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Politics
Current developments, their context, and questions still open.
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Justice Department wants Alaska Senate ballots set aside; the state calls it “impossible”
Two days before the vote, a federal judge must decide whether to dismiss a suit that could delay certifying a race that may decide control of the Senate.
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Judge throws out Trump’s $10 billion suit against the Wall Street Journal for good; Trump will appeal
The judge found, for the second time, no plausible claim that the paper acted with “actual malice” in reporting on a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein.