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The midterms are not just about Congress. While high-profile contests that will determine the balance of power in Washington have dominated news cycles, judicial elections are also happening in half of the country on November 3. State Supreme Court races are on the ballot in 2
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson publicly broke with her Supreme Court colleagues in a Thursday ruling allowing New Hampshire to fully block voters from using student IDs in the upcoming midterms. Jackson, the high court’s most junior liberal justice, wrote in a short dissent that s
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Justice Elena Kagan offered a pointed critique Tuesday of recent Supreme Court decisions that opened the door for more political spending and weakened key voting rights protections, suggesting those rulings by her conservative colleagues have driven the country further apart. Kag
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Two longtime associates of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are being sued over allegations that they helped facilitate and conceal his sex trafficking operation, including the abuse of young women and girls at a remote New Mexico ranch. The New Mexico attorney general’s of
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Lawyers who represented Olympic canoeist David Hearn in a now-defunct criminal case alleging he vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are urging the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) internal watchdog to reconsider a probe into how the indictment and prosecution were handle
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Comedian Bill Maher ribbed President Trump on Friday over his dismal poll numbers and the blowback to a massive upcoming bash on the National Mall celebrating America’s 250th birthday. Trump’s job approval rating slipped to a record low of 34 percent this week, according to a pol
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Bob Fenton, the acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), is reassuring the public that the agency is prepared for hurricane season, even as the Trump administration pushes for states to take a more active role in recovery efforts. “Oh, we’re ready f
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A tentative agreement has been reached between the U.S. and Iran to extend a fragile ceasefire in the three-month conflict by 60 days, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and establish a framework for broader talks on Tehran’s nuclear program, according to U.S. sources. Negotiators have
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The White House is mocking the idea of the U.S. retaining secrets involving alien encounters by launching a space-themed website that touts the arrests of immigrants unauthorized to live in the U.S. The website, launched on Thursday, opens with a crawl similar to the one seen i
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Vice President Vance said on Thursday that the U.S. was “very close” to finalizing an agreement with Iran, but a few sticking points remained. The two sides have reached a tentative deal that would extend the already-fragile ceasefire for 60 days, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and