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Catherine Cortez Masto draws Democratic ire amid shutdown fight

Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto, celebrated for her narrow victory three years ago that secured Democrats’ control of the Senate, is now being cast as a traitor by members of her own party.She is o...

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Hegseth fires top Navy official

Defense Secretary Pete Hesgeth on Friday fired Navy chief of staff Jon Harrison, an unusually powerful top aide who had orchestrated a reshuffle of the service’s bureaucracy.The sudden ouster, acco...

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Government flying partially blind to threats after key cyber law expires

A key law that helps the federal government guard against cyber threats to U.S. critical systems expired as the government shut down on Wednesday, partially blinding Washington to attacks from adve...

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My Plan to Become a Debate Bro and DESTROY My Online Enemies

Andrew Wilson peers into the camera. A conservative online debater known for viral videos dunking on liberals, he’s wearing a black shirt in front of a black background. Smoke floats around him.“Yo...

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US Special Operations Command general retires

The head of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), Gen. Bryan Fenton, retired from his role Friday. “As I hand over the reins, I do so with the utmost confidence in your abili...

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Hegseth says 4 killed in latest strike on 'narco-trafficking vessel'

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. military killed four "narco-terrorists" on a boat he said was carrying narcotics off the coast of Venezuela on Friday morning, the latest stri...

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Trump sets foreign policy agenda for his successor

When President Donald Trump delivered a nearly hour-long address to world leaders last week at the United Nations General Assembly, he spoke with another, more select audience in mind: JD Vance, Ma...

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Supreme Court opens with cases that test the limits of a constitutional revolution

The most influential cases before the U.S. Supreme Court this term, which begins on Oct. 6, 2025, reflect the cultural and partisan clashes of American politics. The major cases in October and Nov...

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Mamdani protested new jails. Now he’s committing to building them.

NEW YORK — Right before Zohran Mamdani launched his first run for state Assembly, he shamed New York City Council members who voted to close the notorious Rikers Island jail complex. Not for voting...

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A small Jesuit school in Denver has quietly become a pipeline for powerful Republicans surrounding Trump

A Catholic university nestled in the Rocky Mountains has quietly produced a surprising number of figures who now occupy influential positions within President Donald Trump’s political sphere and th...

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Putin: Possible supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine threatens US relationship with Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that any supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine would threaten the U.S. relationship with Russia, but that Moscow’s defense systems will s...

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Trump targets Chicago transit money in latest shutdown fight salvo

Federal funding for Chicago Transit Authority improvements is the latest target in the Trump administration's pressure campaign on Democrats to reopen the government — the second large-scale infras...

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White House downplays war declaration against drug smugglers

The White House insisted Thursday that President Donald Trump was merely explaining the legality of his actions — not setting new policy — when he told Congress that the nation is engaged in an “ar...

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A Government Shutdown, Weaponized

Thirty-four days into the previous government shutdown, in 2019, reporters asked President Donald Trump if he had a message for the thousands of federal employees who were about to miss another pay...

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White House to furlough a third of its staff but DOGE stays on the job

The Trump administration is sparing DOGE and much of the Office of Management and Budget amid a government shutdown that has furloughed tens of thousands of government workers across the country.A ...

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George Washington’s Worries Are Coming True

The United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the country’s founding document, in 2026. Twenty years later, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary...

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‘They're causing real harm’: Kevin Hassett on the Dems' shutdown standoff

Kevin Hassett is the director of the National Economic Council and arguably the economist closest to President Donald Trump. Right now, he’s also one of the top advisers tasked with explaining the...

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Jeanne Shaheen is Democrats’ shutdown whisperer

If Republicans want to quickly bring the government shutdown to an end, they will need to get one particularly formidable Senate Democrat on board.New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has emerged as a...

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6 Shutdown Veterans on How to Win the Blame Game

Using a government shutdown as a political bargaining tactic was popularized in 1995 by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and conventional wisdom holds that it backfired on his party. So ever sin...

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Trump turns shutdown into weapon against blue America

LOS ANGELES —The government shutdown is opening a new front in Donald Trump's scorched-earth approach to power, with the president weaponizing the impasse to punish heavily-Democratic cities and st...

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Tesla vehicle sales made a comeback last quarter. Will a lost EV tax credit end the rebound?

During a rough week for electric-vehicle makers in the U.S., Tesla investors got at least one piece of good news on Thursday. The EV maker reported a pronounced increase in sales—better numbers tha...

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