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What This Fourth of July Is Really About

The Atlantic

6 hours ago

What This Fourth of July Is Really About

An unfinished ode from 1876 offers a lesson for America’s 250th.

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‘It’s crazy’: GOP rebel declares war on Republican leadership

Raw Story

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‘It’s crazy’: GOP rebel declares war on Republican leadership

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) committed to block House floor proceedings unless House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) inserts the SAVE Act into a must-pass piece of legislation, Punchbowl News reported on Friday.Luna has pressed for the SAVE America Act – a bill that mandates voter ID and citizenship checks while adding new restrictions on mail-in ballots – to be folded into the annual defense policy bill."We should be doing all of the above," Luna told Punchbowl News for its report published Friday. "Why not try? It's crazy."Luna has already disrupted leadership's plans once – she helped defeat a rule that would have inserted SAVE Act language directly into the defense bill, despite House GOP leaders having spent three years working to keep unrelated amendments out of it.Meanwhile, Senate Republicans have grown frustrated with inter-party disputes. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told Punchbowl that Republicans "need to be very careful" about how they message the standoff, arguing that Democrats – not Republicans – are the ones blocking the SAVE Act's passage.“The message we need to convey to our supporters – it’s not Republicans that are preventing the SAVE America Act from being passed. It’s Democrats,” Johnson told Punchbowl News.

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Iran plans dayslong funeral for Supreme Leader Khamenei after war death

NPR Topics: News

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Iran plans dayslong funeral for Supreme Leader Khamenei after war death

The country's theocracy hopes to see millions flood the streets of the capital beginning Saturday in scenes reminiscent to the burial of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989.

Center

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Senate votes to halt Iran war, then flips

The Hill News

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Senate votes to halt Iran war, then flips

The Senate voted for and against ending the war with Iran on two consecutive days, with President Trump lashing out at four GOP senators who had voted for a resolution barring any future U.S. military activities against Iran, and the administration arguing that the resolution is unconstitutional.

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Supreme Court Declares War on Woodrow Wilson

RealClearPolitics - Homepage

Yesterday

Supreme Court Declares War on Woodrow Wilson

This week's Supreme Court ruling giving President Donald Trump a free hand in firing government regulators is less about Trump than it is about President Woodrow Wilson.

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China Sends First Senior Official to Iran Since War for Funeral

Bloomberg Politics

Yesterday

China Sends First Senior Official to Iran Since War for Funeral

China will send a deputy head of its top legislative body to attend the funeral of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran.

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Vance warns US could resume war: ‘That’s kind of up to the Iranians’

The Hill News

2 days ago

Vance warns US could resume war: ‘That’s kind of up to the Iranians’

Vice President Vance on Wednesday appeared open to the idea that the United States could resume its war against Iran should the ongoing 60-day ceasefire end without a peace agreement in place. “The president is not going to send our military back in unless he has to, unless there’s a clearly defined purpose for it,”…

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