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Filibuster over transgender bill jams Nebraska legislature for weeks
A filibustering Democrat and her colleagues blame Republicans for bringing the culture war to their normally bipartisan state assembly.
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McCarthy tells Trump supporters not to protest if ex-president is indicted
The House speaker’s remarks came after former president Donald Trump told supporters he would be charged in a Manhattan case and to “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”
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Lab Leak or Not? How Politics Shaped the Battle Over Covid’s Origin
A lab leak was once dismissed by many as a conspiracy theory. But the idea is gaining traction, even as evidence builds that the virus emerged from a market.
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Trump Allies Pressure DeSantis to Weigh In on Expected Indictment
The effort previews how an indictment would jolt the still-nascent race for the Republican presidential nomination — and perhaps already has.
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Out of Power, Trump Still Exerts It
An early-morning social media post amounted to a starter’s gun for Republican officials: Many raced to the former president’s side, denouncing a Democratic prosecutor investigating him.
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Iraq, 20 Years Later: A Changed Washington and a Terrible Toll on America
The White House, Congress, the military and the intelligence agencies see the war as a lesson in failed policymaking, one deeply absorbed if not thoroughly learned.
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Falling Lithium Prices Are Making Electric Cars More Affordable
An unexpected decline in the price of an essential battery material, along with those of other commodities, is good news for buyers. But experts disagree on how long low prices will last.
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Defiant Putin Visits Mariupol, a City Razed by Russian Forces
The trip was the Russian leader’s first to territory his forces captured since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and came shortly after an international court issued a warrant for his arrest for war crimes.
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Russia Is Closing In on Bakhmut, but Casualties Are High
Sending unarmed “diggers” into the front lines and near certain death, Russian troops are making slow but inexorable progress.
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Rishi Sunak Charts Post-Brexit Role With Pivot From ‘Global Britain’
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has dropped Boris Johnson’s bombastic approach to foreign policy, reflecting the new British leader’s personal style and the country’s changed global status.