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Aug 2025
46m 1s

Dems Depart Texas

CNN
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Texas Democrats leave the state to protest GOP's redistricting plan. The White House defends the firing of the jobs data czar. Montana police are on the hunt for a man involved in a deadly bar shooting. Outrage over a new hostage video as Israel faces mounting pressure to end the war. An ex-girlfriend of Sean "Diddy" Combs writes a letter to the judge in his ... Show More
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