Justice Alito was aghast. “Today’s decision is the third installment in our epic Affordable Care Act trilogy, and it follows the same pattern as installments…
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Republicans Wave the White Flag on Health Care (for Now)
For Republicans, there’s reason to expect Obamacare to linger as a kind of zombie issue, used by conservative politicians to rally the base with little…
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Katie Hobbs and Kyrsten Sinema Illustrate a Voting Rights Divide
PHOENIX — The political fortunes of Katie Hobbs, the Arizona secretary of state, have risen unlike any other Democrat in the country in the tumultuous…
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Democrats Float $6 Trillion Plan Amid Talks on Narrower Infrastructure Deal
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats have begun privately weighing a sprawling economic package that could be as large as $6 trillion even as a bipartisan group…
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Joe Manchin and the Magic 50th Vote for Democrats’ Voting Rights Bill
Democrats and progressive activists who have been working for months on a sweeping voting rights bill quickly embraced on Thursday a new, far narrower plan…
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Biden Signs Law Making Juneteenth a Federal Holiday
WASHINGTON — President Biden signed legislation on Thursday to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, enshrining June 19 as the national day to commemorate the end…
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Is This the Big Tech Breakup We’ve Been Waiting For?
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Hopes Fade for Imminent Federal Deal on College Athletes, Pressuring N.C.A.A.
Without the federal law it has craved before July 1, the N.C.A.A. will have just a handful of options, none of them particularly appealing to…
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Obamacare Survives Latest Supreme Court Challenge
WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act on Thursday survived a third major challenge in the Supreme Court. A seven-justice majority ruled that the plaintiffs had…
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As Wars Wind Down, Congress Revisits Presidential Powers
Many Republicans — and some Democrats — are likely to resist. “We want to keep the 2001 one,” said Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma,…
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