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As Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed vie for the Democratic nomination, voters are debating which way the party should go: establishment or insurgent; progressive or more moderate; new media or old.
The president's media company is offering investors early access to his Truth Social feed for up to $100,000 a month. Experts say the service may violate insider trading laws.
The death toll in Spain's Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.
All 435 House seats, roughly a third of the Senate, and dozens of governorships. A plain-English guide to the stakes.
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Margin of error, likely voters, and house effects — the fine print that separates signal from noise.
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The counties that decide the map — every trend grounded in the real 2016, 2020, and 2024 returns.
Seven counties from five states decided 2024 by a combined handful of points, and their zigzagging eight-year trend lines are the clearest map yet of what each party must do to win the next one.
Cobb, Gwinnett, Henry, Douglas and Rockdale kept trending Democratic even as much of the country swung back to Trump in 2024 — and a widening ring of still-red exurbs shows the shift has not obviously hit its ceiling.
Since 2016, blue-collar counties across Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have drifted toward the GOP even as white-collar suburbs in the same states drift toward Democrats, splitting the old blue wall along class lines rather than breaking it outright.
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Hot take: the loudest voices in politics are paid to be certain, and certainty is exactly the wrong posture.
The Goat
The persuadable middle keeps shrinking. The ground war for who shows up is where campaigns are really won.
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