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Melania Trump unlikely to have heavy presence on campaign trail

When Melania Trump cast her ballot last month in the Florida primary alongside her husband, former President Trump, she was asked if she would return to the campaign trail this year. “Stay tuned,” the former first lady replied with a smile. But apart from a fundraiser earlier this month for Log Cabin Republicans at her...

GOP’s inclusion of TikTok ban is secret weapon against Biden

Democrats are bracing for a backlash from young voters over the potential ban of TikTok on U.S. phones, something made more likely by the Chinese government’s opposition to ByteDance selling off one of the most sophisticated algorithms in the world. It’s a problem for President Biden, who won 60 percent of voters 18 to 29...

Alito reignites fetal rights debate in Idaho abortion case

The Supreme Court justice who authored the Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade jumped headlong Wednesday into the debate about whether a fetus is entitled to the same rights as a person. Abortion-rights advocates were concerned ahead of arguments that the case about whether Idaho's abortion ban violated a federal emergency care law might be...

Biden vs. GOP: Tax fight heats up ahead of election

Rhetoric is heating up on competing visions for taxes from Democrats and Republicans ahead of the 2024 election, which will determine whether the individual provisions in the 2017 Trump tax cuts are extended, modified or thrown into the legislative dust bin. President Biden, lawmakers on key tax writing committees, and tax advocates of various ideological...

Pro-Palestinian student protests highlight lessons learned from past demonstrations

The pro-Palestinian protesters making themselves heard at universities across the country see their demonstrations as part of a tradition of anti-war activism on campus. Hundreds of students have been arrested after setting up encampments on school grounds and demanding their institutions call for a cease-fire in Gaza and divest their endowments away from companies...

Escalating Myanmar crisis rare opportunity for US-China cooperation

Rapid escalations in Myanmar’s civil war are creating a rare opening for potential cooperation between the U.S. and China, with the chaos and violence in Southeast Asia posing a threat to both countries' interests overseas.  While Washington and Beijing are making an effort to improve relations with each other, any common ground on Myanmar must...

Several K Street giants kick off 2024 with record revenues

Several K Street lobbying shops posted record revenues last quarter as Congress moved massive spending bills, the Biden administration ramped up its regulatory agenda and clients set their sights on post-election policy priorities. Federal lobbyists raked in $4.3 billion last year, according to the money in politics research nonprofit OpenSecrets, even as it looked like...

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

GOP lawmakers demand major donors pull funding from Columbia over ‘antisemitic incidents’

A group of House Republicans are urging donors to Columbia University to withhold funding in protest of its handling of anti-Israel protests on campus.

Biden’s capital gains tax proposal could crush the economy, experts say

President Biden is under fire in response to his effort to hike the top capital gains tax rate to its highest-ever level, a move experts say would crush the economy.

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