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House Republicans are proposing stricter voting rules as the Trump administration eyes the midterm elections

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💥 Explore this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: elections,House of Representatives,republicans,voting laws ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are proposing sweeping changes to the nation's voting laws, a long-shot priority of President Donald Trump that would impose tougher requirements, including some before Americans vote in the fall's midterm elections. He watches: Trump says Republicans need to win the midterm elections or I will be impeached The package released Thursday reflects a number of the party's most popular election changes, including requirements for photo IDs before people can vote and proof of citizenship,…

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The appeals court ruled that Noem’s decision to end protections for Venezuelans in the United States was illegal

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: immigration,Kristi Noem,Temporary Protected Status,venezuela,Venezuelans ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A federal appeals court ruled late Wednesday that the Trump administration acted illegally when it ended legal protections that gave hundreds of thousands of people from Venezuela permission to live and work in the United States. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that found Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem exceeded her authority when she terminated temporary protected status for Venezuelans. But the decision will not have any immediate practical…

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Top Democrats on Intelligence Committees Question Gabbard’s Presence in Elections Office Raid

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✨ Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: 2020 election,fbi,Fulton County,georgia,tulsi gabbard 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrats on the committees overseeing national intelligence, are calling on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to brief them on why she was present at the FBI search of an election office in Georgia this week that was central to conspiracy theories about President Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 election. He watches: FBI raids Georgia elections office as Trump administration seeks voter data from states In a letter, Warner…

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Trump says he will announce the selection of the Federal Reserve chairman next week

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✨ Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,Federal reserve,interest rates,Jerome Powell ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: President Donald Trump said at his Cabinet meeting that he will announce "next week" his choice to replace Jerome Powell as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. He criticized Chairman Powell for not lowering benchmark interest rates as low as Trump wanted. Powell insisted that the Fed remain independent of policy and make its choices based on inflation and labor market data. He watches: Powell holds a press conference after the Fed left interest rates unchanged Although Powell's…

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FBI raid in Georgia highlights Trump’s preoccupation with the 2020 election

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💥 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,fbi,Fulton County,georgia,vote 2020 ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: DENVER (AP) — Donald Trump lost his bid for re-election in 2020. But for more than five years, he has been trying to convince Americans that the opposite is true by falsely saying the election was marred by widespread fraud. He watches: FBI raids Georgia elections office as Trump administration seeks voter data from states Now that he is president again, Trump is pressuring the federal government to support these false claims. The FBI on Wednesday issued a…

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Watch: Trump says he wants to raise housing prices, not lower them

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,housing,housing prices,trump cabinet 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: At President Donald Trump's Cabinet meeting on Thursday, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner said home sales in December "rose sharply to their strongest pace in three years" — but that's not exactly what appears to be happening in a housing market that has been a continuing source of frustration for American consumers. Read more: Trump says he will announce the selection of the Federal Reserve chairman next week The National Association of Realtors reported that…

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AP Report: Trump eyes former Peace Institute building as new Peace Council headquarters

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💥 Explore this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: board of peace,Donald Trump news,Gaza,U.S. Institute of Peace 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is looking to establish a new peace council, tied to the Gaza ceasefire and larger international ambitions, in a Washington building that formerly housed the U.S. Institute of Peace, according to four administration officials. The officials, who spoke Thursday on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said the issue was under serious discussion, but stressed that no final decision had yet been made on the whereabouts of…

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Watch: Trump says he will open all commercial airspace over Venezuela

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💥 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Airspace,Donald Trump news,venezuela 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he has told Venezuelan Leader Delcy Rodriguez that he will open all commercial airspace over Venezuela and Americans will soon be able to visit. Watch the clip in the video player above. Trump said on Thursday that he had instructed US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and US military commanders to open the airspace by the end of the day. Watch live: Trump holds a Cabinet meeting as the government shutdown deadline approaches…

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WATCH LIVE: Trump holds a Cabinet meeting as government shutdown deadline approaches

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,Kristi Noem,trump cabinet ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: President Donald Trump will hold a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, his first of the new year. Trump is expected to host the meeting at 11 a.m. EST. Watch the live stream in our video player above. The public roundtable event, where Trump and his Cabinet are likely to hail his administration's successes, comes amid a bipartisan response to the deadly shootings of US citizens in Minneapolis by federal immigration agents. The latest shooting, involving 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex…

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Watch: Border Czar Homan says federal forces will not withdraw from Minnesota until “cooperation”

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🚀 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,immigration enforcement,minneapolis,minnesota,tom homan 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Tom Homan, President Donald Trump's border czar, said Thursday that the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota will decrease only after state officials cooperate, and that he has zero tolerance for protesters who assault his officers or obstruct their work. Watch Homan's news conference in the video player above. Homan spoke to reporters for the first time since the president sent him to Minneapolis after a federal immigration officer shot and killed a protester…

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