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After decades of covert operations, the CIA director has given the Cubans an overt ultimatum for change on the island.

Midwest mid-crisis

Activists are building a political home for the Michigan Senate candidate’s anti-corruption, anti-war populist message. Following Sen. Gary Peters’s announced retirement, Michigan’s open seat has become the most hotly contested race in the country.

Any re-election campaign in 2028 is doomed. Will he spend the remainder of his term completing the betrayal of his own constituents? Is Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) going to switch parties? That’s the scuttlebutt in Washington, D.C.

The 60-day deadline expires on Friday. The War Powers Resolution of 1973, a law mandating that a president must withdraw from a conflict 60 days after notifying Congress that American forces are fighting.

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Party leaders have been doing everything in their power to avoid confronting the US-Israeli war in any meaningful way. Trump’s war is deeply unpopular. He is losing it badly. Its continuation would be a catastrophe. Democrats must go all in.

The assault on cherished social insurance programs is a gift to Democrats, but only if they are clear about how to defend them. Taxing the rich to save social insurance has the further virtue of splitting Republicans, who are divided....

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Republicans don't need to gut the social safety net again in order to pass Trump's latest series of priorities. But that's not what they'll tell you. GOP will attempt to push SAVE America Act and war funding into new Reconciliation Bill.