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Inflation hits 4.1 percent in May, highest level in 3 years

Annual inflation hit the highest level in more than three years last month as prices across the economy rose at an even quicker pace, according to data released Thursday by the Commerce Department. Prices rose 4.1 percent over the past year and 0.7 percent in May alone, as

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Trump: Senate war powers vote 'puts Iran on notice'

President Trump said late Wednesday that the Senate striking down another war powers resolution “puts Iran on notice” amid negotiations between the two nations for a long-term deal to end the conflict in the region. “Wow! The Senate just changed its vote on Iran from 50-48

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What’s next after Trump confronts Senate GOP?

In today's issue: ▪ GOP tensions on display ▪ Lobbying on trade deal ▪ Hantavirus response concludes ▪ Democrats downplay divisions The fate of a bipartisan housing bill and the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act are up in the air after President

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Putin's reign may not survive the impending fall of Crimea

Tuesday marked the third anniversary of Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prigozhin failed and paid with his life. But Russia as a whole, and Russian-occupied Crimea in particular, might have been better off had the man once known as "Putin’s

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Watch live: Washington talks UFOs at UAP Disclosure Forum

The Hill brings you special coverage of the ultimate gathering of "who's who" in the UFO world. Lawmakers, military and agency leaders will gather in Washington, D.C,. to discuss cutting-edge insights on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)-related policy, transparency,

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They Fought Their Abusers. They Were Imprisoned for It.

In 2019, I began a large-scale reporting project: I sent out surveys to 10,000 people incarcerated in the United States in women’s prisons on murder or manslaughter charges. I was trying to understand the scale of “criminalized survival,” as it’s been termed: wherein a

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The Supreme Court’s War on Congress

The Supreme Court decided two cases on Tuesday that, at least at first glance, have nothing to do with one another. One involves the People’s Republic of China, Silicon Valley, and the Judiciary Act of 1789. The other involves Louisiana prisons, Rastafarian spiritual beliefs,

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The Public Table

It was rumored to have been made from the tree Of the first spinning place. Some said the side Of a Spanish slaver spit from the sea. Others church bench, chunk of stage, courthouse wall. A widow swore her grandfather had helped Drag it from his swamped fields after a storm.

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The Prairieland Verdicts Are a National Emergency

It’s rare for a judge to acknowledge that they are handing down a prison sentence for political reasons. But that is precisely what Chief District Judge Reed O’Connor stated from the bench in a North Texas federal courtroom this week, during the sentencing of eight defendants

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Grave Error

You were always funnier than most, so I’m waiting for this joke to land. When I hear the phrase “grave error,” I think of you being lifted out of the ground & your mother loving you better. I think of your tombstone hitting your stepdad over the head. Grave error: the words

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Democratic Socialists Are Winning Over Black Voters

In the past, conventional wisdom would have us believe that any victory by the Democratic Socialists of America was due to their overwhelmingly white, young, transplant membership—bike lane users, co-op members, and Bernie 2020 voters. Meanwhile, DSA candidates struggled with

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August

In one corner above a field: a kid’s drawing of the sun. But with fat, round rays, like yellow petals, and a smiling lion’s face—cleft lip attached to a pink, upside-down triangle nose; black ovals for eyes. Something in me has awoken. A spark. A love. A sensation, by

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