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Amtrak and a key panel of Union Station leaders on Thursday approved a renegotiated agreement that will officially restore federal control of the Washington, D.C., transportation hub amid efforts to overhaul the facility. Leaders from Amtrak and the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation (USRC) Boa…
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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released 68 more photos from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, one day before the Justice Department’s (DOJ) deadline to release all of its information on the disgraced financier on Dec. 19. Some photos show lines from the Vl…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday signaled it would be illegal for the Trump administration to rename the Kennedy Center without “legislative action.” “The Kennedy Center Board has no authority to actually rename the Kennedy Center in the absence of legislative action,” Jeff…
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has decided against releasing its postmortem of the party’s 2024 losses it looks to build on 2025 momentum and take back power in Congress during next year’s midterms.  “Here’s our North Star: does this help us win?” DNC Chair Ken Martin said in a statement sh…
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The Kennedy Center board unanimously voted to rename the performing arts venue the "Trump-Kennedy Center," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday.The big picture: Exerting his influence over the iconic institution has been one part of Trump's push to reinvent D.C. — which in…
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Senate Republicans voted Thursday to block a resolution sponsored by Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make its rulemaking open to public comment, something that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. halted in March. King’s resolution, offered un…
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Videos show people in Minnesota and Illinois throwing snowballs at federal agents trying to arrest residentsICE, meet snow. As federal agents aggressively raid and detain immigrants in cities across the US, people working to prevent these arrests are using the abundant snow on the ground to fight ba…
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The Coast Guard will remove divisive language from its new workplace harassment policy that downgraded the definition of swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday.  Noem’s announcement, made over social media, comes after …