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Find ResourcesPresident Donald Trump took to social media this weekend to amplify attacks against Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, resharing posts suggesting that she was disloyal for criticizing his immigrati
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In the headline for my July 6 story revisiting the major interim docket matters that kept the justices busy during last year’s summer recess, I posed a question about the months ahead. “This year,” I
So long, summer recess. Today’s “long conference” – the subject of this morning’s Closer Look – marks the unofficial start of the 2026-27 term. (The official start is the first day of oral arguments o
Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi revealed it is the subject of a wide-ranging state probe involving gender-affirming care and medication abortion; it is one of at least two Tennes
MCALLEN, Texas — Vanessa Ovalle has a “frontline view” of Texas schools as a single mom and a speech pathologist at a local school in McAllen, a city in the Rio Grande Valley bordering Mexico. Ovalle
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