Politics

That was fast: Early tensions flare between Mamdani and Council speaker

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin have been stoking an increasingly contentious feud that could end up hampering the mayor’s agenda.When Mamdani announce...

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Kennedy touts food dye crackdown as a midterm win, but big holdouts remain

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is preparing to hit the road ahead of the midterms and tout the success of the most politically popular part of his MAHA agenda: getting artificial dyes out o...

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Iran blockade ushers in dangerous new phase of Iran war

American forces began their blockade of Iranian ports on Monday, even as allies scrambled to understand how it will work — and how the Trump administration will avoid sparking new showdowns with th...

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Vance, after rallying in Hungary for Orban, says he wasn’t surprised by the autocrat’s defeat

Vice President JD Vance said Monday evening that he was “sad” but not all that surprised that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban lost his bid for reelection, asserting that his decision to campa...

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Carney didn’t win a majority, he built one. Now comes the test.

OTTAWA — One year after rescuing Canada’s Liberal Party from electoral disaster, Mark Carney has strengthened his hold on power.The rookie prime minister clinched a razor-thin majority in special e...

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Judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit against WSJ over Epstein birthday letter

A federal judge on Monday tossed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal for reporting on a racy letter he purportedly wrote to commemorate Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday ...

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Trump Is Facing an Increasingly Defiant World

For months and months, President Donald Trump has bullied other countries on everything from trade to how they govern themselves.In just the last few days, however, a handful of global players have...

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‘Chilling effect’: The housing shortage could have a money problem

Congress wants to solve a national housing shortage. It might be making the problem worse.Bipartisan Senate legislation with White House backing would require mega-landlords like Wall Street firms ...

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‘A crisis in the making’: Nebraska races to impose work requirements on Medicaid

Nebraska is racing to implement Medicaid work requirements by May 1 — eight months before the national deadline set by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed by Congress last summer.And not only is ...

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GOP leaders prepare to steamroll opponents of DHS funding plan

Conservative lawmakers are throwing up roadblocks to a GOP-only immigration enforcement funding plan. But party leaders are hitting the gas anyway, hoping to quickly flatten any skeptics as they ra...

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More Americans doubt vaccine safety than trust it, POLITICO Poll finds

Vaccine skepticism among Americans is widespread, The POLITICO Poll found, indicating that one of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s animating priorities is gaining traction.Results from the ...

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MORNING GLORY: The US-Iran negotiations in Islamabad became Reykjavík 2.0

From the moment the talks between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran commenced in Islamabad, Pakistan on Saturday, only one of three results could follow: Munich, 1938 with the U.S....

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Inside Trump’s effort to “take over” the midterms

In mid-December 2020, federal officials responsible for protecting American elections from fraud converged in a windowless, dim, fortified room at the Justice Department’s downtown Washington, D.C....

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Trump deletes ‘blasphemous’ image depicting himself as Jesus

President Donald Trump deleted an apparently AI-generated image on social media depicting himself as Jesus on Monday morning, following backlash from Christian commentators for the “blasphemous” im...

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Israel backs U.S. Hormuz blockade as Netanyahu signals readiness to resume war

TEL AVIV, Israel – Israel backs the U.S. blockade on the Strait of Hormuz and is preparing to restart the war if necessary, officials said Monday.Israel is maintaining the ceasefire in Iran while c...

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Vance’s K Street army is growing

Three top aides to Vice President JD Vance have decamped to high-priced and well-connected lobbying shops in the past two months, building out his Washington apparatus of policy and fundraising con...

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The whisper network that caught up to Eric Swalwell

Five months before Arielle Fodor, better known on social media as “Mrs. Frazzled,” helped set in motion the downfall of Rep. Eric Swalwell, she was singing his praises on Instagram.“You know how I ...

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Trump’s exchange with Pope Leo reflects deep-rooted tensions between the Vatican and the United States: 4 essential reads

Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists aboard his flight bound for Algiers on April 13, 2026. Alberto Pizzoli/Pool Photo via APPresident Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV, the U.S.-born head of the Cathol...

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