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New York Times PoliticsMay 21, 2026
In a Rarity, Republicans Stand Up to Trump
President Trump faced a wall of opposition from Senate G.O.P. lawmakers, in part over his plan to create a $1.8 billion fund to reward his allies.

Politics - U.S. SenateMay 21, 2026
GOP Pulls Measure on Trump's War Powers in Iran, Lacking Votes to Defeat It
House Republican leaders abruptly scrapped a planned vote on a measure to direct President Trump to end the conflict or win authorization for it, amid party defections and absences.

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Trump's false claims about the 2020 election are casting a shadow over Georgia's GOP runoffs (Yahoo Politics)

Yahoo PoliticsMay 21, 2026
US Senate refuses to push through ICE funding amid row over Trump's ballroom


Drudge ReportMay 21, 2026
USA Imposes Entry Restrictions for Some Citizens Amid Outbreak...




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U.S. Imposes Entry Restrictions for Some Citizens Amid Ebola Outbreak (NYT Homeland Press Releases)

New York Times PoliticsMay 21, 2026
Women's Museum Bill Sinks Amid Dispute Over Trump and Trans Issues
The legislation to build a Smithsonian museum to honor women became contentious after it was amended to say the museum could only recognize "biological" females.

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House rejects Smithsonian women's museum bill after GOP bans 'biological men' from exhibits (Yahoo Politics)

New York Times PoliticsMay 21, 2026
Inside the Senate G.O.P. Meltdown Over Trump's Fund
Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, went to Capitol Hill to allay Republicans' concerns over a fund to pay people who claim government mistreatment. It did not go well.

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Republicans cancel votes amid fight over Trump's ‘anti-weaponization' fund (Yahoo Politics)

Drudge ReportMay 21, 2026
Rove Midterms Warning...




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SHOCK POLL: Trump Approval Among Republicans Sinks to Record Low...

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Politics - U.S. SenateMay 21, 2026
Republicans Seize on a Budget Exemption to Push Through Immigration Enforcement Funding
Republicans are using a special mechanism that was created to reduce deficits to push through immigration enforcement funds that should be provided in a regular spending bill.

Yahoo PoliticsMay 21, 2026
Trump says he'll ‘try' to attend son's wedding this weekend but it's ‘not good timing'


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Trump says he will ‘try and make' son's wedding, but timing is ‘not good' for him (Yahoo Politics)

Drudge ReportMay 21, 2026
MAG: THE HIGH-PRICES PRESIDENT...




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Trump's Fund Puts Blanche in a Tight Spot as He Aims to Lead Justice Dept. (New York Times Politics)

Drudge ReportMay 21, 2026
Dems' autopsy blames Biden operation for Kamala Harris's loss...




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D.N.C. 2024 Election Autopsy Reopens Wounds of Harris Loss (New York Times Politics)

Yahoo PoliticsMay 21, 2026
Trump postpones AI executive order, cites need to compete with China


Yahoo PoliticsMay 21, 2026
Democrats release ‘autopsy' on 2024 US election loss but reject findings


Politics - U.S. HouseMay 21, 2026
Thomas Massie, a Trump Critic, Causes Latest Midterm Fight Over Israel
In primary races across the country, debates over Israel are taking center stage, dividing Democrats and Republicans alike.

Washington Post PoliticsMay 21, 2026
U.S. bears brunt of Israel's missile defense, Pentagon assessments show
Amid hostilities with Iran, the American military expended far more advanced interceptors to protect Israel than Israeli forces did, according to Defense Department data.

New York Times PoliticsMay 21, 2026
Trump Cancels Signing of Executive Order Granting Oversight of A.I. Models
The president said he postponed the executive order, which would give the government power to evaluate A.I. models before their release, over concerns about "aspects of it."

Drudge ReportMay 21, 2026
Republicans expected to abandon $1B security proposal for White House and ballroom...




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Yahoo PoliticsMay 21, 2026
Trump says he's sending 5,000 more troops to Poland, stirring confusion about US presence in Europe


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Trump to Deploy 5,000 Troops to Poland, Surprising the Pentagon (New York Times Politics)

New York Times PoliticsMay 21, 2026
Judge Appears Hesitant to Order Work Stopped on Reflecting Pool
Judge Carl J. Nichols seemed skeptical that the changes President Trump has rushed to make would irreversibly deface the pool if he later found them illegal.

Drudge ReportMay 21, 2026
USA sending 5,000 more troops to Poland...




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Drudge ReportMay 21, 2026
CA Gov Signs Order on AI Aimed at Helping Workers...




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New York Times PoliticsMay 21, 2026
5 Takeaways From the Democrats' Autopsy of Kamala Harris's 2024 Loss
A draft report released by the Democratic National Committee argued that Ms. Harris did not sufficiently separate herself from President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

BBC PoliticsMay 21, 2026
Green Party candidate pulls out of by-election
Chris Kennedy withdraws from the contest hours after he was named as the Green Party's candidate.

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At one Kentucky bar, young Republicans wrestle with their disappointment in Trump and their party (Yahoo Politics)
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New York Times PoliticsMay 20, 2026
Trump Gets His Payback in Primary Elections, but It Comes at a Cost in Congress
Republican senators are angry the president is working to unseat their colleagues. But he is also creating more free agents in his own party in Congress willing to defy him.

Drudge ReportMay 20, 2026
Senate Republicans Don't Have the Votes...




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Ballroom won't be funded after Senate GOP drops $1 billion Trump security request (Yahoo Politics)

Democracy NowMay 20, 2026
Is an Invasion of Cuba Next? Peter Kornbluh on U.S. Move to Indict Raúl Castro & CIA's Widening Role
In the latest escalation of the decadeslong U.S. pressure campaign against Cuba's communist government, the Trump administration is expected to unseal an indictment against Raúl Castro, the 94-year-old former president of Cuba, later today. The charges stem from the 1996 shootdown of four pilots with Brothers to the Rescue, the U.S.-based anti-Castro organization formed by Cuban exiles and dissidents. Peter Kornbluh, a Cuba specialist at the National Security Archive, says that the indictment will send "a clear warning" to Cuban leaders and provide justification for a possible future attempt to capture or assassinate Castro. "Military options are on the table and coming soon," says Kornbluh. "It is absolutely clear that the U.S. military is preparing contingency operations in case Trump's impatience runs out because Cuba has not met his imperial demands fast enough."

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Report from Havana: Cubans Starving & Dying Because of Intensified U.S. Blockade (Democracy Now)

Politics - U.S. HouseMay 20, 2026
House Passes Housing Bill, Uniting on a Measure to Bring Down Costs
The legislation, which had been stalled amid Republican divisions, passed overwhelmingly, signaling an eagerness in both parties to address affordability in an election year.

Politics - U.S. SenateMay 20, 2026
Trump Crushes Republican Dissent: 8 Takeaways From Tuesday's Primaries
President Trump unseated Representative Thomas Massie, a top Republican critic in Congress, and also got his way in other primary contests.

Yahoo PoliticsMay 20, 2026
Alabama's US Senate race heads to runoff as House primaries are in limbo over redistricting fight


Yahoo PoliticsMay 20, 2026
Thomas Massie ousted in Kentucky and San Diego victims identified: Morning Rundown


Washington Post PoliticsMay 20, 2026
In Georgia, Senate GOP primary heads to runoff where electability is top issue
Georgia was among six states where voters participated in primaries Tuesday. Its Senate race is among a handful that could determine party control next year.

Politics - U.S. HouseMay 20, 2026
Trump-Backed Challenger Defeats Massie in Kentucky Primary
Representative Thomas Massie, a vocal critic of President Trump, lost his re-election bid on Tuesday. The race was a closely watched test of the president's power to eliminate Republican rivals.

New York Times PoliticsMay 20, 2026
With Massie's Primary Defeat in Kentucky, Trump's Revenge Tour Continues. But Headwinds Loom.
He has used his sway with his base to oust wayward Republicans more than he has made inroads with the independents his party needs to defeat Democrats in November.

New York Times PoliticsMay 20, 2026
Raffensperger Loses in Primary for Georgia Governor
In his campaign for Georgia governor, Mr. Raffensperger found that G.O.P. voters still blamed him for Mr. Trump's 2020 loss.

Yahoo PoliticsMay 19, 2026
Senate advances resolution to end Iran war as GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy flips to support it


Democracy NowMay 15, 2026
"Israel: What Went Wrong?": Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov & Haaretz's Gideon Levy Debate Zionism
We speak to two prominent Israeli thinkers, historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy, about the founding beliefs of Zionism. Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University, is the author of the new book Israel: What Went Wrong? Bartov says the early Zionist movement had liberatory intentions, aiming to emancipate the persecuted Jewish minority in Europe and modeling itself after other contemporary ethnonationalist movements. He then argues that while Israel had the opportunity to "become a normal state" and "issue a constitution that would provide equality to all its citizens, would define its borders and create a legal framework" that could also acknowledge and redress the Nakba, it chose another path. Instead of remedying its foundational violence, he says, the modern Israeli state has become increasingly "militaristic, centralized, expansionist, racist and, as we've seen since October 2023, genocidal." Though Bartov does not identify as an anti-Zionist, he says Israel "must discard Zionism, it must put it on the garbage heap of history, and it must redefine itself, going all the way back to 1948."

Levy, on the other hand, says Zionism has never been reformable, because the movement, from its very beginning, "started wrong, without the belief or the conviction that we can live together." He contests Bartov's assertion that early Zionist intentions became warped over the 20th century, and says instead that the violent dispossession of Palestinians is embedded into the premise of the movement. "This very same attitude, this very same policy never stopped ever since '48," Levy contends. His latest piece in Haaretz is titled "Zionism Didn't Go Wrong, It Was Always Built This Way."

Both Bartov and Levy also respond to the Israeli government's threat to file a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times for publishing a column by longtime opinion writer Nicholas Kristof about systemic sexual a

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