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By Elizabeth Dias, Gabriel Blanco, Nikolay Nikolov and Claire Hogan•July 30, 2025
The I.R.S. said that churches could endorse candidates from the pulpit, a change in a longstanding interpretation of American nonprofit law. Elizabeth Dias, the national religion correspondent for The New York Times, describes how and why it happened.
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