Politics

MORNING GLORY: Two years later, the world still fails to grasp Israel's 10/7 horror

On this, the second anniversary of the massacre in Israel following the invasion from Gaza by Hamas and other terrorists, all commentaries about that day of horrors, should begin by recalling the s...

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Cuomo paints Mamdani’s backers as extremists. Mamdani frames Cuomo’s as oligarchs.

NEW YORK — Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has attacked rival Andrew Cuomo for months over his “Trump-backed” donors. Now, Cuomo is following suit, but with a twist.Instead of tagging the frontrun...

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Senate votes for fifth time against advancing legislation to end the shutdown

The Senate is trapped in a shutdown Groundhog’s Day with no end in sight.Senators rejected dueling stopgap spending bills Monday for the fifth time as lawmakers show few signs of nearing a detente ...

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The voters who will swing California’s Prop 50 battle

Both sides in the battle over Proposition 50 believe they have the winning formula to engage the state’s sizable Latino electorate: To focus their messaging on abuses of power by corrupt politician...

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FBI cuts ties with Southern Poverty Law Center after MAGA push

The FBI announced Friday that it had severed ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights watchdog group, after a push from MAGA allies on social media.Elon Musk called the group — a l...

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‘Dial it down’: California forces Netflix, Hulu to lower ad volume

SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a law banning excessively loud advertisements on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime that could become a de facto nat...

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I Watched Every Pam Bondi Speech — And Found a Justice Department in Trump’s Shadow

In just eight months on the job, Attorney General Pam Bondi has presided over a period of profound transition at the Justice Department — overseeing mass firings and internal reorganizations, an un...

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Mass firing threats don’t faze Democrats

President Donald Trump said Monday he’s on the verge of enacting mass firings of federal workers. But Democrats say it won’t make them budge in the increasingly rancorous shutdown standoff.The mass...

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Gavin Newsom’s new headache? A Democrat from Silicon Valley

SAN FRANCISCO — Gavin Newsom has a new tormentor, and it’s not a Trump follower, let alone a Republican. It’s the Democratic mayor of San Jose, the largest city in the famously progressive Bay Area...

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Trump administration weighs selling parts of $1.6T federal student loan portfolio

Trump administration officials are exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government's $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market, according to three people familiar wit...

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Green power is sometimes the cheapest power — despite what Trump says

States that embrace renewable energy are far more likely to save money for electricity consumers than those relying on fossil fuels or nuclear power, a POLITICO analysis of federal and industry dat...

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‘Where Money Goes to Die’: Advice for Trump From a ‘Shark Tank’ Investor

Kevin O’Leary, known to many as Mr. Wonderful on the “Shark Tank” business reality show, has little time for politics. He cares about the money.“I look at policy. You can’t make money with a politi...

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Schiff, Kaine look to force vote on 'narco-trafficking' boat strikes as soon as this week

Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Tim Kaine (Va.) are looking to force a vote as soon as this week on a resolution to prevent the U.S. military from conducting strikes against ves...

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MAGA-Lite: What “Bari Weiss Conservatism” Is, and Why It’s Dangerous

The ascent of Bari Weiss, who Paramount announced on Monday will be editor-in-chief of CBS News, at first glance seems like a media story. But it’s really a story about American politics and the tw...

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White House: Trump is not talking to Democrats

President Donald Trump is not talking to Democrats as the government shutdown grinds into its second workweek.Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday the president had spoken to Speaker Mike J...

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Trump, Vance return to TikTok after monthslong hiatus

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance returned to TikTok on Monday for the first time since the 2024 election, putting an end to their nearly yearlong hiatus from the app as the admini...

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Trump open to invoking the Insurrection Act

President Donald Trump on Monday said he would consider using the Insurrection Act to deploy the military if federal courts prevented him from deploying the National Guard to protect federal buildi...

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Courts confront militarized cities as Trump tests the waters with National Guard deployments

Los Angeles. Washington, D.C. Memphis. Portland. Chicago.The militarization of American cities isn’t arriving with a parade of tanks. It’s a trickle of National Guard deployments — a slow-motion pr...

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Judges appointed by Trump keep ruling against him. He’s not happy about it.

When a Donald Trump-appointed judge delivered a stinging rejection of his effort to put National Guard troops on the ground in Portland, the president had some regrets.“I wasn’t served well by the ...

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As Money Rushed In, ICE’s Rapid Expansion Stalled Out

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Few provisions in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act were as thrilling to immigration hard-...

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Stephen Miller Is Going for Broke

Stephen Miller spent his weekend, as he is wont to do, describing American politics as if the nation were in the advanced stages of civil war and as if he were dictating a message while racing to a...

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