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‘A revolution in slow motion’: is Arizona’s wealthiest district finally done with Trump?

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Circumstances are ripe for change in this onetime Republican stronghold given the current dissatisfaction with Trump agenda, experts say Donald Trump has repeatedly asked voters to pretend that he is on the ballot in November’s crucial midterm elections. And in the comfortable confines of Arizona’s most affluent and fiercely contested congressional district, Trump is definitely on voters’ minds. But whether that helps or hurts the warring congressional candidates in this sun-drenched swath of suburbia, where Teslas and walled-in luxury homes dominate,…

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Dolores Huerta, labor activist and civil rights icon, dies at 96

Dolores Huerta, the labor activist and civil rights leader who co-founded with Cesar Chavez the group that later became the United Farm Workers, has died, her family said in a statement posted to social media . She was 96. Huerta's family said in a statement through her foundation that she died Wednesday at home. "As you can imagine, this is an incredibly difficult time for us, and we ask for privacy as we grieve this incredible loss to our family," the family said. "We know that many of you around the world share in our mourning."

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‘Like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory’: was Obama’s joke about Trump’s interior design ‘elitist’?

The ex-president has been accused of ‘snobbery’ by the Maga set rushing to defend the restaurant chain and its ‘affordable opulence’ Around lunchtime on Tuesday, a Rolls-Royce stopped at the intersection of Beverly Drive and Dayton Way in Beverly Hills, California. Local people in athleisure walked past Balenciaga, Dior and Prada boutiques, as visitors on Hollywood bus tours ogled nearby Rodeo Drive, where Burberry and Louis Vuitton shops meet at a celebrated street corner. Up the street, across from the upmarket Erewhon grocery store – home to $21…