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For most of the past two decades, Ohio Democrats have hobbled home in defeat on Election Day, beaten and battered in a state that used to be a national bellwether. In 2024, Donald Trump ran up an 11-p…

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John Quillin thought America’s Middle Eastern wars were safely in the past. He spent two decades in the Navy, enlisting not long before the September 11 attacks and retiring as a chief petty officer a…

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Photographs by Lynsey Addario I. We drifted past abandoned drilling platforms, ghostly remnants of better days. Cormorants perched on the metal bars of broken oil rigs, drying their wings in the sun.…

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Senator Susan Collins desperately needed to change the subject. As she stepped around cow manure at the annual Fryeburg Fair, a reporter was asking her about President Trump’s musing that he might cam…

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Giovanna Perez loaded her four kids into the car on September 21 and drove from their home in Weslaco, Texas, to Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. She had a 9:30 a.m. appointment to pick up the ID car…

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Updated on October 16 at 9:55 a.m. ET Nancy Lacore found out she was fired as the chief of the Navy Reserve almost a year to the day after she got the job. On a Friday morning in August 2025, Admiral…

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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Driving through Arizona on a Saturday morning, I saw a line of cars nearly a mile long stopped along a high-de…

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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Around the same time that the world learned that swarms of autonomous AI agents were escaping their testing en…

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On many mornings, as New York City is waking up, a diminutive grandmother from Buffalo puts on sneakers and a baseball cap and takes a 45-minute walk with her husband around the streets near their apa…

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Less than a month out from Election Day, the polls are predicting a Democratic rout. According to the election forecaster Nate Silver’s polling average, Democratic Senate candidates are leading in Kan…

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Photographs by Christopher Lee Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. The concerns about $4.14-a-gallon gas at the Lincoln Costco an hour an…

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Photographs by Carol Guzy This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. He kept going over the details. “I run this route every day, like clockwork,” the tr…

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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Earlier this year, FBI Director Kash Patel vowed before God, Fox Nation, and Donald Trump that he would punish…

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Updated on October 2 at 11:37 a.m. ET Last week, as the war with Iran dragged into its seventh month, gas prices shot up to an average of $4.50 a gallon, and polling showed President Trump about twic…

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As Democrats have grown more hopeful that they might win control of the U.S. Senate, congressional investigators have gathered regularly in a conference room in the office of Senator Maggie Hassan of…

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Clinton, Iowa, is topographically flat and economically declining. The sawmills that made the city rich in the late 19th century have been repurposed as a museum. One of the Victorian mansions long si…

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A Republican fundraising consultant alerted her colleagues this month in a private message about a hot new business opportunity from an unlikely source: Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, a Democ…

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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. When this year began, the Democrats were heavy underdogs to take back the Senate in the midterms. The task wou…

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