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2 years ago

Bob Cusack on no clear direction coming from both sides in Congress

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

ICE coordinated deportation flights with Iran just one month before war

2 days ago

Professional basketball veterans challenge WNBA to decide who is a woman

22 minutes ago

Fetterman rejects data center and AI 'doomsdaying' after Shapiro executive order

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Newsom breaks with usual Trump criticism to tout Trump Accounts

36 minutes ago

USPS issues final rule to restrict mail-in voting and comply with executive order

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Trump requests court to protect family records from BBC case investigation

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Carney outlines last-minute issues with US-Canada trade negotiations

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Leavitt will return to Trump-aligned super PAC to spend more time with children

18 hours ago

Ossoff insists he won't run in 2028. The presidential buzz is growing anyway

36 minutes ago

Zach Halaschak on no clear direction tackling the $40 trillion national debt

8 hours ago

Mike Brest on USS Lincoln turmoil underscores Republicans' Iran vulnerabilities

8 hours ago

Christian Datoc on James Braid to leave role as Trump's legislative advisor

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Joe Lawler on bond markets becoming a player in US politics

1 day ago

David Mark on Darline Graham's lack luster debate against Ralph Norman

1 day ago

Transgender sex offender Richard Cox battles judge over revived charges and damning letters

1 day ago

Teachers unions lose another fight against school choice

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Healthcare has a dirty secret: It's designed to make you feel like you don't matter

36 minutes ago

Coding costs nothing now. America is about to strike gold

36 minutes ago

China stole your voter file. The media is downplaying the real threat

36 minutes ago

Latin America isn't turning right. It's turning ruthless

36 minutes ago

Stop blaming corruption. Washington's real problem is basic arithmetic

36 minutes ago

Candace Owens debated Charlie Kirk's murder. Who's investigating the death of truth?

36 minutes ago

Trump and House Democrats are making the same fatal mistake on defense

36 minutes ago

The anti-family Right

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Hasan Piker dares Democrats to defend him

1 day ago

Legacy media proves rock bottom has a basement with hatchet job of Natalie Harp

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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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Democratic voters reject Resistance stars

2 days ago

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

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White House report card: Even our Republican strategists say there's no good news this week

1 day ago

We owe $40 trillion — $120,000 each

2 days ago

Socialists shove the Resistance aside in Florida

3 days ago

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

8 days ago

The independent nones

1 day ago

USS Lincoln is more complicated than partisan politics

36 minutes ago

When a sunken Humvee becomes a successful failure

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DOJ silence in major gun cases tests advocates' trust in Trump

36 minutes ago

Federal judge strikes down State Department visa ban on 75 countries

36 minutes ago

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

1 day ago

The failed state of American education

1 day ago

The VA is not the only problem. Veterans service organizations are failing us

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

'Shield from the Majority' is under attack in Alaska

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

Carney says US 'attacked' Canada with tariffs and promises retaliation

18 hours ago

Court sides with conservative activist James O'Keefe in First Amendment case

22 hours ago

'Let the man have one f***ing friend': Bill Maher defends Trump aide Natalie Harp

36 minutes ago

Rogers' team asks AIPAC not to advertise for his campaign against el Sayed

36 minutes ago

Concha rips Hasan Piker: 'Democrats actually campaign with this maniac'

19 hours ago

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

23 hours ago

Transgender sex offender Richard Cox battles judge over recusal and damning letters

23 hours ago

Appeals court revives Virginia locker room case against transgender sex offender Richard Cox

1 day ago

Making the Magazine: Judging Amy

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

Daniel Di Martino on JD Vance and the global reserve currency

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

Space Force security officers hold reporters at gunpoint at California base

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

Former Fauci aide pleads guilty to COVID-19 conspiracy

4 days ago

Cuban foreign agent running for Congress claims conflicting residencies

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

9 days ago

US-Canada trade deal collapses as Trump's 50% tariffs go into effect

19 hours ago

Trump reaches deal to halt tariffs on beef for 90 days in bid to lower prices

1 day ago

Budget red ink threatens to spike inflation and unemployment

1 day ago

Gas prices: National average rises to $4.11 per gallon

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

4 days ago

Half of Democratic voters hold negative view of capitalism: Poll

6 days ago

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

2 days ago

NASA abandons mission to rescue aging Swift space telescope

3 days ago

Josh Shapiro signs executive order restricting data center development in Pennsylvania

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

DOE awards $162 million to nine critical mineral extraction projects

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

Germany uncovers hoard of guns assumed to be stashed by Russia

1 day ago

Iran's president calls for peace 'today' in acknowledgment of economic warfare

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ICC president decries being sanctioned by US: 'Demise of international rule of law'

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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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