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Brendan Carr takes on Disney — and escalates Trump’s media war

Brendan Carr’s embrace of President Donald Trump’s media criticism reached new heights Tuesday — showing a willingness to target broadcasters’ most valuable assets.The Federal Communications Commis...

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Hill Republicans want Trump to solve their internal problems

House infighting is threatening to sink the GOP agenda on Capitol Hill. Now Republicans are hoping their most effective whip — President Donald Trump — is ready to come off the sidelines.The push f...

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Top US diplomat in Ukraine to retire

The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine is leaving her role later this year, the State Department confirmed, creating a vacancy in Kyiv at a tense moment in the relationship between President Donald Trump...

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‘Thoughts and prayers’: The minefield that awaits Kevin Warsh at the Fed

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will keep interest rates steady on Wednesday as he struggles to parse a bewildering mix of data: rising energy prices, an uncertain labor market and questions ov...

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Gavin Newsom wants to break up with Elon Musk. Tesla is making that difficult.

California has been trying to break up with Elon Musk for years. Now, in an unforeseen twist, his auto company could hold the keys to saving the state’s electric truck ambitions.Gov. Gavin Newsom h...

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In unusual alliance, Mamdani and Menin press Hochul to reduce a tax credit benefitting millionaires

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Council Speaker Julie Menin have been at loggerheads over how to close New York City’s multibillion-dollar budget gap.Mamdani has maintained the deep deficit can...

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James Comey indicted again

A federal grand jury has indicted former FBI Director James Comey over an Instagram post featuring seashells arranged to spell “86 47,” a phrase President Donald Trump and his allies claimed repres...

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Rush to close major Manhattan shelter leaves a death in its wake

NEW YORK — A man died by suicide after he was abruptly moved out of a shelter as part of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to turn the facility into an intake center for homeless people requesting beds, ...

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White House huddles with tech firms as Mythos raises cyber stakes

A range of tech and cyber companies are quietly meeting with the White House to discuss cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, including Anthropic’s newly unveiled and highly advanced AI model,...

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Soldier who placed Polymarket bet on Maduro operation pleads not guilty

NEW YORK — A U.S. Army soldier who was involved in the planning of the capture of then-Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Manhattan federal court to allegedly using conf...

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Mark Carney shares blueprint for domestic strength amid global chaos

OTTAWA — On the first anniversary of a stunning election win amid punishing Trump tariffs, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is plotting a cautiously optimistic path through global economic uncer...

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Trump’s reflecting pool spruce-up fails to charm preservationists

Construction workers in yellow and orange milled about the drained Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Tuesday morning, where a rectangular patch of brilliant blue signaled President Donald Trump’s...

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Barney Frank, entering hospice care, embarks on a final act: Taking on the left

Former Rep. Barney Frank, a liberal icon who was a key architect of the landmark Wall Street regulations Democrats enacted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, has entered hospice care at his ...

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Appeals court rules against ICE’s mandatory detention policy

A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration’s bidto lock up the majority of people it is seeking to deport without an opportunity for release on bond — even if they have no crimin...

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Government Accountability Office to investigate Justice Department’s handling of Epstein files

The Government Accountability Office has launched an investigation into the Justice Department’s handling of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said...

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We Don’t Need to End Citizens United to Rein in Super PACs

—Douglas Rissing—Getty ImagesThe business model of American politics is clear, and it is clearly corrupt. The strategy of this corruption was perfected in 2024 by crypto super PACs: take out a cou...

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Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence

To describe Donald Trump as a corrupt aspiring authoritarian is not to conclude that he should be murdered.This ought to be a simple point to understand. Yet it is lost on a large swath of the Amer...

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MORNING GLORY: Trump saw the truth legacy media missed — sick minds are fueling violence

"He was probably a pretty sick guy," President Trump correctly concluded about his would-be assassin in a Sunday night "60 Minutes" interview on CBS about the Saturday night attack on the White Hou...

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Dem pollster says party should do more to sell health care message

Battleground-state voters across the political spectrum say the cost of their health care has skyrocketed this year. They’re avoiding the doctor because they can’t afford the out-of-pocket expenses...

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Trump and Kentucky Republicans are uniting against Massie. He could still win.

FORT THOMAS, Kentucky — Thomas Massie took the microphone and cut right to the point. President Donald Trump was against him. But Massie had battled for gun owners and had the support of the Nation...

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Todd Blanche’s bid to join elite private Washington club hits resistance

Some members of one of Washington’s most exclusive clubs have a message for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche: We don’t want you.Around February last year, Blanche started the rigorous process t...

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