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President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, he announced in a social media post. Trump said...
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Gov. Tina Kotek is tapping an Oregon schools advocate as her new education initiatives director, filling a key role as she prepares to release her closely-analyzed state budget for the next biennium....
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By the same token, their strong 2022 result also left Democrats too confident that former President Donald Trump had become unacceptable to voters. The decisive defeats of handpicked Trump candidates...
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A Massachusetts mother has told the nation she’s worried about her kids and their safety as two illegal immigrants who flocked to Massachusetts are in custody for alleged sex crimes against minors....
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President-elect Donald Trump has started selecting names for his Cabinet. Here's who has been nominated so far....
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For years, activists have argued that the Texas Department of Transportation is flouting environmental laws as it pushes for highway expansions in cities like Houston and Austin. That’s because the...
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President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Doug Burgum, a one-time rival for the Republican presidential nomination, to run the Interior Department, Trump said. Burgum, the governor of North...
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Matt Gaetz’s nomination as attorney general has brought attention on allegations that he had sex with a 17-year-old girl; the DOJ dropped an investigation into those claims last year....
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But as I take stock of my feelings, it’s the role that Latino men played that stings most. There are lessons to learn here, if so obvious it feels silly to name them. Hispanic, working-class men are...
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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy won’t seek to become the next leader of the national Democratic Party after reports listing him as a contender, NJ Advance Media has learned. Anonymous sources in multiple...
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