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‘What is he doing?’: New threats emerge for Trump’s economy as war drags on

The guardrails that protected the U.S. economy from President Donald Trump’s policy jolts are wearing thin.New economic reports show inflation is ticking higher, prompting the Federal Reserve on We...

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Pritzker helped a Black woman become senator. Some Black leaders are still mad at him.

Congressional Black Caucus members, after a stinging loss in the Illinois Democratic Senate primary, are training their ire on Gov. JB Pritzker — and saying it’s on him to rehabilitate the relation...

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8 Fault Lines That Could Spell Trouble for Trump’s Coalition

When Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, her primary task was to defend President Donald Trump’s decision to launch an u...

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MORNING GLORY: Israel is America’s best ally — we must reject the evil of antisemitism

The stunning and ominous rise in anti-Semitism in the United States cannot be disputed, but can be resisted. It is particularly the obligation of genuine Christians to participate in the repression...

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Inside the White House plan to sell the Iran war online

President Donald Trump’s hype campaign for the Iran war has demolished decades of presidential decorum around wartime messaging — and is mortifying former defense officials and members of Congress....

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Trump’s intel agencies back his claims on peace deals, Europe

The intelligence community’s latest threat assessment reinforces Trump administration narratives on immigration and global peace deals, while also laying out a stark picture of growing threats to t...

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Fight over local Facebook group pits the ACLU against a powerful NJ law firm

What started as a minor lawsuit over access to a local Facebook group in a small New Jersey city has spiraled into a fight over a state law intended to discourage powerful interests from suppressin...

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Gabbard dodges questions about foreign threats to midterms

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sidestepped questions about whether there were any credible foreign threats to U.S. elections — despite her involvement in the Trump administration’s...

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Iran and oil imperil Trump-Japan summit

The meeting between President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Washington on Thursday was meant to be a celebration involving cherry blossoms, big investment checks and an...

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‘Hard to absorb’: Chavez allegations stun Newsom, top Democrats

With a political and labor movement forged in part by Cesar Chavez stunned by the sexual abuse allegations against him, labor leaders and Democratic politicians scrambled Wednesday to reconcile the...

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‘Warrants or bust’: House hard-liners deliver ultimatum ahead of spy powers vote

Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down his right flank as he seeks to fulfill President Donald Trump’s demand to extend warrantless government surveillance powers long detested by the conservative ha...

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AI and Crypto spent nearly $20 million to reshape Illinois’s Democratic primaries. They mostly lost

The artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency industries spent big and lost often in this week’s Illinois primaries, an early setback for technology firms that are trying to reshape the midterm el...

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FBI is buying data that can be used to track people, Patel says

The FBI is buying up information that can be used to track people’s movement and location history, Director Kash Patel said during a Senate hearing Wednesday.It is the first confirmation that the a...

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Why Does Cory Booker Think This Time Will Be Different?

Read more about the Democrats who might run for president in 2028 here.A touch of annoyance flashes across Cory Booker’s face as we talk about fighting. “Why do people preemptively, continually, mi...

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Quick vote on Mullin’s DHS nomination hangs on classified briefing

Hopes for a quick vote on Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s nomination as Homeland Security secretary hang on questions about secretive travel the Oklahoma Republican undertook as a House member a decade ago...

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Dem-backed 'social justice' law put Virginia's ODU campus at risk before attack, former AG argues

A Democrat-backed Virginia law restricting how colleges review applicants’ criminal histories is facing renewed scrutiny after the Old Dominion University attack, with former Attorney General Jason...

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Mullin presents himself as a different kind of DHS secretary during tense confirmation hearing

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump’s pick to replace Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary, stressed Wednesday to his colleagues on the Senate Homeland Security Committee that he’ll...

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Will Republicans Fight For The SAVE Act - Or Fold Again?

Will Republicans Fight For The SAVE Act - Or Fold Again? Authored by Heather Higgins via RealClearPolitics, Republicans didn’t win the Senate so their leaders could manage expecta...

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Transcript: Trump Case for War Undermined by Bombshell as MAGA Breaks

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the March 18 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presente...

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DAVID MARCUS: Senate GOP should take Fetterman's deal on voter ID

Over the next several days, perhaps even stretching into next week, the United States Senate, that grave and august deliberative body, will performatively waste time with impassioned speeches over ...

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Paul challenges Mullin over assault comments during DHS grilling

Senate Homeland Security Chair Rand Paul laid into President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Homeland Security on Wednesday, telling Sen. Markwayne Mullin at his confirmation hearing that disparaging ...

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