rapidly advancing technology.
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A Republican donor from Texas paid for two years of private-school tuition for Justice Clarence Thomas’s great-nephew, a gift that the justice did not disclose, a friend of the justice acknowledged in a statement on Thursday.
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An autopsy report released on Thursday confirmed that Tyre Nichols died as a result of blunt force injuries to his head after a group of Memphis police officers brutally kicked and bludgeoned him.
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Representative David Trone, Democrat of Maryland, said he was set to launch a campaign for the Senate on Thursday, joining a race into which he is expected to pour tens of millions of dollars from his personal fortune.
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Economists at the central bank have begun to forecast that the U.S. is likely to tip into a recession later this year as the Fed moves to bring inflation under control. But Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, has made it clear that he does not agree.
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NEW: Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, and three of his subordinates have been found guilty of seditious conspiracy in one of the biggest Ja. 6 trials so far.
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Vice President Kamala Harris and other administration officials are scheduled to meet with the leaders of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, the maker of the popular ChatGPT chatbot, and Anthropic, an A.I. start-up, to discuss the technology.
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Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader, and three of his subordinates were convicted of sedition over the Jan. 6 riot.
Legislation that would have sharply curbed press protections in Florida has stalled in the State Legislature and won’t face a vote this year — a rare example of forces on the right thwarting a piece of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s agenda.
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Jim Marchant, a vocal election denier and Trump ally who lost his bid for Nevada’s secretary of state last year, declared his candidacy on Tuesday for the Senate in a swing state contest that could decide control of the chamber in 2024.
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Former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, one of the few potential Republican presidential candidates willing to attack Donald Trump directly, laced into the former president on Wednesday over his reported reluctance to participate in presidential debates.
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Pamela Turnure Timmins had become the first person ever to hold the title of press secretary to an American first lady when she joined the staff of Jacqueline Kennedy, a post that made her a witness to considerable glamour and considerable tragedy.
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