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The Hill presents two hours of live, real-time primary night coverage on Tuesday, diving deep into the 2026 primaries as the Data Nerds track results in California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota from 10:00 p.m. EDT to 12:00 a.m. EDT. The Hill’s coverage will be anchored by “Sunrise on The Hill’s” Cory Smith, joined…

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Democrats are at a huge crossroads in California governor’s race | Normon Solomon

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Democrats are at a huge crossroads in California governor’s race | Normon Solomon

If Tom Steyer wins, that could send positive shock waves through the Democratic partyThe next governor of deep-blue California will almost certainly be a Democrat. But what kind of Democrat?The establishment favorite for overseeing the world’s fourth-largest economy, Xavier Becerra, has trod a traditional path. As governor, based on past performance, he would keep his party and the state on the rutted road of corporate-friendly liberalism. Continue reading...

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Reality TV Star, Ex-Fox News Host Emerge as Serious GOP Contenders in California Primaries

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Reality TV Star, Ex-Fox News Host Emerge as Serious GOP Contenders in California Primaries

Steve Hilton paced the stage at a brewery outside San Francisco with a simple message: California is broken and only an outsider can fix it.

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'Serious concern': Ex-DOJ attorneys sense troubling new direction for Trump crackdown

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'Serious concern': Ex-DOJ attorneys sense troubling new direction for Trump crackdown

The Trump administration is pushing deep into new territory in its immigration crackdown, moving beyond deportations to target the citizenship of naturalized Americans in a campaign that legal experts warn could ultimately be weaponized against political opponents.The Justice Department has filed more denaturalization cases in the last 16 months than were filed across all four years of the Biden administration, according to federal data, and attorneys general offices across the country have been tasked with identifying hundreds of additional targets, reported NPR. Department leaders pressuring lawyers to generate cases quickly — sometimes by scanning news stories and social media posts – and while the cases filed so far largely involve serious criminal conduct like drug trafficking, child sexual abuse, terrorism-related activity and war crimes, legal scholars say the infrastructure being built around this effort is far more alarming than any individual case."Once it becomes easy to take somebody's citizenship away — it becomes easy to take anybody's citizenship away," warned Cassandra Robertson, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University who has studied denaturalization.What makes the program particularly troubling to civil liberties advocates is how little protection defendants have. In civil denaturalization proceedings, Americans are not entitled to appointed counsel if they cannot afford it. There is no statute of limitations, meaning the government can reach back decades for evidence, and several cases reviewed by NPR were resolved with little or no court appearance by the defendant.The administration has also signaled the program could expand beyond criminals. Trump and administration officials have publicly threatened the citizenship of political figures including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar — comments Robertson calls evidence of a real risk of "political retribution."A former DOJ attorney who spent nearly a decade in the office that handles these cases said the mandate under Trump has shifted dramatically. Where lawyers once had discretion to pursue only strong cases, they are now directed to go after anyone potentially eligible — including those with minor paperwork errors or immaterial discrepancies."The retaliatory nature of this administration and using the law in any type of legal maneuvering to go after its enemies — that is a serious concern of mine," the former DOJ attorney said, speaking anonymously for fear of government retaliation.Legal experts note that federal judges — not administration-controlled immigration courts — still oversee these cases, providing some check on potential abuse, but with hundreds of cases now in the pipeline, that guardrail may soon face its first serious test.

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WATCH: Marco Rubio Rubio testifies on Capitol Hill for the 1st time since start of Iran war

Secretary of State faces off with lawmakers over Trump's budget request

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New Mexico ‘elites’ hammered for continued 'protection' of Epstein-linked ex-prosecutor

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New Mexico ‘elites’ hammered for continued 'protection' of Epstein-linked ex-prosecutor

John J. Kelly, who served as the U.S. attorney for the District of New Mexico from 1993 to 2000, was exposed in April for his previously undisclosed ties with Jeffrey Epstein, and on Tuesday, veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez accused the state’s “elites” of continuing to “protect him” amid the ongoing investigation into activity at Epstein’s sprawling New Mexico compound.In 2024, Kelly was asked by a local news outlet why his name had appeared in Epstein’s contact directory, often referred to as his “little black book,” and told the ABC News affiliate that he had “no clue.” However, as uncovered by Valdes-Rodriguez, a file published by the Justice Department revealed that Epstein had given Kelly “power of attorney” to facilitate his purchase of Epstein’s infamous New Mexico compound known as Zorro Ranch.It was during Kelly’s tenure as the top federal prosecutor in New Mexico that then-16-year-old Annie Farmer filed a report with the FBI about being sexually abused by Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell at Zorro Ranch – a tip that “protocol would require to be forwarded to Kelly’s offices,” Valdes-Rodriguez previously wrote, and one that ultimately went “ignored,” per The New York Times.And yet, despite Kelly having “directly [contradicted] his account of barely knowing Epstein,” Valdes-Rodriguez argued, the ex-prosecutor remains on Albuquerque’s Ethics Board as a mayoral appointee, and no public announcements have been made regarding plans to question him, including from the newly created legislative committee with subpoena power dedicated solely to investigating potential crimes that occurred at Zorro Ranch.“Kelly is still on the ethics board. And the state’s political and media elites continue to protect him, as he appears to have protected Epstein,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote in a report published on her Substack Tuesday.“What none of these institutions appear to have done is look at the documents themselves. They have chosen, instead, to take Kelly’s word. That’s how s--- works in New Mexico.”Since Valdes-Rodriguez’s April report exposing Kelly’s past ties to Epstein, the former federal prosecutor has claimed that he “never met” Epstein, and that he “was never aware of any activities beyond the real estate transaction,” the Santa Fe New Mexican reported. However, Kelly’s “record of inaction against Epstein,” Valdes-Rodriguez argued, was “not insinuation,” but “fact.”“John J. Kelly has a story to tell about Jeffrey Epstein, about Zorro Ranch, about what his office did and did not do with the reports that accumulated there over seven years,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote. “But because New Mexico is New Mexico, he has not been asked to tell it under oath. And he probably never will be.”

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Six people killed in Iowa domestic dispute, police say

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Six people killed in Iowa domestic dispute, police say

The suspected shooter was found dead near a bridge with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities say.

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Live updates: Trump taps Pulte for acting DNI job; Rubio, Blanche face Senate panels

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Live updates: Trump taps Pulte for acting DNI job; Rubio, Blanche face Senate panels

President Trump on Tuesday morning announced he would appoint Bill Pulte to replace outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte moves from his role as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. On Capitol Hill, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will testify before the House on Tuesday morning…

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Watch live: Rubio testifies before Senate on State Department budget as Iran talks falter

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Watch live: Rubio testifies before Senate on State Department budget as Iran talks falter

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday morning on the State Department budget request, as negotiations to end the three-month war in Iran have hit a roadblock. The optimism that President Trump projected last week toward securing a deal with the Iranian regime to end hostilities and…

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