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Michigan’s Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Mallory McMorrow, the Michigan Democrat running in a three-way primary to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters, has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza and now believes it is ...

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CDC endorses RFK Jr. vaccine panel recommendations

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off Monday on an outside panel’s decision to downgrade Covid-19 vaccine recommendations for Americans and to effectively eliminate the option f...

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Trump says US, Brazil will ‘do very well together’ following call with Lula

President Donald Trump spoke Monday with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, their first substantive conversation since the U.S. imposed 50 percent tariffs on Brazilian goods this summer...

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Americans remain wary of electing a female president, new poll reveals

Voters under 50 are the least open to electing a female president, and four in 10 Americans personally know someone who would not elect a woman to the White House, a new poll finds.The American Uni...

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Democrats rush to find a counterpunch to Trump's midterms crime messaging

Democrats are pushing their candidates to go on the offense on crime ahead of the 2026 midterms, seeing upside in what’s been one of their weakest electoral issues.A private polling memo that shows...

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Roy Cooper raises $14.5 million last quarter, shattering records

Roy Cooper raised $14.5 million during the first 65 days of his campaign — a record-breaking total for a Senate challenger in their first fundraising quarter in one of the most competitive races of...

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Democrats Still Have No Idea What Went Wrong

On a recent panel of progressive activists analyzing what went wrong in the 2024 election, the author, activist, and failed political candidate Qasim Rashid spoke with confidence about the way forw...

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Bitcoin surges past $125,000 amid signs it’s becoming the safe asset it was always supposed to be

Happy Uptober. Over the last 13 Octobers, Bitcoin has delivered positive returns in 10 of them, and this month it is likely to extend that streak. Over the weekend, Bitcoin crossed above $125,000 f...

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Wesley Hunt launches Senate bid, scrambling GOP primary in Texas

Rising GOP star Rep. Wesley Hunt is launching a long-shot Texas Senate bid, scrambling a heated primary between incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton.The race for ...

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Hegseth defends new restrictions: 'The Pentagon press corps can squeal all they want'

Pete Hegseth is doubling down on the Pentagon’s new restrictions for the press corps, arguing it will not change despite complaints from the press. “I think the American people se...

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Miller rips ruling blocking troop deployment to Portland: 'Egregious and thunderous' violation

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on Monday slammed a ruling blocking the deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, Ore. “A district court judge has no concei...

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Killer Robots, AI Psychosis and Nuclear War: The Pentagon’s Biggest AI Fears

AI technology is poised to transform national security. In the United States, experts and policymakers are already experimenting with large language models that can aid in strategic decision-making...

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State leaders clash with Trump administration over National Guard deployments

The Trump administration’s move to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to Democratic-led states was met with immediate backlash from state leaders who called the move unwarranted and un-Americ...

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Trump to sailors on pay held back by shutdown: 'Do not worry about it'

President Trump on Sunday told Navy sailors not to “worry about” their paychecks that are being held back by the current government shutdown. “As your commander in chief, I will always stand...

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Trump says talks with Hamas have been ‘very successful, and proceeding rapidly’

President Trump said Sunday that talks with the Palestinian militant group Hamas have been “very successful, and proceeding rapidly.” “There have been very positive discussions wit...

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Pritzker: 400 Texas National Guard headed to Illinois, Oregon

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Sunday said that hundreds of Texas National Guard members were headed to his state and Oregon and labeled it "Trump's Invasion." “This evening, President Tru...

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Judge blocks Trump’s National Guard deployment in Portland for second time

A federal judge has, for the second time in two days, blocked President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops into Oregon, ruling that the administration appeared to defy her Saturday ord...

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Shutdown threatens to drag on for days as positions harden

Buckle in — this shutdown might last a while.With federal agencies closed going into a second workweek, there are vanishingly few signs that a bipartisan breakthrough is imminent. To the contrary, ...

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John Roberts, chief for 20 years, starts another new term — with Trump, again, the main character

Will John Roberts put the brakes on the Trump train?President Donald Trump was less than two months into his second term in March when the chief justice of the United States publicly chastised him....

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New Jersey’s GOP candidate for governor makes big bet on flipping the Legislature

Jack Ciattarelli thinks he has the tailwinds to do something that Republican Gov. Chris Christie could not: flip a house of the New Jersey Legislature to Republican control.That might be easier sai...

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Duckworth slams Hegseth: 'Military could not do its job' without 'the women who serve'

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) on Sunday went after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying the military “could not do its job” without “the women who serve.” “Well, this is the leas...

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