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‘Unprecedented’: Judges reveal behind-the-scenes coordination on Trump immigration cases

Minnesota federal judges coordinated via email threads and templates to handle habeas petitions during Operation Metro Surge, raising judicial ethics questions.

‘Civil rights’ for rent — once-respectable groups sell out on school choice

New York’s once vaunted civil-rights tradition is a pitiful shadow of its past self,...

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their...

Bill Cassidy on vaccines, RFK Jr. and the fight for public trust

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Why California should fear the next natural disaster — and what you can do

I was standing in a burned-out canyon outside San Diego in October 2003 when...

Harris needs to sideline the Clintons and the Obamas at the convention

For at least a few hours during next week’s Democratic National Convention, the past will come back to life.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will not run for reelection

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced Wednesday he would not run for leadership in the September elections of his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), leaving open the race for premiership of America’s closest ally on the front lines of the fight to contain China. Kishida made the decision to step aside in the context of a...

4 people shot on Virginia State University’s campus

Four people were shot on Virginia State University's campus in the early hours on Wednesday.

Carville says Harris is more likely to win by larger margin than Trump

Democratic strategist James Carville said Tuesday that Vice President Harris is more likely than former President Trump to win November’s election by a substantial margin. Carville told MSNBC's Ari Melber on Tuesday that while he could see Trump narrowly winning the election, if someone wins by more than a “little bit,” it would be the...

How ‘Low energy Trump’ can turn it up to win in November

Trump needs to get out there and visit those success stories to remind Americans that they were better off when he was president and will be again if they turn out and vote for him this year.

Democrats tap former Houston mayor to replace Sheila Jackson Lee on ballot

Democrats selected former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) to serve as the party’s nominee for the November election to succeed the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas). Turner prevailed in a local party meeting of precinct chairs who chose the candidate who will be the nominee to represent Texas’s 18th Congressional District. Jackson Lee had...

Begala: Trump campaign strategy ‘nutty at best’ when former president is in charge

Former President Clinton's White House strategist Paul Begala says former President Trump’s stream of insults against Vice President Harris is “nutty at best and racist at worst” as a campaign strategy, as the vice president closes the polling gap, seizing on momentum. “He’s an insult comic,” Begala said Tuesday in a CNN interview. “That’s what...

Harris narrowly leads Trump in nearly all battleground states: Cook poll

Vice President Harris is leading or tied with former President Trump in six of seven battleground states as she continues to transform the 2024 race after President Biden's exit last month, according to a poll released Wednesday. The survey from the Cook Political Report Swing State Project showed Harris with an overall 1-point lead over Trump across...

Annual inflation falls to 2.9 percent despite July price uptick

Consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in July following two straight months of flat or declining prices, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. The consumer price index (CPI) also slowed to a 2.9 percent annual increase in July, down from 3 percent in June. The latest inflation reading comes as the Federal Reserve gears up for long...

UAW president: ‘Trump doesn’t care about working class people’

United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain hit former President Trump on labor policy Tuesday, claiming Trump “doesn’t care about working class people.” “Donald Trump’s all talk, and he's a master at BS," Fain told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. "The bottom line is this, Donald Trump doesn't care about working-class people, and he showed it when...

Lost in space and asleep at the wheel: The US space program is cratering 

We no longer lead in space. Instead, we talk about broken capsules that cannot get home, delayed and canceled programs, and trying to catch up with China.  

Harris is trying to run a no-substance campaign. Does she believe in anything?

Kamala Harris has been unable to articulate a clear vision or original thought on policy, despite having campaigned on radical left-wing positions in the past, and her refusal to explain why she has changed her views is puzzling.

Harris has advantage over Trump on honesty, discipline: Poll

Voters are more likely to describe Vice President Harris as honest and someone who is disciplined than former President Trump, according to a new poll. The Associated Press/NORC Research Center survey, published Wednesday, found that nearly half of Americans would describe Harris as “committed to democracy” and “disciplined” compared to about 30 percent for Trump,...

Morning Report — Harris, Trump compete in NC; Omar wins primary

Vice President Harris says she’ll unveil economic proposals Friday during a campaign event in Raleigh, N.C., while former President Trump plans to campaign in heavily Democratic Asheville, N.C., today, eager to tout his record in the swing state that he narrowly won in 2016 and 2020. “Of every state that Trump won in the last...

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