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Democrat Analilia Mejia and Republican Joe Hathaway compete for suburban New Jersey House seat

Analilia Mejia will try to expand Democratic momentum in New Jersey as she and Republican Joe Hathaway compete in Thursday's special election to fill the U.S. House seat vacated by Mikie Sherrill when she was elected governor last year.

Army secretary learned of top general’s firing while on vacation with family

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told lawmakers that he was on vacation in North Carolina with his family earlier this month when he learned that Gen. Randy George had been sacked as Army chief of staff.

A Venezuelan doctor in ICE custody misses husband’s asylum interview after being detained at airport

A Venezuelan man pleaded his case to asylum officials on Thursday in an interview that his wife, a well-known doctor in South Texas, planned to attend until she was detained at the airport with the couple's 5-year-old daughter.

Brazilian ex-intelligence chief Ramagem released after immigration arrest, thanks Trump

Brazil's former intelligence agency chief Alexandre Ramagem celebrated on Thursday his release by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a two-day detention. He thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for his release, though he provided no evidence that the leader had had any connection with the move.

Sen. Warren calls for greater transparency into Federal Reserve nominee’s financial holdings

President Donald Trump's nominee to run the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, is likely to face tough questions about his vast financial holdings at a hearing next week by the Senate Banking Committee.

Strange bedfellows: Why SCOTUS isn’t as split as you think

Sharply divided rulings in big cases out of the Supreme Court don't tell the entire story, argues Sarah Isgur in her new book, "Last Branch Standing."

Sports media care more about political outrage than sports

Much like liberal political media, sports media have lost track of their purpose and become a collection of petulant whiners hoping to whip up controversy. They would rather outrage their readers than inform them. The Athletic, the once interesting sports outlet that has been consumed by the New York Times, has a major story as baseball season kicks […]

Democrats hang on to New Jersey House seat left open by Sherrill

Democrat Analilia Mejia has won a House seat in New Jersey, according to Decision Desk HQ, succeeding now-Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) and notching a win for progressives.  Mejia, a top aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign, defeated Republican Joe Hathaway in the Thursday special election for the Garden State’s 11th Congressional District,...

Senate OKs CRA reversing Biden mining block

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Senate OKs CRA reversing Biden mining block The Senate on Thursday voted to repeal Biden-era protections for a contentious wilderness area in Minnesota, sending the question to President Trump’s desk. © Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images The Senate voted 50-49 to overturn a Biden-era move...

Trump on public hearings with Epstein survivors: ‘I’m OK with that’

President Trump signaled Thursday that he was open to the possibility of Congress holding public hearings with survivors of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I’m OK with it,” he told reporters Thursday before departing the White House en route to Las Vegas for a roundtable promoting his "no tax on tips" policy. “I think...

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