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Canadian lawmaker removed from position after backing bill targeting arms exports to Israel Submitted by MEE staff o...
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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — In late August, Avi Loeb, the world’s most renowned scientist hunting for extraterrestrials on earth, traveled to the inner sanctum of American intelligence operations in...
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President Donald Trump informed congressional leaders Friday that he has unilaterally canceled almost $1 billion in federal funding without Congress’ consent — employing a budget maneuver many lawm...
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OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models accessed the websites of the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission and unsuccessfully attempted to infiltrate the Education Departme...
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Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said Republicans are better at pushing positive and negative narratives than Democrats on Thursday and warned his party that its 2028 nominee will need ...
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President Donald Trump said Friday that he will not pick Scott Bessent to serve as his new czar for artificial intelligence — pouring cold water on a rumor that the Treasury secretary was poised to...
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A few tentative displays of independence among Republicans have expanded in recent days into a stampede, as candidates furiously distance themselves from President Trump ahead of the midterm electi...
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TRENTON, New Jersey — New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell has resigned just eight months into his term, following the release of an internal investigation that found he had engaged in ethics violatio...
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House Democrats’ health policy wishlist, should the party have a majority next year, includes winning over Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s followers, alongside rolling back what Republican...
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President Donald Trump is hitting the campaign trail — and a series of his stops are in deep-red states he comfortably won in 2024.Trump will campaign in Iowa, Florida, Texas and Alaska ahead of El...
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The Supreme Court has again blocked a Republican gerrymander from being used in Missouri in November’s midterms, rebuffing GOP attempts to pick up an extra House seat by redrawing the map to oust a...
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The Trump administration can blacklist AI firm Anthropic from all Pentagon contracts, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, in a decision that expands the executive branch’s authority to designate ...
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Trump administration officials are weighing alternatives to imposing a ban on diesel exports to bring prices for the fuel down from record highs — including passing the issue down to the state leve...
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President Donald Trump’s lavish summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping bought the White House time — and little else.Shortly after Xi touched down in Washington Wednesday night, Treasury Secretary S...
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The leaders of Senate Democrats’ flagship super PAC are “actively thinking” about whether to wade into Kansas and other even redder states as the party looks to leverage an increasingly favorable e...
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President Donald Trump is not making it easy for Republicans in Florida to keep their firewall.The same forces undercutting the GOP in other states — including Trump’s war in Iran and ensuing high ...
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This is a lightly edited transcript of the September 24 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.Perry Bacon: And I’m Per...
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian flatly denied Thursday that Tehran wants a nuclear bomb while claiming Iran is willing to submit its nuclear program for international inspection, blaming Washin...
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President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign is running into resistance within his own voter coalition, as more and more Republican candidates publicly break with him ahead of the November el...
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The campaign-style ad starts with grainy video footage of President Trump, followed by a clearer look at his red-bathed profile, as his voice promises: “Together, we will defeat communism, socialis...
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Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey is calling on her handpicked lieutenant governor to resign after a monthslong, closely guarded internal investigation found he engaged in behavior that “constitute...