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Live results: Illinois midterm primaries

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: congress,Dick Durbin,illinois,JB Pritzker,live results,midterms,Vote 2026 ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois voters are deciding Tuesday's primaries for six open seats in the U.S. House and Senate, which will spur a new generation of leadership in the state's heavily Democratic congressional delegation. Read more: What to expect in the Illinois primary The retirement of longtime Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin has sparked a competitive campaign, attracting two House candidates and a lieutenant governor, among others. The race has been marked by intense campaigning and furious fundraising,…

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The group plans to pay $50 million to make child care a major issue in the midterm elections

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💥 Explore this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: child care,midterms,Vote 2026 ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — An advocacy group hopes to expand support for child and elder care plans to spend $50 million to support Democrats in congressional races, tying the costs of caregiving to the nation's affordability debate. The Campaign for a Family-Friendly Economy, created a decade ago, aims to make caregiver issues more prominent in elections. The announcement comes as the cost of child care continues to rise and as waiting lists continue to grow for federal child care subsidies, which…

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Watch: Johnson refutes outgoing counter-terrorism chief’s claim that Iran poses no imminent threat

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💥 Read this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Counterterrorism,Donald Trump news,Iran,iran attacks,joe kent,Mike Johnson 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson disagreed with Joe Kent, the top US counterterrorism official, who resigned on Tuesday, and said Iran poses no imminent threat to the United States. Watch the clip in the video player above. Johnson, who was asked about Kent's resignation at a news conference on Tuesday morning, said: "I received all the briefings. We all understood that there was clearly an imminent threat that Iran was very close to nuclear enrichment capability and…

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Trump says NATO has refused to have him join most allies in the mission to secure the vital Strait of Hormuz

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,Strait of Hormuz ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: US President Donald Trump said his appeal to NATO and other allies to help secure the Strait of Hormuz was widely rejected. Trump, who has been pressing allies to help protect the vital waterway, fumed on Tuesday that the United States was not getting support “despite the fact that almost every country has strongly agreed to what we are doing, and that it cannot” be allowed to get a nuclear weapon. He watches: Trump "strongly" encourages other…

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WATCH LIVE: Postmaster General Steiner testifies at House hearing on USPS’s financial future

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: congress,David Steiner,U.S. Postal Service 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The U.S. Postal Service will run out of cash within a year unless Congress lifts a decades-old cap and allows the agency to borrow more money, the new postmaster general warned in an interview this month. The session is scheduled to begin at 2 pm EST. Watch the live stream in our video player above. If that doesn't happen, the Postal Service may not be able to pay its employees or vendors by February 2027, with potentially dire consequences…

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Watch the live broadcast: The Senate begins consideration of the Save America Act

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✨ Discover this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,SAVE America Act,senate,Vote 2026 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation requiring proof of U.S. citizenship for new voters has become a rallying cry for President Donald Trump, who claims passage of the bill will “guarantee the midterm elections” for his Republican party in November. The bill, which the Senate will take up on Tuesday, would require voters to provide proof of citizenship when registering and provide certified identification when going to the polls, among other new rules pushed by Trump and his most…

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Trump says he has called on countries to help “protect their territory” and monitor Iran’s Strait of Hormuz

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🔥 Discover this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,iran attacks,Strait of Hormuz 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: CAIRO (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday he has asked about seven countries to send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, but his pleas made no commitments as oil prices soared during the Iran war. The president refused to name the countries that rely heavily on Middle Eastern crude and with which the administration is negotiating to join an alliance to guard the waterway through which about a fifth of the world's traded oil…

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Tamara Keith and Amy Walter talk about the impact of Trump’s SAVES Act campaign

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💥 Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Politics Monday 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Amna Nawaz: The midterm primaries are underway as President Trump pushes for a comprehensive voting bill.To analyze this and the policy of war with Iran, we now turn to the political duo of the two. This is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with NPR's Amy Walter and Tamara Keith.Good to see you both. Tamara Keith, NPR: Welcome. Amy Walter, Cook Political Report: It's great to be here. Amna Nawaz: Well, let's start with the Save America Act, the American…

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Anti-Islam rhetoric by Republican Party politicians raises concerns about religious hatred

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Andy Ogles,islamophobia,Muslim Americans,Race Matters,racism,Randy Fine,Tommy Tuberville 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Jeff Bennett: More than two weeks into the war with Iran, Muslim Americans are facing a new wave of hate speech here at home, amplified online and echoed by Republican lawmakers.Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles posted that Muslims do not belong in American society.Florida Congressman Randy Fine wrote: “We need more Islamophobia, not less. Fear of Islam is rational.”Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville paired 9/11 images with New York City Mayor Zahran Mamdani, saying - quote - "the enemy…

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Supreme Court hears case pushing to end legal protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: immigration,migrants,Supreme Court 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments on the Trump administration's push to end legal protections for people fleeing war and natural disasters from countries around the world, including Haiti and Syria. However, the court refused to immediately lift protections for hundreds of thousands of people on Monday, allowing them to live and work in the United States legally amid the administration's broader crackdown on immigration. He watches: Haitians in Ohio City live in fear and uncertainty amid a…

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