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2+ min ago  (48+ words) President Donald Trump is willing to hold back disaster aid to blackmail states into complying with changes to election law that congressional Republicans have not been willing to pass. The Department of Homeland Security said it is considering whether to…...

4+ hour, 6+ min ago  (319+ words) When President Trump returned to power, a group of his former campaign and administration officials started a federal lobbying practice. Mo Strategies, which has registered an array of corporate clients, is now expanding into the newly-lucrative world of pardons," CBS…...

11+ min ago  (579+ words) Modelling finds 12 days learning a year could be lost due to extreme temperatures More than 1, 000 schools across England and Wales are closing or finishing the day early this week to protect students against extreme heat. Teachers and pupils are struggling…...

15+ min ago  (1163+ words) In an online ad viewed millions of times, Texas U. S. Senate candidate James Talarico appears to be wearing a dress and singing about transgender children. Citizens for Sanity, a conservative nonprofit group, published the ad, showing Talarico wearing an outfit similar…...

14+ min ago  (1913+ words) The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 24 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. So he needs to produce results in Iran fast. But as international relations professor Nicholas Grossman argues in a good…...

14+ min ago  (224+ words) The Greatest Moments in American History1. Constitution and Bill of Rights2. Declaration of Independence T-3. Victory in World War IIT-3. Abolition of slavery/Thirteenth Amendment5. Lee surrenders at Appomattox T-6. Moon landing T-6. Victory in the Cold War Most Important Americans in Public Life Who Never…...

14+ min ago  (536+ words) 1. The moon landing'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," and perhaps the defining image of U. S. history, a potent symbol of American ingenuity, persistence, and power. T-2. Migrant Mother Dorothea Lange's 1936 classic'depicting a 32-year-old mother of seven surrounded…...

14+ min ago  (427+ words) Declaration of Independence The one that started it all'the reason we're celebrating a semiquincentennial. The Founders "embrace[d] a world-quaking creed that values individual freedom and the rights of man over heredity, might, or wealth," writer and historian John A. Farrell…...

14+ min ago  (318+ words) 1. James Madison The Father of the Constitution. Shows the payoff for taking copious notes. The ugly side: He owned more than 100 enslaved people. 2. Thomas Jefferson And at number two, the author of the American theory of law-based, anti-divine rule. A…...

14+ min ago  (548+ words) 1. Henry Clay'The Great Compromiser," Clay held just about every major political job except president: senator, House speaker, and secretary of state at various times. 2. William Jennings Bryan A three-time nominee for president, Bryan mainstreamed populism in the Democratic Party with…...