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Data center moratorium gains traction among Hill progressives

A proposal to enact a moratorium on new data centers across the country is gaining traction among progressives on Capitol Hill. Last year hundreds of advocacy groups, led by Food and Water Watch, s...

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Pelosi backs former Capitol Police officer over Hoyer’s preferred successor in Maryland

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is going against retiring Rep. Steny Hoyer in the race to replace him in Maryland, teeing up what could be the last clash between the two Democratic powerhouses in...

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Poll: Hilton’s rise could spare Dems from disaster in California gov’s race

Republican Steve Hilton is consolidating GOP support in California’s governor’s race — and that could spare Democrats from catastrophe, according to a new poll by POLITICO and its partners.Hilton, ...

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How Trump’s War on Iran Is Hastening the Coming MAGA Crack-Up

Congratulations are in order for Donald Trump: His attack on Iran is the most unpopular American war in modern history. The New York Times compared support for Trump’s war with initial support for ...

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What to know about Erika Kirk after her Air Force board appointment

Erika entered the political realm after her husband’s death last September (Picture: Getty) Erika Kirk has entered the forefront of American politics after her husband and Turnin...

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‘Damaging and punishing’: Birth control clinics serving millions face federal funding cliff

Clinics that provide free and subsidized birth control and other reproductive health services to millions of low-income people nationwide are warning that access could soon be cut off if the federa...

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One obstacle for Trump’s AI power pledge: The neighbors

STERLING, Virginia — Lindsay Shaw was happy when she found out a data center was going up 100 meters from her front door.Unlike most of her neighbors, she preferred a supercomputing hub to a shoppi...

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Why Oscars season in Trumpworld makes us so mad

Film is personal. When we watch a movie we love, we want to see it get the respect we feel it deserves. And when that movie is up for an Oscar, the prestige factor augments our hope and anticipatio...

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House Republicans prepare to sidestep Trump’s big 2026 demand

DORAL, Florida — President Donald Trump told House Republicans Monday he had one overriding legislative priority for 2026. Then they spent Tuesday talking about just about anything else.Trump’s dem...

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Trump-endorsed Republican advances to runoff in Georgia special election for MTG’s seat

Republican Clayton Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris are advancing to a runoff in the special election to serve out the remainder of former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s term in Congress.Fuller, a l...

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Mark Carney edges closer to majority government

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney can almost taste a majority government that could secure his hold on power until 2029.Lori Idlout, a two-term New Democratic Party MP who represents the sprawlin...

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Don’t Hold Your Breath for More Epstein Prosecutions

The release of the Epstein files was supposed to quell the controversy over whether the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein committed child sex crimes with a host of wealthy, prominent men....

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'You just roll with it’: Filibuster fight puts a MAGA target on Thune

Conservatives are putting John Thune in a political pressure cooker as they try to bypass the Senate filibuster and pass a controversial elections bill. The majority leader is making it clear he’s ...

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The White House isn’t panicking about oil prices. That may change in a few weeks.

The Trump administration believes it can withstand a brief spike in oil prices — for as many as four weeks, as one person close to the White House suggested — before the political hit does lasting ...

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Tucker Carlson helped make Donald Trump and JD Vance. Could he be the next president?

It’s well known that Donald Trump consumes television broadcasts and often makes policy based more on Fox News punditry than advice from political or government advisors. So it’s unsurprising that ...

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US official: ‘Not true’ Navy successfully escorted oil tanker through Strait of Hormuz

Trump administration officials denied a claim from Energy Secretary Chris Wright in a now-deleted social media post Tuesday that the U.S. Navy escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz.Wh...

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Pentagon says 140 troops wounded in Operation Epic Fury

The Pentagon said Tuesday that about 140 U.S. service members have been wounded during 10 days of sustained attacks tied to the Iran conflict.Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said the wound...

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Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson reignite feud over Iran war

Sen. Ted Cruz and conservative pundit Tucker Carlson are again trading barbs over Israel and antisemitism, as they renew their feud over the war in Iran.“I believe Tucker Carlson is the single most...

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MAGA war skeptics rage over Lindsey Graham

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s push for a more aggressive posture in the U.S.-Israel war with Iran is infuriating war skeptics within the MAGA base, who are questioning why the veteran South Carolina Republ...

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Judges say ICE, DOJ leaders are putting rank-and-file lawyers in ‘an impossible position’

Federal judges livid over missed deadlines and outright defiance of their orders in a sea of immigration cases are training their ire on the Justice Department’s political leadership, going out of ...

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Trump urges Congress to pass SAVE America Act, fully fund DHS as TSA workers go without pay

President Donald Trump is urging Congress to pass the SAVE America Act (SAA) as well as restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as more than 100,000 federal employees go witho...

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