Republicans proposals to change the public health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans could amount to more than $2 trillion of cuts over the next decade.
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From ‘devastated’ to ‘hopeful,’ college students react to election results
Luis Hernandez: Last week and throughout Tuesday night we chatted with undergraduate students at Johnson & Wales University about their perspectives on the election. Today, we’re going to get their take on the results. Joining me in-studio is 22-year-old Independent Kay Allen of Pennsylvania. Kay, great to have you back. Kay Allen: Good to be […]
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Voter Voices: ‘I don’t feel like the government cares about my voice’
Anthony D’Ellena, 20, of Narragansett is a former town council candidate and political science student at Roger Williams University. He’s currently taking a year off school to run the election campaign for Republican Patricia Morgan, who is competing against incumbent Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. Here’s what he had to say about what’s motivating him to […]
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Voter Voices: ‘Women deserve better than abortion’
Christy Northup, 19, of Westerly is currently studying to become a youth pastor. Here’s what she had to say about what’s motivating her to vote this election year. I’m in ministry school right now. I’m almost done with school, and I’ll be a licensed minister next year, so I can be a youth pastor. Voting […]
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Republicans try to soften stance on abortion as ‘abolitionists’ go farther
Activists who describe themselves as “abortion abolitionists” want to charge women who have abortions with homicide and ban the fertility treatment known as IVF, saying life begins at conception.
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Pete McCloskey’s life reminds us how politics long in the past live on in the present
McCloskey’s story has both deep roots and burgeoning relevance. He died this month at 96 and had long been out of the limelight, but the issues he had been willing to champion are as salient as ever.
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These Mormon women are rejecting Trump, fraying GOP support in a key state
In this swing state, every voting bloc can make a difference. That includes Maricopa County’s LDS community, where Republican women have been turning away from former President Donald Trump.
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This Pennsylvania county picks presidents. Here’s what it can tell us about 2024
Erie County, Pa., is one of just a handful of places that boomeranged from supporting Obama in 2008 and 2012, to Trump in 2016, to Biden in 2020. It’s worth watching in 2024.
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In Tuesday’s ‘primary’, Arizona’s independent voters don’t get much of a say
Arizona holds a presidential preference election to choose how its delegates will be awarded. That means independents don’t get to vote – in a state where they are a third of the electorate.
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As Trump continues to remake RNC in his image, new memo outlines what that looks like
Chair Michael Whatley sent a memo to staff emphasizing the initiatives he wants to see bolstered at the GOP’s main campaigning operation now that Trump secured the delegates to receive the nomination.
