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Sen. Thom Tillis attends a hearing in Washington on June 25, 2025.

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Sen. Thom Tillis announces he’s not seeking reelection, a day after voting against Trump’s agenda bill

The inside story of Andrew Cuomo’s campaign collapse

Trump says there’s a TikTok buyer that he’ll reveal in ‘about two weeks’

Former Gerry Connolly aide wins Democratic primary in bid to replace him in US House seat from Virginia

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House GOP leadership discussing new ways to limit classified information on Capitol Hill

Big Trump wins, boomerang appeals define Supreme Court term

From sports to birth certificates, Supreme Court to confront more anti-transgender policies

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President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington DC, on June 27.

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Trump doesn’t have to grab power; Republicans are giving it to him

Trump is losing support among independent voters. Who are they?

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ might be unloved and a mess – but it will still probably pass

Trump is creating new universes of people to deport

Why Trump needs the world to believe Iran’s nuclear program is ‘obliterated’

The Supreme Court blessed same-sex marriage 10 years ago. Is a backlash brewing?

Trump claims a forever peace in the land of forever war — but it could be fleeting

If not a war, what has Trump started?

Trump floats Iran ‘regime change’ even as the true impact of US strikes is far from clear

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<p>At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Fareed speaks with former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates about the conservative legal theory behind the Trump administration's push to empower the presidency.</p>

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<p>At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Fareed sits down with former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates to discuss what the Supreme Court’s ruling in a birthright citizenship case means for the future of executive power in America.</p>

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‘Things better change’: Arizona voters express reservations about Trump’s first 100 days

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President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Thursday, June 26.

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Fact check: Trump makes big false claims about his big domestic policy bill

US President Donald Trump, center, during a news conference with Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, left, and Marco Rubio, US secretary of state on the second day of the 2025 NATO Summit on June 25, 2025 in The Hague, Netherlands. Among other matters, members are to approve a new defense investment plan that raises the target for defense spending to 5% of GDP.

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Fact-checking Trump’s NATO news conference

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For Subscribers Far-right activist with history of anti-gay comments fired from leadership role at Kennedy Center after CNN investigation

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TEHRAN, IRAN - JUNE 16: Smoke rises after a reported Israeli strike on a building used by Islamic Republic of Iran News Network, part of Iran's state TV broadcaster, on June 16, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. Over recent days, Iran has been hit by a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting military and nuclear sites, as well as top military officials, prompting Iran to launch a counterattack. (Photo by Stringer/Getty Images)

Trump may authorize strikes against Iran. Can he just do that?

Fault Lines

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2025/05/29: Participants seen holding a banner at the protest. New Yorkers gathered outside House Representative Nicole Malliotakis office in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to protest her decision to vote in favor to pass the so called Big Beautiful Bill, a bill that contains severe cuts to social services like healthcare, housing and food assistance federally funded programs and big tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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For Subscribers Sweeping GOP budget bill illuminates the central fault line in the modern Republican coalition

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Senate votes to move forward on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill,’ though measure’s fate remains in question

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After Supreme Court term, Chief Justice Roberts shrugs off ‘venting’ by those who lost

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Initially wary of Trump, Roberts and Barrett offer the president his biggest win of the Supreme Court term

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US did not use bunker-buster bombs on one of Iran’s nuclear sites, top general tells lawmakers, citing depth of the target

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Final battle damage assessment of US strikes on Iran will be key in US push for Iran nuclear deal

Key House GOP centrist will not seek reelection, opening up major swing seat battle

Senate fails to advance Iran War Powers resolution

Why the Senate Parliamentarian is at the center of a fierce debate over Trump’s agenda bill

Amy Coney Barrett leaves no doubt that she stands with Trump and the conservative supermajority

Supreme Court sides with parents who want to opt their children out of LGBTQ books in schools

Trump freed to pursue even more of his agenda after Supreme Court win on injunctions

Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s ruling on power of judges and birthright citizenship

Newsom sues Fox News, alleging defamation over how it covered his phone call with Trump

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the Strom Thurmond room in the U.S. Capitol building, in Washington D.C, on December 19, 2018. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)

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