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Rubio on Trump Iran strikes: 'Very significant, substantial damage was done’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday said U.S. strikes on Iran impaired future nuclear operations as reports that the weekend attack didn’t completely destroy its three nuclear fac...

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‘People are going to die’: Republicans in Mike Johnson’s district sound the alarm over Medicaid

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana — MAGA support runs deep here in House Speaker Mike Johnson's home turf.But Louisiana officials from both parties are increasingly worried about the consequences for their con...

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Canada joins NATO push for 5 percent

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is committed to reaching NATO’s new defense spending target of 5 percent of GDP by 2035.Carney told reporters at the NATO summit in The Hague on Wednesday tha...

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At a Bleak Political Moment, Zohran Mamdani Offers Hope

Zohran Mamdani’s victory last night was a straightforward triumph of people over money, the kind that capitalist elites try so hard to convince us is impossible. Zohran Mamdani s...

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Gabbard installs Trump ally and ‘deep state’ critic atop intel analysis hub

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has tapped an experienced former spy and vocal supporter of President Donald Trump to run an analytic hub that has been buffeted in recent months by ...

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The megabill’s math isn’t adding up for Senate Republicans

Republicans are running into a major issue as they try to finalize their sweeping domestic-policy bill: arithmetic.With just days until Senate GOP leaders want to start voting, they have been hit w...

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Florida sprints ahead with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention center project

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida’s headline-grabbing push to create “Alligator Alcatraz” — an immigration detention center deep in the Everglades — happened swiftly, with little apparent notice to st...

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How Voters Lost Their Aversion to Scandal

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Vance outlines the 'Trump Doctrine' at political dinner in Ohio

LIMA, Ohio — Vice President JD Vance has found his message on the Iran strikes: This was Donald Trump using a big stick after speaking softly.After days of struggling to get on the same page as the...

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Dems struggle to respond as Trump’s Iran strikes sow chaos

Democrats are scrambling to respond to President Donald Trump’s unilateral attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.It’s another high-stakes move by the president that could present a major political op...

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Joe Rogan asks Bernie Sanders if he will run for president again, what he would do on day one

Podcaster Joe Rogan asked Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Tuesday about whether he will run for president again, and Sanders revealed the key issue he would prioritize.Sanders spoke about how he has...

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Zohran Mamdani set to topple Andrew Cuomo in NYC mayoral race

NEW YORK — Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist lawmaker, is on pace to win the Democratic primary for New York City mayor — a seismic shift in what normally would have been a sleepy ...

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Democrats are taking aim at 1 of California's signature climate policies

SACRAMENTO, California — President Donald Trump is threatening California's marquee carbon-trading program. But it's in-state Democrats who are taking aim at the state's other emissions market for ...

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Iran ‘much further away’ from building nukes after US strike, Rubio says

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that Iran is “much further away from a nuclear weapon” amid new intelligence assessments that a U.S. strike did not destroy...

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‘The Trump summit’: Rubio credits president for pushing NATO allies to increase spending

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Secretary of State Marco Rubio dubbed this year’s NATO meeting “the Trump summit” as the alliance prepares to meet President Donald Trump’s demand to increase defense spen...

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Europe wants Trump to sanction Russia. Rubio says not yet.

President Donald Trump will buck Europe’s pleas to ratchet up sanctions on Russia, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday, saying the U.S. still wants room to negotiate a peace deal.Ukraini...

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Thank You for Your Attention to This Matter!

At 1:08 a.m. eastern daylight time, President Donald Trump proclaimed on social media that a cease-fire between Iran and Israel was “NOW IN EFFECT,” potentially ending an intense 12 days of violenc...

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Mike Johnson says War Powers Act is unconstitutional

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday asserted that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional, pushing back forcefully against the lawmakers in both parties who are invoking the law in an ...

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How Zohran Mamdani's NYC mayoral run will change the Democratic Party

Victory is not guaranteed, but Zohran Mamdani's upstart campaign for New York City mayor has already shocked the Democratic Party establishment. A win in today's p...

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RFK Jr. isn’t hiding his plans for vaccines. Democrats say it will cost lives.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t shading his big plans for the country’s vaccine safety system anymore.The health secretary and longtime vaccine skeptic pledged during his Senate confirmation earlier th...

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State Department on Iran-Israel truce: 'It's fragile' but 'did come together'

The State Department described the U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran as “fragile” but “steady,” despite some earlier concerns about each side violating terms of th...

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