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Mitch McConnell’s Teachable Moment

Mitch McConnell has not grown subtler with time.“He's got some pretty rabid isolationists over at DoD — you could argue the vice president is in that group,” the 83-year-old former Senate Republica...

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California donors cool on Kamala Harris: ‘No one is incredibly pumped.’

LOS ANGELES — Kamala Harris is ramping up her outreach to longtime supporters as she weighs a run for California governor. But many Democratic donors aren’t enthusiastic, still hobbled by the hango...

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Cyberattacks shake voters’ trust in elections, regardless of party

An election worker installs a touchscreen voting machine. Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesAmerican democracy runs on trust, and that trust is cracking. Nearly half of Americans, both Democrats and Rep...

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Murphy: Trump administration knew Gabbard ‘wasn’t going to toe the line’ at Iran briefing

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday suggested Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was disinvited from a Capitol Hill briefing on the U.S. strikes in Iran because she has n...

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Focus, No Distractions, and Grind

Is Eric Adams actually a good orator? "This is a city not of socialism," said New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a speech yesterday, referring to his challenger Zohran Mamdani's recent win in the De...

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Trump Knows Iran Has Wanted Him Dead

Hours before launching B-2 bombers at Iran, President Donald Trump stood on a secured airport tarmac 40 miles west of Manhattan, under the watchful guard of the U.S. Secret Service and a militarize...

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Hegseth reveals new name for USNS Harvey Milk

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the USNS Harvey Milk will be renamed in honor of a decorated Navy chief petty officer. The fleet replenishment oiler will now b...

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She Delivered Intelligence Briefs to Trump. Here’s Her Reality Check on the Iran Strikes.

In the hours after U.S. warplanes struck three Iranian nuclear facilities, President Donald Trump was quick to announce that the country’s key nuclear enrichment facilities had been “totally oblite...

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Trump claims Iran’s nuclear program has been ‘obliterated.’ Senate Republicans aren’t entirely convinced.

A number of Senate Republicans exited an afternoon briefing on U.S. airstrikes in Iran not quite ready to endorse President Donald Trump’s claim that Tehran’s nuclear program was “obliterated.”Trum...

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Mamdani prepares for the fight ahead

NEW YORK — Zohran Mamdani’s team knows he’s got a fight ahead of him.The 33-year-old democratic socialist’s aides and allies are girding for a costly battle in November against opponents bankrolled...

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The California climate export catching fire in Trump’s DC

California’s wildfire tech companies are seizing their D.C. moment as Congress and President Donald Trump eye sweeping fire reforms.Representatives from Truckee, Calif.-based forest mapping company...

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The administration is struggling to back up Trump’s bold claims on Iran strikes

The Trump administration is running into a problem as it touts the U.S. strikes in Iran as an unqualified triumph: It hasn’t yet provided clear evidence to prove it.The effort began after a prelimi...

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Inside Andrew Cuomo’s flat, flailing comeback bid

NEW YORK — Andrew Cuomo was a cable TV candidate in a TikTok world.He launched a doomed bid for New York City mayor with a 17-minute announcement video — giving little heed to decaying attention sp...

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‘Forest fire’: Corporate America’s bitcoin buying spree fuels concern

Corporate America is finally embracing bitcoin. That has even some cryptocurrency boosters nervous.In the latest sign of how President Donald Trump’s election has changed the perception of the digi...

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Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy says ‘democracy is at risk’

Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned Thursday that acrimonious political discourse and threats to judges are eroding the ability of the United States to serve as an example of democr...

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We Have All Become Too Comfortable With Corruption

For years, we’ve written about the concept of “soft corruption,” which is the idea that there are certain actions that may not mean the full definition of corrupt practices in the legal sense, but ...

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Eric Adams kicks off reelection campaign seeking improbable comeback story

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams kicked off his long-shot reelection campaign with a rally on the steps of City Hall Thursday, slamming likely Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani as out of touch and inexp...

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Megabill threatens to languish as challenges pile up

Republicans aren’t panicking about their fraying domestic policy bill. But they aren’t exactly sure about how it’s all going to come together, either.Senate Republicans emerged from a closed-door l...

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Axelrod: Iran intel drama driven by Trump's 'unquenchable thirst for credit'

Democratic political strategist David Axelrod said the drama over the U.S.’s recent strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and the intel surrounding the outcome has been driven by President...

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Tulsi Gabbard Chooses Loyalty to Trump

Tulsi Gabbard believed she had found her people. The Trump White House would be a place where “America First” isolationism ruled. No one would make the hurtful suggestion that her talking points so...

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MAGA supporters more likely to back Iran strikes than traditional Republicans: Poll

Supporters of the MAGA movement are more likely than traditional Republicans to back the U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, according to a new poll from NBC News Decision Desk...

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