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2 years ago

Trump defends Iran war, Wahab beats AIPAC, and Sanders backs Nixon

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Alina Habba squashes rumors she'll replace Karoline Leavitt as press secretary

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ICE coordinated deportation flights with Iran just one month before war

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Trump calls for Iran 'Economic D-Day,' floats talks, and Lindell funds recount

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Trump-backed Lauf falls to Schwartzel in open House race for Donalds seat

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Rogers gains Jewish Democratic support as Israel critic el Sayed fights back

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Piker calls Hamas 'moderate' as he faces backlash from centrist Democrats

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Rubio's power over Foreign Service appeals expands

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ROB CRILLY: Even GOP strategists say there's no good news this week

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Supreme Court allows White House ballroom construction to continue

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Iran's president calls for peace 'today' ahead of economic warfare

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EXCLUSIVE: Rob Sand and Turek don't want Harris to campaign for them

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ICE sends first plane of Haitian deportees home after ending TPS

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Knicks owner shifts to bankroll Bruce Blakeman for NY governor

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Democrats use recalls to pan RFK Jr.'s tenure as HHS secretary

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Eric Swalwell raided by the FBI, left wing groups nullify juries

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Gas prices: National average rises to $4.11 per gallon

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FBI foils New York woman's alleged ISIS attack plan on state capitol

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Walmart using billions in Trump tariff refunds to cut prices at stores

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Misleading polls fuel socialist hopes that come crashing down on Election Day

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Space Force security officers hold reporters at gunpoint at California base

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Building data centers right

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The admission exposing Mamdani's antisemitism office as a muzzle

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Performative Christian James Talarico helps fuel racial hatred

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Trump's bombs weakened Iran's regime. Its own people can take it down

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Trump talked for a week. Six capitals moved

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Bread lines or bread winning? The Democratic Party's fatal leftward drift

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Tokyo just changed Kim Jong Un's nuclear calculus

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What's behind Russia's escalation against the UK

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How a losing campaign in the Alleghenies became the blueprint for a Democratic upset in Trump country

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Scott Bessent cannot save the bond market from Congress's $40 trillion national debt

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We owe $40 trillion — $120,000 each

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Democratic voters reject Resistance stars

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Socialists shove the Resistance aside in Florida

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Terry Moran confirms it: ABC News has morphed into MSABC

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The deficit, explained: What it is, why it's growing, and how to fix it

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The New York Times's 'right to kill' story gets the Second Amendment backward

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Pragmatic primary pivots in the Midwest

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For the founders, the common good came before liberty

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Trump says 'Scott Jennings is good' for press secretary

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W. JAMES ANTLE: The Scott Jennings precedent

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US threatens Belgian school over suspension of Jason Arday critic

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ICC president decries being sanctioned by US

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Amy Coney Barrett defies easy categorization, to the dismay of the Left and Right

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IndyCar and the president: America 250 goes to the track

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Why did a GOP House candidate register as Cuba's foreign agent?

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'Shield from the Majority' is under attack in Alaska

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The Minsky Moment: Rising rates threaten credit, AI, and stocks

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Desperate Smithsonian eyes loophole for Latino museum

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The US is at risk of losing leverage over a crucial UN agency

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Ed Martin to leave DOJ to fight election 'legal battles'

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Polymarket flags dozens of military insider trading cases to DOJ

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Vance says Democrats are the party of grad school voters

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Number of US troops injured in Iran war surpasses 750

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Arizona AG denies quid pro quo in Hobbs bribery probe

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Trump Team Takes Risky Stand: Is Oil Really Flowing Through Hormuz?

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'I'd win by 25 points': Trump rejects poor polling and says Americans 'respect' Iran war

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Daniel Di Martino on JD Vance and the global reserve currency

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ICE coordinated deportation flights with Iran as late as one month before war: Report

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Trump demands allies assist with new 'economic D-Day' campaign against Iran

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Space Force security officers hold reporters at gunpoint at California base

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Lindell self funding recount in double digit Minnesota governor primary loss

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Missouri judge rules in favor of Republicans in redistricting battle

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Republicans see Virginia's 7th District as their best chance to flip a Democratic seat in the state

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United Arab Emirates suspend trade with Iran after latest attack

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Virginia Democrat bought second home outside of her congressional district after promising to relocate

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FBI raids Eric Swalwell's property, seizes devices at airport in sexual misconduct investigation

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Former DC police charged with overtime fraud are honored on Congress's Jan. 6 plaque

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Minnesota prosecutor accused of billing Medicaid from commercial sex house she turned into assisted-living facility

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DSA chapter plans 'Riots and Uprisings' reading club to study 'how people struggled'

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Former Fauci aide pleads guilty to COVID-19 conspiracy

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Cuban foreign agent running for Congress claims conflicting residencies

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Homeland Security investigated Minnesota labor unions as part of 'terrorist financing' probe in anti-ICE antifa case: Court documents

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El Sayed touts endorsement from lobbyists tied to terrorist financing: 'Deeply grateful'

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Budget red ink threatens to spike inflation and unemployment

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Gas prices: National average rises to $4.11 per gallon

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Does anyone in politics care about a $40 trillion national debt?

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'They don't want to get a job': Tiana Lowe Doescher on Gen Z's growing disengagement

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Half of Democratic voters hold negative view of capitalism: Poll

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Interest rate hikes go global

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Americans want to make domestic beer great again: Poll

8 days ago

How a $20 burrito shows the Trump administration's disconnect on cost of living

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NASA abandons mission to rescue aging Swift space telescope

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Josh Shapiro signs executive order restricting data center development in Pennsylvania

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Trump administration moves to end protections for nearly 45 million acres of national forests

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DOE awards $162 million to nine critical mineral extraction projects

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Trump administration pauses construction in Big Bend National Park following bipartisan backlash

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Abbott's data center construction pause will take 'several months' for up to 300 projects in Texas

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Gas prices: National average sits at $4.06 per gallon

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Beshear says Trump did not brief him before Kentucky data center plan

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Ceuta in chaos as traffickers move migrants to Spain and Madrid accepts 500 at-risk girls

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Oil flows and Iranian economic woes give White House much-needed PR reprieve around war

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USS George Washington arrives in Middle East

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North Korea launches 10 ballistic missiles as US and South Korea continue joint military drills

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North Korea shrugs off Trump's scaled-back drills with South Korea, saying it changes nothing

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Prince Harry and Meghan leaving US for Britain after six-year royal feud

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