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Trump’s Republican Party insists there’s no affordability crisis and dismisses election losses

NEW YORK (AP) — Almost two weeks after Republicans lost badly in elections in Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia, many GOP leaders insist there is no problem with the party’s policies, its message or President Donald Trump’s leadership. Trump says Democrats and the media are misleading voters who are concerned about high costs and the economy. Republican officials aiming to avoid another defeat in next fall’s midterms are encouraging candidates to embrace the president fully and talk more about his accomplishments. Those are the major takeaways from a […]

todayNovember 16, 2025 1

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Rep. Maxine Waters warns crypto legislation opens door for Trump corruption, financial crisis

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to pass landmark cryptocurrency legislation, sending the nation’s first federal regulatory framework for stablecoin digital currencies to the desk of President Donald Trump. Ahead of Wednesday’s historic vote on the GENIUS Act, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., led a group of House Democrats in opposition to the crypto legislation, warning that it would open the floodgates for financial corruption and further enrichment of the wealthy class, most especially Trump and his family. Waters, […]

todayJuly 16, 2025 2

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Kamala Harris warns of Trump inciting ‘constitutional crisis’ in first extensive speech since leaving office

Former Vice President Kamala Harris did not hold back in criticizing her former 2024 opponent, President Donald Trump, in her first extensive public remarks since leaving the White House. Harris’ 16-minute speech at Emerge America’s 20th anniversary gala in San Francisco on Wednesday pushed back against Trump, criticizing his first 100 days in office. This has included constitutionally questionable actions like deporting undocumented immigrants (and children who are U.S. citizens) without due process, freezing or slashing federal funds already approved […]

todayMay 1, 2025

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Democrats clashed over their shutdown strategy. But the party’s identity crisis runs far deeper

Democrats have been sniping at each other in public since Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer helped pass a Republican spending bill that prevented a government shutdown. But the divisions in their party hardly began there. For months, Democrats have been struggling to coalesce behind a political strategy as they confront President Donald Trump and the Republican majorities in the House and the Senate. Behind closed doors at party retreats, think tank meetings and strategy sessions, Democrats have been having tense and searching conversations about ideology, […]

todayMarch 19, 2025 1

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Water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi developed during failures in oversight, watchdog says

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — “Layers of inadequate oversight and enforcement” by state and federal agencies contributed to a water crisis in Mississippi’s capital city that left tens of thousands of people without safe drinking water for weeks in 2021 and 2022, a watchdog agency says. The Mississippi State Department of Health did not consistently document deficiencies in the Jackson water system or notify city officials about significant problems after the department conducted sanitary surveys and annual inspections from 2015 through […]

todayAugust 16, 2024

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Watch: Pressley says Haiti is owed ‘so much’ for modeling Black resistance amid crisis

On this week’s episode of theGrio’s “The Hill with April Ryan,” U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., lays out why it’s America’s moral responsibility to help the people of Haiti amid unrest there, and she addresses how stabilizing the Caribbean nation is in the best interests of the United States. Pressley, the co-founder and co-chair of the House Haiti Caucus, said America’s Black and brown migrants are disproportionately impacted by America’s “broken” system. The congresswoman, who said her district contains the third-largest Haitian […]

todayJune 30, 2024

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Congress calls on Pres. Biden to address the housing crisis, Israel-Hamas conflict and reproductive rights during State of the Union address

Members of Congress expect President Joe Biden to highlight issues of reproductive rights, the Israel-Hamas conflict and the housing crisis during his State of the Union address on Thursday.  Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told theGrio, that he hopes President Biden calls for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House on Feb. 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Biden addressed the Special Counsel’s report on his handling of classified […]

todayMarch 7, 2024