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The tentative deal raising the debt ceiling that President Joe Biden and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) agreed to over the weekend hasn’t won over far-right Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who complained Tuesday that it’s “milquetoast”–an apparent nod to former President Donald Trump’s criticism earlier that night of Fox…

Twitter is a much less fun place than it was a couple of months ago, as it’s now mostly infighting between Team Trump and Team DeSantis. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be the battleground: President Donald Trump stood with Anthony Fauci and shut the country down, but…

Donald Trump announced Tuesday that if he is elected president, he will end birthright citizenship as part of an attempt to stop undocumented immigration to the United States. Undoing the Fourteenth Amendment would be a lengthy and complicated process, which the former president does not seem to understand. “As part…

Former U.S. Congresswoman Liz Cheney implored new college graduates to not compromise when it comes to the truth, excoriating her House Republican colleagues for not doing enough to combat former President Donald Trump's lies that the 2020 election was stolen. In a commencement speech at Colorado College, the Wyoming Republican…

Updated May 28, 2023 at 6:38 PM Published May 28, 2023 at 5:36 PM DETROIT - The United States is taking an analytical approach to its review of whether to keep tariffs on Chinese goods in place and will not base outcomes on any “breakthrough” in US-China trade relations, deputy…

Texas’ Republican-led House of Representatives launched historic impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday as Donald Trump defended the scandal-plagued GOP official from a vote that could lead to his ouster. The House convened in the afternoon to debate whether to impeach and suspend Paxton from office over…

Politics Why Are We Doing This Again? The proliferation of long-shot Republican presidential hopefuls has only one upside: Donald Trump will get to do his thing. (Photo by EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images) There you have it folks: After years of tireless effort, months of speculation, countless closed-door meetings…

Boris Johnson has held discussions with Donald Trump about Ukraine during his tour of the US, in an apparent attempt to make the Ukrainian case to the sceptical former US president. Johnson met Trump “to discuss the situation in Ukraine and the vital importance of Ukrainian victory”, his spokesperson said.…

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. No sooner was a decision announced that Donald Trump was liable for defamation against E. Jean Carroll than the former President re-defamed her live on…

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right group the Oath Keepers, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. It is the longest sentence handed down so far to any participant in the January 6 riot,…