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In Michigan Senate Race, Ocasio-Cortez Joins El-Sayed on Trail in Trump Country

Par : Tim Balk
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigned with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in a swath of Michigan including areas won by President Trump, making a progressive pitch in a key Senate race.

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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for the Senate in Michigan, campaigned with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday, including in areas won by President Trump.
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5 Takeaways From the Senate Debate in Maine

The race’s fourth and final debate centered on whether Senator Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent, was as independent as she claimed to be from President Trump.

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Troy Jackson answering a question during a debate with Senator Susan Collins at Husson University in Bangor, Maine, on Thursday.
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Trump Ally, Paolo Zampolli, Leaves State Department

Paolo Zampolli, a longtime Trump associate, gained attention earlier this year with a report that his ex-wife had been detained by ICE after his request.

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Paolo Zampolli in Belgrade in April.
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Judge Refuses to Reverse Penalties Against Crypto Firm With Ties to Trump Family

The ruling denied a bid by Gemini Trust and the C.F.T.C. to nullify a settlement that required the company to pay $5 million for misleading federal regulators.

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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the founders of Gemini Trust, have backed ventures by President Trump and his two oldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.
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A Bitter White House Feud, Even by Trump-Era Standards: Alina Mildon and Richard Grenell

Two Trump allies — Alina Habba Mildon and Richard Grenell — are locked in a raging dispute that has its roots in the battle for a share of the spoils in Venezuela.

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President Trump had appointed himself chairman of the Kennedy Center.
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A Bitter White House Feud, Even by Trump-Era Standards: Alina Mildon and Richard Grenell

Two Trump allies — Alina Habba Mildon and Richard Grenell — are locked in a raging dispute that has its roots in the battle for a share of the spoils in Venezuela.

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President Trump had appointed himself chairman of the Kennedy Center.
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Oregon Has Approved Tight Gun Laws, but They Have Been Held Up in Courts

The state has passed restrictive measures popular among gun safety activists. The Silver Rail Elementary School shooting seemed poised to set off conversations about gun control.

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A sheriff’s deputy outside Silver Rail Elementary school, where a shooting took place on Thursday.
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Trump Cancels Planned Execution Livestream of Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood Shooter

The president said only immediate families of the victims of the mass shooting in 2009 would witness the execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.

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A memorial display for the soldiers killed in the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, seen in April 2014.
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Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Charged With Fraud, Lawsuit Says

Ken Paxton celebrated New Year’s Eve in 2024 with two men wanted on federal charges, one of whom donated at least $190,000 to his campaigns. The extent of his ties to the men was unclear.
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Katie Zacharia Admits Failing Bar, but Defends Calling Herself a Lawyer

In an interview with a right-wing influencer, the new White House press secretary also described the harried process that led to her hiring.

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Katie Zacharia, the White House press secretary, aboard Air Force One on Wednesday. “I woke up at 3 in the morning on Tuesday to prepare with what I had,” she said of her first press briefing.
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A Guide to State Legislature Elections and Where Partisan Control Is at Stake

A guide to the states where legislatures are up for grabs.

A Crawford County Democratic Party meeting in Gays Mills, Wis., in August.
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Venezuela’s Opposition Leader Calls Trump’s New Oil Partner Corrupt

The businessman denied accusations made by María Corina Machado in a wide-ranging interview, in which she promised to return to Venezuela “sooner than you would expect.”

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While expressing frustration that she is stuck abroad, María Corina Machado vowed to return to Venezuela and rally supporters for a future election.
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Senators Demand Investigation Into Ukraine Satellite Disruption

Republicans joined Democrats in calling on the Pentagon’s inspector general to look into whether the Trump administration was responsible for the interruption.

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A Ukrainian drone operator prepares for a strike on a house in Russian-occupied Ukraine in July.
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More Trump Allies Aided Pro-Russian Balkan Government

The daughter of the president’s chief of staff joined an American businessman in Republika Srpska as he explored a gas pipeline. And six current and former campaign advisers recently traveled there for an election.
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Many Figures Opposed Hegseth’s Plan to Livestream Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution

A retired general, a Catholic archbishop for the military and one of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s victims were among those who had spoken out.

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A memorial service at Fort Hood days after the mass shooting there in 2009.
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Trump Administration Sues California Over Voter Rolls

The lawsuit seeks to temporarily block the state from counting mail ballots of voters it claims are likely noncitizens, opening a new front in the administration’s legal fights with election officials.

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A lawsuit from the Trump administration is seeking a court order to force California to not count — at least in the short term — any mail ballots received from some 20,000 people in the state the administration claims are “likely noncitizens.”
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6 Members of South Africa’s Biggest Party Are Killed in Shootings

The two shootings took place only a few weeks before pivotal, nationwide local elections, and as the party, the A.N.C., is embroiled in a dispute over the eligibility of more than 100 candidates.

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Fikile Mbalula, the secretary general of the African National Congress, in Cape Town in May.
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How Trump Is Trying to Assert Control Over the Election

Many election officials fear that the Trump administration is laying the groundwork to challenge the midterm results in November if they do not favor Republicans. Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs describes what the administration is doing.
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Fired FBI Agents Who Worked on Trump Investigation Sue Patel and Others

The lawsuit also suggests that a motivating factor for the dismissals was the intense scrutiny of the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, after he went to the Olympics in Milan.

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The lawsuit says that Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, praised some of the fired employees privately before terminating them.
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Trump’s Attacks on Voting Raise Fears He Will Try to Challenge Midterm Results

Election officials say they worry the administration could use its own unsubstantiated claims to contest the vote in November.

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President Trump, who has continued to falsely claim that he won the 2020 election, has been relentless in his efforts to sow doubts about the integrity of American voting.
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‘Suspicious Substances’ Sent to Senators and State Election Officials

Federal law enforcement officials said they were investigating a series of letters mailed to members of Congress and secretaries of state in recent days.

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The F.B.I. said in a statement that it was working to find those responsible for the letters but provided no information on potential suspects.
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Violent Protests in Albania

Opposition to a luxury resort project linked to Jared Kushner has collided with rising discontent over corruption and the cost of living.

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A protester confronting riot police during an anti-government demonstration in central Tirana, Albania, on Thursday.
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James Talarico Raises Quarterly Record of $64 Million in Texas Senate Race Against Ken Paxton

Par : John Yoon
The amount is the most that a Senate candidate has ever raised during that period, his campaign said, eclipsing his opponent in Texas, Ken Paxton.

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James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas, during a campaign rally in Houston earlier this year.
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Democratic Senators Move to Block U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal

The move will force a vote on the agreement after the midterm elections, though it faces steep odds in the Republican-controlled Congress even amid bipartisan concern about the deal.

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These Legislatures Could See Big Changes in November

Statehouses make health-care policy, guide education, and may redraw congressional districts ahead of 2028. With the stakes high, more than 6,100 legislators will be elected Nov. 3.

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Elon Musk and Other Donors Pile $94 Million Into House Republican Effort

The party’s top super PAC for House candidates said it had raised more this summer than ever before in a third quarter, but acknowledged the challenges Republicans are facing.

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Elon Musk has donated $20 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Inside the Plague Research Labs at the Heart of a Russian Mystery

A Russian researcher, who died from an unknown illness, worked at a remote anti-plague facility. Few foreigners have visited these labs, which dot the former Soviet states, and are shrouded in secrecy.

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A picture released by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute showing specialists working in a laboratory in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, in 2019.
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In Divided Portland, Ore., Anti-Police Posts Fuel a Fight Over the Future

When social media posts denouncing the police surfaced, they were supposed to harm a socialist’s re-election. But the democratic socialists of Portland, and other cities, are showing their strength.

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Social media posts from Mitch Green, a city councilor in Portland, Ore., and democratic socialist, excoriated the police.
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7 Years Old, No Lawyer: Migrant Children Face Deportation Hearings Alone

For years, the government has helped secure lawyers for minors who arrive at the southern border. But a contract dispute has forced many children to face immigration judges on their own.

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Unaccompanied minors appeared virtually at an immigration court in New York.
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A Megachurch Pastor is Running for Senate. Will Democrats Vote for Him?

As he seeks to unseat a Republican in Kansas, Adam Hamilton speaks of his work leading the state’s largest church — and making it appealing to nonreligious people.

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Adam Hamilton, the Democrat running for Senate in Kansas, has a relatively high profile thanks to his long career as pastor of the state’s largest church.
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