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With Midterms Approaching, Trump Implores Republicans: Pretend I’m on the Ballot!

Par : Shawn McCreesh
President Trump was in South Carolina to stump for Darline Graham, sister of Lindsey. But his own political future was on his mind, too.

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President Trump appeared at a rally with Senator Darline Graham ahead of the South Carolina Senate runoff.
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Postal Service Publishes Finalized Plan to Restrict Mail Ballots

Par : Adam Sella
The plan, which complies with President Trump’s executive order to curtail mail voting, will only go into effect if the Supreme Court rules in the order’s favor.

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A worker sorting ballots in 2025.
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Judge Strikes Down Trump’s 75-Country Visa Ban

Par : Mattathias Schwartz
The ruling from the Southern District of New York found that the policy went beyond Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s legal authority.

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Travelers arriving from international flights outside the U.S. Customs and Border Protection exit at Kennedy International Airport in New York last year.
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Trump Accounts Get an Unlikely Endorser: Gavin Newsom

Par : Laurel Rosenhall
Mr. Newsom, the governor of California, normally has harsh words for President Trump. But he called the new children’s savings accounts “one of the best things” the president has done.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California gave an unusual endorsement for an endeavor led by President Trump — investment funds for American children born during Mr. Trump’s presidency.
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Drawing on His Rust Belt Roots, Vance Campaigns for Republicans

Par : Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Vice President JD Vance traveled to his hometown, Middletown, Ohio, and spoke at a steel factory where his grandfather once worked.

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Vice President JD Vance spoke at a factory in Middletown, Ohio, on Friday.
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Pentagon Fires Editor and Publisher of Independent Military Publication

Par : Minho Kim
The firings at Stars and Stripes also claimed a Middle East correspondent. They are the latest effort by the Pentagon to diminish the news outlet’s editorial independence.

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Service members reading Stars and Stripes in Cu Chi, South Vietnam, in September 1969. The publication has a long history of independent reporting on the U.S. military.
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America Ends a Summer of Lightning-Fast Primaries and Political Speed Dating

Par : Jess Bidgood
Plot twists in several states have led to rapid-fire races that have felt more reminiscent of European-style snap campaigns than traditional American marathons.

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Senator Darline Graham and Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina
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U.S. Agreed to Pay Liberia $5 Million in Connection with Deportees, Documents Say

Par : Madeleine Ngo · Hamed Aleaziz and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
The Trump administration approved the payment after Liberia said it would consider taking migrants from other countries.

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A plane carrying deportees from the United States at Roberts International Airport in Liberia on Thursday.
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5 Deportees Are Flown by US to Equatorial Guinea After they Resist Deplaning in Liberia

Par : Pranav Baskar · Hamed Aleaziz and Genevieve Glatsky
At least five of the people flown to Liberia under the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program resisted leaving the plane. They were then flown to Equatorial Guinea.

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The Bamy Hotel, where migrants are held, in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
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Chief Justice Allows Trump to Continue White House Ballroom Construction, for Now

Par : Ann E. Marimow
The 90,000-square-foot ballroom project has grown in size and scope, with the president’s lawyers saying it is intertwined with the renovation of an underground military bunker.

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The construction site for the new White House ballroom in March.
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Prison Firm Donated to Trump’s PAC After ICE Gave It $165 Million a Year in Contracts

Par : Kenneth P. Vogel and Hamed Aleaziz
The GEO Group has profited from the administration’s mass deportation campaign. A subsidiary donated more than $1.4 million to the president’s super PAC last month.

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The GEO Group signed a five-year contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to operate a detention facility in Winton, N.C.
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Canada-U.S. Tariff Talks Continue as Trump’s Midnight Deadline Looms

Par : Matina Stevis-Gridneff
Canadian negotiators were in Washington to finalize a deal that would stave off new tariffs and improve the terms of existing ones, but Mark Carney faces a tough sell back home.

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The ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario. President Trump hit the Canadian steel industry with tariffs of up to 50 percent last year.
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Gazebos From Uzbekistan: The Latest Foreign Gifts in Trump’s Washington

Par : Luke Broadwater
The structures will go up in West Potomac Park, the site of President Trump’s planned National Garden of American Heroes.

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Workers moving materials for Uzbek gazebos at West Potomac Park on Tuesday. President Trump’s expansive plans for the area also include reflecting pools, dining facilities and an amphitheater.
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Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic

Par : Alan Feuer
It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.

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A report by the Center for American Progress determined that there was “no evidence” that President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to cities across the country had affected the crime rate.
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Push for Online Gun Sales Meets a Surprising Opponent: Small Gun Dealers

Par : Aishvarya Kavi
The Trump administration wants average Americans to be able to buy guns online and have them shipped to their doors. Small gun stores warn it could upend the industry and risk public safety.

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Colin Overbey, the manager for Dunn’s Attic in Ormond Beach, Fla., is one of hundreds of people lobbying the A.T.F. to halt proposals that could alter the gun industry.
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Why China Thinks It Can Resist Trump’s Economic Threats on Iran

Par : David Pierson and Berry Wang
Beijing can squeeze U.S. critical mineral supplies and has enough oil to withstand the loss of Iranian crude, Chinese analysts say.

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Oil storage tanks and facilities in Shanghai in March. China has large stockpiles of oil that make it less vulnerable to energy supply disruptions.
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Giorgia Meloni Has a Lot to Say: The Takeaways

Par : Roger Cohen
The Italian prime minister is leading what will soon be the longest-lasting government in the country’s postwar history. She shows herself by turns funny and fierce in a rare interview.

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Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy.
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U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk

Par : Adeel Hassan
Samuel Tunick, who faces a felony charge for deleting his phone’s data during an airport customs search, called the government’s peering into people’s private lives “creepy.”

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Samuel Tunick faces a felony charge for deleting his phone’s data during an airport customs search last year.
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Giorgia Meloni Cuts the Hard Right a Path to Power

Par : Roger Cohen
In a rare interview, the onetime political outcast reflects on her route from “the uncomfortable side of history” to the threshold of leading Italy’s most durable postwar government.

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Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at Palazzo Chigi in Rome last month.
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How Harvard’s Epic Fight With Trump Is Costing the University

Par : Mark Arsenault and Irena Hwang
The federal government has slowed Harvard’s funding, despite the university’s legal victories. The conflict is forcing hard choices on campus.

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The Trump administration has found new ways of trying to pressure Harvard to comply with its wishes.
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Orban’s Office, Thrown Open, Is Not the Den Hungarians Expected

Par : Andrew Higgins
The new government of Peter Magyar hoped to use the suite overlooking the Danube as evidence of an autocrat’s indulgence. The trappings fell short.

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Visitors on a balcony with a view of the Danube that Viktor Orban, the former prime minister, had built off his offices at a former monastery in Budapest.
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Florida Counts Its Election Ballots Fast. Why Can’t California Keep Up?

Par : Bayliss Wagner
Florida counted most of its primary ballots within hours on Tuesday night, well ahead of the days California took to report the results of its major election.

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Election workers sort vote-by-mail ballots at the Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections Office for the Florida primary election in Doral, Fla., on Tuesday.
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On the Radio, Trump Has a Reunion (of Sorts) With Michael Cohen

Par : Shawn McCreesh
President Trump’s former personal lawyer tried to revisit the past in a radio interview. But this was not exactly a stroll down memory lane.

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Michael Cohen in front of promotional material for his new radio show, which is meant to look like him in the Oval Office, during a news conference in New York last month.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s ‘Road Trip’ Highlights America, and Some of Its Sponsors

Par : Karoun Demirjian
The transportation secretary’s six-part YouTube series is fueling ethical concerns over family adventures funded in large part by corporate sponsors regulated by his department.

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The reality road trip series tracks Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, his wife, their nine children and his son-in-law.
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Nancy Kissinger, Wife of Former Secretary of State, Dies at 92

Par : Robert D. McFadden
A foreign policy specialist, she was politically savvy and well versed in global issues, and traveled widely with her husband, Henry A. Kissinger, on his diplomatic missions.

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Nancy Kissinger, then Nancy Maginnes, with her future husband, Henry A. Kissinger, in Jerusalem in 1970. She was a fierce defender of Mr. Kissinger, a polarizing figure with a hotly disputed reputation.
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Nancy Kissinger, Wife of Former Secretary of State, Dies at 92

Par : Robert D. McFadden
A foreign policy specialist, she was politically savvy and well versed in global issues, and traveled widely with her husband, Henry A. Kissinger, on his diplomatic missions.

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Nancy Kissinger, then Nancy Maginnes, with her future husband, Henry A. Kissinger, in Jerusalem in 1970. She was a fierce defender of Mr. Kissinger, a polarizing figure with a hotly disputed reputation.
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Trump Officials Impose More Sanctions to Pressure Cuba

Par : Chris Cameron
Human rights experts have said that the U.S. attempts to squeeze Cuba’s economy, including an oil blockade, have caused a severe humanitarian crisis.

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Activity in Havana, once bustling, has dwindled as uncertainty grows about the city’s future. Cuba’s economy has suffered because of the U.S. blockade on oil shipments.
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Trump Officials Impose More Sanctions to Pressure Cuba

Par : Chris Cameron
Human rights experts have said that the U.S. attempts to squeeze Cuba’s economy, including an oil blockade, have caused a severe humanitarian crisis.

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Activity in Havana, once bustling, has dwindled as uncertainty grows about the city’s future. Cuba’s economy has suffered because of the U.S. blockade on oil shipments.
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Targeted by an Islamophobic Provocateur, a City’s Muslims Are on Edge

Par : Richard Fausset
Jake Lang has descended four times on Dearborn, Mich., which is majority Arab American. His rhetoric and protests have stirred fear among residents.

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Jake Lang, the far-right agitator, outside a City Council meeting on Tuesday in Dearborn, Mich.
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Imran Khan Is Granted Brief Hospital Visit Before Returning to Prison

Par : Salman Masood
The former prime minister of Pakistan, who was convicted on corruption charges, has been fighting a legal battle over his medical treatment.

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Police personnel keeping watch outside Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Thursday. The Supreme Court ordered Imran Khan to be moved there.
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Trump Boasts of Declassifying Secrets, but Withholds Key Election Files From Public

Par : Dustin Volz
Even as the White House claims to be focused on transparency, it has ignored a congressional requirement to disclose a report on foreign meddling in the 2024 election.

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A polling location in New York during the 2024 election.
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Trump Officials Move to Fund Gaza Peacekeepers Even as Peace Plan Falters

Par : Adam Sella
The State Department informed Congress of its intent to fund the stabilization force on the same day the president’s Board of Peace announced a plan to disarm Hamas.

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Palestinians inspecting the damage to a mosque after it was struck by Israeli airstrikes in July in Gaza City. Deadly clashes have continued on and off since an initial cease-fire was reached in October.
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U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Leaves Middle East After Months at Sea in Operation Against Iran

Par : John Ismay
The aircraft carrier has been deployed for nine months, largely in support of U.S. operations against Iran, and is now heading home to San Diego.

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The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in San Diego in 2021. The carrier’s most recent deployment began on Nov. 21, and the thousands of sailors on board have spent almost the entirety of the time since at sea.
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Trump Tariff Talks Leave Key Canadian Official Hopeful

Par : Ian Austen and Ana Swanson
While President Trump has declared that the two countries effectively have a deal, a Canadian trade official said progress continued ahead of the Saturday deadline.

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Dominic LeBlanc, the Canadian minister in charge of U.S. trade, arriving to meet with Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, on Thursday in Washington.
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A Few Expert Lawyers Dominate Supreme Court Arguments, a New Study Finds

Par : Adam Liptak
Chief Justice Roberts, once such a lawyer, has said he has mixed feelings about the trend.

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Chief Justice John Roberts argued 39 Supreme Court cases as a lawyer in the solicitor general’s office and in private practice.
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FBI Agents Search Eric Swalwell’s Home as Part of Federal Sexual Assault Inquiry

Par : Alan Feuer
Most sex crimes are prosecuted by state and local authorities. The federal agents appeared to be using civil rights statutes to scrutinize Mr. Swalwell’s conduct, a person familiar with the case said.

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Mr. Swalwell, who spent more than a decade in the House representing two districts in California, resigned from Congress in April.
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‘The Necessary Conversation’ Puts Family Political Arguments On Full Display

Par : Amanda Ripley and Gabriela Bhaskar
“The Necessary Conversation,” a podcast and YouTube show, is a very public example of the political disputes families are having all across the country.

For Chad Kultgen and his family, fighting feels like progress.
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Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter

Par : Dave Philipps and Erin Schaff
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.

Rescued wild horses at Skydog Ranch and Sanctuary outside Prineville, Ore.
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Missouri Judge Says Redrawn Congressional Map May Be Used in Midterms

Par : Madaleine Rubin
The decision, quickly appealed, was a win for Republicans. The party has been pushing for the new map in an effort to help maintain control in the U.S. House in November.

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Missouri was one of the first states to try to redraw its maps as part of President Trump’s national push to increase Republicans’ chances of keeping the U.S. House in the midterms.
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Trump Officials Scrap Effort to Recruit Pentagon Lawyers to Represent Migrant Children

Par : Madeleine Ngo
The reversal of the plan, which had not been publicly disclosed, comes amid mounting confusion about how the administration is protecting the rights of unaccompanied minors.

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Migrants entered the Paso Del Norte International Bridge for their Customs and Border Protection appointments in early 2025.
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Senate Health Panel Chairman Voices Strong Reservations About F.D.A. Nominee

Par : Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Senator Bill Cassidy said Dr. Heidi Overton’s role in President Trump’s executive order on vaccines last week was “almost disqualifying.”

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Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, is the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. The committee must vote to advance nominees to the Senate for confirmation.
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Trump, Who Has Amassed Enormous Wealth in Crypto, Hosts Industry Leaders

Par : David Yaffe-Bellany and Sharon LaFraniere
President Trump called on Congress to pass a major cryptocurrency bill that would tilt regulation in the industry’s favor.

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President Trump at the White House with crypto executives on Wednesday. A onetime crypto skeptic, Mr. Trump embraced the technology on the campaign trail in 2024.
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Trump to Appear on Radio With Michael Cohen, His Onetime Nemesis

Par : Ben Protess
The call is the latest sign of a rapprochement between President Trump and his former fixer, who served as the star witness against his former boss in New York State Court.

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Michael D. Cohen during a news conference last month announcing his new radio show.
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Alabama Democrats Look for a Black Backlash Over Voting Rights

Par : Emily Cochrane
Democrats in Alabama and beyond are trying to harness Black anger over the Supreme Court’s weakening of the Voting Rights Act and the Republican redistricting that followed.

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Representative Shomari Figures, left, is joined onstage by Doug Jones, Democratic nominee for governor of Alabama, in Troy, Ala.
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More of Trump’s Chosen Candidates Lose Republican Primaries

Par : Jess Bidgood
A series of recent losses has eroded the president’s winning record, raising new questions about his hold over the party’s voters.

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On Tuesday night, several candidates President Trump had endorsed in Florida and Wyoming lost their Republican primary races.
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In Wyoming’s G.O.P. Primaries, an Emphatic Rebuke of the Hard Right

Par : David W. Chen
The Wyoming Freedom Caucus had ambitions for a total takeover of elected state government. But its candidates were rejected from the governor’s mansion to the Legislature.

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At least a dozen Freedom Caucus incumbents were ousted from the Wyoming Legislature.
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Ukraine’s Ex-Defense Minister Calls for Election, Cementing Break With Zelensky

Par : Kim Barker
Mykhailo Fedorov, a popular young leader who was fired last month, said Russia should not be allowed to dictate when Ukrainians can choose their next government.

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Mykhailo Fedorov in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, last month. He did not immediately put himself forward as a candidate to succeed President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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