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Indiana House Republicans pass Trump-backed map, setting up high-stakes Senate fight

Indiana state House Republicans passed a new state congressional map Friday at the behest of President Donald Trump, advancing the legislation to the state Senate, where it is unclear if enough lawmakers will support its final passage. Lawmakers in the Republican-majority House voted 57-41 in favor of the map, which splits the city of Indianapolis into four districts to help the GOP potentially win all nine Indiana congressional seats. While Trump and many other Republicans are celebrating the passage, the map faces its […]

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‘Risking children’s lives’: Senator Angela Alsobrooks blasts RFK Jr. after CDC panel rejects Hepatitis B vaccine

The Trump administration has rocked the medical community after an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the CDC, voted to end the recommendation of the hepatitis B vaccine shot for newborns at birth for the first time since 1991. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to end the 34-year-old recommendation 8 to 3 on Friday, affirming U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, a medical conspiracy theorist who has long pushed for […]

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‘Puzzling’: The U.S. Institute of Peace is renamed after President Trump, who tried to dismantle it

As attendees of the peace deal signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo entered the U.S. Institute of Peace on Thursday, they may have noticed new signage on the Washington, D.C., building, which was officially erected in 2011. President Donald Trump‘s name is now adorned in several places at the Institute of Peace headquarters, most notably above the front entrance. Trump acknowledged the cosmetic change on Thursday before he and African leaders signed the Washington Accords, intended to […]

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom responds after Halle Berry accuses him of ‘devaluing’ women

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is firing back after Halle Berry publicly accused him of overlooking women. In a new statement, Newsom’s office addressed Berry’s critiques of his decision to veto a menopause care act, a bill she has championed to try to get across the finish line. “[The Governor has] deep admiration for Ms. Berry’s advocacy on women’s issues. He looks forward to working with her and other stakeholders on this critical issue,” the statement said, per People magazine. “He […]

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President Trump’s contempt shocks the country’s largest Somali community

Even for a president who has long made clear he’s no fan of Somalia, the latest round of White House contempt was a shock Wednesday in the country’s largest Somali community. “They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country,” President Donald Trump told reporters during a Tuesday Cabinet meeting. “We can go one way or the other, and we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.” On Wednesday, he doubled down: […]

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Peace deal with Rwanda and Congo will enrich governments and Trump allies-but could leave Africans in turmoil

President Donald Trump led a U.S.-backed peace deal between the warring African countries of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, which was joined by both nations’ presidents on Thursday for the deal’s landmark signing. At the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., which was recently renamed after Trump, the president praised the deal signed with Felix Tshisekedi, president of the DRC, and Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda. He called it a “momentous occasion,” and said it was […]

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Man accused of planting pipe bombs before Jan. 6 Capitol attack is charged with explosives offenses

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI on Thursday arrested a man accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack, an abrupt breakthrough in an investigation that for years flummoxed law enforcement and spawned conspiracy theories about Jan. 6, 2021. The arrest marks the first time investigators have publicly identified a suspect in an act that has been an enduring mystery for nearly five years in the […]

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Stephen A. Smith praises Trump’s ‘absolutely positively brilliant politics’

TV personality Stephen A. Smith praised President Donald Trump for his “brilliant politics” during a recent episode of his political podcast “Straight Shooter with Stephen A.” “At some point in time, we just have to give the man credit. He’s shrewd as hell!” said Smith in response to Trump’s recent pardon of Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar. “He is giving the Democratic Party lessons! Lessons! I mean, school is in session on how to manipulate minds and coax folks into thinking […]

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PA Gov. Josh Shapiro explodes over Kamala Harris book excerpt about him: ‘Trying to cover her a—’

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was not happy when he learned about what former Vice President Kamala Harris wrote about him in her New York Times best-selling memoir “107 Days.” In a new profile feature in The Atlantic, Shapiro had an expletive-laced response when presented with an excerpt about him in Harris’s book about her historic 2024 presidential campaign. Harris considered Shapiro as her vice presidential running mate for the Democratic nomination, but ultimately chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. The former […]

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