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The Obamacare Numbers Quiz!

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FOUND: Paul Ryan’s Lost Budget!

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Live Event: Election Night – Nov 6, 2012

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If Romney Wins: A Look at the Impact

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How Republicans Are Trying to Sell Dying Younger to Voters

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The War on ‘Wokeness’ Comes to the U.S. Mint

The Treasury Department unveiled new coins celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. They failed to include planned designs featuring abolition, women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement. [...]

How The Times Analyzed the S.E.C.’s Cryptocurrency Enforcement

The New York Times set out to understand — and quantify — just how much things had changed within the agency after President Trump resumed office. [...]

The S.E.C. Was Tough on Crypto. It Pulled Back After Trump Returned to Office.

An investigation by The Times found the administration’s change in enforcement benefited the industry, including companies that had ties to the president. [...]

The Army Made a Blind Black Soldier a Surrogate for Robert E. Lee

For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the Pentagon found a use for him. [...]

Appeals Court Says Trump Must End Los Angeles Deployment by Monday

While the decision did not remove the National Guard troops from the president’s control, it blocked him from using them in the nation’s second-largest city. [...]

University of Maryland President Cleared of Plagiarism

The claims last year by a conservative publication against Darryll J. Pines prompted a yearlong investigation and an extensive review of his published works. [...]

Reader Mailbag: A Pause on Gerrymanders, and a Risk in Primaries

Indiana Republicans reject redrawn maps, and battle lines have been drawn among Democrats in Texas. [...]

‘The Interview’: 3 Senators Who Quit On Why Congress Won’t Stand Up To Trump

The current and former lawmakers get candid about bipartisan politics, party leadership and the state of the Senate. [...]

Trump’s ‘Pardon’ of Tina Peters Rejected by Colorado Officials

The president’s stated intention to pardon Tina Peters, jailed for tampering with election machines in 2020, has set off a legal fight over the extent of Mr. Trump’s pardon powers. [...]

Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library

His library foundation has told the I.R.S. that by the end of 2027 it expects to bring in just $11.3 million — not nearly enough for a traditional presidential library. [...]

WATCH: Trump calls deadly shooting at Brown University ‘a terrible thing’ and ‘a shame’

President Donald Trump said late Saturday afternoon that he had been briefed on the shooting at Brown University that killed at least two people and critically wounded eight. [...]

Two Wisconsin congressional redistricting lawsuits may not resolve by 2026 midterms

A pair of lawsuits seeking to redraw congressional boundary lines that currently favor Republicans in Wisconsin are on track to be resolved after the 2026 midterms, even as attorneys for one case argued Friday in court that there's still time to enact new maps for the November election. [...]

Sign language services ‘intrude’ on Trump’s ability to control his image, administration says

The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public," part of a lawsuit seeking to require the White House to provide the services. [...]

Indiana Republican explains why he defied Trump and rejected congressional redistricting

President Trump’s push to redraw congressional maps in Republicans' favor hit a major roadblock in Indiana Thursday when Indiana Republican state senators joined Democrats to vote against a plan that would likely have created two new Republican seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. One Republican who voted to block the maps is Indiana Sen. Mike Bohacek. He joins Lisa Desjardins to discuss. [...]

Brooks and Capehart on Trump’s recent series of setbacks

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including how President Trump's string of seeming disappointments this week is raising some doubts about his grip on the Republican Party and his ability to govern in his second term. [...]

Preservationists sue Trump for ballroom project reviews and congressional approval

The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately funded group, is asking the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s White House ballroom project, which already has involved razing the East Wing, until it goes through comprehensive design reviews, environmental assessments, public comments and congressional debate and ratification. [...]

WATCH: Trump signs executive order to override AI regulations by states

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday pressuring states not to regulate artificial intelligence. [...]

WATCH: Duffy threatens to withhold millions in highway funds from New York over flaws in immigrant commercial driver’s license system

New York routinely issues commercial driver's licenses to immigrants that may be valid long after they are legally authorized to be in the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday and he threatened to withhold $73 million in highway funds unless the system is fixed and any flawed licenses are revoked. [...]

Consumers aren’t having a very merry holiday season, AP-NORC poll finds

Roughly half of Americans say it’s harder than usual to afford the things they want to give as holiday gifts, and similar numbers are delaying big purchases or cutting back on nonessential purchases more than they would normally. [...]

Danish intelligence report warns of U.S. military threat under Trump

The United States is using its economic power to “assert its will" and threaten military force against friend and foe alike, a Danish intelligence agency said in a new report. [...]

Some on-air claims about Dominion Voting Systems were false, Fox News acknowledges in statement after deal is announced

Dominion still has pending lawsuits against election deniers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell

Here are the 20 specific Fox broadcasts and tweets Dominion says were defamatory

• Fox-Dominion trial delay 'is not unusual,' judge says • Fox News' defamation battle isn't stopping Trump's election lies [...]

Judge in Fox News-Dominion defamation trial: 'The parties have resolved their case'

The judge just announced in court that a settlement has been reached in the historic defamation case between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems. [...]

'Difficult to say with a straight face': Tapper reacts to Fox News' statement on settlement

A settlement has been reached in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against Fox News, the judge for the case announced. The network will pay more than $787 million to Dominion, a lawyer for the company said. [...]

Millions in the US could face massive consequences unless McCarthy can navigate out of a debt trap he set for Biden

• DeSantis goes to Washington, a place he once despised, looking for support to take on Trump • Opinion: For the GOP to win, it must ditch Trump • Chris Christie mulling 2024 White House bid • Analysis: The fire next time has begun burning in Tennessee [...]

White homeowner accused of shooting a Black teen who rang his doorbell turns himself in to face criminal charges

• 'A major part of Ralph died': Aunt of teen shot after ringing wrong doorbell speaks • 20-year-old woman shot after friend turned into the wrong driveway in upstate New York, officials say [...]

Newly released video shows scene of Jeremy Renner's snowplow accident

Newly released body camera footage shows firefighters and sheriff's deputies rushing to help actor Jeremy Renner after a near-fatal snowplow accident in January. The "Avengers" actor broke more than 30 bones and suffered other severe injuries. CNN's Chloe Melas has more. [...]

Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Lee Curtis spent the Covid-19 lockdown together

It's sourdough bread and handstands for Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Lee Curtis. [...]

Toddler crawls through White House fence, prompts Secret Service response

A tiny intruder infiltrated White House grounds Tuesday, prompting a swift response from the US Secret Service. [...]

Eyewitness captures moment man tackles and disarms Bondi shooter

New South Wales Police say that 11 people were killed, plus one gunman, in a shooting at Bondi Beach targeting the Jewish community. [...]

'Person of interest' detained over Brown University shooting, police say

Two people died and nine others were injured in the incident in Rhode Island on Saturday. [...]

'Never give up': Belarusian prisoners celebrate release after US lifts sanctions

"It's a feeling of incredible happiness," says political prisoner Maria Kolesnikova, freed after more than five years. [...]

Five arrested over plot to attack German Christmas market

Local media says one of the suspects is an imam at a mosque, and police allege he "called for a vehicle attack". [...]

Israel targets senior Hamas official in deadly Gaza strike

The strike killed Raed Saad, a senior commander in Hamas' Qassam Brigades, the Israeli military said. [...]

John Cena takes his final bow, after last ever WWE fight

The actor and wrestler brought the curtain down on a 24-year career that saw him become one of wrestling's biggest stars. [...]

Three Americans killed by IS gunman in Syria, US military says

Two US soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in the attack, according to the US Central Command. [...]

Angry fans throw chairs and bottles at Messi event in India

The Inter Miami and Argentina forward is in India for a tour, taking in events in Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi. [...]

One million households without power in Ukraine after Russia attacks energy grid

The latest overnight attacks come as US envoy Steve Witkoff prepares to hold more talks with Ukraine's president. [...]

Cambodia shuts border crossings with Thailand as fighting continues

It comes despite US President Donald Trump saying both sides had agreed to a ceasefire deal. [...]

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