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7 Takeaways From the Second Georgia Senate Debate

Representative Mike Collins, who lags Senator Jon Ossoff in public polls, hit his opponent harder in a second and final debate on Tuesday.

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5 Takeaways From a Heated and Personal Maine Senate Debate

Par : Tim Balk
Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, and her Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson, disagreed over the war in Iran and President Trump in the third of four debates in a key race.

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Troy Jackson, left, and Senator Susan Collins of Maine faced off on Tuesday in a debate that at times turned personal and tense.
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Senators Urge Trump to Reverse Diesel Deal With Putin

A bipartisan group of 12 senators called on the president to drop his decision to ease sanctions on Russia’s exports of diesel fuel, saying the deal would help Moscow continue the war in Ukraine.

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The letter, led by Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, came just weeks after Congress overwhelmingly approved legislation intended to increase economic pressure on Moscow and its allies.
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Justice Dept. Issues Subpoenas in Ilhan Omar Investigation

After years of investigation, the Justice Department appears to be intensifying a criminal inquiry into the immigration history of Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, and her family.

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Representative Ilhan Omar’s immigration history has been investigated in prior years by federal authorities, but has not resulted in charges.
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Katie Zacharia Makes Bumpy Debut as Trump’s New Press Secretary

Ms. Zacharia spent eight minutes reading from a script, called on only three reporters and made an awkward slip-up.

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Katie Zacharia, the new press secretary, said that she had wanted to work for President Trump “for a very long time.”
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UAW’s Shawn Fain Wins Second Term as President

The United Auto Workers has grown under Mr. Fain, who has also drawn scrutiny from federal prosecutors.

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Shawn Fain, president of the United Automobile Workers union, was re-elected to a second term.
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Texas Prosecutors May Seek Charges Against ICE Agent Who Hit Fleeing Man

The Harris County district attorney said investigators from his office did not believe that the crash that left Miguel Parra Hernandez injured over the weekend was accidental.
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‘Honey Please’: The Steep Rise and Sudden Fall of Kimberly Guilfoyle.

President Trump cut her loose after damaging news reports about her tenure as ambassador to Greece. Once a prominent Trump insider, she suggested she will now fight to defend her reputation.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle with President Trump at a White House event in March. In announcing her resignation, Ms. Guilfoyle decried what she called false accusations.
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Miami Tugboat Captain Gets 18 Months in Crash That Killed 3 Children

Five girls and a camp counselor were thrown into the water off Miami Beach in July last year when a barge pushed by a tugboat struck their stalled sailboat.

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Emergency workers responding to the Miami Yacht Club after the barge collided with the sailboat in July 2025.
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F.B.I. Disrupts Pyongyang Revenue Stream: North Koreans in U.S. Tech Jobs

F.B.I. investigators worked with the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to dismantle so-called laptop farms that steal American identities to earn cash for Pyongyang.

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North Korea has generated billions in cash in recent years, evading international sanctions, through remote I.T. worker schemes, U.S. officials say.
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Judge Prohibits Further Tree Cutting at East Potomac Golf Course for Two Weeks

The ruling barred major modifications at the D.C. course while a federal judge seeks testimony from Interior Department officials about whether they ignored a court order.

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A tree marked with caution tape at the East Potomac Golf Links on Tuesday.
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Florida Executes First Prisoner Since Botched Injection in Tennessee

The execution of James Robertson, who said he deliberately killed another inmate to get on death row, occurred without complications, state officials said.

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Florida State Prison near Starke, Fla., in July.
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El-Sayed, Releasing His Platform on A.I., Calls It an ‘Existential Crisis’

Par : Tim Balk
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan is the first Democrat running in a battleground Senate race to publicly call for a pause on artificial intelligence development.

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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed speaking in Detroit last month.
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They Pushed an Anti-Abortion Pill Law. Now, They’re Being Sued Under It.

A Texas mother is suing the president of Students for Life of America and others in the group over an Instagram post that appeared to boast about ordering abortion pills in Houston.

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“I want justice for what these laws have taken from women like me,” said Maria Puerto, the plaintiff, using a pseudonym.
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Supreme Court Will Review Dispute Over Records From Elon Musk’s DOGE

A nonprofit watchdog group sued the Department of Government Efficiency, asserting that it should be subject to federal Freedom of Information Act discovery requests.

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Members of the Department of Government Efficiency visited the U.S. African Development Foundation in March 2025.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle Resigns as Ambassador to Greece

Ms. Guilfoyle was asked to quit by the White House after a string of damaging reports, including that she had asked a Republican donor to pay off a credit card.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle in Athens in December. On Tuesday, she wrote that she planned to “vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity.”
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El-Sayed, Releasing His Platform on A.I., Calls It an ‘Existential Crisis’

Par : Tim Balk
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan is the first Democrat running in a battleground Senate race to publicly call for a pause on artificial intelligence development.

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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed speaking in Detroit last month.
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These California Boat Dwellers Fear the Worst: Life on Land

For decades, dozens of people lived rent-free on a bay just north of San Francisco. A few holdouts remained as a deadline loomed to leave the water.

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He Would Be Florida’s First Black Governor. Can He Sway Black Voters?

Byron Donalds, the Republican nominee for governor, is working to win over Black voters who usually support Democrats as his party girds for the possibility of low turnout.

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Byron Donalds, a Republican congressman since 2021, is hoping to become Florida’s first Black governor.
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The New Affordability Fight in the Midterms: Home Insurance Prices

Extreme weather is driving up insurance rates, impacting races from California to the nation’s central Tornado Alley.

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Increasingly violent storms in the nation’s midsection, like the storm that hit Gilbert Kirk’s house in Kansas City, Kan., are driving up homeowners insurance.
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