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GOP Sens. John Cornyn (Texas) and Thom Tillis (North Carolina) are blocking Todd Blanche's nomination to become attorney general.
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President Trump said Thursday he may temporarily withdraw his nomination of Todd Blanche for attorney general after two Republican senators, John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, said they would not vote to advance Blanche's nomination until they received written assurances that he would limit some of the terms in the controversial deal reached between the Department of Justice and President Trump to settle his personal lawsuit against the IRS.
Blanche, currently acting attorney general, is "refusing to make a clear commitment that American tax dollars aren't going to go to the rioters of January 6th," says Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna. "He's refusing to make a clear commitment that Trump's family could still be held liable for violating financial laws."
Khanna also speaks about his ongoing efforts to bring justice for survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse, about which he says Blanche "has been the biggest obstacle to justice," his recent trip to the occupied West Bank where he was detained by armed Israeli settlers and more.
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Tory mayor Lord Houchen wants to offer a rebate, but the prime minister says it should be reinvested in communities.
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Democrats are calling for an ethics investigation into Republican Congressmember Max Miller of Ohio, who is facing allegations of domestic abuse as he runs for reelection. Miller's ex-wife Emily Moreno, daughter of Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, claims that Miller burned her by throwing hot water at her, held a gun to her head and fractured their 2-year-old daughter's collarbone. Miller is also accused of abuse by former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, who was in a relationship with Miller prior to his marriage to Moreno.
Mother Jones obtained around 2,000 pages of court filings and police reports pertaining to Miller, which include allegations dating back to high school. "There is an established pattern of multiple women claiming that they were abused by Congressman Max Miller," says Abby Vesoulis, national politics reporter for Mother Jones.
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Track the latest polls in Florida's 22nd Congressional District.
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The new chancellor pledged to move money and power out of Westminster, and into every postcode around Britain.
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In standing in the way of Todd Blanche, President Trump's choice for attorney general, a liberated Senator John Cornyn is wielding his leverage.
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The bipartisan bill is a long way from becoming law, but it represents the strongest opposition yet from Congress to the administration's agenda.
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In a three-hour Senate hearing this week, Dr. Fauci invoked his constitutional right to stay silent, leaving people confused about many of the issues raised.
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In theory, the War Powers Act gives Congress the power to end a war. But our chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, describes how President Trump is the latest president to find ways to engage in war without congressional approval.
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The prime minister says the move will give power to "every postcode" but critics say the plans lack detail.
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Even after winning approval of a measure calling on President Trump to end the war, they continue to call votes to force Republicans to answer for it.
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A Times analysis of 16 years of available federal data shows federal agencies lag in processing requests for government records.
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There was no immediate comment from Hamas or Israel, though the Board of Peace said Hamas had agreed to a "road map" to give up its weapons.
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The rulings deepen a split across the judiciary, making it more likely that the Supreme Court will consider the legality of detaining undocumented immigrants indefinitely.
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The late senator's long-stalled Russia sanctions bill is on its way to becoming law.
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Declassified evidence points to Beijing seeking personal data for espionage, not election interference.
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A new bipartisan bill comes after years of complaints from the courts that the General Services Administration is a bad landlord.
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How the politics of raised a's and disappearing g's briefly came to dominate the Michigan Senate race.
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Dr. Anthony S. Fauci accused Senator Rand Paul of having an "unhinged obsession" with him during a Senate hearing on Wednesday on the origins of Covid-19.
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John Cornyn and Thom Tillis accused the nominee for attorney general of refusing to put on paper his promise to kill aspects of the deal he cut to settle President Trump's suit against the agency.
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Show trials are bad for democracy.
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A gathering of South Carolina's political elite paid tribute to the late senator's career against a backdrop of a highly competitive race to replace him.
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A bipartisan bill in the Senate would allow President Trump to impose tariffs on the biggest importers of Russian energy.
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Track the latest polls in Virginia's 2nd Congressional District.
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The president pressed the GOP to embrace his latest allegations, but many candidates kept their focus on issues they see as more salient to voters.
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A federal immigration agent shot and killed a man in a car on Monday morning in Biddeford, Maine. It was the second fatal encounter in a week involving an agent and a person in a vehicle.
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As part of the U.S.-backed "Board of Peace" 20-point plan to end Israel's military assault on Gaza, Hamas is dissolving its civilian governing body in the Gaza Strip. Hamas's head of administration, Mohammed al-Farra, resigned from his position on Monday. Hamas, which has controlled the territory for nearly two decades, has said that its ministries and staff will stay in place, and that it will still oversee security and policing in parts of Gaza left under its control.
The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, NCAG, was formed in January 2026 and is meant to take transitional control. "In practice," says Amjad Iraqi, senior Israel-Palestine analyst at the International Crisis Group, "Hamas is still the de facto governing authority on the Palestinian-populated side of Gaza. The NCAG, the Palestinian technocratic committee that's supposed to take over those governing duties, is still basically stuck in Cairo and not allowed to enter into Gaza to assume those duties."
Since the deal was signed in October, Israel has continued to uphold its blockade of Gaza, preventing people and aid from traveling through its heavily policed borders. It has also violated the deal's ceasefire provisions on a near-daily basis, killing nearly 1,100 Palestinians, including women, children and other unarmed civilians. "Very little of this, if any, is actually being called out either by [Board of Peace High Representative for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov] or by the U.S. officials, and what they're actually doing is allowing Israel to keep bending the terms of the ceasefire, if not openly violating it," says Iraqi.
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 Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersThis is the week Donald Trump's fitness for office finally became an issue.
It wasn't, as we all have been shocked to discover, the treason or the rape or the 34 felony counts or the impeachments that did it though. In fact, the moment Trump crossed the line from extremist maniac to extremist maniac who appears to need round-the-clock care, soft foods and an early bedtime, was not caused by any of his traditional acts of recklessness or mayhem.
Perversely, in fact, what ultimately did him in may turn out to have been the fact that most Americans didn't think he could get any worse as a dancer than he has been all his adult life…and then he did.
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