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STDs are at record rates.
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The program provides STD testing and contraception for millions of low-income Americans.
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Wells Fargo will pay $3.7 billion to settle allegations of mismanaging auto loans, mortgages and deposit accounts, according to the terms of a consent order with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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A group of House conservatives are vowing to oppose the legislative priorities of any Senate Republican who backs the omnibus — including Mitch McConnell.
It's not clear many huge GOP-led bills would escape the Democratic Senate next year.
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Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are engaged in a war of words over Kevin McCarthy's bid for House speaker.
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NEW: Judicial activist Leonard Leo appears to have helped facilitate the sale of frmr White House official Kellyanne Conway’s polling company in 2017 — as she was playing a key role in advocating for Leo’s list of Supreme Court candidates.
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Judicial activist Leonard Leo appears to have helped facilitate the sale of former White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway’s polling company in 2017 — as she was playing a key role in advocating for Leo’s handpicked list of Supreme Court candidates
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The Supreme Court’s June ruling erasing federal abortion rights has created a new litmus test in Republican presidential politics
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President Joe Biden and his aides have a plan for how to deal with the far-right, anti-Palestinian tilt of the incoming Israeli government: make it all about Benjamin Netanyahu
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On Trump v. DeSantis: “I don’t really want to deal with the fact that they might have to run against each other,” one young conservative said at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference
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As liberal group Democracy for America approached insolvency after the midterms, their CEO attended a leadership training and multi-day sommelier education course in Napa instead of focusing on raising money to save it, five former employees told us
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The January 6th committee might be forcing the Justice Department’s hand. Nightly reports 👇
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The release of a $1.7 trillion year-end spending bill hit a snag Monday night as Democrats wrestled over a largely unrelated last-minute issue: where to put the FBI’s new headquarters.
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Mike Pence is struggling to find his path back to the White House
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Amid the post-Roe focus groups, campaign strategists kept making the same startling finding:
Abortion hadn’t simply awakened Democratic voters. It was actually persuading swing voters.
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“Harmeet, what’s your endgame?”
& on the fight for the RNC chairmanship between a very Trumpy insurgent and a differently Trumpy incumbent
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court temporarily blocks order ending asylum restrictions, leaves open prospect for lifting them by Wednesday.
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New York has passed a sweeping climate plan to limit emissions and require polluters to purchase allowances to spew greenhouse gasses.
The plan also calls for electrifying nearly everything with a mix of mandates and incentives.
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Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger said threats against lawmakers are up a staggering 400 percent in the last six years.
He told a Senate panel there have been 9,000 threats in the last year alone.
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A group of Republican-led states filed an emergency application Monday with the Supreme Court as part of a last-ditch effort to halt the lifting of Title 42, the federal order blocking millions of migrants from entering the U.S. on public health grounds.
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But keep in mind: the real big news will be when the panel releases its final report this Wednesday — including a huge dump of evidence that could help prosecutors determine which witnesses might have committed crimes.
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There’s going to be a lot of stupid commentary today.
The referrals aren’t the big story. DOJ doesn’t care about the prosecutorial judgment of 9 members of Congress.
They care about evidence — some of which you will see today, much of which you won’t.
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The Jan. 6 select committee on Monday voted to formally accuse Donald Trump of four crimes in his bid to subvert the transfer of presidential power to Joe Biden. politi.co/3FvypAA
Rep. Jamie Raskin lays out the criminal referrals 👇
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The Jan. 6 panel is also referring four House Republicans — including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy — for ethics violations, saying they defied subpoenas for testimony and documents.
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The Jan. 6 select committee is referring Donald Trump to the Justice Department for four potential felony charges, saying its evidence could support prosecution of the former president for attempting to block the peaceful transfer of power.
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NEW: Republicans have long pushed to end the more generous Covid-era Medicaid rules that have prevented millions from losing coverage. Why are Democrats agreeing to join them?
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HAPPENING NOW: The Jan. 6 committee is convening to adopt its final report and recommendations for potential criminal referrals.
There'll be a lot of noise about what it all means, but and I will try to stay focused on the substantive news.
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The FBI issued a national public safety alert today on the “staggering increase” of “financial sexploitation” cases of children and teens.
Those reports have resulted in at least 3,000 victims and over a dozen related suicides, a DOJ official said.
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An obscure financial services company based just outside St. Louis could bring down Biden's student debt relief program.
A look at MOHELA, which has quietly become one of the largest student loan servicers, thanks to growing business from Ed Dept -->
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Fourteen incoming House GOP chairs are throwing their collective backing behind Kevin McCarthy's speaker bid.
"Let us not squander this majority before we even take back the gavels," they write.
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Elon Musk asked Twitter users Sunday whether he should step down as head of the the platform, pledging that he would “abide by the results of this poll.”
Monday morning, Musk got his answer, with 57.5% saying “Yes."
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In many battleground and red-leaning states and districts, especially where Democrats spent millions to keep it at the forefront for voters, abortion access played an outsized role in the midterms, reversing the party’s once abysmal outlook
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Richard Shelby is coming under heavy fire from conservatives for cutting one last deal with Democrats on a massive year-end spending bill, an effort supported by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
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Mike Pence wants to return to the White House. But he can’t seem to figure out who he wants to run as.
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The Jan. 6 select committee is preparing to unveil its most comprehensive case yet that Trump attempted to subvert the transfer of presidential power to Biden — first by pressuring allies at every level of government and then with the aid of a violent mob
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The imminent expiration of Title 42 Wednesday has prompted concern of a surge of arrivals at the border. Biden officials have scrambled to figure out how to replace the policy, which the Trump administration used 2M+ times to expel migrants seeking asylum.
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Ukraine remains standing as fighting enters its 10th month, but new tests for the Biden administration, at home and abroad, are rising just as the temperatures drop in Eastern Europe
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