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Politics / September 19, 2025 Those who had nothing to do with the violence against Charlie Kirk are being menaced—just like always. Ad Policy Columnist Karen Attiah, who was fired from The Washington Post for a tweet about Charlie Kirk’s murder.(Julia Reinhart / Getty Images) Charlie Kirk’s suspected murderer was a 22-year-old white guy from Utah, but in the week since he was shot, at least six Historically Black Colleges and Universities have been forced to cancel classes due to bomb threats made against their students and faculty. Columnist Karen Attiah got fired from The Washington Post. Representative Ilhan Omar…

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Washington — The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to enforce for now its policy ending the use of the “X” marker on passports and requiring the documents to reflect the passport-holder’s “biological sex at birth,” changes that affect transgender and nonbinary Americans.The high court’s emergency appeal seeks to lift a lower court order that prevented the State Department from enforcing the policy, which was put into place after President Trump returned to the White House in January. The court order allowed transgender or nonbinary people seeking passports to self-select the sex designation — “M,” “F”…

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Washington — The House on Friday passed a Republican measure to keep the government funded until Nov. 21, teeing up a fight in the Senate over the GOP plan to avoid a shutdown.The short-term funding bill passed the House in a 217 to 212 vote, with one Democrat voting in favor and two Republicans in opposition. Republican Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Victoria Spartz of Indiana voted against the bill, while Democratic Rep. Jared Golden of Maine supported it. The measure faces serious headwinds in the upper chamber, where 60 votes are required to advance a funding bill. With a…

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Megan Garcia lost her 14-year-old son, Sewell. Matthew Raine lost his son Adam, who was 16. Both testified in congress this week and have brought lawsuits against AI companies. Screenshot via Senate Judiciary Committee hide caption toggle caption Screenshot via Senate Judiciary Committee Matthew Raine and his wife, Maria, had no idea that their 16-year-old-son, Adam was deep in a suicidal crisis until he took his own life in April. Looking through his phone after his death, they stumbled upon extended conversations the teenager had had with ChatGPT. Those conversations revealed that their son had confided in the AI chatbot…

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Washington — President Trump announced on social media Wednesday that he’s designating antifa as a “major terrorist organization.” But what that action would mean for the movement remains unclear, given that antifa has no official leadership or organization structure, and the president lacks authority to designate domestic terrorist organizations, experts say.The president’s announcement comes as he and his supporters continue to denounce “radical left wing political violence” following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last week. After Kirk’s killing, Mr. Trump blamed rhetoric from the “radical left,” saying that it is “directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing…

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Politics / Column / September 17, 2025 A brief catalogue of the times Republicans have called for brutal repression makes clear that Trump, not the left, is tearing apart the country. Ad Policy President Donald Trump speaks to the press before signing an executive order that aims to end cashless bail, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 25, 2025. Also pictured, from left to right, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Administrator Drug Enforcement Administration Terry Cole, US Attorney General Pam Bondi, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of…

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Emily Thornberry speaks to reporters on the final day of the 2023 Labour Party conference. Ian Forsyth/Getty Images/Getty Images Europe hide caption toggle caption Ian Forsyth/Getty Images/Getty Images Europe Last month, President Trump called his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin “fantastic” following a high-stakes summit in Alaska. But the summit ended without a deal to end the war in Ukraine, and during a press conference in England today, Trump said of Putin, “he’s let me down, he’s really let me down.” The comment came as the president was fielding questions alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Starmer’s country…

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