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Former Vice President Kamala Harris rebuked President Donald Trump in her first major speech since leaving office, accusing ...

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President Donald Trump ordered a civil-rights probe to defend a Long Island school district that's resisting a NY order to ...

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We must refuse the shame that seeks to make us forget what we glimpsed, however briefly, in the streets in 2020, writes ...

But the election of a new pope does not conform to the liberal-conservative, left-right dichotomy commonly applied to American politics, nor to the campaign style of candidacies, nominations ...