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Valkyries’ Natalie Nakase shares eye-opening take on Sophie Cunningham situation

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Republicans want to talk about James Talarico’s manhood. Talarico says let them.

He’s eating barbecue. He’s winning over Joe Rogan. He’s challenging his opponent to mano-a-mano televised faceoffs.James Talarico is determined not to let his GOP challenger Ken Paxton’s and Republ...

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Michigan’s GOP governor primary is getting weird

Michigan Republicans haven’t had a better shot to win the governorship in over a decade. Deciding who should take it is turning into an ugly, hyper-online brawl.With widespread name recognition and...

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Trump keeps escalating his trade threats. This time, Europe isn’t biting.

Washington is again ratcheting up the pressure on the European Union with new tariff threats. Brussels’ response is strikingly different from a year ago: Don’t retaliate, don’t put on a show for Do...

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Oil industry warns refining limits could keep energy prices high

The world’s shrinking spare capacity to produce gasoline and diesel is running up against the White House’s desire to temper the rise in pump prices ahead of the midterms.The chief executives of Ex...

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Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Senate appropriators released text Sunday of a stopgap funding bill to avert a shutdown come Oct. 1 and punt broader government funding negotiations until after the midterms.Under the bipartisan pl...

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RFK Jr. tells CNN host that constitutional rights take priority over public health

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clashed with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday, launching attacks against Anthony Fauci and arguing that protecting constitutional rights must take...

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Trump’s Literal Gilded Age

When you approach the freshly gilded twin statues near the Lincoln Memorial, there is no mistaking that they are gold. Very, very gold. Distractingly gold—or, more precisely, covered in 23.75-karat...

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Rep. Max Miller denounced by Sen. Bernie Moreno, his former father-in-law

Sen. Bernie Moreno, the father of Emily Moreno who made allegations of domestic and child abuse to her ex-husband, Rep. Max Miller, denounced the Ohio congressman for the first time Sunday, calling...

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Democrats’ path to win the Senate runs through the Midwest

For Democrats looking to reclaim the Senate, the path runs right through America's heartland — a stronghold that slipped away during President Donald Trump's rise.Party leaders and strategists say ...

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Right-wing media can’t quit Hunter Biden

Right-wing media looks to have made a profound miscalculation. They put Hunter Biden through an unrelenting public pressure cooker, convinced that by turning a private citizen’s darkest personal ro...

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Iran’s demands leave Trump with few good options

President Donald Trump is stuck.Iran has made clear that its price for ending hostilities is control over the Strait of Hormuz, a politically unpalatable prospect for the White House. But the ongoi...

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Justin Pearson Is Taking On Elon Musk's AI Empire

MEMPHIS, Tennessee — When Justin Pearson sits at his desk, he looks at a polluted orange sky. It’s the backdrop of a haunting painting that hangs opposite an American flag in his home office. In th...

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Tony Evers is trying to hand-pick his successor, and it’s roiling Wisconsin Dems

Tony Evers is trying to play kingmaker in Wisconsin’s pivotal governor’s race. So far, it’s not working.Instead of cutting through the chaos of a messy Democratic primary, the sitting governor’s en...

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This Senator Has a Very Midwestern Plan to Save the Democrats

“I think that the Democrats could use a little education about the middle of the country,” Elissa Slotkin said. It was November 2025, a year after the Democrats lost a presidential election to Dona...

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The Blue Collar Brigade Has the Right Messengers

When Brian Poindexter made his first fundraising calls in his campaign for Congress (OH-7), he phoned a fellow ironworker and asked for fifty dollars. His buddy said he couldn’t help, since he’d be...

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Mahmoud Khalil Is Suing the Trump Administration

Since October 7, 2023, critics of Israel in Europe and the United States have faced serious repression. In the United States, college student protests against the unfolding genocide of Palestinians...

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Kansas’ data center boom is shaking up the governor’s race

The fight over data centers has suddenly become a defining battle in the race to run Kansas — on both sides of the aisle.Gubernatorial hopefuls are trying to leverage the issue to weaken their riva...

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Data centers have a politics problem — and industry knows it

The companies that build and run data centers are on the losing end of a populist backlash — and they’re struggling to respond.Fears that the server-packed data hubs will drive up electricity price...

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Congress ended surprise medical bills — doctors and insurers hate it

Lawmakers on both sides celebrated in 2020 when, after years of delicate negotiations, Congress passed the No Surprises Act to shield people from the unexpected bills they sometimes received from o...

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Trump puts his ‘anti-weaponization fund’ back on the table

President Donald Trump said early Saturday he would push to get the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” codified into law if the Senate does not confirm his attorney general pick, Todd Blanche.T...

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