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With Cornyn in the Room, Senate Gun Talks Focus on Narrow Changes
WASHINGTON — Facing a national crisis with a devastating human toll and entrenched partisan divisions, a small group of Senate Republicans and ...
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How Trump Helped Transform Nebraska Into a Toxic Political Hellhole
LINCOLN, Neb. — In the old days, Charles W. Herbster, a cattle baron and bull semen tycoon who used his fortune and influence to get into Donald ...
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As Feinstein Declines, Democrats Struggle to Manage an Open Secret
WASHINGTON — She was once pressed to run for governor of California by President Bill Clinton. She was considered as a running mate to former ...
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Jackson Confirmed as First Black Woman to Sit on Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman to be elevated ...
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A Judge Is Hardly Asked About Judging
WASHINGTON — One senator asked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s Supreme Court pick, how religious she was “on a scale of 1 to 10 ...
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A Groggy Senate Approves Making Daylight Saving Time Permanent
WASHINGTON — After losing an hour of sleep over the weekend, members of the United States Senate returned to the Capitol this week a bit groggy ...
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Republicans Sense an Opportunity in Nevada’s Restless Latino Voters
When Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and her allies unveiled their first paid ads of the 2022 election cycle, the Nevada Democrat’s intended ...
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World
Once a Foreign Policy Partner, Congress Struggles for Unity on Ukraine
WASHINGTON — Since the 1950s, when Senator Arthur Vandenberg declared that “politics stops at the water’s edge,” titans in Congress have been key ...
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Business
Fed nominees commit to not taking part in finance’s revolving door.
Three of President Biden’s nominees to the Federal Reserve committed to lawmakers that, if confirmed to their posts, they would not work in ...
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Politics
Overhaul of Electoral Count Act ‘Absolutely’ Will Pass, Manchin Says
WASHINGTON — Two senators working on an overhaul of the little-known law that former President Donald J. Trump and his allies tried to use to ...
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