Politics

What the Trump Administration Is Getting Right — and Wrong — on AI

Last week President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence policy took a fresh twist with his latest executive order, launching a “Genesis Mission” that claims to accelerate scientific research and...

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After AI push, Trump administration is now looking to robots

Five months after releasing a plan to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is turning to robots.Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been meeting with ro...

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Pentagon watchdog says Hegseth’s Signal use put troops at risk

The Pentagon inspector general found Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app to discuss sensitive Yemen strike plans risked exposing U.S. tactics and endangering troops — e...

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Electricity Should Be Free at Noon

Electricity prices are becoming an outsize issue in American politics because they themselves are legitimately outsize. Compared with the cost of consumer goods, which have been rising rapidly over...

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Watchdog finds fraudulent Obamacare signups and Republicans cry foul

A federal watchdog dropped what a top House Republican called “a bombshell” Wednesday, revealing how easy it is for fraudsters to extract Obamacare payments by setting up health insurance accounts ...

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'Some of you are probably fine with it’: Newsom confronts business elite on Trump

NEW YORK — Gavin Newsom lit into an audience full of financial power brokers here Wednesday, criticizing what he cast as their complicity with Donald Trump’s agenda.In a message designed more for t...

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GOP wins tight House race in red Tennessee district

What happenedRepublican Matt Van Epps won Tuesday’s special election in Tennessee’s deep-red 7th Congressional District, defeating Democratic state lawmaker Aftyn ...

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Progressives challenge San Francisco mayor’s embrace of CEOs

SAN FRANCISCO — Riding a city comeback narrative and a wave of popularity, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is facing a test over one of his signature strategies: leveraging his close ties to wealt...

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Three Ideas for Lowering Electricity Costs

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Obamacare subsidies expire this month. Many Republicans are shrugging.

Obamacare premiums are set to spike for tens of millions of Americans next month. Plenty of rank-and-file Republicans are happy to sit back and ride it out.Some vulnerable GOP lawmakers up for reel...

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New Hampshire Republicans contend with the Trump Era

In an era of hyperpartisanship in which battle lines are proudly drawn to entrench both the red and the blue, the idea of a robust, purple faction might sound fanciful. Purple states keep politics...

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Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat

NEW YORK — A New York City-based Republican club will honor a far-right German leader at its annual gala — just eight weeks after its statewide counterpart was disbanded over a group chat in which ...

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What Josh Shapiro Believes

It is a rare thing to see Josh Shapiro sweat. For all the grief the Pennsylvania governor gets for imitating Barack Obama—the staggered cadence, the side-of-the-mouth delivery for effect—their esse...

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Second boat strike tests GOP loyalty to Trump

Republicans have largely marched in lockstep with President Donald Trump's campaign to kill alleged drug smugglers off the coast of Latin America. But after the recent revelation of potential war c...

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Summers banned for life from prestigious economics group

The American Economic Association has banned former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers for life over his involvement with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019.The decision by one ...

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Inside the MAGA Divide Over Trump’s Venezuela Gambit

The looming threat of U.S. military intervention in Venezuela is once again exposing the rift between the Republican Party’s foreign policy hawks and its anti-interventionist wing. But the fault li...

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Regime change is back. MAGA is getting comfortable with it.

President Donald Trump built his America First movement, in part, on the promise of keeping the U.S. out of foreign entanglements.On Tuesday, he teased an imminent land strike against Venezuela and...

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US airstrike in Caribbean draws complaint before human rights watchdog

The family of a Colombian man killed in a U.S. airstrike in the Caribbean filed a formal complaint Tuesday with a multinational human rights commission accusing the Trump administration of violatin...

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Republicans want a health care plan. They don’t know what will go in it.

Republican lawmakers are looking to craft their own health care policy overhauls by the end of next week, when Senate Democrats get a vote on expiring Obamacare subsidies. So far they don’t agree o...

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Incoming New Jersey governor will work with Trump if he gets ‘on the team’

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey — Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill’s top aide on Tuesday night said the incoming New Jersey governor is willing to work with the Trump administration if they “get on the team” t...

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Elise Stefanik is Johnson’s latest challenge as he struggles to keep control of the House

Even by the high standards of chaos for the 119th Congress, Speaker Mike Johnson being accused Tuesday by a member of his own leadership team of protecting the “deep state” was a remarkable develop...

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