Breaking news from Washington and beyond
Breaking news from Washington and beyond | From Washington and beyond |
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| Residents of the town surrounded ICE agents in an attempt to stop them from arresting the woman. |
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| The president is peddling hot nonsense on what tariffs can do for America—and the person he’s conned the most seems to be himself. |
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| Even the far-right knows Donald Trump’s deal is garbage. |
| By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling |
| A Democratic mayor in New Jersey was arrested after attempting to visit an ICE detention facility that suddenly popped up in his district. |
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Exiling Americans? This Isn’t Legal. It’s Not Even Close. |
Trump is openly floating the idea of banishing "homegrowns" to Salvadoran prisons, with zero legal basis. This isn’t "deportation." It’s the kind of fascist lunacy that should be laughed out of the room—except his administration is actually considering it. Will you help us continue to expose this authoritarian madness? |
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| Donald Trump is using various schemes to line his pockets while in the White House. |
| By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling |
| Donald Trump rambled on about raising taxes (or not?) on the wealthy. |
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| On May 14, TNR’s editor, Michael Tomasky, and staff writers Matt Ford, Timothy Noah, Tori Otten, and Greg Sargent will host the next in our series America in Crisis, live and livestreamed from the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C. With Trump’s antidemocratic rampage underway, this event will bring together influential political figures and commentators to explore what we can do to fight back. Guests will include Senator Amy Klobuchar; Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees; Leah Greenberg, co-founder and co–executive director of the Indivisible Project; Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi; Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward; Representative Veronica Escobar, and many more. |
| RSVP before it sells out: |
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| Donald Trump’s tariff chaos is to blame. |
| By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling |
| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is just making stuff up to justify his choice to nominate wellness influencer Casey Means. |
| Here’s the MSNBC segment that caused Trump to lose it. |
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| Who actually wants to work at a Barbie doll factory in America, anyway? |
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