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Irie Sentner / Politico:
Republicans reel as Dem over-performances hit a swing state and MAGA country — Democrats clinched a landslide victory in Wisconsin and made inroads in two deep-red Florida districts, spelling trouble for Republicans. — Republicans emerged from Tuesday's elections on shaky footing.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Republican Randy Fine wins Florida special election for Waltz seat — Florida state Sen. Randy Fine (R) has won the special election for Florida's 6th Congressional District on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, defeating Democrat Josh Weil in what became a closely contested race in the deep-red district.
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On Data and Democracy:
Does Higher Turnout Now Help Republicans? A Data-Driven Analysis of Partisan Turnout Dynamics (Part 1) — Data analysis reveals Democrats' problem isn't high turnout—it's losing the mobilization battle — A provocative claim has been echoing through Democratic circles since the 2024 election …
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Jack Blanchard / Politico:
A message to Musk — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — Embed:
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Republican Jimmy Patronis wins special election for Gaetz's Florida seat
Republican Jimmy Patronis wins special election for Gaetz's Florida seat
New York Times:
Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Results — ‹ See all Wisconsin state results — Wisconsin voters will choose a new State Supreme Court justice in an election that will determine whether liberals retain a 4-to-3 majority or whether conservatives take control of the state's judiciary.
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Liberal Wins Wisconsin Court Race, Despite Musk's Millions — Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court. — Susan Crawford, the liberal candidate for a pivotal seat …
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, defying Elon Musk — Liberals will maintain their narrow majority on the court after Crawford's victory in the first battleground state election of Trump's second term. — Susan Crawford has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court …
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Liberal candidate wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race in blow to Trump, Musk
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The Guardian:
Wisconsin supreme court race: liberal Susan Crawford beats Musk-backed candidate
Wisconsin supreme court race: liberal Susan Crawford beats Musk-backed candidate
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Booker's speech tops 350M likes on TikTok live — More than 350 million people liked Sen. Cory Booker's (D-N.J.) floor speech on TikTok live, as the senator approached 25 hours of holding the floor in the Senate chamber. — By 7:07 p.m. EDT on Tuesday — just over 24 hours after Booker began …
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate — Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate for more than 24 straight hours. One of them fought to keep Black people out of public life, the other was a Black leader who staged a landmark protest.
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Associated Press:
Watch the moment when Cory Booker ended his 25-hour speech, the longest in Senate history
Jordain Carney / Politico:
So long, Strom: Cory Booker breaks Thurmond's Senate record with 25-hour speech
So long, Strom: Cory Booker breaks Thurmond's Senate record with 25-hour speech
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John Hudson / Washington Post:
Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say — Trump's national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team's operational security are piling up in the inbox. — Just now — Members of President Donald …
Bruce Weber / New York Times:
Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65 — A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade. — Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor …
Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Adam Schiff places hold on Ed Martin's nomination to be D.C. U.S. attorney — President Trump's controversial choice to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, faces an uncertain future, as a Senate Democrat plans to put an indefinite hold on his nomination.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Trump-Allied Prosecutor Looks to Undermine Biden Pardons — In an unorthodox move, Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, is questioning former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s family and former White House officials about clemency. — Ed Martin, the ardent Trump loyalist serving …
Senator Schiff:
STATEMENT: Sen. Schiff Announces Hold on D.C. U.S. Attorney Nominee Ed Martin — Washington, D.C. — Today, Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced he would be placing a hold on the nomination of Edward Martin to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia …
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Alvaro Murillo / Reuters:
Costa Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa — Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like “a Roman emperor.”
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Washington Post:
White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump's sights — It's the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump's desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage. — Just now
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The Hill:
Four key takeaways as Trump's sweeping HHS layoffs begin — Thousands of employees across the vast Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began receiving layoff notices as early as 5 a.m. on Tuesday. — The purge comes on the heels of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. forcing out a top vaccine official late last week.
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J.J. McCorvey / NBC News:
Entire staff responsible for utility assistance included in HHS cuts, sources say
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Reuters:
Trump to escalate global trade tensions with new reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners — U.S. President Donald Trump was poised to impose sweeping new reciprocal tariffs on global trading partners on Wednesday, upending decades of rules-based trade, threatening cost increases and likely drawing retaliation from all sides.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Tariff Plans Still in Limbo Ahead of Rose Garden Event
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Some Conservative Voices Raise Alarm Over Trump's Immigration Tactics — The cracks in support show how seriously some conservatives are taking the administration's aggressive and at times slapdash tactics. — Influential figures on the right have largely cheered on the opening months of the Trump presidency.
New York Times:
Columbia Campus Occupation Could Have Ended Without Police, Report Says — A university senate review concludes that some demonstrators who occupied Hamilton Hall were willing to leave voluntarily. — Columbia University's move to use police force to clear demonstrators from a campus building …
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Xochitl Gonzalez / The Atlantic:
Students Yelled at Me. I'm Fine.
Wired:
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson's Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH — Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US's leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz. — Several top scientists charged …
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Max Kozlov / Nature:
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs … - Max Kozlov — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar — On health economist Jay Bhattacharya's first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) …
Reuters:
US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally — U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Bice: Elon Musk group removes video from $1M winner after she says she got money to ‘vote’ — Elon Musk's super PAC replaced a video featuring a $1 million giveaway winner who said she got the money, in part, to vote. — Experts suggest that offering money in exchange for voting …
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Isabel Keane / New York Post:
Disgraced ex-NYC Councilman Dan Halloran arrested at Miami airport with thousands of child sex abuse videos on phone — Disgraced ex-City Councilman Dan Halloran — who was booted from office after taking part in a $200,000 bribery scheme to rig the 2013 mayoral election …
Mark Hertling / The Bulwark:
Why We Train With Allies—Even When It's Dangerous — When our soldiers were in trouble, our friends showed up and didn't leave. — IN EVERY ARMORED FORMATION I COMMANDED—and there were many—there were a few soldiers who never made headlines, never sought the limelight …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Attorney Studied Options for Third Presidential Term — The president's recent comments have rattled some Republicans — WASHINGTON—Donald Trump's attorney Boris Epshteyn made a bold assertion during a meeting in late 2023: Trump wouldn't necessarily be limited to two terms in office.
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