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Diesel export fight strains GOP ties with Big Oil

The marriage between Hill Republicans and the fossil fuel industry is showing signs of fracture, as a potential diesel export ban puts strain on a long-standing alliance.Farm-state Republicans and ...

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Dems face a cash crunch as they debate how big a gamble to take on red states

Democrats are begging for more money ahead of November. But they’re torn over what to do with the limited funds they already have.After months of downplaying their financial concerns, the four Demo...

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‘Convenient cudgel’: The Trump agency taking a tough line on China

Brendan Carr is best known for trying to take down Jimmy Kimmel. Now the Federal Communication Commission chair is going after another foe of President Donald Trump: China.The FCC has in the past n...

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America’s AI push in Southeast Asia faces a China problem

SINGAPORE — America’s campaign to dominate the global AI market has collided with an uncomfortable reality here in Southeast Asia: The same investments that extend the reach of U.S. technology coul...

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Trump officials weigh rolling back beef import plan as GOP midterm panic spreads

A small group of White House officials is exploring whether to cut back President Donald Trump’s decision to increase foreign beef imports, as GOP panic rises ahead of the midterms.The proposal to ...

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Wired for War: The empire’s propaganda wing honors Palantir

Politico’s parent company is bestowing its highest award on Peter Thiel, who serves the same globalist agenda Germany’s Axel Springer media mono...

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Judge appears skeptical of Trump’s effort to ban news outlets from White House

A federal judge appeared skeptical Wednesday of the Trump administration’s move banning three media organizations from the White House, and said he will rule on the matter "as soon as I can.”U.S. D...

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States jockey to land Trump’s new Space Academy

President Donald Trump’s decision to create a new federal academy has set off a fresh space race.Officials from at least a half-dozen states, from Nevada to Florida, are already angling for the new...

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NRSC Chair Tim Scott leaves Georgia, North Carolina off his list of top Senate targets

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is shifting its focus away from the North Carolina and Georgia Senate races as it works to shore up red states like Texas and flip other Democratic-held...

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‘Reacher’ Star Alan Ritchson Sparks Furious Debate After Claiming Studios Begged Him To Shut Up About Politics

Actor Alan Ritchson, 43, has been quite vocal about the state of American politics over the last couple of years, earning him both backlash and praise among fans. Earlier in 2026, the Reacher star...

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Iran’s president warns Trump it will not ‘bend at the knee’

Iran’s president said his country would not be cowed by American threats and accused the U.S. and Israel of terrorism in a defiant speech a day after President Donald Trump warned he may “annihilat...

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‘Dammit, something has to happen’: White House preparing plan for 90-day diesel exports ban

The Trump administration is preparing a plan to ban exports of diesel for 90 days, despite splits inside the administration and with the oil industry, in a bid to bring down energy prices weighing ...

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Three Mistakes That Made Donald Trump

President Donald Trump rose to power by talking to desperate, distrustful, and angry Americans. In an interview with Reason, Anthony Scaramu...

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Ted Lieu: AI risks are ‘no longer in the realm of science fiction’

Rep. Ted Lieu is focused on the nightmare scenario: humans losing control of artificial intelligence.The self-professed science fiction nerd, who chairs the House Democratic Commission on AI, told ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Ossoff challenged to return Epstein-linked donation or retract ‘Epstein class’ attack

EXCLUSIVE: Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia is being criticized as a "hypocrite" and faces a challenge to return a sizable donation from a Jeffrey Epstein-linked billionaire or drop one of his m...

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2 midterm elections that brought on new eras in US politics

President Grover Cleveland, right, looks down during William McKinley's presidential inauguration in 1897. Two years earlier, Cleveland's political party suffered the biggest defeat in U.S. history...

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Election officials are fighting wavering voter trust by making mundane processes visible and recruiting citizens to help

Voters cast their primary ballots in Augusta, Maine, on June 9, 2026, AP Photo/Robert F. BukatyRecently, I moderated a national event that had college students speaking with election officials, s...

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Crypto weighs revenge against Democrats — and the risks that come with it

The cryptocurrency industry is at a political crossroads.Reeling from the demise of its longtime top legislative priority, crypto companies must now decide how scorched-earth to go against Senate D...

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The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms

Of all the outside advisers urging President Trump to seize control of federal elections this fall, the attorney Peter Ticktin can claim the deepest ties; the two men went to military school togeth...

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Dems urge Trump to seek AI deal with China

Democratic senators are pushing President Donald Trump to establish an agreement with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to mutually slow or pause artificial intelligence development.A group of 17 senators ...

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Behind closed doors, the politics of solar geoengineering are shifting

Policymakers in the U.S. and European Union are considering technologies that limit sunlight as a potential tool to curb global warming — even if they’re not yet willing to publicly say so, two for...

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