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Rep. Derek Tran, a Democrat, represents California’s 45th Congressional District. Serving his first term in Congress, Rep. Tran is a member of the House Armed Services Committee and House Small Business Committee where he focuses on national security, economic issues, consumer protections, and access to capital for small business owners and entrepreneurs.

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A person holding a tiny American flag out of the window of a car

The No Kings protests are galvanizing Americans. But there’s something missing.

Zeeshan Aleem

President Donald Trump and Jared Kushner

Raskin slams Justice Department for not releasing Trump classified documents report

Erum Salam

The U.S. Capitol building.

As the GOP-led Congress struggles, members give up their seats at a historic pace

Steve Benen

Benjamin Netanyahu, left, looks down. Donald Trump, right, looks ahead.

The U.S. and Israel say they’re fighting together. On the biggest questions, they’re not.

Julia Jester

Israeli parliament passes budget, allowing Netanyahu to avoid early elections

The Associated Press

Why Iran doesn’t want to talk to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff

Hussein Ibish

A person pushes a grocery cart filled with items including tomato sauce, bagels, broccoli florets and more. The photo is taken from the vantage point of the person pushing the cart.

If anyone asks what a refugee kid on SNAP looks like, I say they look like me

Rep. Derek Tran

An air traffic controller looking stressed at work.

I’ve been an air traffic controller for more than 16 years. I have a simple question for Congress.

Jack Criss

Photoillustration of Jeffrey Epstein collaged with a 2025 No Kings protest. Overlaid is the text of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

The Epstein class thinks it runs America. No Kings protesters had a message for it.

Rep. Ro Khanna

Michael Flynn prepares to testify at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

Trump’s settlement to Michael Flynn could set a dangerous precedent

Mary McCord

Three agents are standing behind a railing, the one in the middle is holding a weapon pointing ahead.

Emails show Trump official’s thirst for violence against protesters

Ja'han Jones

A woman, left, dances with a man. The lighting of the scene is very warm.

A ‘Love Story’ that feels more like an invasion of privacy

Jen Chaney

Photoillustration of matryoshka dolls lined up filled with different images, one of protests in Iran, one of Wall Street, one of high gas prices, and the final one filled with a photo of Trump in red and knocked over.

Trump’s latest poll numbers could spell disaster for the GOP in November

Bethany Irvine

Donald Trump looks up.

Jack Smith suspected Trump kept docs for financial gain — but sources highlight another motive

Carol Leonnig

Donald Trump is s shouting into the microphone at night.

The shameless way Stephen Miller and Kash Patel are responding to Trump’s disastrous poll numbers

Anthony L. Fisher

In this photo shot from above Justice Barrett is looking at Donald Trump whose back is turned toward us.

‘They sicken me’: Trump attacks Justices Gorsuch and Barrett over tariffs ruling

Jordan Rubin

Rand Paul sits with his hand — holding a blue pen — on his chin.

Republicans are already fighting over Trump’s $200 billion war supplemental

Mychael Schnell

A close up of Donald Trump illuminated by a flash, as seen from below. An American flag waves in the almost white sky behind him.

Trump has gone birther on the entire country

Ryan Teague Beckwith

Photos of Donald Trump, Nicolás Maduro and Ali Khamenei arranged in squares.

Trump’s personalized foreign policy isn’t working in the three countries he’s tried it

Lily Becker

Photo illustration of the No Kings logo's crown with a red question mark spray painted over it.

The simple question the No Kings movement still avoids answering

Christian Schneider

Pete Hegseth is visible in focus at a podium; in the foreground partially blocking him are seated people raising their hands.

In a sham nod to transparency, Hegseth is telling the press to just FOIA the Pentagon

Lauren Harper

U.S. Sailors and Marines aboard the USS Tripoli

Pakistan to host U.S.-Iran talks as Iran vows U.S. ground troops would be ‘set on fire’

The Associated Press

John Anderson guides his 93-year-old great uncle Lyman Howe into the barn after they finished combining corn on a family farm.

‘Could not come at a worse time’: U.S. farmers hit hard by economic fallout of Iran war

Sydney Carruth

Mike Johnson subtly smiles.

Congress is back to square one on the DHS shutdown after House GOP rejects Senate deal

Kevin Frey & Syedah Ashgar

Mike Lindell stands at a microphone with his hands clasped.

Mike Lindell, after viral lawsuit moment, begs for attention at CPAC

Ja'han Jones

Joe: Real conservatives are joining the protests and saying we agree that in U.S. there are no kings

CPAC crowd humiliates Trump with cheers for impeachment

Israel expands its ground invasion of Lebanon

Robert De Niro joins No Kings rally in NYC as nationwide protests surge across 3,000+ locations

Trump floats consequential decision to send U.S. troops into Iran amid negotiations

‘We can save the future’: Jane Fonda speaks out on activism in the Trump era

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  1. A dimly lit surgical abortion room with a bright overhead light shining on the exam table.

    Army veterans deserve access to abortion. The Senate just denied them.

    Serra Sippel & Janessa Goldbeck

  2. Photo illustration of a judge looming above a pregnant woman in a hospital bed.

    Why judges are forcing women into unwanted C-sections

    Dr. Joia Crear Perry & Jade Below

  3. Photoillustration of Peter Thiel looking at a stained-glass window depicting the devil.

    What Peter Thiel’s sold-out lectures on the ‘antichrist’ are really about

    Anthea Butler

  4. Out of focus in the foreground, a person looks at computer screens with stock market information. In focus in the background, Donald Trump speaks on the TV.

    Unusual trading activity raises the possibility of a grave national security breach

    Zeeshan Aleem

  5. In this aerial shot, people are seen gathering in an immigration facility.

    Ms. Rachel’s call with a child held by ICE says all we need to know about Trump’s America

    Noor Noman

  6. This collage shows Donald Trump on the left and Robert Mueller on the right.

    Trump offered another brutal reminder of who he is after Robert Mueller’s death

    Barbara McQuade

  7. Donald Trump with his mouth open. A white baseball cap that "USA" casts a shadow on his face, obscuring his eyes.

    There’s reason to be skeptical of Trump’s ‘productive’ talks with Iran

    Zeeshan Aleem

  8. gas prices and polling numbers overlay a extreme closeup of Donald Trump

    Trump has no one else to blame for surging gas prices. Polls show Americans know it.

    Zeeshan Aleem

  9. George Bush speaks to Al Gore while Gore reacts by opening both arms.

    Republicans are rejecting the rule on military ballots that helped Bush win

    Ryan Teague Beckwith

  10. James Boasberg looks up in front of a plain blue background.

    Trump thinks he can say whatever he wants. Judge Boasberg just publicly called his bluff.

    Duncan Levin

  11. Light casts shadows over a statue of justice.

    The unlikely hero picking up the pieces of Trump’s tariff disaster

    Ray Brescia

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