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Talarico defeats Crockett in Texas Senate Democratic primary

State Rep. James Talarico won the Texas Senate Democratic primary, defeating Rep. Jasmine Crockett and giving party leaders the candidate they had quietly seen as the stronger option to flip the ru...

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Cornyn did so well that Trump could finally endorse him

Sen. John Cornyn defied expectations in the Texas GOP primary on Tuesday. National Republicans believe his unexpectedly strong showing may be enough for President Donald Trump to endorse the embatt...

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Trump to POLITICO: ‘I really don’t care’ if Iran plays in World Cup

Iran was the first team to qualify for the 2026 World Cup. But when FIFA convened a planning meeting for participating nations this week in Atlanta, Iran was the one country missing.That absence ha...

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Trump is running out of time to sell his rationale for Iran war

The Trump administration hasn’t figured out how to sell Iran — and it’s running out of time.Four days into the war, senior administration officials are only able to say what this conflict is not: I...

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Miami’s Cuban diaspora to Trump after Iran: Us next

MIAMI — South Florida’s Cuban activists want the island nation’s communist government to be the Trump administration’s next target after the death of Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and ...

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Tillis threatens to hijack Senate business amid frustrations with Noem

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) threatened Tuesday to use aggressive procedural measures to bring Senate work to a standstill if Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fails to respond to his offices’ i...

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DOJ says it will keep defending Trump’s attacks on law firms, 24 hours after saying it wouldn’t

The Justice Department told a federal appeals court Tuesday that the administration intends to continue defending President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms — a surprising revers...

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U.S. closes its Saudi, Kuwait embassies as it urges Americans to flee Middle East

U.S. embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on Tuesday announced they are closing and a senior State Department official exhorted Americans to leave the Middle East immediately, as the fallout from t...

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Trump to POLITICO: Iran is 'running out of launchers'

President Donald Trump said in an interview Tuesday that Iran was running out of crucial armaments and that he’d be open to working with some surviving members of the country’s ruling regime.In a r...

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Pete Buttigieg in the Wilderness

Read more about the Democrats who might run for president in 2028 here.In May 2001, at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, a 19-year-old freshman named Peter Buttigieg asked David Gergen, a Harvard pr...

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DOJ Briefly Abandons Trump's Unconstitutional Orders Targeting Law Firms

Last year in a series of executive orders, President Donald Trump targeted numerous law firms that had represented Democrats. Several of the...

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US considering military support for Middle East oil and gas supplies

The Trump administration is considering providing military protection to oil and gas tankers traversing the Strait of Hormuz in a bid to cool energy prices that have surged since Iran warned it wou...

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Forget Regime Change. How About Behavior Change?

As President Donald Trump himself might put it: Many people are asking if he is going for regime change in Iran.The massive U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign in the country might suggest a simple “yes,...

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‘Slugfest’: Businesses gird for battle with White House over tariff refunds

Businesses are giving up hope the Trump administration will quickly issue refunds for the billions of dollars paid in tariffs the Supreme Court invalidated last month. Now they’re lawyering up and ...

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Infiltrating the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court was once a sedate — even stately — beat for reporters. There was a predictable pace and a familiar timeline for the court’s resolution of cases through cert petitions, briefs, arg...

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The Iranian exile group that played Washington for this moment

No one in Washington has prepared for this day as long as the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, an organization of Iranian exiles who have been fighting for decades to turn their homeland into a democracy.While s...

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MORNING GLORY: Why Trump must finish what he started with Iran’s regime

President Donald Trump has proven again and again to have mastered strategic and tactical surprise in conflict, and to depend upon the military professionals advising him. Now, however, he faces a ...

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Trump officials attended election deniers’ summit

Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed the president to decla...

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How Ken Paxton MAGAfied Texas in his rise to the top

On Jan. 6, 2021, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared to a raucous crowd of President Donald Trump’s supporters, many of whom were moments away from storming the U.S. Capitol: “We will not qu...

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New Jersey’s new governor tackles ICE

Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey is picking a fight with ICE.It looks like she’s getting one.Newly sworn in and governing a state Democrats worried was slipping toward swing-state status, Sherrill...

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Iran war provides another litmus test for New York Democrats

NEW YORK — The joint U.S.-Israeli military action in Iran is creating a wedge within New York City’s Democratic ranks, with party members of various stripes offering different takes.Reactions from ...

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