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Appeals court rejects ICE detention policy, setting stage for SCOTUS

A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected ICE’s effort to detain millions of people without bond, comparing it to the “historical stain” of Japanese internment during World War II.“Mass detentio...

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Republican chief election officials say it is too late to implement Trump’s mail ballot order

Republican chief election officials from seven states said that it’s too late for President Donald Trump’s mail-in ballot order to be implemented before the midterm election, urging the Supreme Cou...

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Trump’s Dream World in Dallas

Photographs by Joseph RushmorePresident Trump began his midterm-convention address last night by casting his spell on the crowd in Dallas. “This place is packed,” he announced from the stage, point...

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Bad actors in China and Russia are already weaponizing Anthropic’s AI

Killer drones. Mass surveillance. Bioweapons.Artificial intelligence threats that might have seemed like science fiction nightmares just a year ago are much closer to reality today, according to AI...

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[Thursday 5am] Trump puts himself back on the ballot: 5 takeaways from GOP midterm convention Night 1

DALLAS — Facing a difficult political environment as Republicans fight to hold their congressional majorities, President Donald Trump used his address at the first-ever GOP midterm convention to un...

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MORNING GLORY: DSA Democrats' radical plan to reshape America starts with the Supreme Court

In 1863, as the Civil War raged and its result was not yet certain, Congress for the first time raised the number of justices on the Supreme Court to 10. The Tenth Circuit Act was approved on March...

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Mamdani and Trump underscore a shift in 9/11 discourse 25 years later

NEW YORK — Each year on the anniversary of Sept. 11, politicians of various stripes join victims’ families for a commemoration ceremony in downtown Manhattan, putting aside partisan beef and pledgi...

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Why so many incumbents lost primaries this year

It’s been a bad year to be an incumbent.Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee’s ouster on Wednesday, the first primary defeat for an incumbent governor in eight years, caps off a primary season that’s seen l...

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The Election Deniers’ Long Game

In the anxious days following President Trump’s 2020 election loss—before his supporters stormed the Capitol, before his vengeful return to the White House, before the mass pardons for cop beaters—...

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Trump Is Preparing for a Long War

To hear the Trump administration tell it, the war with Iran is all but over. U.S. military posture tells a different story: Naval forces are being positioned for a sustained presence at least throu...

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House panel to probe foreign ‘Trojan horses’ as Singham scrutiny widens

FIRST ON FOX: Congressional scrutiny of foreign influence operations in the United States is widening, with a powerful panel of lawmakers set to hold a hearing next week examining how nonprofits an...

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California’s health care reckoning could soon become Becerra’s problem

MADERA, California — Xavier Becerra kept coming back to one figure as he toured a Central Valley dental clinic.“If $200,000 was all it took to get you guys going, I can figure out where to get that...

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Court Packing Is a Bad Idea. But It's Still Constitutional.

Article III, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution says that "the judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, an...

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How Brazilian Cinema Survived Fascism

When writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho was on a press junket with his sensational genre-twisting, furiously satirical 2019 film, Bacurau, Brazilian cinema was in a state of crisis. Jair Bolsona...

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How Georgia's GOP learned to love solar

CARTERSVILLE, Georgia — The solar industry is converting Republican politicians one factory at a time.President Donald Trump has called solar power “the scam of the century” in his effort to roll b...

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Sam Altman pitches utilities on AI grid defense

OpenAI has met with representatives of multiple top power companies to discuss methods of securing the electrical grid, the artificial intelligence firm told POLITICO — conversations that occurred ...

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9/11 and Tampa: Two weeks that reshaped Australian politics

CANBERRA — September 2001 presented John Howard with both the greatest opportunity and the greatest crisis of his first five years as Australia’s prime minister.Howard was the only foreign leader i...

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Jim Jordan says he will relinquish Judiciary gavel, pass on a return to Oversight

DALLAS — Rep. Jim Jordan said Wednesday he plans to end his eight-year run leading Republicans on two of the House’s most prominent committees after this Congress, raising fresh questions about wha...

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‘We are going in the wrong direction’: Republican convention dogged by the cost of living

DALLAS — Republicans are panicking that President Donald Trump's policies are drowning out their cost-of-living message — and that it may be too close to the election to fix it.GOP lawmakers and ca...

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Fetterman touts McCormick in surprise video appearance at GOP convention

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman praised fellow Pennsylvania Sen. David McCormick, a Republican, in a video that aired Wednesday at the GOP convention in Dallas, using his appearance to distance hims...

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All the Places Trump Was on 9/11

Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET on September 9, 2026Where were you on 9/11? Every American old enough to remember the day has an answer to that question. President Trump has several.At a ceremony honoring ...

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