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Senate Democrats block GOP-led bill to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports

Republicans are trying to keep the national spotlight on the issue after Trump and some of the party’s down-ballot candidates ran on it in the 2024 election.

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Author: Frank Thorp V,Sahil Kapur

Negotiations to avert a shutdown sputter as disputes persist over DOGE cuts

Trump and congressional leaders have lost hope in a full government funding deal and pivoted toward a stopgap bill for the rest of the fiscal year. Even that is proving difficult.

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Author: Sahil Kapur,Scott Wong

As Senate weighs ban on transgender athletes, Trump pushes forward

The Senate plans to vote Monday on a bill banning transgender athletes from competing in female sports. The bill wasn’t expected to get the 60 votes needed

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Author: Laura Meckler

Democrats prepare Ukraine ambush against Trump nominees

“He has told me in a private meeting that he is supportive” of NATO.

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Author: Hans Nichols

In Speech to Congress, Trump Is Expected to Boast About DOGE Cuts and Ukraine

Tuesday night’s address will be a remarkable return to a chamber that President Trump last addressed five years ago, before voters ousted him from office.

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Author: Luke Broadwater,Michael D. Shear

Bill restricting transgender student athletes stalls in the Senate

Before President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting transgender athletes in February, the NCAA said fewer than 10 transgender students were competing in NCAA sports.

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Author: Bianca Quilantan

Democrats Block Bill to Bar Transgender Girls From Female Sports Teams

Republicans argued the bill was essential to protecting women and girls, but also made clear they were bringing it up to portray Democrats as outside the mainstream. It stalled in the Senate.

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Author: Annie Karni

Senate bid to prevent boys from playing girls’ sports gets stuck on filibuster

The Senate failed to advance a bill to codify a Trump executive order and prevent biological males from playing in girls sports.

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Author: Julia Johnson

Republican Ukraine hawks try to recoup after the Trump-Zelensky blowup

Senate Republicans remain optimistic that Trump and Zelensky can return to the table, Eric Garcia reports

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Author: Eric Garcia

Top GOP appropriators waffle on ‘full-year’ funding patch Trump endorsed

Democrats and Republicans are blaming each other for who and what have stymied government funding talks.

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Author: Mia McCarthy,Jennifer Scholtes,Nicholas Wu,Ben Leonard

Donald Trump says Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ‘should be more appreciative’

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Author: Sky News

Gainey and O’Connor argue over ‘MAGA assault’ in Pittsburgh mayoral race

The Democrats competing in Pittsburgh’s May 20 mayoral primary traded criticism over their donors on Monday, after Mayor Ed Gainey blasted Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor for reports tying O’Connor to Republican contributors.

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Author: Julia Maruca

Gainey says Trump supporters are trying to oust him in Primary

Mayor Ed Gainey says President Donald Trump’s supporters are trying to buy the election…by infusing money into the campaign of his Democratic primary rival, Corey O’Connor.

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Author: audacy

Not planning to watch Trump’s speech? These activists have a 24-hour alternative

As President Trump addresses Congress, organizers host a 24-hour livestream on what they call the negative impact of his polices.

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Author: Deborah Barfield Berry

Democratic boycott builds against Trump speech to Congress

Sen. Patty Murray will not attend Trump’s speech on Tuesday,

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Author: Stephen Neukam

Recession Fears Mixed, But Stand High Among Democrats and High-Income Households

This is just a tiny glimpse of the data available to CivicScience clients. Discover more data. As economic sentiment declines further and Americans fear higher inflation amid President Trump’s tariff talks, could a recession be on the horizon? The latest CivicScience data from 200K+ respondents over the past few years reveal that a plurality of consumers […] Read More… from Recession Fears Mixed, But Stand High Among Democrats and…

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Author: CivicScience

Time is running out for the Democrats

Legendary strategist James Carville’s advice on how the party should fight Trump is almost certainly deluded

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Author: Paul du Quenoy

SCOOP: Speaker Johnson reveals guest list for Trump’s big speech Tuesday

Speaker Mike Johnson shared his guest list for President Trump’s joint address to Congress exclusively with Fox News Digital.

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Author: Elizabeth Elkind

Republicans in Congress Turn Up Scrutiny of Fed as Inflation Persists

Congressional Republicans are ramping up scrutiny of the Federal Reserve, just as the central bank confronts stubborn inflation and broader questions about its role as a bank regulator.

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Author: Amara Omeokwe,Billy House

Trump and Vance Pulled an Old Hollywood Trick on Zelensky (Guest Column)

By letting his vice president instigate the Oval Office blow-up with the Ukrainian leader, Trump resorted to a timeworn industry technique a veteran screenwriter calls “The Stranger in the Room.”

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Author: Todd Alcott

Pittsburgh mayoral candidates trade barbs over campaign funding

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Author: CBS Pittsburgh

Top Republicans say they want Ukraine deal ‘back on track’

Johnson and Thune both express optimism a mineral-rights deal could be salvaged after Friday’s testy White House meeting.

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Author: Jordain Carney

Lt. Gov. Henderson says friend Mia Love was selfless through cancer battle as end draws near

Lt. Deidre Henderson is joining outpouring of support for Mia Love as she enters the last stages of her battle with cancer.

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Author: Brian Carlson

Cuomo Declares His Run for NY Mayor With a Message for Democrats

Attacking the Democratic Party’s leadership as he declared his candidacy to run the nation’s largest city, he clearly had a wider audience, and his own ambitions, in mind.

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Author: Lisa Lerer

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