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In this moment of crisis, we need a unified, progressive opposition to Donald Trump.  We’re starting to see one take shape in the streets and at ballot boxes across the country: from New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign focused on affordability, to communities protecting their neighbors from ICE, to the senators opposing arms shipments to Israel.  The Democratic Party has an urgent choice to make: Will it embrace a politics that is principled and popular, or will it continue to insist on losing elections with the out-of-touch elites and consultants that got us here?  At The Nation, we…

Federal authorities say they’ve returned a lost page from a 500-year-old manuscript to Mexico, decades after portions of it went missing. Dating back to the 16th century, the document describes an early payment structure established by the Spanish military commander who conquered parts of modern-day Latin America, according to the FBI.”This is an original manuscript page that was actually signed by Hernán Cortés on February 20, 1527,” said FBI special agent Jessica Dittmer, a member of the bureau’s art crime team, in a statement. The page “outlines the payment of pesos of common gold for expenses in preparation for discovery…

Washington — A divided panel of appeals court judges ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration can suspend or terminate billions of dollars of congressionally appropriated funding for foreign aid.Two of three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that grant recipients challenging the freeze did not meet the requirements for a preliminary injunction that restored the flow of money.In January, on the first day of his second term in the White House, President Trump issued an executive order directing the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to freeze spending on…

Texas state Senator Carol Alvarado, a Democrat, speaks in a crowd of other Democratic state lawmakers outside the Massachusetts State House on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025 in Boston. Leah Willingham/AP hide caption toggle caption Leah Willingham/AP President Trump sparked a national sprint to redistrict when he asked Texas Republicans to draw five more congressional seats for the GOP in their state ahead of next year’s elections. In response, Democratic and Republican leaders in at least seven other states have said they’re open to moving their political lines in the fight over the U.S. House, but that means very different things…

California Democrats are preparing to counter Republicans’ attempt to reshape a series of Texas congressional districts for political advantage in a back and forth that could define next year’s midterm elections and with it, the final two years of President Trump’s second term. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office has announced plans for a major state announcement Thursday as national tensions rage over changing congressional lines mid-decade. Districts are usually redrawn after the decennial census. Newsom has vowed his state would respond after Texas Republicans released plans earlier this summer to redraw five seats held by Democrats and make them more favorable…

Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in theshow: Donald Trump is demanding that UCLA pay a one billioin dollar fine as a penalty forantisemitism on campus–that’s on top of the $584 million in cuts for research grantsthat his administration has imposed. But one Billion? Why not one Trillon? David Myers willcomment. But first: the Danes resisted fascism. We can too. Sarah Sophie Flicker will explain –in a minute.[BREAK]Everybody who knows about resistance to Hitler knows about Denmark. The Danes rescuedmore of their Jews than any other country, 99%. And Jews here…

What’s next after Trump deployed National Guard troops to D.C. – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump is increasing the number of National Guard troops on patrol in the nation’s capital and said he would seek to extend his takeover of the D.C. police for more than the allowed month. Scott MacFarlane has the latest. Source link

The trial over President Trump’s deployment of thousands of National Guard troops to Los Angeles earlier this summer reached its third and final day Wednesday, as lawyers for the Justice Department and the state of California argued over the validity of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit and whether the Posse Comitatus Act — which generally bars the military from engaging in domestic law enforcement – applied to the troop deployment.Mr. Trump in June deployed 4,000 California National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles, saying they were needed to protect federal property and law enforcement agents amid June protests against…

A man wearing a “Latinos for America” T-shirt attends a campaign event for Republican congressional candidates at University Drafthouse in McAllen, Texas, in 2022. Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images Support for President Trump and his party is starting to wane among Latino voters. According to Equis Research, a Latino polling organization, about a third of Latinos who supported Trump last year “are not set on voting for a Republican” during next year’s midterms. Caitlin Jury, a research director at Equis Research, told NPR that economic issues such as persistently high prices…

Washington — President Trump said Wednesday that the White House will seek “long-term extensions” from Congress to maintain control of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department, part of the president’s push to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital. “I think the Republicans in Congress will approve this pretty much unanimously,” Mr. Trump said.Mr. Trump announced the deployment of members of the National Guard to D.C. on Monday and said the federal government would also take control of the D.C. police. In an executive order Monday, the president directed the D.C. mayor to provide the services of the Metropolitan Police Department for…