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Why Trump Is Losing Young Men

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By: Sabrina Tavernise · Kassie Bracken · Mark Boyer · Luke Piotrowski · Erik Ljung · David Jouppi and Ruth Igielnik
Young men swung to Donald Trump in 2024. Polling shows they are now moving away — but to what? Sabrina Tavernise, a reporter for The New York Times, went to Michigan to find out.

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Israel’s Election Is Unlikely to Change Its Policies and Global Isolation

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By: Steven Erlanger
The leading contenders, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot, aren’t substantially different in their approach to Israel’s security or in their opposition to a Palestinian state.

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Campaign posters for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party, and Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party, in Hadera, Israel, on Tuesday.
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High Prices Haunt Trump and the GOP on Eve of the Midterms

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By: Tony Romm
A backlash over high prices helped Republicans capture a majority in 2024. Now, it may be the source of the party’s own undoing.

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President Trump at a campaign event on Tuesday in Lubbock, Texas, where he talked about the political forces that had propelled his return to office, including high prices.
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Darline Graham Is ‘a Little Nervous.’ Can She Keep South Carolina’s Senate Seat Red?

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By: Emily Davies
Polls show the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham in a virtual tie with her Democratic opponent, Dr. Annie Andrews. An upset was unthinkable just a few months ago.

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Senator Darline Graham, is in a final, nail-biting week of campaigning against Dr. Annie Andrews, her Democratic opponent.
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How Michigan’s Midterm Senate Race Could Influence the 2028 Democratic Presidential Primary

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By: Shane Goldmacher
The fate of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive candidate in the race, will serve as a litmus test for the left’s potency heading into the next presidential contest.

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The Democratic Party’s activist class believes a victory by Dr. Abdul El-Sayed next week would establish a proof point that left-wing populism is a winning message.
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If Trump Gets Another Supreme Court Pick, MAGA Wants a Loyalist

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By: Mattathias Schwartz
For years, Supreme Court aspirants have avoided talking about how they might rule. Trump’s frustrations with his first-term picks could change that.

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President Trump’s three first-term Supreme Court picks have moved the court’s jurisprudence to the right on issues like abortion and gerrymandering. But they have sometimes voted against his sweeping second-term agenda.
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Trump Cancels Rallies in Kansas and Iowa This Weekend

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By: Chris Cameron
President Trump has been holding hours-long rallies for G.O.P. candidates nearly every day for weeks.

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President Trump at Joint Base Andrews, Md., after a campaign rally in South Carolina.
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Republicans Ramp Up Investigation Into Democratic Plan to Pack Alaska’s Ballot

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By: Kellen Browning · Anna Griffin and Glenn Thrush
The Justice Department issued subpoenas, a House oversight committee sought interviews and the state opened its own inquiry into a Democratic plan to recruit a spoiler into a Senate race.

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Republican anger grew on Thursday over a Democratic effort to stack Alaska’s Senate ballot with candidates to siphon votes from the G.O.P. incumbent.
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Polymarket Is Investigating Suspicious Bets on Israeli Election

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By: Lauren McCarthy and Stuart A. Thompson
The company said it was looking into hundreds of new accounts that had placed wagers in two markets related to the election on Tuesday.

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Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking at a Likud event in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
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Judge Orders Trump Officials to Outline Election Demands Sent to States

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By: Zach Montague
A federal judge gave the government until noon on Friday to share which states had received letters trying to enlist them in an effort to find evidence of voter fraud.

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Early voting in New York City last week.
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Trump Administration Pressures California With Expanded Voter Fraud Investigation

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By: Devlin Barrett and Shawn Hubler
The department has issued grand jury subpoenas to local election officials as part of a widening effort to prove unsubstantiated claims about large numbers of illegal voters in the state.

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Voters casting their ballots in Los Angeles in June. At least two employees of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s office received grand jury subpoenas last week.
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Polymarket and Kalshi Turn Midterm Elections Into a Multimillion Dollar Market

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By: Stuart A. Thompson and Lauren McCarthy
Betting markets like Polymarket and Kalshi have transformed America’s democracy into a new kind of casino.

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David Bensoussan has placed wagers worth over $1.5 million in over a dozen midterm races.
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