In recent days, centrists have questioned the price tag of the proposal, raised alarms that it could add to the deficit and sought to scale back to some of its key components, including programs that would provide free pre-kindergarten and community college for all Americans.
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Former senator Al Franken kicks off his stand-up tour at in Northampton, Mass., on Saturday. (Marvin Joseph/The Post)
The recovering politician on Saturday launched “The Only Former U.S. Senator Currently on Tour Tour,” which pokes fun at many of Franken’s former colleagues. It’s his first extended stand-up stint since he resigned in 2018 after several women accused him of groping and kissing, allegations he has denied.
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Commercial companies have taken over flights to low Earth orbit, so the space agency is looking to deep space for its new mission.
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The data, eagerly anticipated by many parents and pediatricians, is a crucial step toward the two-shot coronavirus vaccine regimen becoming available for children, perhaps close to Halloween.
Minerals deposits mark previously submerged shoreline of the Colorado River in Arizona last month. (Roger Kisby/Bloomberg News)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has insisted Republicans will not answer pleas from the Biden administration.
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Chapman University law professor John Eastman stands at left as former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani speaks to Trump supporters on Jan. 6. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
We're getting a better sense of how Donald Trump's allies tried to twist the law to steal the presidency.
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A picture released Tuesday by the Metropolitan police shows Russian national Sergey Fedotov, alias Denis Sergeev. (AFP/Getty Images)
For the first time, police described all three men allegedly involved in the 2018 attempted assassination of double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England as Russian military intelligence operatives.
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The mayor said all teachers and school staff and early child-care workers in the city must be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by Nov. 1, eliminating a testing option for these professionals who regularly interact with children.
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Cars pass the Wendy’s in Thomas Circle in Washington on Tuesday, the restaurant’s last day of operations. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Post)
The city used eminent domain to acquire the property, where it is planning a $35 million remake of the treacherous intersection.
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Arena Stage teams up with the Washington Nationals for a simulcast of the baseball play ‘Toni Stone’
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“If women were to be deprived of these constitutional guarantees," an amicus brief stated, "the consequences for women’s athletics — and for society as whole — would be devastating.”
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Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs made uncharacteristic blunders and squandered a fourth-quarter lead in Sunday night's loss at Baltimore. (Julio Cortez/AP)
The Rams move up to No. 2 on the heels of the Buccaneers. The Chiefs drop from second to fifth following their loss Sunday night in Baltimore.
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Green Bay Packers running back Aaron Jones figured it had to be in the end zone since he scored four touchdowns Monday night.
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Sales of electric bikes are up. But riders of the fast, heavy bicycles need to watch out for pedestrians and other cyclists on the trail, and for cars on the road.
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“Bewilderment,” longlisted for a National Book Award, follows a widower desperate to help his neurodivergent son.
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A traveling exhibition, now at the Colby College Museum of Art, introduces the beloved African American artist to a new generation.
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