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NOVEMBER 8: Judge Rules Trump Cannot Send National Guard into Portland
NOVEMBER 7: Supreme Court Lets Trump Block Emergency SNAP Payments
NOVEMBER 6: California Voters Greenlight Redistricting
NOVEMBER 6: US Household Debt Reaches All-Time High
NOVEMBER 5: UPS Cargo Plane Crashes in Kentucky
NOVEMBER 5: Abigail Spanberger Wins Virginia Election
NOVEMBER 4: Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Mayoral Election
NOVEMBER 3: Trump Opposes Mamdani, Supports Cuomo in NYC Election
NOVEMBER 3: Ohio Approves New Map for 2026 Midterms
NOVEMBER 3: Courage on the Rails in Britain
NOVEMBER 2: US Department of Energy Rules Out Nuclear Explosions
OCTOBER 31: Judge Orders Trump to Distribute SNAP Payments
OCTOBER 30: Trump and Xi Jinping Strike Temporary Truce
Highlights — One Big Beautiful Bill: The Complete Receipt
What’s really in the One Big Beautiful Bill, a piece of legislation with impacts spanning from green energy cuts to urban affairs? In 18,278 words, our writers broke the full text down: title by title, and section by section. We explained what the legal jargon actually says in plain English, how it affects you, and the impacts hidden between the lines. Read the most comprehensive analysis and warranted implications of the bill that you'll ever discover.
October 6th, Finian Knepper
However, the judge assigned to oversee the lawsuit between Trump and Illinois has stated...
October 6th, Daniel Song
Both left-wing and far-right opposition parties criticized the government and threatened to oust it...
Trump Floats Use of the Insurrection Act
October 6th, Arnav Goyal
The governors of these states have called the move "patently unlawful"...
In domestic news, read about the mayoral elections in NYC and other states, economic erosion from the government shutdown, and an elected Arizona Congresswoman not being sworn in.
In international news, see briefs on Venezuela's struggle in Congress and against Trump, Israel's violation of the ceasefire, Argentina's recent midterms, and the future of governance in Peru.
For Public Forum debate, see analysis on government policies that mandate tech companies to provide access to encrypted communications, and how experts view them.
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July 26, 2025
Finian Knepper, Azzy Xiang, Elisa Ma, and Arnav Goyal
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