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5 charts show China’s oil dilemma after US strikes

President Donald Trump’s latest attack on Iran takes a big economic bite out of one of America’s chief rivals: China.Over the span of two months, the Trump administration has removed the leaders of...

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Farm-country data center foes fuel GOP insurgent challengers

The tech industry’s relentless push for data centers is colliding with farmers who see the projects as a threat to their way of life, fueling unrest in Republican primaries and vocal criticism from...

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The Senate’s air safety bill was on a glide path to success. Then the Pentagon stepped in.

Aviation advocates and victims’ families watched in shock and disappointment as the House failed to pass an air safety bill last week seeking to address some of the failures that led to last year’s...

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Trump claims Iran missiles could have hit America ‘soon’

President Donald Trump said Monday that the broad military strikes on Iran he ordered over the weekend were necessary because Tehran would have “soon” been able to hit targets inside America with b...

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DAVID MARCUS: Ken Paxton devours John Cornyn as Texas GOP craves a fighter in Senate primary showdown

There is a scene in "The Godfather" where Michael Corleone tells his childhood friend Tom Hagan that he will be out of leadership during the film’s mob war, saying, "You’re not a wartime consiglier...

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Trump Buries the 20th Century

With a roar of rockets and bombs, a gasp of international outcry and the death of Iran’s supreme leader, President Donald Trump’s legacy became clearer than ever.He is burying the 20th Century: Its...

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There Is No Legal Argument for Trump’s War With Iran

The most telling thing about the Trump administration’s legal argument for going to war with Iran is that, as a practical matter, it does not exist.When President Donald Trump announced on Saturday...

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Is ‘America First’ Over?

In November, President Trump dismissed the idea that his most fervent supporters might dissent from his foreign policy. “I know what MAGA wants better than anybody else,” he told Fox News, after ar...

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Trump on US troop casualties: ‘There will likely be more’

President Donald Trump in a Sunday video posted to social media warned there will likely be more U.S. troops killed and wounded as part of the continued operation against Iran after three serviceme...

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One early risk of Trump's Iran strategy is already emerging

Oil prices jumped more than 10 percent Sunday night, underscoring the political risks of President Donald Trump's military strikes against Iran. The main U.S. crude oil market opened at $75 per bar...

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GOP voters, not congressional leaders, are poised to take action on Tony Gonzales

Most of the political world will be watching Tuesday’s Texas primaries to see who will match up in a blockbuster Senate race. But many House Republicans are instead keen to find out if Lone Star St...

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This House Democrat may lose her primary over past support for Israel

Four years ago, Valerie Foushee's support of Israel helped get her to Congress. On Tuesday, it could send her home.The politics surrounding Israel have shifted so much since the war in Gaza began i...

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Bitter Texas Senate race forces Dems to confront racial divisions

DALLAS — James Talarico is fond of saying that the “closest thing we have to the Kingdom of Heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy.” But Texas’ battle royale of a Democratic Senate primar...

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Mamdani has used Signal for government business as mayor

NEW YORK — Since becoming New York City’s youngest mayor in a generation, Zohran Mamdani has kept leaning into his tech-savvy persona, regularly releasing the type of made-for-going-viral social me...

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Trump is causing a midterm headache for this New Jersey congressmember

Tom Kean Jr. faces the same problem as every other vulnerable Republican in the midterms: Donald Trump.But the president is making it extra hard for Kean, a soft-spoken House member who has a caval...

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Hegseth doesn't rule out U.S. troops in Iran

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declined to rule out deploying American ground forces in Iran during his first public comments on the joint American and Israeli military operation.Appearing at the P...

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I Do Solemnly Swear: How Profanity Has Taken Hold Of American Politics

I Do Solemnly Swear: How Profanity Has Taken Hold Of American Politics Authored by Jonathan Turley, “Respectfully, f–k off.” Those words by California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s spokespe...

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West Virginia sues Apple over alleged spread of child abuse imagery

West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey accused Apple in a lawsuit Thursday of allowing its iCloud platform to be used to store and distribute child sexual abuse material.It’s the latest claim a...

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Trump Is Betting on an Iranian Uprising. He Might Be Disappointed.

According to Donald Trump, Iranians have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. “The hour of your freedom is at hand,” he declared, as U.S. and Israeli warplanes pounded Iranian cities and the compound ...

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Republicans use Iran strikes to pressure Dems in DHS funding fight

Republicans on Capitol Hill are capitalizing on the strike against Iran to pressure their colleagues into funding the Department of Homeland Security — without any of the policy changes that Democr...

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Iran didn’t adapt to America's playbook. Russia and China already have

The world now knows that, in a daring daylight strike on a clear Saturday in Tehran, the United States and Israel opened what President Donald Trump, in his address to the nation, called "major com...

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