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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The FBI is buying up information that can be used to track people’s movement and location history, Director Kash Patel said during a Senate hearing Wednesday.It is the first confirmation that the a...
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Read more about the Democrats who might run for president in 2028 here.A touch of annoyance flashes across Cory Booker’s face as we talk about fighting. “Why do people preemptively, continually, mi...
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Hopes for a quick vote on Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s nomination as Homeland Security secretary hang on questions about secretive travel the Oklahoma Republican undertook as a House member a decade ago...
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A Democrat-backed Virginia law restricting how colleges review applicants’ criminal histories is facing renewed scrutiny after the Old Dominion University attack, with former Attorney General Jason...
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Sen. Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump’s pick to replace Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary, stressed Wednesday to his colleagues on the Senate Homeland Security Committee that he’ll...
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Will Republicans Fight For The SAVE Act - Or Fold Again? Authored by Heather Higgins via RealClearPolitics, Republicans didn’t win the Senate so their leaders could manage expecta...
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The following is a lightly edited transcript of the March 18 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presente...
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Over the next several days, perhaps even stretching into next week, the United States Senate, that grave and august deliberative body, will performatively waste time with impassioned speeches over ...
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Senate Homeland Security Chair Rand Paul laid into President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Homeland Security on Wednesday, telling Sen. Markwayne Mullin at his confirmation hearing that disparaging ...
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California’s Latino leaders were stunned Tuesday by reports that the late Cesar Chavez, a civil-rights and labor icon, had been accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with young women and minors....
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CHICAGO — Former Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. fell short in his attempt to return to Congress on Tuesday, after resigning more than a decade ago amid a federal corruption investigation.Cook Coun...
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Chief Justice John Roberts defended the Supreme Court on Tuesday against a sustained flurry of attacks President Donald Trump recently unleashed against the justices for striking down the core of h...
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CHICAGO — Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss won Tuesday’s Democratic primary to succeed Rep. Jan Schakowsky, dealing a blow to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in a race that had turned into a...