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Senate ‘vote-a-rama’ on GOP agenda bill
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. UP NEXT ‘He’s playing a bit of chess’: Pablo Torre on Mamdani’s response to ‘globalize the intifada’ question 06:22 ‘This bill could change substantially’: Senate holds marathon vote on GOP agenda bill 10:17 Justin Theroux on how a phone call…
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Trump’s DOJ issues memo on plan to strip citizenship from some naturalized Americans
As the White House press secretary openly floats the idea of investigating New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani to possibly strip him of his citizenship, after a bigoted proposal from Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., the administration appears to be revving up its denaturalization plans. NPR reported Monday on a Justice Department memo from June…
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Could class-action lawsuits save birthright citizenship?
“Please explain why it appears that Justice Barrett’s opinion permits plaintiffs to resubmit their cases as a class action that would protect birthright citizenship nationwide.” — Emily Hi Emily, Yes — the court’s opinion in the birthright citizenship case, which curbed the use of nationwide injunctions, left open the possibility of using class actions. In…
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Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ faces fierce backlash from religious leaders
Donald Trump and the Republican Party are facing furious backlash from faith leaders and parishioners concerned about the devastating impact that their sought-after budget cuts are projected to have on many Americans. Trump, who has attempted to portray himself as anointed by God, is pushing for a highly unpopular bill that includes steep cuts to…
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Trump admin revokes visas for punk duo that chanted ‘death to IDF’ at Glastonbury Festival
English rap-punk duo Bob Vylan’s U.S. tour appears to be over before it even started. On Monday, the Trump administration announced it had revoked visas for the group’s members, following a controversial performance at the Glastonbury Festival in England over the weekend. In a statement posted to X, State Department Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau said…
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GOP’s Thom Tillis slams his party’s megabill after Trump forces him into retirement
Donald Trump has a sizable list of congressional Republicans whom he does not like. At the top of the list, of course, is Rep. Thomas Massie, followed closely by his fellow Kentuckian, Sen. Rand Paul. But after Sen. Thom Tillis said he had no choice but to oppose his party’s megabill because of the damage…
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Several Cabinet secretaries sermonize at right-wing religious conference
Several top Trump administration officials and allies of the president attended a conference for Christian nationalists and other far-right evangelicals last week, raising serious doubts about how long the wall separating church and state can hold. Evidence abounds that Christian nationalism — specifically, the idea, advocated by some right-wing evangelicals, that the United States government…
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Melissa Hortman deserved more from President Trump
This weekend, over a thousand mourners attended the funeral of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, who were killed in an attack that Minnesota’s chief federal prosecutor has called an assassination. Former President Joe Biden attended. Former Vice President Kamala Harris was there, too. But the current president of the United States…
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RFK Jr. said he wouldn’t ‘take away’ vaccines. But his actions speak louder than words.
June 30, 2025, 4:04 PM EDT By Ali Velshi This is an adapted excerpt from the June 29 episode of “Velshi.” Every summer, a little-known but critically important panel of public health experts, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, meets to fine-tune vaccine guidelines. Typically, those recommendations go straight to the director of…
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Mahmoud Khalil calls out the ‘cruelty’ of detaining him during son’s birth
On Saturday, Mahmoud Khalil and his wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, sat down with the hosts of “The Weekend: Primetime” for their first joint television interview following the Palestinian activist’s release from immigration detention earlier this month. Abdalla was eight months pregnant with the couple’s first child when her husband was taken into custody in early…