Politics

From transit to TV signals: How hackers could disrupt the World Cup

U.S. security agencies are concerned that state-backed hackers or criminal enterprises may be eyeing this summer’s FIFA World Cup.Whether for notoriety or to protest U.S. foreign policy, these cybe...

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Gianni Infantino’s shuttle diplomacy

FIFA President Gianni Infantino may be the only person left on earth who thinks he can reconcile the competing interests of Tehran and Washington.As American and Iranian leaders abandoned failed pe...

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The MAGA loyalist working to grow the foreign guest-worker program

CAMBRIDGE, Maryland — On Capitol Hill, Rep. Andy Harris is one of the most uncompromising advocates of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. On the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, th...

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Why Did Gretchen Whitmer Go Soft on Trump?

Read more about the Democrats who might run for president in 2028 here.When I first met Gretchen Whitmer last fall, she seemed to want to talk about anything except Donald Trump. She avoided using ...

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Trump announces Strait of Hormuz blockade after Iran talks collapse

President Donald Trump on Sunday announced a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and threatened to destroy “the little that is left of Iran” after peace talks in Islamabad fell apart overni...

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The War With Iran Offers a Snapshot of Trump World. It’s Not a Pretty Picture.

As the U.S. and Iran meet over the negotiating table in Pakistan this weekend, the outcome of Operation Epic Fury remains deeply uncertain. But one thing is clear: The war with Iran has offered a r...

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No deal: Vance and Iranians fail to reach agreement after marathon session

Vice President JD Vance and other top Trump administration officials are heading home empty handed.Marathon negotiations with Iran in Pakistan this weekend failed to produce a breakthrough that wou...

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Dem senator calls out far-left streamer, asks what 'normal' person would go on such an antagonistic show

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., fired back after far-left streamer Hasan Piker criticized her for going on Bill Maher's show while failing to appear on his Twitch livestream."I've said repeatedly tha...

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Swalwell under investigation by Manhattan district attorney

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is investigating Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) over allegations that he sexually assaulted a former staffer in a New York City hotel room in April 2024.Swal...

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The fight for control of an iconic Florida fish scales up

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — In the ruby red state of Florida, another crimson symbol often swims through Gov. Ron DeSantis’ remarks: red snapper.The scarlet bottom-feeder is a prize among anglers, a cov...

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Kamala Harris gets the warmest welcome at Dems’ first big 2028 cattle call

NEW YORK – It wasn’t Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina, but a cavernous ballroom in Midtown Manhattan that marked Democrats’ first stop on the road to the White House.The Rev. Al Sharpton’s Nat...

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Swalwell staffers in unsigned statement: ‘We’re horrified’ by accusations

One day after top advisers to Eric Swalwell abandoned his campaign, staffers from his congressional office and campaign released an unsigned statement Saturday expressing support for women who came...

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'The plan is working': Trump's trade chief brushes off economic fears in Rust Belt tour

CLYDE, Ohio — President Donald Trump’s trade adviser spent the last two days walking factory floors along the edges of Lake Erie with an upbeat economic message: Manufacturing is on its way back.Th...

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Trump's budget hawk is still trying to slash medical research. Congress is saying no.

White House budget director Russ Vought isn’t done trying to cut the National Institutes of Health's funding, but Congress isn’t taking him seriously anymore.Vought released a proposal last week to...

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More landlords and lenders are using AI. Fewer regulators are checking them for bias.

The housing industry is rapidly adopting artificial intelligence tools to decide who gets a home loan or lease. The Trump administration is rolling back long-established protections used to keep th...

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Swalwell vows to ‘fight’ sexual misconduct allegations, apologizes to wife for unspecified ‘mistakes’

Eric Swalwell vowed Friday to fight sexual misconduct allegations he said are false, while apologizing to his wife for unspecified “mistakes” in his past.Rather than dropping out of the race for Ca...

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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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2028 Democrats say anyone can win. Voters aren’t so sure.

NEW YORK — A fear of losing again is already shaping how Democrats think about 2028.Chants of “run again!” reverberated through the packed room as Kamala Harris spoke Friday at the National Action ...

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What does American politics look like beyond Trump?

The only people with worse poll numbers than President Donald Trump are the political media that cover him. We, the journalists, are in a crisis: of trust, relevance, and being swamp...

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Trump was talking about affordability. Then came the war.

President Donald Trump and his administration were supposed to be well on their way by now to convincing the American people that the U.S. is, indeed, entering a new “golden age.”The Iran war has t...

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Thunderstruck: Kennedy Center nixes its lawyer’s hard rock cover band

Even the Kennedy Center’s top lawyer has rock ‘n’ roll dreams.Elliot Berke, the general counsel for the Kennedy Center, last fall tried to book his own cover band the DePlorables to play at the cen...

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