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Democrats say they are subjects of FBI probe after filming anti-Trump video

Several congressional Democrats said Tuesday they might be under investigation by the FBI after filming an anti-Trump video urging military troops not to follow illegal orders.“President Trump is u...

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Trump’s CMS touts $12B savings from Medicare drug price negotiations

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced $12 billion in federal savings from the second year of Medicare drug price negotiations — a total health officials assert roughly doubles what Presiden...

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Republicans in the dark on White House plan for Obamacare abortion restrictions

The White House's silence on how its health care plan deals with abortion is causing a headache for Republicans on Capitol Hill.For many GOP members, an expansion of abortion restrictions in Obamac...

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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser will not seek reelection

Three-term D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will not run for reelection, she announced in a social media post Tuesday.“With a grateful heart, I am announcing that I will not seek a fourth term,” she said o...

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People Are Underestimating America’s Groyper Problem

Is anti-Semitism in American political discourse actually just a carefully cultivated deception? Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X revealed the location of every account on the site, and the results ...

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Kristi Noem made call to hand over deported men to El Salvador, DOJ says

The Justice Department acknowledged Tuesday that it was Homeland Security Kristi Noem who decided to proceed with the deportation of 100 Venezuelan men to a notorious prison in El Salvador despite ...

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Trump opens the door to Obamacare subsidy extension

President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested he was open to extending Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year if it would give Congress time to make changes that he support...

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Inside lobbying efforts to make the Mar-a-Lago foreign worker visa a staple of MAGA

As President Donald Trump fends off an intraparty fight over visas, a trade group with Mar-a-Lago ties is pushing for seasonal worker visas to be expanded — and hoping to slip under the radar of MA...

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Jim Justice to pay more than $5M in back taxes

Republican Sen. Jim Justice and his wife have agreed to pay more than $5 million in back taxes dating back over 15 years, as the freshman senator continues to weather financial difficulties that ma...

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The D Brief: US, Ukraine in talks; Counter-drone war, at scale?; China’s anti-AI playbook; Spies see opportunity in feds’ fear; And a bit more.

<![CDATA[Developing: United States and Ukrainian officials have made some progress in talks to wind down Russia’s Ukraine invasion, Kyiv’s national security advisor announced Tuesday morning. “O...

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Utah’s GOP-controlled Legislature to appeal new congressional map

Utah’s Republican-controlled Legislature plans to appeal the state’s new court-ordered congressional map to the state Supreme Court, legislative leadership announced Tuesday.A state district judge ...

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Trump wants peace in Ukraine, no matter what a deal looks like

President Donald Trump’s primary goal is to end the war in Ukraine, no matter what the peace deal looks like.As European allies and the Ukrainians haggled over the details of an initial 28-point pl...

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Trump’s Mamdani embrace complicates Elise Stefanik’s path to governor

ALBANY, New York — President Donald Trump’s astonishingly chummy Oval Office meeting with New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani could not have come at a worse time for Rep. Elise Stefanik.The Ne...

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MORNING GLORY: MLB Commissioner Manfred — don’t do the obvious thing

This is an argument for mercy. Somebody please send it to Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.Among the most important decisions Commissioner Rob Manfred will make in the course of his c...

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How Donald Trump and the CEO of the world’s biggest company became BFFs

President Donald Trump and Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang. The biggest company in the world is Nvidia, and it’s been making the same product since 1993: a specialized computer...

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Democrats spending big to expand coalition in midterms

Democrats are riding momentum from this month’s off-cycle elections into an eight-figure spend to expand their base in the midterm elections next year.The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committe...

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X’s location update exposes international troll industry

A new transparency feature on X has revealed that many politically influential US accounts, including pro-Trump ones with hundreds of thousands of followers, are a...

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Trump was going to roll out a health care plan. Then Republicans weighed in.

Donald Trump’s health care plan is in limbo after pushback from Republicans who were caught off guard by the president’s forthcoming proposal — questioning, in particular, whether it would include ...

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Is the Comey case gone for good? And other questions after Halligan’s cases crumbled

The criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James are gone — for now. But a federal judge’s decision to dismiss the indictments and eject the le...

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Rubio changes the tack of Trump’s Ukraine negotiations after week of chaos

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, an unusual choice to play diplomat, spent two days last week delivering a tough message to Ukraine and its European allies: Accept the offered 28-point peace proposal b...

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Driscoll meets with Russians in Abu Dhabi about Ukraine peace plan

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll will huddle with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday about a peace plan to end the Ukraine war, a rare meeting between the countries’ top military leaders and one ...

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