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Democrat Christian Menefee wins election to the US House of Representatives in Texas, narrowing the GOP’s slim majority

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💥 Check out this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Christian Menefee,House of Representatives,texas ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Democrat Christian Menefee won a US House of Representatives seat from Texas in a special election on Saturday that will narrow the already thin Republican majority, telling President Donald Trump that the Democratic district was "throwing out corrupt presidencies." Read more: Texas Democrat Taylor Rahmat flips the Republican Senate seat that Trump won by 17 points Menefee, the Harris County district attorney, won a runoff against Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member. He will replace the…

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WATCH LIVE: House Rules Committee considers Senate funding plan during partial shutdown

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: congress,Government Shutdown,house rules committee,senate ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: House Speaker Mike Johnson faces a tough few days before he tries to push a federal funding package through and prevent a long, partial government shutdown as debate intensifies over the Trump administration's sweeping immigration enforcement operations. The House Rules Committee meets at 4 p.m. EST. Watch the live stream in our video player above. Johnson indicated that he is counting on President Donald Trump's help to ensure its passage. Trump struck a deal with senators to separate…

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British politician Peter Mandelson is facing pressure to withdraw from the House of Lords following the publication of the latest Epstein files

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: britain,epstein files,jeffrey epstein,peter mandelson,united kingdom 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: LONDON (AP) — A year ago, Peter Mandelson was Britain's ambassador to Washington, the latest high-profile post in a difficult but momentous political career. A friendship with Jeffrey Epstein cost him that job. Now, after new revelations, Mandelson - like other powerful men including King Charles III's brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor - faces demands to come clean about his relationship with the late sex offender. Read more: A list of powerful men named in the Epstein files, from Elon…

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Texas Democrat Taylor Rahmat flips the Republican Senate seat that Trump won by 17 points

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✨ Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: special election,state senate,texas,Vote 2026 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Democrat Taylor Rahmat flipped a reliable Texas Senate district in Saturday's special election, continuing a string of surprise victories for Democrats across the United States in the year since Donald Trump returned to the White House. The Republican president immediately distanced himself from the loss in a district he won by 17 points in 2024. "I'm not involved in that. It's a local race in Texas," Trump told reporters on Sunday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. However,…

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Trevor Noah draws Trump’s ire after Grammys jokes about President Nicki Minaj

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✨ Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: 2026 grammy awards,Donald Trump news,Nicki Minaj,Trevor Noah ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: LOS ANGELES (AP) — Trevor Noah once again wandered into the audience during his monologue to open the Grammy Awards, teasing the stars while standing right next to them, but saving his most obvious jokes for those absent, and sparking an angry post from the president. Read more: Bad Bunny wins Album of the Year at the 2026 Grammy Awards, making history for a Spanish-language album “Nicki Minaj is not here,” Noah said to huge cheers…

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Watch the live broadcast: The House of Representatives meets during the partial government shutdown

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✨ Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: congress,Government Shutdown,Mike Johnson ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday it will take a few days before a government funding package is put up for a vote, ensuring a partial federal shutdown continues throughout the week as Democrats and Republicans discuss reining in the Trump administration's sweeping immigration enforcement operations. The House of Representatives is scheduled to meet at 9 a.m. EST. Watch the live stream in our video player above. Johnson indicated that he is counting on President Donald Trump's…

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What do economists think about Trump’s choice of Kevin Warsh to head the Federal Reserve?

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✨ Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,fed chair,Federal reserve,Jerome Powell,Kevin Warsh 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: President Donald Trump announced Friday that he will nominate Kevin Warsh to be the next head of the Federal Reserve, an independent agency that came under pressure from the president to lower interest rates last year. If confirmed, Warsh would succeed Fed Chairman Jerome Powell — a former Trump nominee who has drawn the president's ire for not acceding to his demands — when Powell's term ends in May. Warsh served on the Federal Reserve Board…

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Capehart and Abernathy on the backlash against Trump’s immigration operation

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💥 Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Brooks and Capehart 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Amna Nawaz: For more on the political fallout from a hectic week in Minneapolis and in Washington, we turn tonight to the analysis of Capehart and Abernathy.That's Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW and Gary Abernathy, author and editor of the Abernathy Road newsletter on Substack. David Brooks is away this week.Gary, it's great to have you with us. Jonathan, good to see you here.We need to start in Minnesota, because a lot happened in this last week. There seems to…

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FBI raid on election offices raises debate over voting security and federal power

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✨ Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: 2020 election,Donald Trump news,election deniers,georgia,retribution 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The FBI's move to execute a search warrant at voting offices in Fulton County, Georgia, and the presence of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, have ignited an intense debate about election security and federal authority. Jeff Bennett discussed more with Rick Hasen, professor of law and political science at UCLA and author of The Real Right to Vote. Jeff Bennett: The FBI's move this week to execute a warrant at voting offices in Fulton County, Georgia,…

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What was revealed in the latest release of the Epstein files – and what was redacted

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💥 Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Department of Justice,Donald Trump news,epstein files,jeffrey epstein ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Department of Justice has released its latest, and perhaps final, set of files related to the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein. This comes more than a month after the deadline set by Congress. The edition includes more than 3 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images. The Justice Department says there were amendments, but did not provide a full explanation of what was excluded. Reported by Ali Rogin. Amna Nawaz: The Department of Justice has released…

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