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More Republican women than ever are planning to run for office

A record number of women hold seats in Congress, but they are mostly Democrats. Now, new contenders are hoping to shift the imbalance in D.C. and beyond.

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Ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio, pardoned by Trump, wants his old job back

"Watch out world! We are back!" Arpaio, 87, says in announcing he is again running for sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona.

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Trump advisers walk back his 'second thoughts' on China trade war

"If anything, he wanted to clarify if he had second thoughts it would be to raise the tariffs," Mnuchin said.

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Suburban House Democrats find hunger for action on gun control back home

Polling shows that suburban voters, especially women, are increasingly concerned about guns and overwhelmingly support tighter gun regulations.

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Former GOP congressman Joe Walsh announces he's running for president

"We've got a guy in the White House who is unfit, completely unfit to be president," Walsh said. "And it stuns me that nobody stepped up."

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'A deep and boiling anger': NBC/WSJ poll finds a pessimistic America despite economic satisfaction

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that 70 percent of Americans say they're angry at the political establishment

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Job-creation numbers hit Trump campaign

New numbers show job creation, GDP and consumer sentiment are lower than previously estimated.

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Nomination chaos? Democrats fear primaries won't produce a clear winner.

That could leave matters in the hands of hundreds of unelected super delegates to pick the party's candidate to take on Trump.

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Biden recalls 1968 unrest: What would have happened if Obama had been assassinated?

The comment came as he talked about the assassinations of his "political heroes," Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

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As Trump waffles, some Democrats talk up mandatory gun buybacks, licensing

The conversation on the campaign trail is different this year. Mass shootings are the reason why.

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Trump arrives at world summit fixated on trade war

The president escalated his trade war with China before leaving Washington. He arrives in Europe angling to start another one.

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Euroviews. Jeffrey Epstein's final act cannot be to deny his accusers justice — again ǀ View

There are thousands of similar victims in America out there watching this case and wondering if they will be heard, believed and protected if they come forward.

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Former FBI agent Peter Strzok sues DOJ over his firing for anti-Trump texts

The suit seeks to get Strzok's job back and back pay for what he says was his wrongful termination.

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House Democrats request records from Kavanaugh's service in Bush White House

The lawmakers said the Senate Judiciary Committee only received "a small fraction" of the documents before voting confirming him to the Supreme Court.

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Toni Morrison championed and chastised presidents

She called Bill Clinton "our first black president" — a turn of phrase that stirred years of debate, and for which she later expressed a measure of regret..

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Huntsman resigns as Trump's ambassador to Russia amid speculation about gubernatorial run

Huntsman spent two tumultuous years in the post while relations between the U.S. and Russia were under heavy scrutiny.

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Founder of 8chan wishes he could 'uncreate' forum popular with white supremacists

Brennan no longer has control of 8chan, which has been run by U.S. Army veteran Jim Watkins since 2015.

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Trump's message is what comes after the teleprompter speech

First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

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Fact check: Trump suggests video games to blame for mass shootings

Researchers have long sought links between real-world violence and bloody video games. "We found a whole lot of nothing," said one expert.

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Is the Trump administration doing enough to fight domestic terrorism?

DHS has cut resources that were once devoted to fighting domestic terror, while the FBI assigns more agents to fight jihadis than white supremacists.