Politics

Is electricity dimming oil’s political power?

Political fortunes across the globe once rose and fell with the price of gasoline.Increasingly, they are tied to the monthly electric bill.That new reality has political leaders across North Americ...

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The House is back in session. Many Republicans hope it won’t be for long.

The House is back in session Monday for the first time in five weeks. It’s not clear how long members will stick around.Speaker Mike Johnson is hoping to tick the lone essential item off the chambe...

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The midterms are months away. Members are already jockeying for seats on this powerful panel.

Lawmakers can spend years trying to land seats on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee. Several could finally get their chance in the next Congress.The panel with vast jurisdiction over...

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Military widows’ future stuck in partisan brawl over veteran benefits

A House brawl over veteran benefits could ruin the last, best chance for military widows to fix a decades-old law that penalizes them for falling in love again.The fight has little to do with griev...

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‘We better not blow it’: Both parties are fighting to win over working class voters

Republicans and Democrats are fighting over working class voters. Americans don’t believe the rhetoric.Fifty-five percent of Americans think politicians are just trying to win votes when they say t...

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"There should be a Pillar 3 in AUKUS: Polar Security"

CANBERRA — Antarctica is no longer a remote zone insulated from geopolitics. In her latest report, Australian Strategic Policy Institute senior fellow Elizabeth Buchanan argues that resource insecu...

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'Like something out of 'Saturday Night Live': Ontario premier laughs off ‘Lake America’ executive order

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Sunday addressed the rising tensions between the U.S. and Canada, including the recent rounds of personal insults he and President Donald Trump hurled at each other ear...

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Trump’s Arab American allies in Michigan are jumping ship. Mike Rogers could pay the price.

Four days before the 2024 election, Donald Trump declared in Dearborn, Michigan that “the Muslim population” is “liking Trump.” On Election Day, the state’s Arab Americans helped deliver Trump a vi...

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Trump calls for NBC’s Kristen Welker to face ‘rebuke or punishment’

President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to report NBC journalist Kristen Welker to the Federal Communications Commission for her reporting on the impact Trump’s endorsement has had on GOP candi...

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The Republican Party’s Midterm Nightmare Is Taking Shape

LEAWOOD, Kansas — The Senate map is less complicated than it appears. As with every modern presidential campaign, it runs through the Midwest.If Democrats flip Republican-held seats in Ohio and Iow...

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Roy Cohn Did It First

The day after Donald Trump won the 2016 election, the conservative political operative Roger Stone was among the lucky few to get through to him on the telephone. The president-elect reminisced abo...

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Will the Real Dan Sullivan Please Stand Up?

What in the Dan Sullivan is going on in Alaska? Senator Daniel S. Sullivan is running for reelection. Daniel J. Sullivan is one of his challengers. And former Anchorage Mayor Daniel A. Sullivan rec...

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USDA cyclospora research projects shelved amid funding cuts and relocations

The Trump administration is shuttering research projects key to the federal government’s fight against cyclospora, the foodborne parasite sickening thousands of Americans this summer.Two of the thr...

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Iceland's vote on restarting talks on European Union membership is too close to call

REYKJAVIK – A referendum asking voters in Iceland to approve the restart of negotiations with the European Union to join the economic bloc was too close to call early Sunday morning.As the counting...

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Judge declares Rubio’s speech-based student deportations violate the Constitution

A federal judge on Friday declared that the Trump administration’s efforts to deport noncitizens for political speech run counter to the Constitution’s First and Fifth Amendments, the latest legal ...

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On Fox News, progressives score points and stumble

The night after verbally sparring with Abdul El-Sayed on primetime television, Fox News host Jesse Watters had kind words for the progressive Michigan Senate nominee.“I like him,” Watters remarked ...

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How Trump took control of Venezuela’s democratic transition

CARACAS, Venezuela — Over the nearly eight months since U.S. special forces captured Venezuela’s dictator in a middle-of-the-night raid, a Marriott hotel in central Caracas has become the epicenter...

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Hollywood has an unlikely ally in its push to win over Trump

LOS ANGELES — I went looking for Jon Voight at the Beverly Glen Deli, a strip-mall outpost atop Bel Air, the old-money enclave that unspools down the hillside like a film reel.Inside, nannies lunch...

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The fixer at the center of FIFA’s meltdown

BRUSSELS — Gianni Infantino shut FIFA’s top leadership out of his bombshell plot to sell off parts of the World Cup to private investors. But he probably couldn’t have gotten even that far without ...

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Lawsuit alleges Freedom Fuel gas stations touted by Trump are selling stolen fuel

A lawsuit filed this month alleges that there’s a simple reason some stations in the Freedom Fuel Network — the chain of discount gas stations promoted by the White House — have been able to sell g...

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Trump says US has a deal to take huge stake in Venezuela’s oil reserves

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that Venezuela agreed to give the U.S. majority of control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in the South American country, a deal he...

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