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The Trump administration unveiled sweeping new guidance Monday aimed at strengthening religious freedom protections for federal employees, marking one of the most significant moves in decades to support religious expression within the civil service. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent a government-wide memo titled “Protecting Religious Expression in the Federal Workplace” to all federal

Some California House Democrats are less than enthused by former vice president Kamala Harris’s widely speculated potential bid for governor, with one claiming her “baggage” would only excite the Golden State’s Republicans during the 2026 midterms.  Harris, who is reportedly deciding between a race for California’s governor’s mansion in 2026 and another presidential bid in

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National Republican groups launched a $200,000 advertisement campaign on Monday, branding former two-term Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper as “Radical Roy,” as he officially declared his candidacy for the state’s key 2026 Senate race. The Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, launched a website describing Cooper’s gubernatorial

A Massachusetts district judge blocked the Trump administration on Monday from effectively defunding Planned Parenthood for a year. Judge Indira Talwani ruled that the withholding of Medicaid funds possibly violated the First Amendment’s right of association, according to court documents. The case stems from a provision in Trump’s tax bill that eliminates Medicaid reimbursements to

Vice President J.D. Vance tore into the corporate media on Monday for “not giving a damn” about the case surrounding sex offender Jeffrey Epstein until President Donald Trump took office. Vance said during a speech in Canton, Ohio, that the media completely turned a blind eye to the Epstein case for nearly two decades and

July 28, 2025 10:55 AM ET A handful of protesters have taken up a recurring post outside the Wells Police Department, denouncing the small Maine town’s lone-wolf partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The demonstrators line U.S. Route 1 with signs aimed at passing traffic, staging regular protests against what they call a betrayal

July 28, 2025 10:44 AM ET President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that he is allowed to give Ghislaine Maxwell pardon, but no one has approached him about doing so. Ghislaine Maxwell sat for interviews with Trump’s Department of Justice last week answering questions about nearly 100 people allegedly connected to Jeffrey Epstein, according

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview with NPR on Monday that the Democratic Party needs to move on from its “failing” status quo. Buttigieg said in an interview with NPR’s “Morning Edition” that he thinks Democrats have been “too attached to a status quo that has been failing us for a long

Republican Georgia Rep. Mike Collins announced his long-expected entrance into Georgia’s contested Republican Senate primary Monday morning. Collins, a two-term lawmaker who has cultivated a reputation as a legislative workhorse, is running to unseat incumbent Democratic Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff during the midterms. Collins is likely to tout his ties to the MAGA movement and