Fulton County’s Move to Get Seized Ballots Back Fulton County, Georgia, just filed a motion to get all its 2020 election files back from the FBI, who seized them last week. A county spokesperson confirmed this move, which seems pretty

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Nuclear Treaty Expiration Looms The last remaining U.S.-Russian nuclear pact is set to expire, marking the end of a half-century of arms control. It’s a move that won’t exactly fill you with warm, fuzzy feelings about the future of global

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Don’t Count on the High Court to Save You It’s a bad day to be relying on the Supreme Court to bail you out of Trump’s hefty import taxes. The president already has a plan B to impose replacement tariffs

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Supreme Court Says No to GOP Appeal The Supreme Court won’t intervene in California’s new congressional maps, it’s a blow to the state’s Republican Party. They’d asked the justices to block the maps, which clearly favor Democrats, before the midterms.

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Naperville Council Puts Brakes on IMEA Contract Talks In a move that’s got everyone talking, the Naperville City Council voted 6-3 to hit pause on contract negotiations with Illinois Municipal Electric Agency (IMEA), the city’s longtime electricity provider. What’s the

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Grant Cuts Spark Outrage The White House has told the Department of Transportation (DOT) to cancel over $943 million in grants, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to cut at least $602 million. It’s a move that

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It’s Official: The Shutdown’s Done (For Now) The four-day partial government shutdown is history. Lawmakers passed a funding package, and Trump signed it – all in one whirlwind Tuesday. But don’t think the fight’s over. The policy spat that sparked

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Trump’s Troubling Tactics Donald Trump is doing exactly what you’d expect from an authoritarian leader – and it’s not going to end well. A professor of history at New York University claims Trump’s behavior is a classic case of ‘autocratic

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Trump’s Got a New Critic – and It’s a Big One Ken Griffin, a billionaire GOP donor, is calling out the Trump administration for allegedly using their power to line their own pockets. It’s not the first time Griffin’s criticized

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It’s Official: Trump and Petro Are Friends Again President Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro have finally put their differences aside after a year of trading insults. The two leaders had a ‘fantastic’ discussion on drug trafficking, Venezuela, and other

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