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Democrats say Bondi won't commit to testifying in House Epstein investigation

House Democrats say Attorney General Pam Bondi is attempting to evade a congressional subpoena to testify about the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffery Epstein case.Democrats on the House ...

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California lawmakers push to strip Cesar Chavez’s name from state holiday

SACRAMENTO, California — California Latino legislative leaders are pushing to strip Cesar Chavez’s name from the official state holiday honoring his birthday following the sexual abuse allegations ...

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Tulsi Gabbard walks tightrope to avoid undercutting Trump on Iran

Tulsi Gabbard did the one thing Wednesday that she really needed to do: avoid undercutting President Donald Trump's war in Iran under oath.Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the o...

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Estonia ‘ready to talk’ on Strait of Hormuz backup

Estonia’s defense minister is open to helping the United States in its war with Iran.In an interview Tuesday evening, minister Hanno Pevkur said he was meeting with U.S. officials, including deputy...

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The Tech CEO ‘Making No Apologies for the Work With ICE’

On Monday, in a letter to shareholders announcing $476 million of profit in the third quarter of the year, Palantir CEO Alex Karp quoted the Irish poet W.B. Yeats: “Things fall apart; the center ca...

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Trump’s Economy Is Looking More and More Like Saudi Arabia’s

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Like Donald Trump, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman understands the power of personal branding. So you can’t go anywhere in the Saudi capital without seeing the face of the m...

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MAHA Is Embracing Elizabeth Holmes. Here’s Why.

The Make America Healthy Again movement may have found its next cause: justice for Theranos founder and convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes.On Oct. 31, mommy-blogger-turned-MAHA-influencer Jessica...

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This Comedian Just Showed Democrats How to Solve Their Messaging Problems

“There’s something about the term ‘sex worker’ that just feels belabored,” Gianmarco Soresi tells me. “It’s longer than hooker or prostitute.”Perhaps unsurprisingly, this subject never came up whil...

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Jeff Boyd on Cops, Teachers, and Chicago

Novelist Jeff Boyd joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about his new work of literary crime fiction, Hard Times, which is set in Chicago, where he lived previously. The h...

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‘What is he doing?’: New threats emerge for Trump’s economy as war drags on

The guardrails that protected the U.S. economy from President Donald Trump’s policy jolts are wearing thin.New economic reports show inflation is ticking higher, prompting the Federal Reserve on We...

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Pritzker helped a Black woman become senator. Some Black leaders are still mad at him.

Congressional Black Caucus members, after a stinging loss in the Illinois Democratic Senate primary, are training their ire on Gov. JB Pritzker — and saying it’s on him to rehabilitate the relation...

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8 Fault Lines That Could Spell Trouble for Trump’s Coalition

When Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, her primary task was to defend President Donald Trump’s decision to launch an u...

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MORNING GLORY: Israel is America’s best ally — we must reject the evil of antisemitism

The stunning and ominous rise in anti-Semitism in the United States cannot be disputed, but can be resisted. It is particularly the obligation of genuine Christians to participate in the repression...

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Inside the White House plan to sell the Iran war online

President Donald Trump’s hype campaign for the Iran war has demolished decades of presidential decorum around wartime messaging — and is mortifying former defense officials and members of Congress....

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Trump’s intel agencies back his claims on peace deals, Europe

The intelligence community’s latest threat assessment reinforces Trump administration narratives on immigration and global peace deals, while also laying out a stark picture of growing threats to t...

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Fight over local Facebook group pits the ACLU against a powerful NJ law firm

What started as a minor lawsuit over access to a local Facebook group in a small New Jersey city has spiraled into a fight over a state law intended to discourage powerful interests from suppressin...

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Gabbard dodges questions about foreign threats to midterms

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sidestepped questions about whether there were any credible foreign threats to U.S. elections — despite her involvement in the Trump administration’s...

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Iran and oil imperil Trump-Japan summit

The meeting between President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Washington on Thursday was meant to be a celebration involving cherry blossoms, big investment checks and an...

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‘Hard to absorb’: Chavez allegations stun Newsom, top Democrats

With a political and labor movement forged in part by Cesar Chavez stunned by the sexual abuse allegations against him, labor leaders and Democratic politicians scrambled Wednesday to reconcile the...

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‘Warrants or bust’: House hard-liners deliver ultimatum ahead of spy powers vote

Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down his right flank as he seeks to fulfill President Donald Trump’s demand to extend warrantless government surveillance powers long detested by the conservative ha...

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AI and Crypto spent nearly $20 million to reshape Illinois’s Democratic primaries. They mostly lost

The artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency industries spent big and lost often in this week’s Illinois primaries, an early setback for technology firms that are trying to reshape the midterm el...

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