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How Will House Freedom Caucus Adapt to Several Members Departing Capitol Hill?

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The House Freedom Caucus has for years been a major force on Capitol Hill, with its members picking frequent policy fights in their push for more fiscally and socially conservative legislation. But as almost a half dozen of its most prominent members seek office back home and away from Congress, those departures will alter the lineup of the caucus, which fought for additional spending cuts in the “big, beautiful bill” and has been the fiscal conservative vanguard for a decade in the House of Representatives. Here’s how the caucus will…

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‘It Is Freedom Over Communism,’ Trump Supporter Says at NC Rally 

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ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.—“We’re running a campaign of solutions to save America, an America which they have virtually destroyed,” former President Donald Trump said of the Biden-Harris administration at a Wednesday afternoon rally here. To elect Vice President Kamala Harris as president “would be to gamble with the lives of millions and millions of people,” Trump said, adding that Harris “would get us into World War III because she is too grossly incompetent to do the job.”   The former president spoke at Rocky Mount Event Center, which holds about 4,000,…

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Artists Against Book Bans: 170+ Celebrities Sign Petition Defending the Freedom to Read

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“A threat to one form of art is a threat to us all.” That’s what LeVar Burton, the former host of “Reading Rainbow” and executive producer of the 2023 documentary “The Right to Read,” believes, and it’s why he’s partnered with MoveOn to launch a campaign with creative leaders to bring heightened awareness to this dangerous form of censorship and exclusion. With a new school year just beginning, this letter is a timely response to Republicans banning a record number of books in the last school year, despite backlash and…

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Second Key GOP Senator Announces Support for Religious Freedom Amendment to Respect for Marriage Act

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A second senator who voted for the Respect for Marriage Act will support Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s amendment protecting religious freedom, though she did not say whether she would insist on the amendment’s adoption as a condition for supporting cloture on the legislation. Republican Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis will support the Lee amendment if it is brought to the floor as an amendment to the Respect for Marriage Act, spokeswoman Stacey Daniels said Saturday, noting that Lummis previously cosponsored Lee’s First Amendment Defense Act while she served in Congress.…

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C. J. Rice’s Narrow Path to Freedom

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Last week, The Atlantic published its November cover story, “Good Luck, Mr. Rice,” in which Jake Tapper investigates the case of a Philadelphia teenager who was convicted of attempted murder after a 2011 shooting that left four injured. C. J. Rice, now 28, has maintained his innocence. No physical evidence tied him (or anyone) to the crime, and the single eyewitness who identified him as the perpetrator had told police three times that she did not recognize the shooter before ultimately changing her story. Rice’s pediatrician, who happened to be…

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