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Axios would like you to know that President Donald Trump is very concerned indeed, perhaps even furrowing his brow à la Maine Sen. Susan Collins, about the execution his administration plans to livestream. Yes, in a bit of rank stenography, the news outlet is reporting that “according to four people who have spoken with the president,” he has “privately shared misgivings.

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Homeland Security agents raided the home of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a longtime critic of President Donald Trump who has been the target of his xenophobic, racist, and Islamophobic attacks for years. The raid was purportedly connected to documents signed by Omar’s late father while he was in the process of seeking asylum as a Somali refugee, when Omar was a child. Omar is a U.

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Donald Trump’s 2024 victory was enabled by a massive rightward shift in the American electorate, and no group shifted as strongly, or as unpredictably, as young voters. The latest polls now suggest that younger voters are returning to the Democratic fold in record numbers—though they are less willing than ever to commit their loyalties to a national political party. Gen Z voters shifted 21…

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Far-right media figures circulated a fake story about Texas Senate candidate James Talarico over the weekend, only to have the enterprise quickly blow up in their faces. Racist billionaire Elon Musk played a key role in promoting the smear. Recently, Talarico, who is running against Republican nominee Ken Paxton, had an extended absence from the campaign trail due to a bout of flu.

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A cartoon by Drew Sheneman. Related | Trump keeps screwing farmers. Will they finally push back?

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Republicans are bracing for a brutal reckoning in the midterm elections, with the party set to lose control of multiple governor mansions, more than 400 state-legislative seats, its House majority, and possibly its control of the Senate, too. As Election Day nears, some Republicans are publicly admitting that their poor predicament is due to President Donald Trump’s policy decisions…

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Federal agents searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home on Monday as part of a criminal investigation, according to two people familiar with the matter. The search was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations agents, said the people, who were not authorized to publicly discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.

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FBI Director Kash Patel might be the most pathetic dude in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet. A soft-handed guy who worships at the altar of sports, he’s constantly coming up with ways to hang with famous athletes on your dime. So it’s honestly not all that surprising—though it is still appalling—that the FBI has decided that it needs to hire UFC fighters to train its agents.

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In 19 states, statutes limit mental incapacity only to cases of involuntary intoxication. By Amanda Watford for Stateline A former Cornell University student’s allegations of gang rape in 2024 have renewed attention on a difficult area of sexual assault law. A person can be awake, responsive and even able to move during a sexual encounter while still being so intoxicated or…

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Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that’s driving politics or culture. Democrats are primed to retake the majority of governor’s mansions for the first time since the 2010 midterm election. Heading into this year’s midterms, Republicans control 26 to Democrats’ 24.

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A cartoon by David Horsey. Related | Mamdani invests in public housing and calls out rich crybabies…

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In a joint investigation, Kansas Reflector and MS NOW obtained records from Marshall’s first Senate run that raise concerns about his use of office resources By Sherman Smith and Matt Fuller for Kansas Reflector As Sen. Roger Marshall fights for his political life in Kansas, a staffer for Democrat Adam Hamilton — Marshall’s opponent — has been needling the Republican senator’s staff…

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The next few installments of Congressional Cowards—a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill—will focus on the midterm elections as Republicans grow desperate and despondent about their odds of maintaining their congressional majorities. Republicans are preemptively pointing fingers over the widely anticipated loss of their House majority and the…

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A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related | New data shows GOP faces a midterms blowout…

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President Donald Trump held a rally in Clarksville, Tennessee on Saturday, returning to the Volunteer State just one week after being jeered at a college football game in Knoxville. While en route to the considerably smaller venue in Clarksville, Trump posted on Truth Social that “the Fake News Media are trying to create the false narrative that Donald Trump is so ‘unpopular…

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Try as he might, President Donald Trump isn’t going to be successful in his rebranding of artificial intelligence. He can call it “super intelligence” all he wants, but that won’t change the fact that the majority of Americans hate it. While actually competent leaders push to regulate AI, tech companies seem to be moving at the speed of light—making it nearly impossible for any regulation to…

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On Oct. 11, 1991, law professor Anita Hill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the contentious confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Hill accused Thomas, her former supervisor at the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, of sexually harassing her. Thomas was nominated by former President George H.W.

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This story originally ran Oct. 10, 2021. Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 270 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you’ll find some familiar tunes and perhaps an introduction to something new. Sheer joy. That’s what happens when you put on salsa music…

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