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Fed on collision path with Trump as rate hikes loom on horizon

President Donald Trump is demanding that his new Federal Reserve chief slash interest rates. Wall Street investors are increasingly — and overwhelmingly — taking the opposite bet.The latest flare-u...

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Trump recalls friendship, spats in eulogy for Lindsey Graham

To President Donald Trump, who eulogized the late Sen. Lindsey Graham Tuesday afternoon, the longtime lawmaker from South Carolina was a good friend, a once maligned rival presidential candidate, a...

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VA secretary’s role in failed vets bill stokes new round of White House, GOP frustration

White House officials and House GOP leaders are increasingly frustrated with Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins, after they say he undermined a major veterans measure championed by Republicans...

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State Department will dispense $600M for vaccines RFK Jr. held up, Collins says

The State Department will dispense the $600 million Congress appropriated to an international partnership helping developing countries buy and distribute vaccines, Susan Collins (R-Maine), the chai...

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Mikie Sherrill refuses DOJ demand for data on NJ noncitizen voters, citing privacy laws

TRENTON, New Jersey — New Jersey will not cooperate with a federal demand for data on the approximately 6,600 noncitizens accidentally added to the state’s voter rolls in 2023 and 2024, Gov. Mikie ...

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Allies shrug as US pushes for Strait of Hormuz patrol

European allies are refusing to support a U.S. push to create a joint Strait of Hormuz patrol until they see an enduring ceasefire in the Iran war — the latest sign that Washington’s repeated bashi...

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Netanyahu and Zelenskyy meet Trump at the White House as Washington honors Lindsey Graham

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday is the first since the two leaders launched a joint war against Iran and a chance for Netanyahu to smooth ...

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Trump administration bans foreign-made robots and power gear amid fears of Chinese influence

The Trump administration Tuesday halted imports of advanced robots and a type of power equipment frequently used in solar energy projects, in the latest outgrowth of White House alarm about securit...

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Trump commemorates Graham’s life — with sunny Netanyahu and Zelenskyy meetings

President Donald Trump may have given the late Sen. Lindsey Graham a parting gift on Tuesday.The president hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensk...

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AI staffers urge US to help ‘deliberately pace’ tech development

More than 1,100 researchers and executives at leading artificial intelligence companies are urging the U.S. government to back international efforts to develop tools that can “deliberately pace” th...

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Data center boom sparks lobbying surge

The number of companies, associations and advocacy groups lobbying around data center issues more than doubled this spring compared to the same time last year as Congress and the Trump administrati...

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Former Newsom aide challenges his version of their affair

A former aide to Gavin Newsom is challenging the governor’s characterization of their 20-year-old affair, complicating his narrative about a relationship that once imperiled his political career.Ru...

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House committee passes Foreign Funding Transparency Act to expose foreign donations to nonprofits

Lawmakers are seeking to expose foreign nationals who may be funneling money and donations through tax-exempt organizations to political committees as the House Ways and Means Committee passed a bi...

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Why Elena Kagan is Defending the Roberts Court

Justice Elena Kagan offered a notable defense of her colleagues on the Supreme Court last week by rejecting claims that the justices were simply doing Trump’s bidding. “I don’t see this as a court ...

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Vox launches The Midterms, Actually, a new weekly newsletter from Astead W. Herndon

Today, Vox is launching The Midterms, Actually, a new weekly newsletter from Astead W. Herndon examining the big ideas and key people behind the political shifts shaping the 2026 ele...

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San Francisco mayor backs national robotaxi rules after Waymo meltdowns

SAN FRANCISCO — The City by the Bay is taking its robotaxi worries to Washington after a series of Waymo meltdowns disrupted traffic and prompted some in the tech-industry town to start to sour on ...

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Trump’s SAVE America demands threaten to hand Senate a cruel summer

President Donald Trump is intent on forcing an August breakthrough on his No. 1 Capitol Hill priority. John Thune has the unenviable task of trying to bring him back to reality.Fixated on the GOP e...

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Anthropic CEO: Don’t ban cheap AI — but clamp down on China

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Monday called for a crackdown on China’s access to American artificial intelligence technology, days after the company declined to join other U.S. tech giants in oppos...

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Stevens to El-Sayed: ‘Thank you for clarifying that you didn’t call me an ogre’

Michigan Democratic Senate candidates Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed agreed on one thing during Monday’s primary debate: Stevens is not an ogre.But Stevens used El-Sayed’s recent musings to ...

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Ukraine is embracing MAGA. It’s not clear if MAGA is hugging back.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives in Washington this week having made initial headway courting the MAGA movement that has long complicated his push to keep U.S. support flowing for Uk...

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Valeria Luiselli, Emilee Hackney, Annie Jacobsen, and more: 20 new books out today!

Rounding out the end of the month with some long-awaited arrivals: namely, Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli finally hits the shelves. We also have a riveting and raw memoir by Emilee Hackne...

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