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China opens $10 billion shipping canal to Southeast Asia

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Split on AI: Lawmakers Clash Over How to Regulate Big Tech

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Harris urges turnout, Beatty details Trump tantrum, Hawley rules out 2028 run

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JD Vance's most important job in the midterm elections

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Most ISIS-linked federal defendants are US citizens

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No. 2 House Democrat floats potential consequences for defectors

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Rep. Joyce Beatty demands emergency hearing after Kennedy Center closure

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House holds Leon Black in contempt over Epstein testimony after lawsuit

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Iowa GOP Senate nominee skipping Vance's campaign rally in home state

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EU wants Canada to be its first associate member

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AI panic, Trump politics & a clueless congress

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Immigrants should be self-sufficient

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Anthropic's CEO cried wolf on AI. Now he wants Washington to kill his rivals

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Why Kagan and Kavanaugh agreed to end the Roundup bonanza

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Robert Kraft drew a line in a week. Josh Shapiro has had a year

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If Israel's war in Gaza is 'genocide,' so is every modern war ever fought

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America is ready to fight a cyber war. It isn't ready to survive one

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Taxing unsold crypto isn't policy — it's economic sabotage

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Both parties aiming to lose the off-year elections

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The very real scenario where the GOP expands its Senate majority

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Anti-fraud campaign a boost for JD Vance

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Lies, damned lies, and the AI scare

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AI is hardly the first industry where the big guys demanded regulation

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The Hammurabi solution to AI

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Two solemn anniversaries and the cancer of political violence

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Most mothers work. But 50 hours in the cubicle with the child in daycare is not the norm

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Democrats unite behind el Sayed after closed-door meeting

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New energy disruptions stir White House backlash

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Diesel prices reach all-time high of $6

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Trump and Carney are both to blame for interruption of US-Canada friendship

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Zombie higher ed: Elections have consequences

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Happy Constitution Day: The states retain responsibilities, not just rights

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Schools didn't forget America 250. They just decided to ignore it

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Don't let online students go hungry

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Keeping kids in school is common sense

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What Karl Marx got right about politics

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Johnson sends House home early, dismissing series of legislative votes

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New York sheriffs fight state Democrats' effort to ban cooperation with ICE

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Kirk's family one step closer to lawsuit against Utah and university where he was killed

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China opens $10 billion shipping canal to Southeast Asia in landmark win

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Houston Texans player fined thousands for pro-Palestinian message

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Rep. Joyce Beatty details Trump's Kennedy Center 'tantrum,' says venue is still open

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Josh Hawley rules out 2028 run for president: 'No intention'

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How natural disasters like Hurricane Helene has impacted energy infrastructures moving forward

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Kamala Harris urges voter registration to make midterm elections 'too big to rig'

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Should Fetterman switch party affiliation?

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Supreme Court denies Trump's emergency request to enforce mail in ballot restrictions

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'Alligator Alcatraz' suddenly shuttered following DHS auditor's report

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Mitch McConnell casts first Senate vote since June fall

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Trump offers update on White House press secretary sweepstakes

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James Comer wants to see immigration fraud evidence on Ilhan Omar so Congress can decide on her expulsion

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Minnesota attorney general says Somali Muslims have been defrauded by housing scheme claiming to be sharia-compliant

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Most ISIS-linked federal defendants are US citizens: Study

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GOP House nominee says he'll end foreign agent partnership with Cuba if elected

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Deep-pocketed donors flocked to the SPLC to heal America's divisions. Did it pay off?

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Court documents show groups inspiring 'satanist' teenager's alleged plans to attack Christians

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Walz confronted about African official operating Minnesota group homes from overseas

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Air traffic controllers turn on FAA chief as tensions boil over

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UN struggling to protect foreign aid programs from bad actors under Rubio agreements, documents show

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Doescher refuses to be 'black-pilled' into thinking job market is struggling

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Susan Collins calls Trump's $5,000 dividend proposal with no cap 'extraordinarily costly'

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Paramount's relocation to result in $10 billion to $20 billion economic loss in California: Report

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The unlucky 13: States bordering Canada are particularly hard-hit by trade war

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Trump orders $50 billion federal contracting block on Canadian goods

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What the August jobs report says about the economy and Trump

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Gas prices: On pace to be the most expensive Labor Day in US history

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Are you ready to have healthcare provided by a non-human?

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Duke Energy CEO says data centers will have 'no impact' on electricity bills

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NextEra and Dominion Energy sweeten Virginia takeover deal amid scrutiny from Spanberger and other lawmakers

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EPA repeals Biden pollution rules for fossil fuel power plants

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Chris Wright says DOE will refill Strategic Petroleum Reserve in next months as prices soar

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DOE offers $16 million for mining programs to counter China's control of the supply chain

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Colombia and Bolivia 'failed demonstrably' to counter illegal drug production

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Saudi Arabia accuses Houthis of launching attacks on Mecca

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International protests break out over rising oil and gas costs

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EU wants Canada to be its first associate member

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Eswatini says its military accidentally shot two US government workers

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Russian hybrid attacks ramp up across Europe as Lithuania reports explosives were on drone shot down by NATO

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