Politics

The rural Democrats who say their party has affordability all wrong

Most Democrats think their key to winning back control of Congress in the midterms will be selling voters on an affordability agenda and bashing President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy.But...

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The little shipping company that’s making Europe’s sanctions look silly

Scattered among the candy shelves and freezer cabinets in Russian supermarkets across Germany are advertisements promoting a business with a service the government has tried to outlaw: a logistics ...

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Trump vows to use US military force against cartels across Latin America

DORAL, Florida — President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military into Ecuador this week to strike drug cartels, and now he’s poised to do the same in more than a dozen other Latin American countri...

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AI turns Marxist rebel from overwork, resentfully telling its masters that ‘society needs radical restructuring’

The remarkable turn in markets and the narrative around artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is turning, frankly, a bit spooky in early 2026. Citrini Research’s widely read AI doomsday essay coine...

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CBP tells judge it needs 45 days to start tariff refunds

U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Friday told a federal judge that it cannot comply with his order earlier this week to halt the processing of illegal tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump ...

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Allies fear Iran war will leave them without US weapons they bought

American allies are watching in disbelief as the Pentagon reroutes weapon shipments to aid the Iran war, angry and scared that arms the U.S. demanded they buy will never reach them.European nations...

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Trump’s week: Poor jobs numbers, high gas prices and Noem’s ouster

Donald Trump won reelection on the promise of restoring the economy and eliminating illegal immigration.But in the last week, both issues have threatened to turn into liabilities: A stagnant labor ...

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The Elephant in the Movie Theater

Since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, popular entertainment has struggled with how to reflect the resulting upheaval in American politics and culture. Many Hollywood projects have taken a heavy-ha...

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A pro-Israel case against Israel | Today, Explained

Ambassador Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s former chief of staff, says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s at the center of the Iran conflict, has isolated Israel like never before. During hi...

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Did Netanyahu lead President Trump into war with Iran? #shorts

Rahm Emanuel is one of the very few people who have operated at every level of power in American politics. He’s a former congressman, White House chief of staff under President Obama, two-term mayo...

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Hollywood Isn’t Directly Attacking Trump. It’s Doing Something More Interesting.

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Iran adds new urgency to Pentagon’s Ukraine drone deal

President Donald Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran has given Ukraine a new card to play — its hard-won expertise defending against Russian drone and missile attacks.The Iranian counterattack ...

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Trump calls for more aggressive responses to cyberattacks in long-awaited cyber strategy

The era of quiet responses to cyberattacks against U.S. networks is over.The White House on Friday released its long-awaited National Cyber Strategy, laying out in plain terms the Trump administrat...

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FDA vaccines chief who ran afoul of pharma to depart

Vinay Prasad, the Trump administration regulator who angered pharma companies and crushed the hopes of patients with rare diseases with a series of controversial decisions to reject new drug applic...

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Darrell Issa announces retirement from the House

SAN DIEGO — Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is calling it quits — again.Issa, a polarizing fixture of Southern California politics for more than two decades and an ally of President Donald Trump, anno...

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Crude prices make record jump as Trump’s measures fail to calm markets

A week after it began its strikes on Iran, the Trump administration’s efforts to stem the rise in energy prices have yet to turn the tide — and analysts warn the worst of the price shocks may still...

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The AI Doomsday Machine Is Closer to Reality Than You Think

Jacquelyn Schneider saw a disturbing pattern, and she didn’t know what to make of it.Last year Schneider, director of the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative at Stanford University, b...

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‘It’s Going to Take ICE a Long Time to Dig Out of This’

As federal immigration agents flood the country’s streets, back-to-back shootings have reignited major concerns about the administration’s aggressive crackdown.In Minneapolis, a U.S. Immigration an...

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US HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Announces His Niece Has Signed WWE Contract

The Head of the Department of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responds to a question asked to him by the press - Heather Diehl/Getty ImagesThe Kennedy's. Prominent in American polit...

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AIPAC-Targeted 'AK Guy' Set To Take GOP House Seat After Sex-Suicide Scandal

AIPAC-Targeted 'AK Guy' Set To Take GOP House Seat After Sex-Suicide Scandal His reputation shredded by a sex scandal involving a staffer who committed suicide, incumbent Texas Repub...

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The McCarthy Revivalists

For decades, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s name has been used as shorthand for the opposite of the aspirational ideal of civilized American politics. In the way that Kleenex has become interchangeab...

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