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For Once, the Supreme Court May Not Give Republicans What They Want
- The Supreme Court appeared uncertain about whether it would strike down a major campaign-finance restriction during oral arguments on Tuesday, with some of the court's conservative members questioning a right-wing push to do so. The case, National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission , revolves around a legal challenge to Congress's ban on "coordinated party expenditures." Federal election ...

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Exclusive-US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
- WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not. If the court does not act on this U.S. demand and two ​others - dropping investigations of ...

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2 Democrats, 2 strategies: Texas Senate race shows party split on Trump-focus in midterm elections
- – A Dallas congresswoman opened her Senate campaign by telling voters that she "has gone toe to toe with Donald Trump." Her Democratic primary opponent insisted that Americans are tired of "politics as a blood sport." The divergent approach highlights how U.S. Rep. and state Rep. are navigating a race where Democrats hope to break a three-decade losing streak in Texas. It also reflects a broader divide within ...

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Who is Eileen Higgins, the first Democratric mayor of Miami in 30 years?
- Miami voters on Tuesday elected Democrat Eileen Higgins as mayor, ending a nearly three-decade dry spell for her party after she defeated a Republican endorsed by Donald Trump in the predominantly Hispanic city. While the election was officially nonpartisan, the race took on national significance, pitting Higgins against Republican Emilio Gonzalez, a former Miami city manager, in a contest closely watched by both ...

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A divided Fed is expected to cut rates for a 3rd straight time
- The Federal Reserve is again expected to lower its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point Wednesday, in an effort to support a weakening job market. But stubborn inflation and delayed economic data could complicate the Fed's decision, leading to more-than-usual disagreement within the rate-setting committee. A rate cut could make it slightly cheaper to borrow money to buy a car, expand a business or ...

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Women at the top are exhausted and burned out, according to a McKinsey and Lean In report
- Women are hitting the top of the corporate ladder only to find something waiting for them: exhaustion. According to a report published Tuesday by McKinsey and LeanIn.org, a nonprofit founded by Sheryl Sandberg, burnout among senior-level women is the highest it has been in the past five years. Around 60% of these women said they have frequently felt burned out at work in the past few months, compared with 50% of ...

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Marco Rubio orders US State Department to revert to Times New Roman font, calling Calibri adoption 'wasteful'
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats to revert to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move, according to a leaked internal cable. The department switched to Calibri, a modern sans-serif font, in January 2023, saying it was a more accessible font for people with disabilities because it did ...

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The Trump Administration Actually Backed Down
- Politics The Trump Administration Actually Backed Down Alina Habba's resignation is a sign that some checks are still checking. John Taggert / Redux December 9, 2025, 12:39 PM ET Save Listen − 1.0x + 0:00 7:29 Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Yesterday, Alina Habba turned—where else?—to X, the Trump administration's second-favorite social-media app, to announce her resignation from a job she ...

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Education Dept. officially kills Biden-era student loan repayment plan
- WASHINGTON – It's official: Former President Joe Biden 's is over. And the clock is ticking for millions of borrowers to enroll in another program. On Dec. 9, the federal Education Department a proposed legal agreement meant to kill the program known as the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan. The agency said it settled with several red states who in March 2024. If approved by the courts, the ...

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Supreme Court weighs Republican appeal to end limits on party spending in federal elections
- is considering a Republican-led drive, backed by President Donald Trump's administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president. they would overturn a 90-year-old decision limiting the president's power to fire independent agency heads, the court on Tuesday is revisiting a 2001 decision that ...

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New York judge orders release of grand jury records in Ghislaine Maxwell investigation
- A federal judge in New York on Tuesday granted a Justice Department request to release grand jury material related to Ghislaine Maxwell's case. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer said in his ruling that he has taken great care to "put in place a mechanism to protect victims from the inadvertent release of materials within the discovery in this case that would identify them or otherwise invade their privacy." ...

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Florida designates Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR as foreign terrorist groups
- Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Florida has designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations, becoming the second GOP-led state in as many months to move against the Islamic groups. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a Monday statement that the designations were "EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY." "Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent ...

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Federal judge strikes down Trump executive order blocking wind energy projects
- 17 states and DC successfully challenged the order as 'arbitrary and capricious' A federal judge on Monday struck down an order by President Donald Trump that blocked the development of wind energy projects. Trump issued the order, known as the "Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government's Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind ...

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Paramount fights Netflix for Warner as Trump hovers
- Paramount Skydance Monday launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, seeking to undo Netflix's purchase of Warner's studio and streaming businesses. Paramount said its $77.9 billion all-cash bid for the whole company, including CNN, offered better value to shareholders than the $72 billion purchase price agreed to by Netflix and Warner on Friday. It was Paramount chief David Ellison's sixth bid for the ...

Source: theweek.com
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Job Openings Jump by 443,000 in 2 Months: Labor Market Retightens, Fed Faces Scenario of Solid Job Market and Accelerating Inflation
- Due to the government shutdown, there is no good figure for job openings in September, and the September release was canceled, but "partial data that businesses self-reported electronically" were included in today's October release, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The October data were collected as normal in November. So month-to-month comparisons for October lack a solid base (September data is only ...

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Instacart Reportedly Using Secret AI-Powered Dynamic Pricing to Jack Up Prices
- A new investigation has revealed that grocery delivery service Instacart is using a covert, AI-powered dynamic pricing scheme to charge customers different prices for the same items — potentially costing households over $1,000 more a year. Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union collaborated on an experiment with 437 shoppers across four U.S. locations, representing several ...

Source: truthout.org
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Jasmine Crockett enters Democratic primary for U.S. Senate
- , which includes using our canonical URL and pixel tracker on your story pages whenever possible. . Both Allred, the 2024 Democratic nominee, and Talarico had been running for months, with Allred launching his campaign in July, followed by Talarico in September. The primary is March 3. More than 200 people, including some Dallas-area elected officials and candidates, sat or stood in a roomy gymnasium situated in ...

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