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Harris urges young supporters to 'stay in the fight' ahead of Trump's second term
Vice President Kamala Harris addressed young leaders Tuesday and encouraged them to "stay in the fight" as President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his second term.
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US border facilities for migrant children are improving but still need work, court monitor says
The U.S. still separates some migrant children from parents while holding them after they cross the border despite broad improvements at detention centers in Texas, according to a court-ordered monitor's final report. The heightened scrutiny of the Border Patrol’s Texas holding facilities is part of broader court-appointed oversight, which President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have criticized. The report, issued Friday under a monitoring agreement that began in 2022, offers a final glimp
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Congress scrambles to finalize a short-term bill with shutdown deadline days away
Congress is working to finalize a short-term funding bill to avoid a government shutdown this weekend, right before the holidays.
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Archivist says Equal Rights Amendment can't be certified as Democrats push Biden to recognize it
In a rare joint statement, the archivist and deputy archivist of the United States said Tuesday that the 1970s-era Equal Rights Amendment cannot be certified without further action by Congress or the courts, as Democrats press President Joe Biden to act unilaterally on its ratification before he leaves office next month. Congress sent the amendment, which guarantees men and women equal rights under the law, to the states in 1972 and gave states seven years to ratify it, later extending the dead
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Democrats pick Gerry Connolly for Oversight post, rejecting Ocasio-Cortez bid
House Democrats on Tuesday picked 74-year-old Rep. Gerry Connolly to lead the party next year atop an influential congressional committee, pushing aside growing calls for generational change in leadership ahead of a second term for Donald Trump. In a closed-door meeting, the majority of the caucus voted for Connolly to be the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee over 35-year-old Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who campaigned on calls to pass the torch to younger leaders. Connolly has s
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Trump files suit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and Des Moines Register newspaper
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is suing Ann Selzer, her polling firm, The Des Moines Register and the newspaper's parent company, Gannett, accusing them of consumer fraud, according to a copy of the filing reviewed by NBC News.
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White House presses for Congress to provide more authority to address drones in U.S. airspace
The White House wants Congress to pass legislation that would give greater authority to the federal, state and local governments to address drones that fly in U.S. airspace.
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Biden calls for ban on congressional stock trading
President Joe Biden endorsed a ban on congressional stock trading in an interview that’s being released this week, belatedly weighing in on an issue that has been debated on Capitol Hill for years. “Nobody in the Congress should be able to make money in the stock market while they’re in the Congress,” Biden said. The interview was conducted by Faiz Shakir, a political adviser for Sen. Bernie Sanders, and published by A More Perfect Union, a pro-labor advocacy and journalism organization.
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Democratic senators seek to ax transgender care ban from defense bill
Fourteen Democratic senators will introduce an amendment to remove language from Congress’ defense spending bill that seeks to ban coverage of gender-affirming care for trans children of service members, Sen. Tammy Baldwin's office told NBC News.
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Elizabeth Warren is pushing Trump to establish conflict-of-interest rules for Elon Musk
President-elect Trump has tasked Musk and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy with cutting government waste through the DOGE.
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Germany's election contenders set out contrasting plans to revive the economy, reduce migration
Leading contenders in Germany's upcoming election presented their programs on Tuesday, setting out contrasting visions of how to put new vigor into Europe's biggest economy and tackle other issues such as migration. Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a center-left Social Democrat, will seek a second term in the parliamentary election expected on Feb. 23 — more than three months after his unpopular three-party coalition collapsed in a dispute about how to revive the stagnant economy. Also seeking the top
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Climate tech firms get $80 million to pull carbon from paper mills, sewage plant
Google, H&M, Stripe and other members of the climate-focused Frontier coalition will buy $80 million of carbon credits from a firm using oil industry technology to capture paper mill emissions and another using rocks to do the same at sewage plants. While U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to withdraw from a deal to cap global warming and cut support for carbon capture, companies in sectors including tech and finance continue to back efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere. To
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Americans end 2024 with grim economic outlook, but Republicans are optimistic for 2025: AP-NORC poll
The unemployment rate is healthy and the stock market is up, but Democrats are feeling more pessimistic about the U.S. economy after Donald Trump's election victory, according to a new poll. Republicans, meanwhile, are still dour about the current state of the economy but hopeful that growth will be stronger next year when Trump returns to the White House as president. This was a persistent challenge for President Joe Biden that Trump appears to be inheriting — and it raises the possibility th
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Kamala Harris tells students to 'stay in the fight' after the election
Kamala Harris on Tuesday urged anyone who is disappointed by her defeat in last month's election to “stay in the fight” as Donald Trump prepares to take office, hinting that she won't be stepping off the political stage anytime soon. The vice president's remarks to students in the Maryland Corps service year program were her most extensive since her concession speech. “Many people have come up to me, telling me they feel tired, maybe even resigned," Harris said.
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Ex-FBI informant pleads guilty to making false bribery allegations about the Bidens
A government document tied to Alexander Smirnov's allegations was cited by House Republicans as key to their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
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Trump and Biden signal emerging fight over future of Postal Service
With a little more than a month to go before Inauguration Day, President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden both took steps on Monday that could affect the future of the U.S. Postal Service.
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Judge in Trump's hush money case denies bid to toss out guilty verdict
The New York judge who presided over Donald Trump’s hush money trial denied the president-elect’s bid to vacate his guilty verdict on presidential immunity grounds.
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One man's mission to (finally) make the bald eagle the U.S. national bird
After learning that the bald eagle is not officially the national bird, an "eaglevangelist" is working with Congress to remedy that omission.
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Trump meets with TikTok CEO as video app challenges potential ban
TikTok CEO Shou Chew met with Presdient-Elect Donald Trump after the company appealed a court decision allowing a potential TikTok ban to proceed in the U.S.
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Jill Biden says she has closed the book on teaching at Northern Virginia Community College
Jill Biden has closed the book on her teaching career at a Virginia community college. The first lady, who has spent the past 40 years teaching in classrooms, announced Monday that she had taught her final class at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria last week. “Last Thursday, I taught my last class of the semester and my final class ever at Northern Virginia Community College.”
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Trailblazing politician Shirley Chisholm is awarded Congress' highest honor
President Joe Biden signed the “Shirley Chisholm Congressional Gold Medal Act” last week posthumously honoring Chisholm, who died in 2005, with Congress’s highest award.
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Trump says it was 'stupid' for Biden to let Ukraine use US weapons to strike deeper into Russia
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday suggested that he may reverse President Joe Biden's recent decision to allow Ukrainian forces to use American long-range weapons to strike deeper into Russian territory. Trump called the decision made by Biden last month “stupid." With the loosening of the restrictions, Biden gave Ukraine long-sought permission to use the Army Tactical Missile System provided by the U.S. to strike Russian positions hundreds miles from its border.
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Trump health pick RFK Jr. begins meeting with Republican senators on Capitol Hill
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be Health and Human Services Secretary, will hold his first meetings with Republican senators this week.
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Key union vows to fight back after Trump says he would end remote work for federal employees
The union representing thousands of federal workers said it would fight any effort by President-elect Donald Trump to block a Biden administration agreement allowing thousands of federal workers to continue with remote work.
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Trump says he'd "look at" a pardon for NYC Mayor Eric Adams
President-elect Donald Trump says he would "look at" a pardon for New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who has been indicted on corruption charges.
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RFK Jr. meets with senators as questions swirl about Trump's pick to lead health agency
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. swept onto Capitol Hill late Monday as the anti-vaccine health guru from the famous political family reintroduced himself to senators, this time as President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the nation's Health and Human Services Department. In the Senate he's facing a mix of support, curiosity, skepticism and downright rejection among the senators who will be asked to confirm him to Trump's Cabinet. Kennedy's first stop Monday was on potentially friendly terrain, to the
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Former FBI informant pleads guilty to lying about phony bribery scheme involving the Bidens
Alexander Smirnov's allegation became central to an inquiry by House Republicans in Congress.
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'Something strange is going on': Trump calls for more information about N.J. drone sightings
President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that he had canceled an upcoming trip to his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club due to the recent drone sightings in the area.
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Trump is threatening the press. We should take him seriously — and literally.
It's hard to beat the press in court. But Donald Trump seems to think suing newspapers and TV networks is a winning strategy, regardless.
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In his first postelection news conference, an upbeat Trump boasts of his popularity with CEOs
President-elect Donald Trump was upbeat at his first postelection news conference Monday, saying there was a big difference from when he took office in 2016: Some of his former adversaries are now being nice to him.
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Corps of Engineers will look to save 150-year-old lighthouse from crumbling into the Hudson River
Federal engineers will begin the process of preserving a functioning 150-year-old lighthouse that sits precariously on a mudflat in the middle of the Hudson River in New York, officials announced Monday. U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and the Army Corps of Engineers said that $50,000 has been allocated to study how to protect the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse, which began operating in 1874 and was this year placed on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's list of the country’s 11 most endangered hi
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What's behind rising autism rates: A broader definition of autism and better screening
President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions from journalists at a press conference Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club. Trump said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services who has been an anti-vaccine advocate, would look into the reasons for rising autism rates. Trump, seeming to respond to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell's defense of the polio vaccine, called himsel
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Two arrested for allegedly flying drone ‘dangerously close’ to Boston airport
Trump accuses Biden and Pentagon of cover-up after suspects charged with trespassing over incident in Boston
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Democrats urge Biden to commute sentences of people affected by cocaine sentencing disparity
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers urged President Joe Biden in a letter Monday to commute the sentences of people who are affected by disparities in sentences for offenses involving crack and powder cocaine.
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US to require rear seat belt reminders in vehicles in 2027
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Transportation Department said Monday it will require rear seat reminder systems to boost seat belt use starting in late 2027 in all new cars and trucks in an bid to reduce traffic crash deaths and injuries that have been rising in recent years. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said its final rule will also upgrade and expand current warnings for the driver and others in the front seats. The final regulation comes more than a decade after Congre
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Funding meltdown foreshadows Johnson’s tough year ahead
The speaker is simultaneously trying to calm a farm district GOP rebellion and conservatives’ anger ahead of Friday’s government funding deadline.
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3 Minnesota women among the 39 pardoned by Biden
Three Minnesota women are among the 39 people President Biden pardoned Thursday morning.
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Orange County GOP pushes back on 'false claims of voter fraud'
A local party leader said he feared the false claims could dampen Republican participation in future elections if they weren't forcefully addressed.
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Trump says Big Tech CEOs like Tim Cook have been the 'opposite of hostile' ahead of his 2nd term: 'My personality changed or something'
Executives from Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, and other companies have met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
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As he prepares to leave leadership, McConnell challenges Trump on foreign policy
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is challenging President-elect Donald Trump to reject the isolationist voices within their party and build his foreign policy around military strength, arguing that if the U.S. retreats from global engagement, “its enemies will be only too happy to fill the void.” In an essay published Monday in Foreign Affairs, McConnell took the rare step of warning Trump directly as he plans to step down from his post in the coming weeks. The Kentucky Republican plan
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US study on LNG exports expected as soon as Tuesday, sources say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. will release a draft study as soon as Tuesday on exports of liquefied natural gas, a review that will likely not be finalized before President Joe Biden leaves office, two industry sources with knowledge of the issue said. Biden in January paused the Department of Energy's approvals of U.S. LNG exports to big consumers in Asia and Europe in order for his administration to conduct the study on the environmental and economic impacts of the booming industry.
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Supreme Court declines appeal from Peter Navarro; Trump White House aide to return after prison term
The Supreme Court turned back an appeal Monday from Peter Navarro, the former White House official who is set to return in Donald Trump's second term after serving prison time on contempt of Congress charges. It comes after the Justice Department sued Navarro, saying he had retained presidential records on an unofficial email account he used during his previous White House tenure under Trump. The government says the records must be turned over to the National Archives.
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J. Ann Selzer Says She's 'Mystified' By Election Interference Allegations Over Wrong Poll
President-elect Donald Trump previously attacked the Iowa pollster over the survey's findings.
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Employers and workers alike are wary of what the second Trump term will mean for labor
After four years of the labor-friendly Biden administration, employers and labor groups alike are wary of what lies ahead in Trump's second term.
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Republicans In Congress Are Talking Big About The First 100 Days. They’re Not Talking About All The Roadblocks.
The process the GOP will need to use to push through President-elect Donald Trump’s priorities puts some big political and procedural hurdles in their way.
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Biden establishes a national monument for Frances Perkins, the 1st female Cabinet secretary
President Joe Biden on Monday established a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force behind Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs after the Great Depression. Perkins is “one of America’s greatest labor leaders, and that’s not hyperbole,” Biden said. Perkins “cemented the idea” that “if you're working a full-time job, you shouldn't have to live in poverty,” Biden said.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders says Biden should 'very seriously' consider pre-emptive pardons
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Sunday described President-elect Donald Trump's threat to jail members of the House Jan. 6 Committee as "an outrageous statement" and said President Joe Biden should consider pre-emptive pardons for committee members.
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Former longtime South Carolina congressman John Spratt dies at 82
John Spratt, a former longtime Democratic congressman from South Carolina who successfully pushed for a balanced budget deal in the 1990s but was unseated decades later when his district turned Republican, has died. Spratt died Saturday night at home, surrounded by family, due to complications from Parkinson’s disease, his daughter, Catherine Spratt, said in a post on Facebook. Tributes quickly poured in for Spratt, who represented South Carolina’s 5th District for nearly 30 years.
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Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar Both Vexed By Hunter Biden Pardon
Both wondered if the president was ignoring America's best interest when he issued an eleventh-hour pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, earlier this month.
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'Political opportunists' threaten to challenge Republicans who oppose Trump's picks, GOP senator says
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., on Sunday blasted those who have promised to fund primary challenges against Republican Senators who oppose President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks,calling them 'political opportunists.'
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