Politics

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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The awkward truth dogging USMCA talks: 'They just hate Canada.'

One year into the trade war, Canadians are feeling more patriotic and more convinced the United States is a worse place under Donald Trump. And as the president dangles the fate of North American f...

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Judges fear immigration hearings are becoming a charade

For months, the Trump administration has been engaged in an unprecedented campaign to lock up thousands of immigrants with longstanding roots in the United States. And for months, aghast federal ju...

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Trump’s war aim: Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’

President Donald Trump outlined his administration’s ultimate goal for the war in Iran on Friday: “unconditional surrender” by the Islamic Republic’s leaders.In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote tha...

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‘Ugly’: Trump’s job market shrinks as oil fears mount

Oil prices are spiking, and the job market is contracting. That’s a dangerous combination for President Donald Trump as Republicans gear up for midterm elections that will be defined by concern abo...

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Zohran Mamdani’s Millionaire Tax Is Extremely Popular

Taxing the rich in New York, as Zohran Mamdani has proposed, isn’t just right and necessary. New polling shows a strong majority support making the wealthy pay, suggesting that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s ...

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‘We Need to Do McCarthyism to the Tenth Power’

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Trump’s surgeon general pick is taking heat from both advocates and opponents of vaccines

Casey Means, President Donald Trump’s pick for surgeon general, has achieved an unlikely feat: uniting vaccine skeptics and mainstream medical advocates against her nomination.Activists in both cam...

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Why Kristi Noem's ouster could mean trouble for Pam Bondi

Attorney General Pam Bondi was already in trouble with congressional Republicans. Now she could be facing an even more existential threat to her political future after President Donald Trump ousted...

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Pete Hegseth’s Troubled Soul

CERTAIN MOMENTS are worth paying attention to because they reveal something essential about a person. They act as windows into an individual’s psychological state, their ethics, the orders of their...

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Newsom’s warning to Mamdani: ‘I know how this love story ends, Zohran’

Gavin Newsom on Thursday cautioned Zohran Mamdani — who has developed a surprisingly amicable relationship with Donald Trump — against getting played by the president.The California governor was pr...

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Republicans confront the massive cost of Trump’s Middle East war

Republicans on Capitol Hill are preparing to confront a staggering price tag for the war in the Middle East after closed-door briefings this week detailed the rapid consumption of expensive munitio...

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Trump’s trade war has hurt farmers. There are new warning signs for Republicans.

President Donald Trump promised a “golden age” of American agriculture. Farm-state Republicans are feeling pressure to make a down payment before the midterms.Over the past five months, the Trump a...

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The New York Race That’s Ground Zero for the Fight Over AI

NEW YORK CITY — Alex Bores had known for a while that a political operation called Leading the Future, funded by artificial-intelligence industry leaders, would be coming after him in his race to r...

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Mamdani’s Sunnyside Yard push illustrates shift on housing

NEW YORK — Six years ago, left-leaning New York City Democrats blasted a plan to build a gleaming megaproject atop a Queens rail yard. Now, their new standard-bearer, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, wants to...

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Dems aren’t sure whether to actually spend big to flip Texas

It didn’t take long for Democrats’ hopes of flipping Texas to dim.Enthusiasm remains high for the party’s Senate nominee, James Talarico, but national Democrats aren’t sure how far they should go t...

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Top Mamdani aide takes progressive project to the UK

NEW YORK — Morris Katz, a top adviser to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, quietly traveled to the United Kingdom last month to meet with local progressive politicians hoping to learn tools of th...

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