Wisconsin Supreme Court Flips to 5-2 Liberal Supermajority in Landslide
Chris Taylor crushed her conservative opponent by 20 points, giving liberals their biggest court majority since the 1970s and a guaranteed firewall through 2028.
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Trump Fires Bondi as Attorney General, Installs His Former Criminal Defense Lawyer
The president ousted Pam Bondi after 14 months of frustration over Epstein files and failed prosecutions. Todd Blanche, who defended Trump in court, now runs the DOJ.
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Sanders and AOC Want to Freeze AI Data Center Construction Until Someone Counts the Cost
The AI Data Center Moratorium Act would halt new construction nationwide until Congress passes federal AI safeguards for workers, consumers, and the environment.
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The Trump Administration Is Paying $1 Billion to Not Build Wind Farms
TotalEnergies will abandon two Atlantic wind projects and plow the refund into Texas LNG and Gulf oil drilling. Critics call it an outrageous misuse of taxpayer money.
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Powell Vows to Stay Until DOJ Probe Is 'Well and Truly Over'
The Fed chair's defiant pledge at Wednesday's press conference caps a two-week confrontation between the central bank and the Justice Department.
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Trump Won't Sign Any Bills Until the SAVE Act Passes. The Senate Says No.
The President's standoff with his own party over voter ID legislation is threatening to freeze Congress, and the filibuster fight is getting personal.
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Trump's State of the Union Was the Longest Ever. Here's What He Said.
At 1 hour and 48 minutes, Trump broke the all-time record for longest State of the Union. The speech covered immigration, AI energy policy, and retirement savings, but largely avoided foreign policy.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Icon and King Protege, Dies at 84
The man who marched with Martin Luther King Jr., ran for president twice, and built the Rainbow Coalition has died. His legacy reshaped American politics.
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Political Scientists Are Debating Whether America Is Still a Democracy
Sweden's V-Dem Institute now classifies the US as an 'electoral autocracy.' Not everyone agrees, but the debate itself is unprecedented.
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Trump's Chip Tariff Plan Has a Giant Loophole for Amazon, Google, and Microsoft
The administration is preparing semiconductor tariffs with built-in exemptions for Big Tech, and TSMC's $165 billion Arizona bet is the key.
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Pentagon Cuts All Academic Ties With Harvard, Calling It Too 'Woke'
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the military will stop sending officers to Harvard. The university calls the move 'a threat to national security.'
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Portugal's Presidential Runoff Sets Up a Test for Europe's Far Right
Socialist António José Seguro faces far-right firebrand André Ventura in Portugal's first presidential runoff in 40 years. Europe is watching closely.
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