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The Supreme Court is considering how far cities can go in banning homeless people from sleeping outside—and Justice Sonia Sotomayor simplified the entire case to a brilliant hypothetical.

By Paige Oamek
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Prosecutors will play a recording of a phone call between Donald Trump and Michael Cohen.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
 

Columbia students’ protest in support of Palestine has sparked solidarity demonstrations across the country.

By Hafiz Rashid

 
 

Since 2020, Joe Biden’s support among working-class voters of all races has fallen alarmingly. Here are seven ways he and his party can reverse the slide.

 
 

Prosecutors called publishing executive David Pecker as their first witness.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
 

The Georgia Republican is fast falling out of favor for her opposition to the Ukraine aid bill.

By Hafiz Rashid
 

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There might be a fatal flaw in the former president’s defense arguments.

By Hafiz Rashid
 

The former president urged his supporters to protest on his behalf.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

 

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Habba decided she would help her boss by appearing to admit he was guilty.

By Hafiz Rashid
 

Newly unsealed documents show how Trump’s whole family got dragged into his alleged mishandling of classified documents.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
 

Some of the former president’s actions are coming back to bite him.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

 
 

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