Politics

After air travel chaos, FAA shuts down — again

The Federal Aviation Administration is shut down — less than three months after the last spending interruption prompted an air travel nightmare for American flyers.This time, the appropriations lap...

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The World Cup’s biggest policy bet

The self-described socialist mayor of Seattle has responded to President Donald Trump’s threat to remove World Cup matches from her city with an audacious gesture of her own: a mission to find hous...

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The West’s water war arrives in Washington

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum stepped into the seven-state brawl over the Colorado River on Friday — a high-stakes battle over water supplies that poses significant political danger in Western swi...

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ICE halted its surge in Maine. The state might not be quick to forget.

BANGOR, Maine — The federal immigration crackdown in Maine may have ended, but the political fallout could continue to reverberate through the 2026 election.Democratic Gov. Janet Mills launched her...

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Trump is pressuring Cuba. It’s putting Mexico in a tough spot.

President Donald Trump’s increasingly overt attempts to bring down the Cuban government are forcing Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum into a delicate diplomatic dance.Mexico is the U.S.’s largest ...

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Judge rejects bid to end Trump administration’s immigration-enforcement surge in Minnesota

A federal judge has rejected a bid by state and local officials in Minnesota to end Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration’s massive deployment of thousands of federal agents to aggressive...

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2nd Amendment advocates issue dire warning over Trump’s Pretti gun remarks

Second Amendment advocates are warning that Republicans shouldn’t count on them to show up in November, after President Donald Trump insisted that demonstrator Alex Pretti “should not have been car...

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Houston runoff sets up next Democratic generational fight

HOUSTON — House Republicans’ slim majority will be even leaner after Saturday, when Democrats vote to fill the Texas seat left open when Rep. Sylvester Turner unexpectedly died last year.But the vo...

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New documents reveal the breadth of Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit

The Justice Department’s Friday release of its investigative materials related to Jeffrey Epstein is packed with details about his ties to the most powerful figures in politics, tech and global aff...

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Senate passes $1.2T government funding deal — but a brief shutdown is certain

The Senate passed a compromise spending package Friday, clearing a path for Congress to avert a lengthy government shutdown.The 71-29 vote came a day after Senate Democrats and President Donald Tru...

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Don Lemon vows to fight charges in First Amendment showdown with Trump

LOS ANGELES — A defiant Don Lemon made his first court appearance Friday, vowing afterward to fight federal criminal charges stemming from his role at a immigration protest in a case that has explo...

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Trump’s immigration agenda is colliding with a midterms reality

President Donald Trump rose to power on his immigration agenda. Now, it’s threatening to box him in.After months of aggressive enforcement actions meant to telegraph strength on one of the Republic...

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Charted: Global Attitudes Towards China and the U.S.

Charted: Global Attitudes Towards China and the U.S. This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a ...

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‘It’s a Five-Alarm Fire’

For years, they defended American elections from all threats, foreign and domestic. But this week, veterans of federal law enforcement were forced to look on as the U.S. electoral system came under...

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Meet the New Proud Boys

“We’ve kind of gotten what we want, right? There’s no reason to fucking protest,” Enrique Tarrio, a longtime leader of the Proud Boys, told me earlier this week over the phone while he was taking a...

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How Minneapolis Looks From the Police Chief’s Squad Car

The Minneapolis police cruiser was heading south toward sections of the city hit hardest by recent immigration raids. I was riding with the city’s police chief, Brian O’Hara. How candidly, I asked ...

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The Case Against Don Lemon Is Junk, and Dangerous

One year in, the Trump administration has amassed a startling record of hostility toward open public discourse—including barring journalists from the White House press pool, evicting any less-than-...

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Justice Department defends Tulsi Gabbard’s presence at Atlanta election search

A top Justice Department official defended Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s presence as the FBI seized 2020 election ballots from a warehouse outside Atlanta earlier this week.Demo...

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Why is Tulsi Gabbard trying to relitigate the 2020 election now?

When FBI agents raided election offices in Georgia on Wednesday looking for evidence of fraud in the 2020 presidential election, there was a surprising figure in t...

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Democratic governors scramble to build a legal wall against Trump’s deportation agenda

ALBANY, New York — Democratic governors are racing to erect new legal barriers to President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation strategy, limiting the reach of federal immigration officials in th...

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DOJ opens civil rights investigation into Pretti shooting, Blanche says

The Department of Justice is conducting a civil rights investigation into the killing of Alex Pretti, who was shot by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis last week, Deputy Attorney General To...

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