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Prediction markets are opening many new opportunities for unregulated insider trading and unethical bets – in the name of making a game out of politics

People wager on potential Democratic presidential candidates on the predictions market site Polymarket on Feb. 25, 2026. Scott Olson/Getty ImagesArrests for betting on the U.S. military operation ...

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Trump to meet with Zelenskyy again at G7, calls on Russia to make a deal

Évian-les-Bains, FRANCE — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he plans to meet again with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the G7 summit. The two leaders spoke briefly earlier in the d...

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DC is about to pick new leaders. Trump is watching.

Washington will soon enter a new chapter after voters pick the capital’s first new mayor in a dozen years and its first new Congressional delegate since 1991. And no matter who wins Tuesday’s prima...

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Here’s how G7 leaders manage delicate relationships with Trump

A string of leaders with faltering relationships with President Donald Trump walked into this week’s G7 summit in France with a delicate task ahead of them: charming the U.S. leader sufficiently to...

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DOT closes probe into Delta’s 2024 travel meltdown

The Trump administration has dropped a Biden-era investigation into Delta Air Lines’ handling of a worldwide computer outage in 2024, which had prompted the carrier to cancel thousands of flights.A...

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'A bit of FOMO': Oil companies give Venezuela a second look amid Mideast chaos

Oil companies large and small are showing new interest in committing to drill in Venezuela, after nearly six months of reluctance following the U.S. removal of Nicolás Maduro and the Trump administ...

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The single largest political donation in modern US history wasn’t a campaign check but a self-built spending machine — America PAC absorbed $239 million aimed at one candidate

Elon Musk wired roughly $239 million into America PAC between July 2024 and Election Day, making it the single largest disclosed political donation by an individual in modern United States history,...

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Trump makes Newsom a target. Newsom sees a launchpad.

Gavin Newsom is seizing on the political upside of his newly elevated place on Donald Trump’s enemies list.The California governor mounted an aggressive response to revelations that he is facing mu...

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Senate Republicans want a say on Trump’s Iran deal

President Donald Trump is touting a deal that would end the monthslong war with Iran — and potentially ease some of the political headwinds bearing down on Republicans.GOP lawmakers still have lots...

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Trump promised to bring order to AI oversight. That lasted 2 weeks.

The White House’s last-minute restrictions on Anthropic’s new artificial intelligence model are raising fundamental doubts about President Donald Trump’s 2-week-old effort to place guardrails on th...

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Trump announces July Fourth ‘TRUMP RALLY’ on National Mall

President Donald Trump will celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with “the most spectacular TRUMP RALLY of them all,” featuring hundreds of musicians, military flyovers, airshows and the “LARGEST”...

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Data center hate is snowballing, and construction setbacks in the first three months of 2026 have already exceeded last year’s, report finds

Earlier this year, Natelli Investments, a large-scale development firm, withdrew its annexation and rezoning applications for a proposed data center in Wake County, NC. The campus was projected to ...

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Gavin Newsom says Trump's DOJ is investigating him and his wife

Gavin Newsom said on Monday that the Trump administration is investigating him and his wife, blasting the president for what he cast as an act of political retribution.“Donald Trump isn’t just comi...

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The Conversions of J. D. Vance

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Driving back to his Marine Corps base in North Carolina alone after attending his grandmother’s funeral, a d...

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RFK Jr. urged Iowa Libertarian to drop out of battleground House race, challenger claims

A Libertarian challenger in a top Iowa battleground says Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the district’s current representative, GOP Rep. Zach Nunn, privately pressured...

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Trump promised no Iranian nukes. His deal doesn’t do that yet.

President Donald Trump and his team are celebrating an Iran peace deal they say will end Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.But the accord rests on commitments that Iran hasn’t actually made yet. And it ma...

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Only 1 Dan Sullivan will appear on Alaska’s ballot

GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan won’t face a same-name challenger after all.Alaska’s top elections official said Monday that Dan J. Sullivan was ineligible to appear on the August primary ballot for the stat...

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An Open Letter To Elizabeth Warren About Trillionaires And Inequality

An Open Letter To Elizabeth Warren About Trillionaires And Inequality Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Dear Senator Warren, When I watched your recent video on X about Elon Mu...

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Trump officials meet with Anthropic to discuss a truce

Anthropic staff met Monday with senior Trump administration officials for their first in-person sit-downs after a federally imposed export ban forced the artificial intelligence startup to pull its...

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The UK has the means to avoid climate policy being driven by culture wars

shutterstock Loredana Sangiuliano / shutterstockClimate policy has become one of the principle casualties of America’s political polarisation. The Trump administration, for instance, recently annou...

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What right-wing influencers just did to a major US church

The Big Bone Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky, on May 19, 2026. | Jeffrey Dean/Bloomberg via Getty Images It’s been a pivotal last week for the largest Protestant Christian denominat...

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