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In December 2022, early into what he now describes as his political journey, Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut gave a speech warning his fellow Democrats that they were ignoring a crisis staring them in the face. For over a year, President Biden and his allies had been promoting data showing an economic miracle, as friendly pundits described it — a record-setting stock market, low unemployment and G.D.P. growth outpacing that of almost every other Western nation. But very few voters believed the story those metrics were telling. In poll after poll, they expressed a bleak view of the economy —...

The self-proclaimed “greenest member” of Congress is a Republican from rural Kentucky. He lives in an off-the-grid home he built himself, using timbers cut and rock quarried from his family cattle farm. He pipes in water from a nearby pond, and powers the home with solar panels and a battery from a wrecked Tesla that he salvaged and retrofitted. But while he lives on, and even makes part of his living from, the land, very few people would call him an environmentalist. The car he drives back and forth from Washington has a license plate advertising his support for coal....

Marion County authorities said today that at least two men were arrested and more than 20 weapons confiscated after law enforcement received word of a plot to attack the Eustis Police Department with a rocket launcher. An informant reported that individuals planned to hit the police department with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher today, according to Marion County sheriff's Capt. James Pogue. The individuals were targeting the Eustis department because of recent "run-ins" with officers in the Lake County city, Pogue said. The informant also claimed that the rocket launcher and "missiles" were being kept in a safe at a Marion...