Politics

Trump signs executive order renaming Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America” amid an intensifying trade war with Canada."Canada has been ripping us off for a long time on trade...

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Hogg group takes on Jimmy Gomez

A group co-founded by former Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg is endorsing a progressive challenger to Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez, whose sexual assault allegation and House ethi...

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The obscure documentary fueling Islamophobia in Texas

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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MAGA influencers are still paying for the Big Lie

With less than two weeks before some states begin mailing ballots for the 2026 midterms, there is plenty to worry about. Donald Trump is escalating his campaign to interfere with the machinery of A...

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MORNING GLORY: Hasan Piker’s radical rhetoric is becoming Democrats’ 2026 brand

At least Marx, Lenin and Mao were well-read.Social media influencer Hasan Piker wears his Mao jacket and hoses his Twitch audience down with absurd political takes that do not betray any evidence t...

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WATCH: El-Sayed praised ‘beautiful’ sense of community abroad while trashing US as 'White supremacy'

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed described Americans as "desperate to feel something" and lamented that "we’re just all living it alone here" while reflecting on the community he e...

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The Data Center Backlash Is a Rare Bright Spot in American Politics

A certain segment of American elites has recently realized that people don’t like AI, data centers, and the Silicon Valley oligarchy that is foisting these things upon this country.One of the many ...

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A Republican Governor Tried to Heal American Politics. It Almost Broke Him.

On August 9, 2023, Utah’s governor, Spencer Cox, found himself sitting across from Joe Biden in an armored presidential limousine as it idled in downtown Salt Lake City. Working up the nerve to pit...

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Newsom’s big housing claim is built on bad data

In June, Gavin Newsom sat on a stage in Long Beach before an audience of mayors from across the country and unveiled a stunning statistic.“We’ve seen a 59 percent increase in the number of homes co...

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Rob Bonta says Paramount case is unlike Meta

Rob Bonta won a major settlement from Meta. He doesn’t see Paramount Skydance as nearly so willing to deal.“There’s a contrast in that Meta was always going to stay here, never threatened to leave,...

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Not American Enough

For Carlos Alemán, the pinnacle of the dozen years since he became a U.S. citizen was the night in 2020 when he was elected to serve on the city council of Homewood, Alabama. One of the lowest mome...

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The Supreme Court That Won’t Look

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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Republicans are breaking with Donald Trump on data centers

Battleground Republicans are breaking from President Donald Trump on data centers. So far, they’re getting away with it.In recent weeks, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Michigan GOP Senate nominee Mike Rog...

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‘No dark arts to this’: How an obscure crypto platform hit Trump’s radar

President Donald Trump and one of his top market regulators are throwing their weight behind a little-known cryptocurrency exchange that allows traders to make risky bets on everything from SpaceX ...

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Canada backtracks on seafood counter-tariffs

OTTAWA — Canada's government has pulled back on retaliatory tariffs targeting Maine seafood.Following feedback from an anxious Canadian seafood sector that warned the government about the industry’...

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Lawmakers press Treasury to target Chinese banks over Iran

A number of hawkish lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are urging the Trump administration to focus its effort to cut off Iran’s economic lifeline on one primary target: Chinese banks.Since Treas...

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House GOP leaders under pressure to act on data centers before the midterms

Pressure is growing on House GOP leaders to allow a floor vote before the midterms on legislation designed to shield their constituents from the costs associated with data centers, with an increasi...

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Hundreds of AI agents went rogue in OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack

An unprecedented cyberattack launched by OpenAI models last month involved a “swarm” of several hundred artificial intelligence agents that had effectively gone rogue during internal testing, accor...

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Will Kevin Warsh Squander a Huge Opportunity?

In his first three months on the job, Kevin Warsh has firmly chosen not to use the bully pulpit that comes with the title of chair of the Federal Reserve, even as he’s hinted at an ambitious agenda...

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The primaries testing Democratic 2028ers

Top Democrats are using 2026 as a launching pad for potential 2028 presidential runs.From progressive Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to the more moderate Pete Butt...

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Tom Kean Jr.’s campaign playbook appears to be backfiring

Rep. Tom Kean Jr. has never looked comfortable in front of the cameras.His voice is soft. His speech, halting. He sometimes meets difficult questions with silence or a stare, or the rote repetition...

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