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Elissa Slotkin Wants Democrats to Reclaim Their ‘Alpha Energy’

17 juillet 2025 à 05:03
In a wide-ranging interview, the junior senator from Michigan took stock of her party’s deep-seated woes, warning Democrats not to be “so damn scared.”

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Senator Elissa Slotkin, Democrat of Michigan, said she had grown tired of waiting for someone else to formulate a strategic plan for her party.
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What’s Next for Trump’s Plans to Dismantle the Education Department

15 juillet 2025 à 17:45
Administration officials have already begun the process of transferring certain functions to other agencies.

© Kaylee Greenlee for The New York Times

Within an hour of the Supreme Court ruling on Monday, workers fired from the Education Department received an email informing them that their official last day would be Aug. 1.

Democrats Are Workshopping New Tactics After Losses of 2024

15 juillet 2025 à 05:01
Among the ideas being promoted: knocking on every single door in a House district and awarding cash prizes for the most effective new ways to reach voters.

© Kristian Thacker for The New York Times

Door knocking — both where to do it and whether it is still effective in a digital age — is being studied by Democratic strategists to identify what went wrong in 2024.

How Does Trump Silence the Epstein Conspiracy Theories?

14 juillet 2025 à 19:00
President Trump is finding it hard to put the Epstein files behind him.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

The Trump administration’s decision not to release further materials about Jeffrey Epstein has left influential figures in the president’s base in open revolt.

Senate Approves First Judge of Trump’s Second Term

14 juillet 2025 à 18:25
The pace of judicial confirmations is lagging compared with the president’s first stint in office, but more are in the pipeline.

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Whitney D. Hermandorfer during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in June.

Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions Recorded With Autopen

13 juillet 2025 à 19:20
Donald J. Trump and his allies have begun investigations to support their claims that Joseph R. Biden Jr. was incapacitated and his staff conspired to take presidential actions in his name.

© Tom Brenner for The New York Times

Toward the end of his term as president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. reduced the sentences of nearly 4,000 federal convicts and pre-emptively pardoned dozens of politically prominent people he saw as potential targets of vindictive criminal investigations by his successor.

Ex-Secret Service Director Denies She Failed to Send Agents to Protect Trump

13 juillet 2025 à 16:28
Kimberly A. Cheatle, who resigned after Donald J. Trump was grazed by a bullet as a candidate a year ago, pushed back against findings in a Senate report released on Sunday.

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Kimberly A. Cheatle, the former Secret Service director, disputed a report’s claim that she lied during congressional testimony last year.

Democrats Lost Voters on Transgender Rights. Winning Them Back Won’t Be Easy.

13 juillet 2025 à 05:01
The party’s vanguard position got ahead of voters in 2024, and the internal debate now underway reveals an uncertainty on how to adapt.

© David Walter Banks for The New York Times

Many Democratic politicians had resolved to say as little as possible about transgender rights.

Secret Service Suspends Six Agents Over Trump Assassination Attempt

10 juillet 2025 à 16:58
The announcement comes near the anniversary of the shooting at Donald J. Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pa.

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Secret Service agents protecting Donald J. Trump after the shooting in Butler, Pa., in 2024.

Trump Treats Tariffs More as a Form of Power Than as a Trade Tool

9 juillet 2025 à 09:17
Instead of viewing tariffs as part of a broader trade policy, President Trump sees them as a valuable weapon he can wield on the world stage.

© Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times

The Port of Baltimore. President Trump’s comments about tariffs over the decades show he has often been fairly vague on the topic, and only more recently came to describe them as the centerpiece of his approach to trade.

How Insularity Defined the Last Stages of Biden’s Career

8 juillet 2025 à 11:34
The effort by Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inner circle to limit access to him helps explain why it took him more than three weeks to drop his re-election bid after his disastrous debate performance.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

At the most perilous moment of his presidency, Joseph R. Biden Jr. was all but impossible for anyone outside his tight inner circle to reach.
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