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After weeks of infighting, last-minute rewrites, and a marathon vote-a-rama, Senate Republicans narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill on Tuesday, setting up a final showdown in the House. Vice President JD Vance cast the tiebreaking vote after three Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Rand Paul (R-KY), broke ranks to oppose the bill. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act delivers trillions in tax cuts while slashing funding for Medicaid, food assistance, and clean energy. It also includes a host of conservative priorities, ranging from abortion restrictions to expanded fossil fuel development. The final package...

Illegal immigration activists are already panicked that Donald Trump will keep one of his biggest campaign promises. Trump recently announced that Tom Homan will be his "border czar." Homan isn't a household name, but he's had a long career in government. Homan was the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump's first term. He was also ICE's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations under President Barack Obama. Trump wants him to put those skills to use. "Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin," Trump wrote...

On Election Night, with characteristic modesty, Donald Trump claimed an “unprecedented and powerful mandate.” He certainly won the contest legitimately, if more narrowly than many observers initially thought. His popular-vote margin over Kamala Harris has dropped from around 3 percent on the evening of November 5 (or about two-thirds of Joe Biden’s margin in 2020) to 1.62 percent today. That’s about a half-percent smaller than Hillary Clinton’s national popular-vote margin over Trump in 2016. To make some other comparisons: Barack Obama won the popular vote by 3.9 percent in 2012 and 7.2 percent in 2016, and George W. Bush won...

On the night he won a second term, President-elect Donald J. Trump rejoiced in the moment. “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” he boasted. In the two weeks since, his campaign has repeatedly heralded his “landslide,” even to market Trump merchandise like the “Official Trump Victory Glass.”But by traditional numeric measures, Mr. Trump’s victory was neither unprecedented nor a landslide. In fact, he prevailed with one of the smallest margins of victory in the popular vote since the 19th century and generated little of the coattails of a true landslide.The disconnect goes beyond predictable Trumpian braggadocio. The...

Hillary Clinton has become the latest Democrat to say Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance are "creepy" and "weird," with a now-viral post on X, formerly Twitter. Clinton wrote yesterday, "if Republican leaders don't enjoy being called weird, creepy, and controlling, they could try not being weird, creepy, and controlling." (snip) The post comes after Kamala Harris' campaign has taken "weird" as its new attack line against the Republican ticket. At a Massachusetts campaign fundraiser on Saturday night, the vice president said: "You may have noticed, Donald Trump has been resorting to some wild lies about...

Before the 1960s, it was really hard to get divorced in America. Typically, the only way to do it was to convince a judge that your spouse had committed some form of wrongdoing, like adultery, abandonment, or “cruelty” (that is, abuse). This could be difficult: “Even if you could prove you had been hit, that didn’t necessarily mean it rose to the level of cruelty that justified a divorce,” said Marcia Zug, a family law professor at the University of South Carolina. Then came a revolution: In 1969, then-Gov. Ronald Reagan of California (who was himself divorced) signed the nation’s...

Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that left-wing academic Cornel West seeking the Green Party’s presidential nomination was a “threat to the continued constitutional order in the United States.” Carville said, “He’s obviously an accomplished scholar, academic. He seemed to be a very charming man and he’s also a menace, a threat to the continued constitutional order in the United States. and I say that because look what Ralph Nader, who’s directly responsible for the election of George W. Bush which brought about the horrific Iraq war and the horrific economic downturn we had among...

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