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As Trump focuses on Iran, Europe and Ukraine strengthen ties

President Donald Trump has largely turned his attention away from the ongoing war in Ukraine — and Europe has stopped waiting for him to refocus.Nearly two months into the Iran war, Trump’s preoccu...

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Casey Means: Murkowski sank my nomination

Sen. Lisa Murkowski delivered the coup de grâce in ending the nomination of Casey Means, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s choice for surgeon general, Means told POLITICO Thursday.The Alaska...

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Schumer faces renewed scrutiny after Mills meltdown

Chuck Schumer’s critics are using the faceplant of one of his star recruits to argue he needs to get out of the way in other races.After Maine Gov. Janet Mills dropped out of her state’s primary Th...

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Carville, co-host warn 'abolish ICE' is new 'Defund the Police'

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville and his co-host spoke on Thursday about the dangers of Democrats falling for the same far-left rhetoric that weighed them down in past elections.Through...

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The American That Canadians Love to Hate — Besides Trump

OTTAWA — The video playing was clearly Pete Hoekstra, the frequently combative U.S. ambassador to Canada. But something was off. He kept referring to Canada as a partner?“For all of the critical th...

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Republicans’ faith in Mike Johnson is fading fast

Speaker Mike Johnson faced down a bruising “hell week” and ultimately pulled several key GOP bills across the line. But it came at a cost.Republicans say Johnson’s habit of making last-minute, ofte...

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Another Assassination Attempt, More Fertilizer for Conspiracy Theories

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner last weekend became the site of the third failed attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump. “I remember the feeling was very similar to when...

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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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