Politics

Medicaid work requirements give red states a chance to turn back clock

Voters in seven states bucked their conservative leaders to expand Medicaid at the ballot box.Now officials in six of them are deploying tactics to make the upcoming implementation of work requirem...

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FIFA has met its match in the Garden State

NEWARK, New Jersey — FIFA has deftly navigated Argentina’s military dictators, Russia’s oligarchs and Qatar’s royal family to get what it wants at previous World Cups. Soccer’s powerful governing b...

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Poll: Americans uneasy with AI, crypto even as they spend big on midterms

Deep-pocketed political groups tied to artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency are rapidly reshaping the midterm money landscape — but many Americans are uneasy with the industries behind the sp...

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Kamala Harris bought a Malibu home. Her neighbors think that means something.

LOS ANGELES — Kamala Harris’ new $8.15 million Malibu home sits on a hill overlooking bougainvillea-dusted streets that sweep down toward the surf — a secluded idyll in a neighborhood of defensive ...

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The new surgeon general nominee has a MAHA problem

Leaders in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement are outraged over President Donald Trump’s surgeon general nominee switch.Since Trump announced on Thursday that Nicole Saphie...

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Spirit Airlines shuts down after rescue talks with White House fall through

Spirit Airlines is shutting down, the low-budget carrier announced on social media Saturday morning, after last-minute negotiations on a $500 million rescue plan with the Trump administration fell ...

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Data centers used to be a prize. States are having second thoughts.

Politicians used to compete to lure data centers to their states. They're starting to reconsider.Tempted by promises of more jobs, tax revenue and the chance to be on the cutting edge of technology...

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Drugmaker files emergency appeal to restore abortion pill access

A company that makes the abortion drug mifepristone asked the Supreme Court on Saturday to hit pause on Friday’s lower court ruling that cut off telemedicine access to the pills nationwide, includi...

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‘A two-edge sword’: Former top ICE official’s campaign roils battleground district

Republicans in Ohio are worried that a former administration official who helped oversee President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration tactics could cost them a chance to flip a battleground Hous...

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Democrats’ Hasan Piker problem is a boon for Fox News

There are many strange spectacles in modern American politics, but few are more frustrating to watch than a major political party tying itself in knots over a Twitch streamer in the middle of a war...

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Trump picked a fight with the Pope: The one person he can’t fire, can’t outbid, and can’t outlast

Trump’s version of the American Dream says the winners are being stolen from: by immigrants and globalists, and by institutions that no longer serve the people who built them. His opponents mostly ...

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Heather Cox Richardson grades America

American flags flying near the US Capitol Building on March 10, 2026. | Al Drago/Getty Images How would you grade America’s first 250 years? That’s the question I posed to histori...

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Poll: GOP voters skeptical of AI as Trump steams ahead

President Donald Trump is pushing to deregulate the artificial intelligence industry and make it easier for the technology to develop rapidly. His voters are not fully on board.New results from The...

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Cuban Americans have been big Trump backers. His Cuba policy may change that.

MIAMI — Florida’s politically influential Cuban American community is pressuring President Donald Trump to fully oust Cuba’s communist leadership as the Trump administration looks willing to settle...

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‘Six months to catch up’: What the shutdown cost DHS

The record-breaking Department of Homeland Security shutdown might be over — but the damage is already done to some of the agency’s critical missions, including disaster response and airport securi...

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‘There should’ve been a reckoning’: How End Citizens United’s electoral spending faded

In November 2023, the liberal good-governance powerhouse End Citizens United announced a $9 million initiative, “Organize New York,” to register young voters in six key battleground House districts...

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‘The new soccer mom’: Both parties scramble for working class voters ahead of ‘28

LAS VEGAS — President Donald Trump, two years ago, won over Latino and working class voters frustrated with Democrats’ economic stewardship with promises of a brighter future.Now, many of those vot...

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Trump shakes up Kentucky Senate race with endorsement of Rep. Andy Barr

President Donald Trump endorsed a Republican congressmember to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell while rejecting a self-styled MAGA candidate with backing from Elon Musk.Trump announced his support Frid...

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‘What’s a more secure place than The Villages?’: Trump finds his people again in Florida

THE VILLAGES, Florida — Facing tumults both on the political and international fronts, President Donald Trump took his economic message to his home state Friday.The reception, to put it mildly, was...

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‘An unmitigated s--t show fever dream’: Louisiana enters election chaos

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s abrupt decision to postpone the state’s House primaries just days before voting was scheduled to begin has sent Republican officials scrambling.Local election heads are...

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Congress Can’t Meet Its Own Iran-War Deadline

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