Democrats spent the early part of last year struggling to redefine themselves after devastating losses in the 2024 election.
Now, with 2025 closed out, the party has regained some of its lost momentum, aided by a string of recent special election victories and President Trump's rocky approval ratings.
And as the party prepares for the midterms, many leading Democrats are asserting themselves on the national stage, looking beyond this year to the 2028 presidential race. |
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After months of fighting and countless proposals for a bipartisan compromise, the expiration date for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax subsidies has arrived, with millions of Americans set to feel the pain. |
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The Trump administration's first year in office kicked off a variety of legal challenges and policy changes spanning federal spending practices to sweeping tariffs, prompting Americans to scramble to understand the size and scope of these reforms. The chaotic environment has led news outlets covering the American legal and judicial system to pivot, pursuing different coverage strategies to break down complicated industry topics for readers. As a result, readership and engagement has spiked at several publications. |
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Former special counsel Jack Smith was still contemplating whether to charge President Trump's co-conspirators in the Jan. 6, 2021, case when the president won the election, he revealed to the House in a closed-door deposition released Wednesday. Smith also told investigators he was preparing to rely on a number of Trump allies who agreed to testify against the president that "what they were trying to do was an attempt to overthrow the government and illegal." He also said the violence of Jan. 6 was "foreseeable" to Trump. "Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party," Smith told the panel's team over the course of a more than seven-hour interview on Dec. 17. |
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President Trump's first year back in office brought a whirlwind of political news in 2025. There was a major legislative victory for the White House, wins for Democrats in elections and the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The ugly specter of political violence also surfaced. Here are the biggest political news stories of the year. |
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Chief Justice John Roberts used his previous two annual reports to condemn politicians for intimidating judges and warn about artificial intelligence. This time, Roberts steered clear of current affairs. His 2025 Year End Report on the Judiciary, released Wednesday evening, makes no mention of the tensions that have grown in the judiciary over the Supreme Court's emergency decisions implicating President Trump's second-term agenda. |
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President Trump said Wednesday that his administration will end its deployment of the National Guard in Chicago; Los Angeles; and Portland, Ore., vowing to return federal forces to the major, Democratic-led cities if crime spikes again. The pullback comes a week after the Supreme Court delivered a stark blow to Trump's push for military troops to patrol U.S. city streets, rejecting his bid to send National Guard members to the Chicago area to protect federal officials enacting his immigration agenda. |
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President Trump claimed Tuesday that his "real" approval rating is at 64 percent, despite polls showing it is below 50 percent. Decision Desk HQ's polling average shows the president's approval rating sitting at 44.1 percent, almost 20 points below his claim. |
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President Trump's administration is ramping up pressure against Venezuela's oil trade, sanctioning four companies operating in the country's oil industry along with four tankers connected to the firms. The Treasury Department said Wednesday it slapped sanctions on four companies with ties to Caracas's oil sector: Aries Global Investment Ltd., Winky International Ltd., Krape Myrtle Co. Ltd., and Corniola Ltd. The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control also sanctioned four oil vessels linked to the companies: Rosalind, Valiant, Nord Star and Della. |
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OPINION | The walls of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, which lies blocks from the U.S. Capitol, are decorated with stunning New Deal-era murals. The most famous of these murals, The Meaning of Social Security, depicts life before and after Social Security. The mural shows the best of America, what we can do when we all come together to build our Social Security system. Thanks to Donald Trump, The Meaning of Social Security — along with everything it represents — is now in grave danger. |
OPINION | Never mind the Epstein files, the violent immigration arrests, the corrupt pardons, the demolition of the White House's East Wing, the lawless assassinations of Caribbean seagoers, the economy-killing tariffs, the gutting of health care, or the more than $3 billion in personal presidential grift. Out of all this and more, the issue that appears best positioned to fracture President Trump's abjectly loyal political coalition is … artificial intelligence. |
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Dozens of people are presumed dead and about 100 injured, most of them seriously, following a fire at a bar in a Swiss Alps resort town during a New Year's celebration, police said Thursday. |
Zohran Mamdani officially took office as mayor after the New Year's Eve ball drop, in a private ceremony held at a shuttered relic of the city's subway. |
BY JONATHAN EDWARDS AND DAN DIAMOND |
The White House on Wednesday laid out a nine-week timeline to win approval for President Trump's proposed ballroom, even as one federal review panel said it has yet to receive required building plans and basic details of the project remain unclear. |
President Trump has delayed new tariff increases on upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets, and vanities for a year, pushing their implementation to 2027, according to a White House statement. |
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