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Back to the Future, or Fun with Left and Right. Not.

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GOP Apology For Being “Deceitful Corporate Puppets”

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DON’T PANIC … It’s Just the C I A.

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A Well-Informed Electorate Elects a Responsible Government? Ask Eric Cantor.

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Appeals court rules Texas can require public schools to display Ten Commandments in class

Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more religion into schools. [...]

WATCH: Trump addresses NCAA Collegiate National Champions at White House

President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his call for Congress to pass legislation that would rein in college sports at a time athletes are allowed to move freely from school to school and command salaries that put athletic departments in financial peril. [...]

WATCH: Justice Department charges SPLC with fraud over paid informant program

The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said. [...]

News Wrap: DOJ announces criminal charges against Southern Poverty Law Center

In our news wrap Tuesday, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center over its use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups, the Pentagon revealed details about its $1.5 trillion budget request and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. military personnel will no longer be required to get their annual flu shot. [...]

Fed nominee Warsh questioned on independence from Trump and personal wealth

President Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, was on Capitol Hill facing a slew of lawmaker questions on his monetary policy and independence from Trump. But the president's pressure campaign against Jerome Powell threatens to freeze Warsh's nomination. Amna Nawaz discussed more with David Wessel of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution. [...]

Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick resigns ahead of ethics probe into use of campaign funds

Another scandal-plagued member of Congress resigned on Tuesday, exactly one week after a pair of her peers did the same. Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida faced an ethics investigation into her use of campaign funds. Lisa Desjardins reports. [...]

Approval of Trump on economy falls in new AP-NORC poll, as Iran war drives up prices

The findings from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research show a president who is struggling with unfulfilled promises to tame inflation and testing Americans' patience with a conflict in the Middle East that has dragged on longer than expected. [...]

LISTEN: Supreme Court seems skeptical of limiting FCC's power to fine companies

Telecommunications giants Verizon and AT&T appealed to the Supreme Court after the Federal Communications Commission found they sold customers' location data without proper safeguards and slapped the companies with hefty penalties totaling over $100 million. [...]

A timeline of Trump's shifting statements about how long the Iran war will last

Since the U.S. and Israel launched the strikes against Iran Feb. 28, President Donald Trump has made contradictory statements about the timeline to end the war. He has repeatedly declared victory and then later threatened Iran. [...]

WATCH: Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick announces her resignation before House lawmakers could consider punishment

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is resigning from Congress rather than be formally disciplined by the House as part of an ethics investigation into her use of campaign funds. [...]

Trump buys time for Iran deal after frantic day of diplomacy

The US president's decision marked the second time in as many weeks he has backed off a threat to escalate the war, buying more time [...]

Phone tracking shows how Colombian mercenaries backed Sudan's RSF - report

The Conflict Insights Group (CIG) says its research also shows the extent of UAE involvement. [...]

Virginia approves redistricting, giving Democrats edge in midterms

The new maps in Virginia could make it easier for Democrats to take control of the US House of Representatives in November. [...]

Iran sees mass redundancies from war with US and Israel

The impact is being felt by manufacturers, retailers and the digital sector, amid warnings it could get worse if the war resumes. [...]

Israeli soldiers punished over vandalism of Jesus statue in Lebanon

Two soldiers will be removed from combat duty and receive 30 days of military detention, Israel's military says. [...]

Domestic workers legally recognised in Indonesia after '22-year struggle'

The country is home to some 4.2 million domestic workers - of which almost 90% are women. [...]

Zelensky says failure of US envoys to visit Kyiv is 'disrespectful'

US envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner have travelled to Moscow several times, but never to Kyiv. [...]

Unprecedented ruling finds Hungary's anti-LGBTQ laws in breach of EU values

The EU's top court finds that the reforms breached EU values on a number of levels and broke the founding values of the EU treaty. [...]

Mass trial for 486 alleged gang members begins in El Salvador

Footage released by the attorney general's office shows large groups of men in prison attending the trial via video link. [...]

Japan loosens arms export rules in break from post-WW2 pacifism

This clears the way for Japan to sell weapons to more than a dozen countries. [...]

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