Politics

Islamophobia is getting worse in Texas. One strange movie is helping drive it.

Bo French, a candidate for Texas railroad commissioner, speaks at a CPAC panel to discuss the threat of Islam in Texas. | Eleanor Dearman/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via...

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Bessent targets banks in UAE over Iran ties

The Trump administration is moving to cut off bank branches located in the United Arab Emirates from the U.S. financial system, the first public action under Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s new ...

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How DHS created a workaround to turn Guard members into immigration officers

The Department of Homeland Security devised an unusual legal tool last year that made it possible for National Guard members to participate in immigration enforcement operations, according to an in...

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'I do not know what happened to the others': Trump's third country deportations spark global debate

Shortly before 1 p.m. last Thursday, a plane from the American airline Eastern Airlines appeared over the airport of Liberia’s capital Monrovia and began its landing approach. Journalists at the ai...

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X busts 200,000-strong Chinese bot farm, including accounts making claims about AI data centers and electricity — suspect accounts posted claims about pricing and grid strain to 'manipulate' debate

X’s Global Government Affairs team posted on its account that it identified a 200,000-strong bot farm operating on the platform, with 200 of them posting informati...

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RFK Jr.’s Health Department empowers political appointees like never before

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised in March 2025 a “dramatic overhaul” of the nation’s Health Department to rid it of industry interests he said had corrupted the agencies and allowed chronic disease t...

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In closely watched speech, Warsh signals Fed may need to raise rates

JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming — Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh on Friday laid the groundwork for a possible interest rate hike in the coming months, arguing that the economy is strong and the labor mark...

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Judge blocks Trump’s mail-in voting plan, again

The Trump administration’s bid to overhaul mail-in voting ahead of the midterms is on hold once again.U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled late Thursday that the administration's plan to use th...

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Judge rules Trump administration’s Anthropic blacklisting is illegal

A federal judge in California Thursday found that Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth broke the law when he designated Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security.U.S. District Judge Rita Lin, who r...

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Trump’s Cabinet is hitting the road to talk his agenda. They’re getting an earful instead.

President Donald Trump is fanning out his Cabinet across the country to sell his accomplishments and shore up key constituencies ahead of the midterms.It isn’t quite working out that way.Energy Sec...

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White House, hemp lobbyists bet on shutdown politics to delay ‘diet weed’ ban

President Donald Trump and hemp industry lobbyists are hoping to win a final vote on Capitol Hill next week to skirt a ban on intoxicating products — with shutdown politics as leverage.Nine months ...

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How the Iran war has made the US more vulnerable

The Iran war is undermining the Pentagon’s ability to project power in other regions of the world — and leaving allies and former defense officials questioning whether Washington can effectively de...

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Musk’s AI company sues its users as victim lawsuits over Grok deepfakes mount

Elon Musk’s xAI has adopted an unusual and aggressive strategy to fend off lawsuits over child sexual abuse material allegedly created by its AI chatbot, Grok.The company recently sued two of its u...

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The long afterlife of QAnon conspiracy theories haunting American politics

On Election Day in 2024, as voters cast their ballots, Elon Musk posted a campaign music video supporting Donald Trump’s bid for president. Set to Van Halen’s “Jump,” with a montage of 1980s cul...

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GTA 6 Won’t Directly Address Trump Or The COVID Pandemic

The Grand Theft Auto series has always been known for its provocative satire of American culture, but don't expect GTA 6 to explicitly tackle any pivotal moments in recent American history--particu...

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Alerts from Trump’s helicopter went unheard at Reagan National

Pilots on President Donald Trump’s helicopter twice unsuccessfully tried to alert controllers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that his aircraft was about to depart shortly before it fl...

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Hope Florida reemerges as midterm issue with leaked grand jury report

JACKSONVILLE, Florida — Democrats are using a leaked grand jury report on Hope Florida as a fresh line of attack against Sunshine State GOP incumbents, seizing on findings that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ a...

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Shapiro won’t say who died of measles. RFK Jr. is exploiting it.

The death of two Pennsylvanians with measles has sparked a social media row between the state’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The dispute has also re...

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The Wrath of MAGA

MAGA world is angry. Again. The target this time is Jon Ossoff, the Democratic senator from Georgia. At a reelection rally in Atlanta on August 16, Ossoff was attacking President Trump over the ...

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The Supreme Court Isn’t Interested in Facts

The Roberts Court is abdicating one of its most important roles, that of truth-teller.This much was apparent on Monday in Trump v. California, when the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees let the...

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Democrats Challenge Trump's Mail-In Voting Order Despite Recent SCOTUS Ruling

Democrats Challenge Trump's Mail-In Voting Order Despite Recent SCOTUS Ruling Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general and the District of Columbia filed suit against the U.S. Posta...

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