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Senate Republicans in no hurry to deliver Trump’s next reconciliation bill

President Donald Trump is calling for Republicans to pass a $350 billion bill to fund the military while notching conservative policy victories — and GOP senators aren’t exactly scurrying to action...

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‘They barely check the box of trying’: Trump frustrated GOP isn’t following his roadmap

President Donald Trump believes he handed Republicans a winning playbook for the midterms — if only they’d follow it.Gerrymander everywhere possible, get rid of the filibuster, fire the Senate parl...

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How Trump's Anthropic move is testing the legal limits of tech restrictions

President Donald Trump’s action cutting off foreign access to Anthropic’s most powerful AI models is stretching the legal limits of government control on tech exports. It’s a warning for other AI c...

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A win for clean energy or fossil fuels? The Iran war could lead to both.

American gas guzzlers versus Chinese electric vehicles. Renewables versus oil and natural gas.The Iran war has often been portrayed as a winner-takes-all grudge match in the global contest between ...

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‘Un-American’: Democrats attack Trump’s uneven disaster response

Democratic senators Wednesday attacked President Donald Trump’s approach to disseminating disaster aid as “unconscionable,” “shameful” and “un-American.”At a confirmation hearing for Trump’s nomine...

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Georgia Republicans scrap current plans to redistrict ahead of 2028

Georgia Republicans nixed their plans to redraw 2028 congressional maps this summer, a clear sign they see the issue as a political vulnerability ahead of marquee statewide races this fall.Republic...

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‘People shouldn’t see how the sausage is made’: Inside New York’s troubled Medicaid home care transition

ALBANY, New York — A scathing Justice Department lawsuit over Gov. Kathy Hochul’s consolidation of a popular Medicaid home care program paints the picture of a transition so troubled that workers i...

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Fed leans toward possible rate hike this year, in marked shift on inflation

Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday suggested an interest rate increase is on the table this year against a backdrop of rising inflation, previewing a potential move that would likely infuriate ...

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Trump goes after critics who want a more comprehensive deal with Iran

President Donald Trump on Wednesday lambasted his critics who accused him of caving to Iran, calling them “stupid” and arguing that prolonging the war could lead to an "international depression.”“T...

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Mamdani gambled in Albany and won. Can he hit the jackpot twice?

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani emerged from Albany with billions of dollars in cash to help close a historic budget gap and partially fulfill a key campaign pledge. Pulling off a repeat next year ...

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Michigan pollster accuses McMorrow campaign of killing unfavorable Senate poll

A prominent Michigan pollster is accusing state Sen. Mallory McMorrow’s Senate campaign of pressuring a state capitol news outlet into killing a survey of the heated Democratic primary.The pollster...

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Trump’s immigration courts are testing federal judges’ patience

Although federal judges have concluded more than 13,000 times in recent months that ICE has illegally detained people without the chance for release, those rulings often only tell half the story.Th...

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Trump and allies keep the peace at the G7 summit after months of tumult

ÉVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — The White House had a low bar for the G7 summit. President Donald Trump cleared it.Heading into the gathering, expectations were modest, as Trump officials and G7 allies h...

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What Color Is the Reflecting Pool? An Investigation.

Workers on the National Mall, desperate to turn the Reflecting Pool to President Trump’s preferred shade of blue, poured jug after jug of hydrogen peroxide into the water yesterday morning. As they...

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Taxpayers may pay legal bills of activists in dropped case over ICE protests near Chicago

The Justice Department will not fight a demand by people charged in a since-abandoned criminal case stemming from anti-ICE protests in Chicago that the federal government pay their legal bills, def...

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Of The Elite, By The Elite, For The Elite

Of The Elite, By The Elite, For The Elite Authored by John C. Eastman via The American Mind, For generations, Democrats have portrayed themselves as the party of ordinary American...

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Senate threatens to freeze Hegseth’s travel in bid for boat strike videos, Iran school strike probe

Senate lawmakers are threatening to freeze Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel budget if the Pentagon doesn’t turn over more details about the deadly bombing of an Iranian girls school in Febru...

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Trump escalates his war on Senate Republicans — and senators are striking back

President Donald Trump is making life almost impossible for Senate Republicans — and these days fewer of them are willing to just let it slide.Some lawmakers that were once happy to brush off impul...

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Cuba Is Collapsing. Will Trump Invade?

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on Trump’s new Iran deal and how it affects the future ...

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How Gettysburg Became a Refuge for Conservatives Battered by Trump-Era Strife

It’s already hotter than 90 degrees here at the 161st annual reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg in July and it’s not even 10 a.m. Cannons boom in the distance. From the parking lot outside the...

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RFK Jr. has turned corporate America’s name to mud, POLITICO Poll finds

The party of business is now chock-full of voters who distrust food and pharmaceutical companies and want to regulate them.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is one of them and the health secretary’s drive to s...

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