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Chris Murphy joined the growing group of Democrats expressing unease over the scale of civilian casualties in Gaza

But ex-prosecutor warns threats will likely "get worse" if Trump is punished for repeated violations

George Santos set to become only third Member of Congress to be expelled since 1861, Gustaf Kilander writes

RNC has just $9.1m cash on hand, its lowest figure since February 2015

Why are flags being flown at half-staff in the US?

The urgency to reach a deal before year-end adds pressure to the talks as Republicans seek more concessions

Short-lived PM does not mention frontrunner for nomination by name but says ‘I hope a Republican will be returned in 2024’

An executive of Donald Trump’s company says it no longer prepares the sweeping financial statements that New York state contends were full of deceptive numbers for years

This just-published article is here; the Abstract: Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries often feared that secret assembly threatened republican government. Oath-bound secret societies were allegedly elitist cabals that would establish an imperium in imperio oppressive to ordinary citizens. Yet despite this hostility, many early Americans also insisted that…