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Red Districts in Range for Democrats

On the early edition of Balance of Power, Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz discuss the latest from the White House. On today's show, Fortius Global CEO Jim Messina, Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center Visiting Democracy Fellow Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, Jersey 1st Founder Rosemary Becchi and University of Virginia Miller Center…

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Four candidates are running in the second-ever election for the Baltimore City Board of School CommissionersIncumbent Commissioner Ashley Esposito, incumbent Commissioner Kwame Kenyatta-Bey, Jamar Day, and Domonique Flowers are running in the general election for two at-large seats on the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners on Nov. 3, 2026. Elected commissioners serve four-year terms. The four candidates who received the most votes in the primary…

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White House comes up empty when asked to prove Trump's 'sick' campaign liePresident Donald Trump has revived a debunked 2024 campaign claim that schools are secretly sending children off for gender surgery, and when CNN asked the White House for proof, it couldn’t produce a single example. At a Georgia rally Friday, Trump claimed there are “five states where your child goes off to school as Tim and comes back as Tammy, three…

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UNC settles Trump administration probesThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has reached an agreement with the Trump administration to close 19 federal investigations into the school over alleged concerns of antisemitism and race discrimination. In the deal, UNC admits to no wrongdoing and pays no money to the administration but agrees to standards the Trump administration...

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The Supreme Court Is Coming for Affirmative Action—AgainElie Mystal The high court has just accepted a case that takes aim at efforts to increase diversity at high-performing public schools. The post The Supreme Court Is Coming for Affirmative Action—Again appeared first on The Nation .

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Crowd Swells in Albania as Violent Protests Enter Second WeekAnti-government protests led by university and high school students entered a second week in Albania, with demonstrators showing no signs of backing down from their demands for political change.

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School-choice group launches $10M ad blitz to push Trump student grants: ‘Our children’s futures’The country's teachers unions are opposed to the program, claiming it will somehow siphon taxpayer dollars from public schools — even though backers such as Gov. Kathy Hochul have dismissed the notion.

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Karl Rove and David Axelrod give their predictions for 12 key midterm racesRove, the reviled and revered hardball strategist behind the George W. Bush years, and Axelrod, the Obama strategist behind Democrats' authentic-and-tenacious school of thought, give their takes on races to watch.

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Trump Says He Asked Putin to Release an American Jailed in RussiaThe president called for the return of Stephen James Hubbard, a Michigan teacher seized from his home in Ukraine months after Russia invaded that country.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Serves Up an Analysis Not Fit for New York Times VideoNikole Hannah-Jones—the New York Times magazine staff writer, MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant winner, 1619 Project Pulitzer Prize winner, and Howard University faculty member—is out with a new analysis of New York City education policy that faults “school choice” for creating inequality in the city’s schools while also complaining that some of the…

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Cornell responds to Jane Doe's letter saying she felt 'unsupported' by university presidentA woman known as Jane Doe who accused seven men at Cornell University of sexual assault at a fraternity house sent a letter to the school saying she “felt unsupported and disebelieved” by the Ivy League institution’s president, Michael Kotlikoff. Cornell has responded to the letter, first obtained by The New York Times, and sent...

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