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White House 'looking under every rock' to lower gas prices

President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is telling his advisers to bring ideas to the Oval Office to lower gasoline prices in the wake of the U.S. attack on Iran, according to two ene...

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MORNING GLORY: Texas might be the key to saving Trump's second term agenda

On May 26, 2026, the second half of President Donald Trump’s second term may be on the ballot.Texas Senator John Cornyn held off Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to lead in the first round of the ...

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‘This L is on her’: Black lawmakers and strategists dump on Crockett

Black Democratic strategists, lawmakers and activists are frustrated that Texas Democrats rejected Jasmine Crockett as their Senate nominee Tuesday night — but they also saw it coming.Following Cro...

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Trump Keeps Gambling With the Economy — And Getting Away With It

President Donald Trump has spent his second term turning risky economic gambles into a way of life.He has implemented sweeping global tariffs that have dramatically increased the cost of doing busi...

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Senate rejects bid to scale back Iran war

The Senate rejected an attempt to rein in the war in Iran, handing President Donald Trump what amounts to an endorsement of his five-day military campaign.The 47-53 vote split largely along party l...

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Walz mocked online after GOP lawmaker floats theory in heated hearing about why Kamala Harris chose him as VP

GOP Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, blasted Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in a heated fraud hearing Wednesday during an exchange that was quickly amplified by conservatives on social media. "It's been widely r...

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Trump Officials Attended a Summit Of Election Deniers Who Want The President To Take Over The Midterms

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent...

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What to Know About Trump's AI Deal

President Donald Trump's newly released plan to shield voters from rising electricity costs tied to the data center boom faces a host of questions — most fundamentally: Does it have any chance of w...

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Inside the Trump administration’s scramble to support its own war

The State Department is adding resources to evacuate stranded Americans in the Middle East, and the Pentagon is scrambling to increase the number of U.S. troops gathering intelligence for operation...

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Nervous Republicans rally behind Cornyn as they wait on Trump’s Texas pick

President Donald Trump is signaling he will soon endorse someone in the Texas primary. Key Republican players are scrambling to make the case for incumbent John Cornyn — and hoping Trump acts fast....

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Israel says it knocked out Iran’s cyber warfare headquarters

The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday said it bombed a compound in Tehran housing Iran’s cyber warfare headquarters — but it’s unclear whether the strike will significantly kneecap Iran’s cyberatt...

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‘We’re in it’: Democrats won’t rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war

Some Democrats aren’t ruling out voting for a multibillion-dollar military infusion, setting up a potential internal clash in the weeks ahead for a party whose political base is aghast at President...

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Sen. Steve Daines announces he will not seek reelection

Montana Sen. Steve Daines will not seek reelection, he announced Wednesday, adding to a wave of retirements in the GOP ranks.Daines’ announcement makes him the sixth Republican senator to choose no...

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Things Are About to Get Ugly in Texas

In the end, it wasn’t particularly close. Democrats in last night’s Texas Senate primary decisively chose their fighter for November: James Talarico, a 36-year-old state lawmaker who looks—and soun...

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Harvard sidesteps Hegseth’s ban on military students

Harvard University will allow active-duty troops to defer their admission for up to four years in response to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ban on academic involvement with the school — a rebuke...

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Why The GOP Could Defy Precedent And Win The Midterms

Why The GOP Could Defy Precedent And Win The Midterms Historically, the party in power almost always loses seats in midterm elections. There are only two exceptions to this rule. In ...

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'Substantial reason to believe' Tony Gonzales had sex with his staffer, House probe finds

Congressional investigators have found “a substantial reason to believe” that Rep. Tony Gonzales had a sexual relationship with a subordinate — an apparent violation of House rules.POLITICO exclusi...

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Trump Is Expected to Endorse Cornyn

Updated at 3:18 p.m. ET on March 4, 2026.President Trump’s political advisers expect him to endorse Senator John Cornyn in Texas’s May 26 Republican-primary runoff election following the incumbent’...

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Trump says he will endorse ‘soon’ in Texas GOP Senate primary — and he wants the other guy to drop out

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will be endorsing a candidate in the Texas GOP Senate primary in the near future, adding that he will ask the other candidate to step aside.Texas Sen. John ...

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Texas Latinos turned out in massive numbers for Democrats

Latino voters flocked to Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Texas in droves, reversing a long-running erosion for the party ahead of this year’s pivotal midterms.The numbers were dramatic: In five dif...

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‘We Could See Triple-Digit Oil Prices’: Inside the Iran War Fallout

President Donald Trump once won the loyalty of his base by promising no new wars. That promise now rings hollow for many, especially after his decision to strike Iran last week.Since the attacks be...

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