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2 years ago

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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Nixon upsets Trump-backed Vindman, Byron Donalds advances, Elijah ousts Mills

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

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Ro Khanna reports over 5,400 stock trades in 2025 as he supports taxing wealthy

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Trump team out on a limb with claim that oil is flowing through Strait of Hormuz

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CNN clashes built Scott Jennings for the White House briefing room

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Republican senator puts hold over all future Trump nominees over wetlands policy

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Democrats narrow 2028 convention host-city short list after nixing Chicago

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Graham Nordone attempts to quell backlash over Taiwan question: 'I don't speak politician'

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Ocasio-Cortez endorses Massachusetts Senate incumbent Ed Markey

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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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The US dollar's future as the global reserve currency: Right Way Forward

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Trump team out on a limb with claim that oil is flowing through Strait of Hormuz

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Bessent Warns of $40 Trillion Debt, Says America Must 'Grow Our Way Out'

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James Braid to leave role as White House liaison to Congress

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Trump FDA pick Heidi Overton upsets hardcore MAHA activists

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California's wealth tax is already failing

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America's most beautiful big city is back from the dead

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Trump is blinded by his personal relationship with Kim Jong Un

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Prosecutors busted the Biden deepfake without an AI law. That's the point

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I just sued my county after they claimed a tech firm owns my location data

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A federal judge thinks you're too stupid to read an ice cream label

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Forcing the Babylon Bee to spoil its jokes is just the setup. Control is the punchline

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Let Bosnia collapse: Why Trump must recognize Republika Srpska

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Why did three Republican senators back a Massachusetts candidate who supports late-term abortion?

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Socialists shove the Resistance aside in Florida

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From 'all in' to tap the brakes: Josh Shapiro redefines Pennsylvania's tech boom

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Terry Moran confirms it: ABC News has morphed into MSABC

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The leftist 'Omnicause' lies to us every day

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Trump's Iran struggle comes through on campaign stump

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

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Mamdani's war on affordability

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

6 days ago

Pragmatic primary pivots in the Midwest

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For the founders, the common good came before liberty

9 days ago

FBI raids Swalwell's property in misconduct investigation

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Trump says he told Cory Mills to drop reelection bid

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EXCLUSIVE: RNC raised $19 million in July and has $130 million for midterms

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The Democrats' growing extremism will surely backfire

6 days ago

Jon Ossoff clearly has his eyes on something beyond his Senate seat

5 days ago

Does anyone want to win the midterm elections?

5 days ago

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

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When journalism stops using the word 'woman'

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Doctors and patients shouldn't pay for Tim Walz's failures

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Across the spectrum, Americans want accountability on immigration solutions

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Stop turning Lindsay Clancy into a culture war

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ICE arrests captain of boat that capsized in New York Harbor, killing two

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US Mint rolls out Freedom 250 Grand Prix medal

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Trump officials tout multifront drone initiative

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Trump eyes White House insiders to replace outgoing legislative affairs chief

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Tulsi Gabbard shares health update on husband: 'The battle isn't over yet'

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Making the Magazine: Aping Trump

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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

4 hours ago

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

9 hours ago

United Arab Emirates suspend trade with Iran after latest attack

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Byron Donalds set for November faceoff with Democrat David Jolly for Florida governor

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Soros-backed prosecutor under fire for accused killers' insanity pleas

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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

3 days ago

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

7 days ago

FBI ran secret operation to extinguish Biden family foreign influence scandal: Declassified documents

7 days ago

'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

7 days ago

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

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Patient debt adds stress to already tenuous US economy

14 days ago

In slowdown, the economy expanded at 1.5% rate in second quarter

21 days ago

Mamdani offering 30% discounts for staple items in city-owned grocery stores

24 days ago

NASA abandons mission to rescue aging Swift space telescope

23 hours ago

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

2 days ago

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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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

12 hours ago

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

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Telemundo executive among five Americans killed in Kenya helicopter crash

23 hours ago

Azerbaijan sues CNN for defamation over Iran war coverage

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ICC condemns Rubio's sanctions targeting court president and prosecutor

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South Korea says officials 'were not notified in advance' of Trump's scaling back of joint exercises

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