Politics

Gillibrand, McCormick team up to crack down on prediction markets

Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Dave McCormick want to bar federal lawmakers from placing wagers on prediction markets and tighten rules around insider trading on the platforms.The bipartisan duo intr...

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Trump bets on quick Iran oil crunch. Experts see prolonged pain and rising costs.

The Trump administration insists that its naval blockade is putting the squeeze on Iran and that the regime is just a “matter of days” away from an energy crisis unless it capitulates.Energy expert...

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Class Dealignment Hasn’t Gone Away

Recent polling suggests that working-class voters have soured on the Trump administration over the past year. The president's approval ratings have cratered, war and tariff-induced inflation is on ...

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There’s a New Dark Money–Backed Democratic Machine

The scandal was minimal, a blip in a Democratic primary race in New York’s Hudson Valley. But the incident was an early sign of a powerful new political machine playing an unprecedented role in Dem...

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Stop the AI Build-Out, Start the Fight

Concerned citizens crowding into a rec center to protest a proposed data center in El Paso, Texas. Suburban homeowners shouting down pro-data-center politicians in Festus, Missouri. Teenagers and t...

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The War on Terror Enabled Donald Trump’s Authoritarianism

The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks marked a paradigm shift in US politics. Following the unprecedented horror and the worst intelligence failure in US history, the United States embarked on ...

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Let’s Compare Hasan Piker’s Comments to Elite Centrists’

There’s a lot going on right now: a war that threatens to plunge the entire globe off an economic cliff; a small group of the ultrarich hoarding ever more wealth as economic misery piles up for the...

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A deal without Ukraine: Inside the Putin-Trump talks

From the “Spirit of Anchorage” to sanctions shifts, Moscow and Washington are exploring a cautious thaw Russian President Vladimir Putin and US ...

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Hochul pushes Trump border czar on ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good

ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul wants assurances from President Donald Trump’s administration that a very specific federal immigration officer isn’t operating in New York: The ICE agent who fa...

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White House presses tech companies for support on AI-driven cyberattacks

The White House has asked a group of tech companies to answer a set of questions this week about how to ward off digital attacks that frontier AI tools could soon enable, according to four people w...

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How High

High prices. Oil prices briefly hit a wartime high of over $120 a barrel, before falling slightly, reports The New York Times. The paper att...

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Trump’s ‘tortoise’ economy: GDP grows even as Iran challenges loom

President Donald Trump’s economy is still growing, but as Americans bristle at rising gas prices, Republicans are staring at a potential slowdown less than six months before a midterm election that...

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Congress ends record-shattering DHS shutdown

On the 76th day since Department of Homeland Security funding lapsed, Congress passed a bill Thursday restoring the flow of federal dollars to most of its agencies — without solving any of the poli...

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Trump continues broadsides against Germany's Merz over Iran

President Donald Trump again lashed out at German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Truth Social Thursday, the president’s third post about Germany since Merz contended that the White House is being “hu...

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Jeffries lays out more targets for gerrymanders in response to GOP’s renewed push

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is eyeing at least four states for potential new congressional maps ahead of the 2028 elections to counter an expected round of new Republican gerrymanders aft...

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Trump’s call to reduce US troops in Germany shocks Pentagon

President Donald Trump’s announcement Wednesday that he was considering pulling some U.S. troops out of Germany stunned defense officials, who scrambled to figure out if the president was serious a...

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Israel’s center wants Democrats back. It may not have the cards.

TEL AVIV, Israel — Parties representing Israel’s center are trying to win back U.S. Democrats with a promise: We’ve got a path to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu and change Israel for the better.But the ...

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Joe Lombardo is walking the Trump tightrope. It may be a roadmap for the GOP.

LAS VEGAS — Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo is trying to run a reelection campaign befitting the neon-drenched, sagebrush-pocked desert he has for five decades called home.President Donald Trump is making...

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Brendan Carr’s fight with Disney revives GOP fissures

Brendan Carr’s newest fight with Disney is starting to raise alarms among some members of the GOP and on K Street — though many Republicans appear ready to give him a pass.The criticism highlights ...

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Pay More, Get Less: The Hard Choices for Social Security

Broadcast Retirement Network's Jeffrey Snyder discusses the different alternatives to improve the solvency of the Social Security Trust Fund with the American Enterprise Institute's Andrew Biggs, P...

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The ‘Great Man’ Presidency

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsThis week, the State Department released a mock-up of a new limited-edition passport designed to commemorate America’s 25...

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