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New Democratic Congressional Majority Preparing Barrage of AI Legislation
After delivering a hard blow to the MAGA-aligned Republican party in this week’s midterm elections, signs are emerging that the new Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are planning to crack down hard on the tech industry that closely aligned itself with Donald Trump’s second administration. According to Reuters, Democrats are already preparing a…
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Trump scrambles to sow doubt in outcome of midterms after his gigantic loss
President Donald Trump is boosting a post that suggests Democrats’ blowout win in Texas was too big to be real. On Saturday, Trump shared on Truth Social, without comment, a screenshot of a post from an X account. The post argued that Democrat Gina Hinojosa’s vote total in the Texas governor’s race was impossible. “A…
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House Republicans in ‘utter disbelief’ as Trump promotes man they blame for midterm rout
President Donald Trump’s choice of Stephen Miller as his new chief of staff is angering House Republicans. Several of them told Fox News that Miller’s immigration crackdown helped cost the party Congress. “Horrible decision,” Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) told Fox News Digital on Friday after Trump announced the promotion. Another GOP lawmaker, who spoke on…
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Winners and losers of historic midterm elections that handed Dems control of Congress
The midterm elections marked a historic shift in power, handing Democrats their biggest House gains since 1974 and control of the Senate. But inside the wave were candidates whose campaign heroics, epic stumbles and late-breaking twists helped shape the outcome. Here are some of the winners and losers: LOSERS Darline Graham She got appointed to…
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Memories of the Train
Illustrations by Katherine Lam The train’s seats: blue with a white strip down the middle. The windows: wide, tinted green. The sun: halfway below the horizon. He was playing with the top his mother had bought from the cart lady. With each spin came flashes of rainbow light: zzz zzz zoom. The train’s seats: white…
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New York has Mamdani. L.A. now has Raman. What path will this democratic socialist mayor take?
Six months after Zohran Mamdani took office as mayor of New York, he said that New Yorkers no longer had to imagine what life looks like if a socialist wins. “What we’ve delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible,” he declared, noting that his administration had offered free child…
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US in for ‘very scary ride’ as Trump hits ‘end stage’ of his narcissism: psychologist
Republicans’ disastrous midterm losses were “catastrophic” for Donald Trump’s psyche, and the president is “not” taking it well, according to a clinical psychologist who knows him better than most: his niece. Mary Trump, an outspoken critic of her uncle, wrote in her Substack newsletter “The Good in Us” this week that the president has “finally…
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Forget Ohio as a bellwether. Look to Latinos to understand how Americans vote
America’s obsession with the Latino vote has become a ritual as slippery and messy as a grunion run. But who could be blamed for caring too much about how we crushed it in the midterms? Latinos helped Democrats take back the House and Senate by casting our ballots in record numbers. We flipped red districts…
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‘WTF????’: Piers Morgan stunned as CENTCOM seeks intel on Iran’s nukes from social media
Trump’s military wants help finding Iran’s nuclear program via social media, and critics can’t help pointing out that the president said he “obliterated” it. U.S. Central Command posted on X Friday that the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program “is offering a reward of up to $20 million and possible relocation for information about Iran’s…
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Three elderly people found dead in New Jersey home after postal worker discovers chilling note
Three elderly people were found dead in a New Jersey home after a postal worker discovered a chilling note on the front door, according to authorities. The three bodies were tragically discovered at a home in Mount Holly on Friday, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office announced in a Facebook post. A postal worker called cops…