Redistricting talks in Florida got off to a slow start on Thursday, as state lawmakers grapple with political and legal questions amid internal power struggles.

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Texas officials had asked the court to allow the state to use the new maps in the midterm elections, part of a push by President Trump to gain a partisan advantage.

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The automaker switched production from Ontario in a bid to please President Trump. But the company defaulted on contracts covering hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance, Canada said.

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The president had clashed with the original designer and insisted on increasing the size and scope of the ballroom on a short timeline.

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Minnesota’s governor said the president’s xenophobic remarks were dangerous as the state continued to face fiscal questions about a fraud scandal.

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Brian Cole Jr. was arrested for Jan. 6 pipe bombs after DOJ leaders say evidence "languished" under the Biden administration before Trump officials solved the cold case.

As President Donald Trump promises U.S. military action targeting cartels within Venezuela’s borders, a national security expert warned there could “absolutely" be reprisals.

Activists prepare for more targeting of Somali residents by ICE as Trump renews racist tirade

As Donald Trump went on another extended racist tirade against Somalis on Wednesday, Minneapolis activists prepared for more targeting of the community by conducting trainings on their rights and planning how they would protect their neighbors.

In the White House on Wednesday, a reporter asked the president about Minneapolis’s mayor, Jacob Frey, who has defended the Somali community. Trump responded: “I wouldn’t be proud to have the largest Somalian – look at their nation. Look how bad their nation is. It’s not even a nation. It’s just people walking around killing each other. Look, these Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country. Billions and billions.”

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Sen. Michael Bennet's, D-Colo., objection to Sara Bailey's drug czar nomination inadvertently allowed Senate Republicans to expand President Donald Trump's nominees list for confirmation.

Trump administration officials are cracking down on a series of alleged fraud schemes in Minnesota — and ending protections for certain Somalian migrants.

Democrat Jim Himes calls footage ‘one of the most troubling scenes’ he’s observed in public service

• Analysis: Killing of survivors sparks outrage – but entire US ‘drug boat’ war is legally shaky

Top Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Congress on Thursday said that the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, had not ordered the military to kill surviving members of a deadly attack on a boat alleged to be carrying drugs in the Caribbean, but differed over whether the double strike was appropriate.

The allegation that Hegseth ordered the killing of survivors sparked bipartisan concern in Washington that he or others involved may have committed a war crime. On Thursday, US navy admiral Frank Bradley, who commanded the attack, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Dan Caine, appeared before the House and Senate’s armed services and intelligence committees for a closed briefing in which they showed video and discussed the attack with lawmakers.

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President Donald Trump signs Washington Accords peace deal with Rwanda and Congo leaders, securing rare earth mineral access while ending decadeslong regional conflict.

President Trump pardoned the former Honduran president, who had been convicted for drug trafficking. Midence Oqueli Martinez Turcios, a former congressman, got nearly 22 years.

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President Donald Trump Trump endorses Trever Nehls for Texas' 22nd Congressional District, a seat currently held by his twin brother, Rep. Troy Nehls.

Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-R.I., appeared on CNN Thursday, claiming the Trump administration's ICE has been "primarily going after innocent people, including U.S. citizens."

Republican Sen. Rand Paul joined Democrats Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff and Tim Kaine on a war powers resolution to block potential U.S. strikes in Venezuela.

Attacks on Somali Americans are a cruel distraction.

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Democrats won an agreement for a floor showdown after the shutdown, but consensus still eludes the Senate. Will Republicans pay a political price?

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Bret Stephens, Frank Bruni and Aaron Retica on the gap between the president’s interests and what matters to Americans.

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Amid all the hoopla circling its Washington backdrop, Friday’s event must be all about firing the starting gun on football’s biggest show

When the sculptor Joel Shapiro created Blue, the piece that stands around the back of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, looking out over the Potomac River in Washington, he wanted to tap into a number of elements. The giant matchstick figure denotes movement and energy, risk and possibility. As Shapiro himself has said, it is supposed to “reconfigure depending on how you look at it”.

It has the perfect home at the Kennedy Center, the vast cultural hub for ballet and opera, stage productions and concerts. And it resonates on a new level now as the venue prepares to host Friday’s World Cup draw, at which the competing nations at next summer’s extravaganza in the United States, Canada and Mexico will discover their group opponents and knockout round pathways. Because from one angle it is plain that Blue is executing a raking pass. From another, it is a spectacular side-on volley. Squint a little and it is Ciao, the Italia 90 mascot.

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