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Schumer Is on Track to Remain Democratic Leader in Senate After Election Blowout, Aides Say

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By: Carl Hulse
The Democratic leader still faces skeptics in his ranks and hostility from some activists, but aides say he has enough commitments of support to be elected majority leader.

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Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, and his political team engaged in a $550 million push to put more Senate seats in play and increase their chances of regaining the majority.
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Turning Point Bet on the Midterms and Lost. Some Republicans Are Furious.

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By: Reis Thebault and Sejal Govindarao
Candidates backed by the right-wing activist group did not fare well, and the results set off recriminations from establishment Republicans.

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Erika Kirk, chief executive of Turning Point USA, during a Turning Point Action event in Phoenix in April.
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Democrats, Newly Ascendant, Begin a Fight to Shape the Party’s Future

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By: Lisa Lerer and Reid J. Epstein
At a moment of opportunity for the party, its long-feuding factions are seizing on the midterm results to make their case for tacking to the center or to the left.

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U.S. Cleared Nvidia Chips to Chinese Firms With Empty Offices and Troubling Ties

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By: Ana Swanson， Kalley Huang and Keith Bradsher
The Commerce Department has approved dozens of Chinese companies to handle Nvidia’s H200 chips, some of which have ties to firms under sanctions over national security.

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An industrial park for high-tech companies in Beijing. The company New Matrix lists the building as its address, but a company directory does not include the firm.
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U.S. Homeless Population Had Record Drop in 2025

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By: Jason DeParle
The Department of Housing and Urban Development credited President Trump, while homeless advocacy groups said that so-called Housing First policies of his predecessors played a part.

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The drop of more than 6 percent was the second consecutive year that the figure had fallen.
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In Elevating Stephen Miller, Trump Doubles Down on Hard-Line Agenda

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By: Maggie Haberman， Jonathan Swan and Tyler Pager
The new White House chief of staff is responsible for some of the most provocative policies of President Trump’s second term, as well as an aggressive approach to executive power.

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As President Trump’s domestic policy adviser, Mr. Miller has been one of the most deeply ideological members of the White House, and known for flexing his power.
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Susie Wiles Is the Latest Powerful Woman to Exit the Trump Administration

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By: Chris Cameron
A wave of high-ranking women have left the Trump administration in the past year. Many were replaced by men.

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President Trump talking with Susie Wiles at the White House last year.
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What to Know About Stephen Miller, Trump’s New Chief of Staff

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By: Chris Cameron
The architect of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign, Mr. Miller has been the public face of many of Mr. Trump’s immigration policies.

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Stephen Miller in the White House with President Trump.
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Southern Democrats Now Have a Chance to Lead. What Will They Do With It?

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By: Rick Rojas and Eduardo Medina
Sweeping midterm successes in Georgia and North Carolina have given the party an opportunity, and a test, to lay out a vision for governing in the South.

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Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former mayor of Atlanta, is the first Democrat to be elected governor of Georgia in decades.
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How Elon Musk Frittered Away Nearly $500 Million on the Midterm Elections

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By: Theodore Schleifer
Behind the scenes, the world’s richest person spent a record amount over two years to bend the country’s politics to his will. He couldn’t.

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Elon Musk has become by far the Republican Party’s biggest megadonor, spending nearly $500 million during the 2025-26 midterm election cycle.
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What to Expect From Lame-Duck Trump

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“When he feels cornered, when he feels attacked, he fights back,” the columnist Carlos Lozada says of Donald Trump, who is now entering the lame-duck phase of his presidency. Columnists from across Times Opinion share their predictions for what the final two years of Trump’s term might look like — and they’re not pretty.
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Susie Wiles, Trump’s Chief of Staff, Is Accused of Blocking Health Policies to Attract Donations

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By: Christina Jewett and Sheryl Gay Stolberg
In a no-holds-barred interview with Joe Rogan, Calley Means, a former top health adviser, accused Susie Wiles of repeatedly bowing to lobbying pressures and fixating on campaign contributions.

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Houston Police to Stop Alerting ICE During Traffic Stops

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By: J. David Goodman
Mayor John Whitmire has instructed Houston police to stop notifying immigration agents when they encounter someone without legal status during routine street stops.

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Mayor John Whitmire of Houston in July.
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The Voters Who Powered the Blue Tsunami

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By: Nate Cohn， Laura Bult， Nikolay Nikolov， Rafaela Balster， Stephanie Swart， Brian Oh and Luke Piotrowski
A younger, more diverse electorate than is typical in midterm elections helped drive Democrats’ decisive victory, along with gains among swing voters and support from some Republican voters. Nate Cohn, The New York Times’s chief political analyst, explains.
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Gina Hinojosa Will Be Texas’s First Democratic Governor in Decades. Republicans Won’t Make It Easy.

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By: Lauren McGaughy
After a sweeping Democratic victory, Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa will try to reshape a state molded by decades of conservative policymaking, with Republicans still in control of the State Senate.

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Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa of Texas has a raft of promises to fulfill.
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