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The fight to release a damning House Ethics report about allegations that Matt Gaetz—Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general—had sex with a 17-year-old girl has begun. |
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Montana has already hunted and killed 66 wolves this season -- but the situation is about to get even worse. The state is gearing up to open its trapping season, and could start putting out lethal wolf traps just after Thanksgiving. |
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This is the absolute best way this could have ended. |
By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling |
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{{/if}} Key Trump allies are warning Republican senators to fall in line—or else. |
Now that Gaetz has been tapped to lead the Department of Justice, a "close friend" is petitioning a court to destroy records detailing a drug-fueled sex party the attorney general nominee allegedly attended in 2017. |
These guys can’t even pass simple legislation aimed at helping hurricane victims. |
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Join us on Tuesday, November 19, as The New Republic’s editor Michael Tomasky, staff writers Matt Ford and Greg Sargent, and contributing editor Nina Burleigh help you digest the election results and the short- and long-term implications for our democracy, rights, and political institutions. |
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The former Trump lawyer is being abandoned by his own legal team. |
By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling |
Donald Trump has formally offered brainworm-infested, vaccine truther Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a role in his Cabinet. |
By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling |
MAGA representative Marjorie Taylor Greene wants Matt Gaetz to wield his future power as attorney general by demolishing our country’s health standards. |
The Florida representative just resigned from Congress—killing a House Ethics investigation on his alleged sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. |
Elon Musk joined Trump on Capitol Hill for a meeting with Republicans—and the president-elect used the opportunity to ridicule the richest man in the world. |
By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling |
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It wasn’t the economy. It wasn’t inflation, or anything else. It was how people perceive those things, which points to one overpowering answer. |
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