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Pamela Beryl Harriman (née Digby; March 20 1920 – February 5 1997) was a British‑born socialite who rose to become one of the most powerful figures in American Democratic politics, serv...
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On the evening of 9 June 2026 a stabbing and attempted beheading in North Belfast sparked a wave of anti‑immigration protests that turned violent and left dozens of homes and vehicles on f...
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In a district that has leaned Republican for a decade, a farmer from Lisbon is turning the tide.Blake Gendebien, a second‑generation dairy farmer, has become the front‑running candidate ...
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When the June 9 primary ballots were tallied, Lindsey Graham’s name lit up the results column, earning 56.8 percent of the vote and securing the Republican nomination for a fifth Senate te...
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In late May, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly backed Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member Darializa Avila Chevalier for the Democratic primary in the city’s 13th Congre...
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On Wednesday, federal prosecutors filed indictments against eight University of Michigan affiliates for a coordinated campaign of threats, vandalism, and intimidation aimed at forcing the un...
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When a locomotive engineer in Boston’s suburbs is elected to his town’s executive board, the story feels less like a quirky career change and more like a glimpse of a new political pipel...
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At 9 a.m. Thursday, MPR News premiered a podcast episode that convenes scholars and peace‑building practitioners to dissect the surge of political violence in Minnesota after the assassina...
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On April 30, 2026, a $40,000 hole opened in the bank account of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP’s political action committee (PAC), only to be closed again a day later when Truist Bank re...
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XRP, the native token of Ripple’s blockchain network, has become the subject of a new wave of analyst speculation. While the market currently sits just over a dollar, some experts are fore...
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Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat in Texas, has shifted the focus of the 2026 campaign to an attack on the masculinity of his Democratic opponent, state representat...
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On Tuesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a 25‑page opinion that upends the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) longstanding guidance on disparate‑impact liabil...
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In a headline‑making June 2 top‑two primary, California’s nonpartisan system left voters with a clear contest between former UK adviser Steve Hilton and seasoned Democrat Xavier Becerr...
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Imagine a Middle East where Saudi Arabia and Israel exchange billions in goods, tech, and capital. A new strategic research report from The Olam, released on June 10 2026, uses artificial‑...
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Just a week before the world’s most watched sporting event, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico issued a stark warning to American fans planning to attend soccer matches during the 2026 FIFA World ...
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In Paris on June 4, 2026, the world lost a powerful storyteller. Marjane Satrapi, the French‑Iranian comic‑book author whose debut graphic novel Persepolis captured the turbulence of Ira...
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At the 10 June 2026 Festival of Fresh in Cambridgeshire, a panel on production and politics convened to tackle the looming hurdles that threaten the UK horticulture sector.Martin Emmett, cha...
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In a crowded field that tested loyalties and messaging, South Carolina’s Republican governor primary on June 9 saw Representative Nancy Mace finish fifth, a result that leaves her politica...
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On June 10, 2026, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology convened in Washington, D.C., to confront Energy Secretary Christopher Wright over a wave of clean‑energy project ca...
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The U.S. Department of Defense held only eight press briefings during the nearly six‑week joint U.S.–Israeli bombing campaign in Iran, a dramatic reduction from the 40 briefings that too...
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On Wednesday, June 10, 2026, Israeli aircraft launched a series of precision strikes along the southern Lebanese coast, killing at least 12 civilians and prompting a sharp international resp...
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The 2026 FIFA World Cup, slated to run from June 11 to July 19, will be staged in 16 cities across Canada, Mexico and the United States. In Canada, Toronto and Vancouver are slated to host a...
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Washington, D.C., June 9, 2026 – The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed a reply brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of Powell, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Com...
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Gov. JB Pritzker said on Tuesday that he has been working to keep the Chicago Bears in Illinois, even as the team’s board of directors advanced a plan to build a new stadium in Hammond, In...
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