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Eli Thompson is a Gen Z journalist who reports extensively on everything who has published in USA Today, Time, Rolling Stone and The Wall Street Journal. He is a contributor to NewsNation and has appeared on NBC News and WGN.

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President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson during a press conference on April 12, 2024, in Palm Beach, FL.

The House’s Canada tariff vote sent a message to Trump. But it won’t stop him.

Marc Wheat

Kristi Noem with her head tilted down, her "U.S. Department of Homeland Security" baseball cap obscuring her eyes.

Congress prepares for a Homeland Security shutdown

Jack Fitzpatrick & Syedah Asghar

Kimbal Musk sits at the stage.

Elon Musk’s brother responds to appearances in the Epstein files

Ja'han Jones

A close up of Pam Bondi behind a microphone.

As Bondi testifies, the DOJ she leads takes another big loss

Jordan Rubin

Bondi refuses questions over Epstein files in contentious House hearing

Sydney Carruth

‘Seditious’ Dems slam attempt to indict them over video to troops

Erum Salam

People vote in a polling location with a large American flag in the background.

Targeting elections, House GOP advances the SAVE America Act, a solution in search of a problem

Steve Benen

Famers planting small plants

The end of ACA subsidies forces America’s farmers to make an impossible choice

Maya Eaglin

Receipts from early voting are brought out during election night at the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operation Center in Fairburn, GA.

Trump has a plan if the midterms go badly. The Fulton County affidavit proves it.

Philip Bump

Rumeysa Ozturk looks at the woman speaking at the podium.

The chilling impact of Trump’s failed attempt to deport Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk

Eli Thompson

Sen. Jim Banks at the National Conservatism Conference on Sept. 3, 2025 in Washington D.C.

Sen. Jim Banks launches tip line for truckers to snitch on immigrant drivers

Ja'han Jones

Bernie Sanders going up the escalators.

Bernie Sanders balks at Trump’s ‘delusional’ claim about the economy: ‘God help us’

Allison Detzel

Leavitt is seen on the right side of a closeup frame.

White House’s Leavitt contradicts Trump on Gateway tunnel project debacle

Steve Benen

Two U.S. Marines (2nd, 3rd left) stand with California National Guard service members on June 13, 2025 in Los Angeles.

Trump administration withdraws National Guard from Chicago, LA, Portland

Julia Jester

Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Todd Lyons testifies during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Feb. 10, 2026 in Washington, D.C.

Trump officials can’t get their stories straight on anti-ICE surveillance

Ja'han Jones

A pedestrian walks by a sign announcing a going out of business sale in California.

Top Dem shares ‘alarming’ report about rising bankruptcies under Trump

Allison Detzel

Jeffrey Epstein sits at a patio wearing yellow framed sunglasses.

Epstein survivors ‘revictimized’ by DOJ’s haphazard redactions in released files, lawyer says

Nick McCool

A golden statue depicts Donald Trump, left, and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands. In the background, the Capitol is out of focus.

Trump’s inner circle has escaped the Epstein ‘reckoning’ — and lawmakers are taking note

Mychael Schnell

Noam Chomsky (left) with wife Valeria Wasserman and Jeffrey Epstein (right) in an undated photo.

The uncomfortable truth about Noam Chomsky’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

Zeeshan Aleem

Kathy Ruemmler.

How Obama’s former White House counsel became a legal advisor to Jeffrey Epstein

Lisa Rubin & Sydney Reynolds

A sign at the El Paso International Airport (ELP) on Dec. 25, 2025 in El Paso, TX.

FAA reopens El Paso airspace after confusion with the Pentagon

David Rohde & Ebony Davis

A dose of the new Moderna spikevax Covid-19 booster vaccination.

FDA’s refusal to review Moderna flu vaccine generates immediate political backlash

Steve Benen

Two people talking with two job seekers in front of a “Now Hiring” sign.

New report shows 2025 was even worse for U.S. job market than we thought

Steve Benen

‘Bigger than Watergate’: GOP Rep. Massie clashes with Bondi over Epstein scandal

FBI searching roadways in Catalina Foothills area amid Nancy Guthrie search

‘It should have never happened’: Sen. Slotkin reacts to DOJ’s failed attempt to indict her

‘Likely incriminated’: Congressman names six men unredacted from Epstein files

Rep. Swalwell asks Bondi if DOJ will help him after receiving death threats

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  1. A person grabs a stack of mail-in ballots from a United States Postal Service tray of ballots.

    What’s really behind Pam Bondi’s bad-faith attempts to obtain state voter rolls?

    Hayes Brown

  2. People are silhouetted before a screen that reads "AIPAC" and shows a visual of the American flag and the Israeli flag.

    The warning for AIPAC in Tom Malinowski’s primary loss

    Paul Waldman

  3. Jamie Siminoff, founder of Ring, in a commercial introducing "Search Party from Ring."

    Cute dogs can’t distract from the disturbing subtext in Ring’s Super Bowl ad

    Hayes Brown

  4. Kamala Harris sits at the stage while smiling and her hands are crossed over her legs.

    Kamala Harris needs to do better than this

    Kaivan Shroff

  5. Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

    Why Congress deposed Maxwell knowing she wouldn’t talk

    Duncan Levin

  6. Workers in green construction lifts work on the facade of the Kennedy Center, which is reflected in a puddle.

    Trump’s Kennedy Center ‘renovations’ explanation is a fig leaf for something darker

    Symone D. Sanders Townsend

  7. Paul Allen, left, and Russell Wilson hoist the Lombardi trophy in the air as blue and green confetti falls around them.

    Why the Seahawks’ Super Bowl win is good for America

    Keith Reed

  8. Birds fly past a giant banner with the image of President Donald Trump on Jan. 05, 2026 hanging on the outside of the U.S. Department of Labor.

    Why Trump wants to rename Dulles Airport and Penn Station after himself

    Zeeshan Aleem

  9. The Kennedy Center reflected in the Potomac River at dusk.

    Trump’s contempt for the Kennedy Center has reached a new level. I’m pushing back.

    Rep. Chellie Pingree

  10. People hold signs saying "Only Citizens Vote" and "Pass the SAVE Act" outside.

    There’s a deceptively simple problem with Trump’s push to change voter ID rules

    Ryan Teague Beckwith

  11. People hold signs calling for an end to censorship at Texas A&M's campus.

    Texas A&M’s bogus reason for cutting women’s and gender studies

    Evette Dionne

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