Politics

Israel faces another period of political uncertainty — here are the scenarios

Few election campaigns in Israel's history have been as polarizing as this year's, which also served as a referendum on the lessons of the devastating attack by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023. And...

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Why Trump Has Gone All In on the Cheesecake Factory Culture Wars

In American politics, you can pick a man’s pocket all day long if you don’t act like you’re better than he is. In presidential politics, rich dumb Republicans like George W. Bush and Donald Trump o...

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DeSantis emerges as Florida GOP’s closer amid multiple tight midterm races

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — In the final week before the midterm elections in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis is giving last-minute boosts to state Republicans from the top of the ticket to multiple newly re...

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A Bible-quoting Democrat is threatening the GOP's decades-long grip on Texas

The words “competitive” and “Texas” don’t often show up side by side when it comes to big elections. No Democrat has won a statewide race in the Lone Star State since 1994, and most of the races wi...

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Hackers attempted to access national campaign finance systems 1 week before midterms

Hackers attempted to access some filing systems at the Federal Election Commission, prompting the independent campaign finance regulatory agency to shut them down on Tuesday to contain the attack, ...

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Trump debuts oil rule rollback as Texas wobbles toward blue

President Donald Trump couldn’t give Ken Paxton lower gas prices — but he did give him a roll back of the methane pollution rule that Paxton has led the legal charge against.Trump visited West Texa...

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Florida gubernatorial hopefuls seek to expand the campaigning map

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — The capital of Florida is used to seeing lawmakers of all stripes. What’s more uncommon: Both parties’ gubernatorial candidates crossing the moss-strewn city a week before a ...

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Israel has voted. Will Americans care?

It may be weeks before we know who the next prime minister of Israel will be.One thing is already clear: that person will face a tough challenge winning over the American public — or even getting A...

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How Cleta Mitchell Turned Trump’s “Big Lie” Into a Movement

Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica. Source images: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Win McNamee/Getty Images. In July, not long before President Donald Trump ...

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Inside the shadow campaign to lead a diminished House GOP

MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina — Donald Trump is facing his worst-ever approval ratings as president, GOP candidates in deep-red districts are scrambling for political cover, and Jim Jordan would lik...

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GOP defense hawks break with Trump ahead of the midterms

President Donald Trump may have finally alienated the faction key to delivering his colossal defense budget: Republican hawks.The president will need almost unanimous support from Senate and House ...

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Dems have lost in the rural Midwest for years. This might be their time to win it back.

EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin — In this rural-heavy stretch of the upper Midwest, Democrats are trying to claw back districts where their party brand is still deeply toxic.It won’t be easy, even in a midte...

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Abdul El-Sayed once promised a 7-point victory. Now ‘we’ll see.’

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — For months, progressives have seen the Michigan Senate race as the best chance to show that a proudly left-wing candidate could win a tough election.Abdul El-Sayed, the Dem...

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The midterms may revive a dying breed: The oil-state Democrat

Next week’s midterm elections could usher in the revival of a rare type of politician: Democratic senators representing states rich in fossil fuels and Republicans.Moderate Democrats view potential...

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How AI has got the Fed in a bind

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh says artificial intelligence will ultimately provide a “huge benefit” to the economy. But a cooling off of investment in the skyrocketing technology might actually...

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Appeals Court Rejects DOJ's Challenge To Suspected Noncitizen Ballots In California

Appeals Court Rejects DOJ's Challenge To Suspected Noncitizen Ballots In California Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times,A federal appeals court declined to intervene in the Tr...

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Alaska’s ranked choice voting is on the ballot this year. Republicans want it gone.

Alaska voters will decide next week for the second time in as many cycles whether they want to scramble the state’s ranked choice voting system, as Republicans fret it could cost them a tight Senat...

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Why Moscow shouldn’t fear a Democratic victory in the US midterms

US midterms could complicate ties with Russia. Moscow should judge any Ukraine deal by its merits, not Washington’s political calendar When Dona...

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‘The same issue’: Why the US and Canada are still a ways from a trade deal

The U.S. and Canada are flirting again.Washington and Ottawa have increased the tempo of their trade talks over the past week, after President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke by p...

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Trump administration grants Flávio Bolsonaro visa after election loss

The Trump administration on Tuesday will grant a visa to failed Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, who fled Brazil for fear that he would face criminal charges and probes in a numbe...

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Republicans wanted Rubio on the stump. Trump coaxed him there.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday came as close to the campaign trail as he’s been all year. And even then, he tried to stay just offshore.Rubio appeared with President Donald Trump in Corp...

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