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European leaders mourn US Senator Lindsey Graham

European leaders are mourning the death of Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, who died suddenly on Saturday at the age of 71. Graham, who strongly advocated for sanctions against Ru...

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Lindsey Graham's death will kick off a breakneck campaign for his Senate seat

Lindsey Graham's sudden, unexpected death will kick off a rapid campaign to pick the next likely senator from South Carolina — with a full six-year term on the line to replace the longtime senator....

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Graham’s death leaves Senate agenda in limbo

Lindsey Graham’s death is poised to upend the Senate, where the GOP majority was already tight and the four-term South Carolina Republican loomed large in several immediate policy fights ahead of t...

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Tributes pour in following Graham’s sudden death

Allies of Sen. Lindsey Graham expressed shock and sorrow Sunday and offered condolences after the longtime fixture in Republican politics died unexpectedly over the weekend.Graham, a four-term sena...

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North Carolina Republicans are anxious for more money to beat Roy Cooper

North Carolina Republicans have a message for Washington: The cavalry needs to come.Their Senate nominee, former Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley, is lagging far behind Roy Coope...

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Top House Republicans privately push to keep members from being appointed to Graham’s seat

Senior House Republicans scrambled Sunday to keep their members out of consideration for appointment to fill Lindsey Graham’s now-vacant Senate seat out of fear of further eroding their razor-thin ...

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Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness,’ his office says

Lindsey Graham, the four-term Republican U.S. senator from South Carolina, died on Saturday after a “brief and sudden illness,” his office said in a statement.“On the evening of Saturday, July 11, ...

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Poll: Politics shapes patriotism, from the US to the UK

What does it mean to be patriotic? It depends on a country's politics.Pride in one’s country is itself relatively common, according to new results from an international edition of The POLITICO Poll...

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Progressives think they've found a way around their old social media posts

Progressive Democratic candidates have one thing to say to their establishment amid a wave of primary victories poised to dramatically alter the ideological makeup of their party: Enough with the o...

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What I Saw at the Fracking Revolution

Marty Whiteman had enough natural gas under his hayfield to make him quite rich when the fracking boom swept through his rugged corner of West Virginia 20 years ago.  But it didn't make him rich, b...

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How Candace Owens Became TPUSA’s Worst Enemy

Less than one month after Charlie Kirk’s death, Candace Owens made an incendiary claim: Kirk came to her in a dream and told her he had been betrayed.Owens, a conservative podcaster who worked for ...

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Deal or no deal: Vance team feels like he’s handling Iran ‘the right way’

Vice President JD Vance last month said that he didn’t trust the Iranians to hold up their end of the deal. He was heading to Switzerland to try anyway.The vice president has closely linked himself...

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‘Not where they hoped it'd be’: Launch of Trump AI promotion program underwhelms

A Trump administration program aimed at making American AI the world's default technology is off to a rocky start.The Commerce Department received 78 applications in the first round of its American...

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Michigan Senate hopeful calls AIPAC donations 'legalized bribery,' remains silent on other donations

Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, called donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) a form of "bribery.""Next week, AIPAC is set to spend at...

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New US-Canada bridge to open after delay

The Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, will open before the end of the month following a delay stemming from President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada.Can...

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At Trump DOJ’s demand, judge reluctantly drops Jan. 6 case against Proud Boys

It’s over.The Justice Department’s most significant case stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol — the seditious conspiracy convictions of high-ranking members of the far right Proud B...

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Trump demands ‘public statement’ from Iran in ongoing negotiations

President Donald Trump is willing to continue negotiating with Iran even after he declared the ceasefire over – but the talks are predicated on Tehran issuing a public statement that it won’t threa...

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What Americans mean when they say they’re worried about a stolen election

Questions about the integrity of elections have become pervasive in American politics — and new polling reveals the sharp differences in Republican and Democratic fears.Nearly six years after Presi...

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Poll: Republicans and Democrats agree on 1 big election issue

Americans think cash rules more of the political system than it should — a concern that crosses party lines as midterm spending is projected to once again shatter records.New results from The POLIT...

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Poll: Democrats would give up Black voting power to beat the GOP

A lot of Democrats are willing to sacrifice Black voting power to beat the GOP.In the two weeks since the Supreme Court significantly narrowed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Republicans ...

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The gas is cheap. The Trump administration isn’t saying who’s paying for it.

President Donald Trump promoted a network of Philadelphia-area gas stations offering discount prices as a gift to the American people around Independence Day.It’s not clear who’s footing the bill.T...

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