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• Senators head for the exits without meeting Trump's demands for voting bill

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators headed for the exits in the predawn hours Saturday, ending for now a crushing standoff over President Donald Trump’s demands that they stay in session to pass a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill before the summer recess. While they wrapped up many key priorities in the overnight votes, advancing Trump’s SAVE America Act was not among them. Instead, Republican senators who had brought the chamber to a standstill spoke to Trump late in the evening about an...

• Riots at Battle for the Abyss

• Hunter Biden says his father's prostate cancer is causing him pain even as he continues to speak out

  LONDON (AP) — Former U.S. President Joe Biden ’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body and is causing him pain, even as he continues to speak out on public issues, his son Hunter said in an interview. In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC broadcast late on Friday, Hunter Biden grew emotional as he discussed his father’s condition, describing it as very sad to watch. “The cancer has spread, metastasized into his bones and further,” he said. “It’s very painful and it’s v...

• Europe Burns: The Growing Threat to Europe’s Food Security

• Doge overstated claims to have saved Americans $110bn, watchdog finds

• Senate passes sweeping Russia sanctions bill negotiated by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate overwhelmingly approved a punishing Russian sanctions package Friday, the result of a yearlong campaign by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham to reinforce U.S. support for Ukraine and try to force President Vladimir Putin’s hand as the grinding war drags on. The bipartisan legislation, which passed 86-11, would penalize countries that continue to buy Russian oil, gas and other exports seeking to deprive Putin of revenues fueling the war. It comes after Ukrainian Presid...

• DSA debates how to debate AOC presidential endorsement

• Trump will speak on elections in primetime address after pushing debunked conspiracies

• G.O.P. Appears to Boost Socialist’s Primary Campaign for Wisconsin Governor

  Republicans seem to view Francesca Hong as their weakest opponent in a general election. They are spending $2.2 million in an apparent attempt to aid her primary campaign. A super PAC tied to Republicans is spending $2.2 million on television advertisements that appear to be aimed at boosting the chances of Francesca Hong, a Democratic candidate for governor in Wisconsin. Some Democrats in the state have fretted over the prospect that Ms. Hong, a democratic socialist with unabashedly lef...

• Meet the quiet winners of the Supreme Court tariff ruling: hedge funds creating a $100 billion market snapping up rights to importers’ tariff refunds

• Justices Kagan and Barrett testify before Congress

  In the first appearances by members of the Supreme Court before Congress in seven years, Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett testified on Tuesday in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Although the focus of the justices’ testimony was the court’s budget, which Congress appropriates, the two discussed a wide range of issues, from security and enforcement of the court’s ethics code to its emergency (Kagan’s preference) or interim docket.

• House passes bill to 'ditch the switch' and make daylight saving time permanent

  The House passed a bill Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent. Proponents, including the White House, argued the change would provide more daylight during the times that Americans are most active. The vote was 308-117.

• Senate Judiciary Dems call Epstein victim to testify against Todd Blanche for attorney general

  Senate Judiciary Democrats have invited Danielle Bensky, a survivor of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, to testify against acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in his quest to lead the Justice Department permanently. Bensky will sit on a panel of outside witnesses to be convened Thursday, the day after Blanche sits for his confirmation hearing before the panel.

• Stevens gains edge in Dems' Senate race that remains 'wide open,' poll finds

• Post #4005198

  well see, a respected official like the governor will learn from this little bitty oopsie, unlike the hardened Antifa we’re hunting for who need the book /s

• Michigan Sen. Gary Peters backs Haley Stevens in contentious race to succeed him

• Santa Marta Action Repertoire (SMART) Summary

• Post #232108

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