Politics

The White House isn’t panicking about oil prices. That may change in a few weeks.

The Trump administration believes it can withstand a brief spike in oil prices — for as many as four weeks, as one person close to the White House suggested — before the political hit does lasting ...

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Tucker Carlson helped make Donald Trump and JD Vance. Could he be the next president?

It’s well known that Donald Trump consumes television broadcasts and often makes policy based more on Fox News punditry than advice from political or government advisors. So it’s unsurprising that ...

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US official: ‘Not true’ Navy successfully escorted oil tanker through Strait of Hormuz

Trump administration officials denied a claim from Energy Secretary Chris Wright in a now-deleted social media post Tuesday that the U.S. Navy escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz.Wh...

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Pentagon says 140 troops wounded in Operation Epic Fury

The Pentagon said Tuesday that about 140 U.S. service members have been wounded during 10 days of sustained attacks tied to the Iran conflict.Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said the wound...

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Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson reignite feud over Iran war

Sen. Ted Cruz and conservative pundit Tucker Carlson are again trading barbs over Israel and antisemitism, as they renew their feud over the war in Iran.“I believe Tucker Carlson is the single most...

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MAGA war skeptics rage over Lindsey Graham

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s push for a more aggressive posture in the U.S.-Israel war with Iran is infuriating war skeptics within the MAGA base, who are questioning why the veteran South Carolina Republ...

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Judges say ICE, DOJ leaders are putting rank-and-file lawyers in ‘an impossible position’

Federal judges livid over missed deadlines and outright defiance of their orders in a sea of immigration cases are training their ire on the Justice Department’s political leadership, going out of ...

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Trump urges Congress to pass SAVE America Act, fully fund DHS as TSA workers go without pay

President Donald Trump is urging Congress to pass the SAVE America Act (SAA) as well as restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as more than 100,000 federal employees go witho...

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Arizona Is Now at the Center of Election Investigations

In mid-February, as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was fighting to keep her job, she held an election-security event at a Homeland Security Investigations field office in Sco...

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For Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, Iran feels like déjà vu

Across the country, after the U.S. unleashed strikes in Iran last weekend, veterans anxiously held their breath. They said they’ve seen this story before — and it didn’t turn out well.The military ...

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Iran war threatens Board of Peace

Donald Trump’s signature Board of Peace has run straight into the war in Iran, slowing what little progress it had made since the president — and a phalanx of world leaders — heralded its creation ...

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Hegseth gutted offices that would have probed Iran school strike

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has gutted the Pentagon oversight offices that would have investigated the recent strike on an Iranian girls’ school — a move that has degraded America’s ability to p...

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Trump pick for State Department drops out after drawing heat for comments about ‘white culture’

A political commentator who argued that white people are the victims of racism and need help protecting their “identity” withdrew his candidacy Tuesday for a senior diplomatic role in the State Dep...

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Why Kathy Hochul is trying to make a clean break from Andrew Cuomo

ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul is defusing political landmines left by her predecessor Andrew Cuomo — narrowing the scope of criminal justice and climate change laws beloved by the left.Her s...

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Wealth tax leads in California poll — but faces major headwinds

California voters are likelier than not to support a proposed wealth tax that’s already being blamed for driving well-known billionaires out of the state, according to a new poll by POLITICO and it...

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Unearthed audio appears to contradict Rep. Rob Bresnahan’s stock trading claims

Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.), who’s faced a firestorm over hundreds of stock trades after campaigning in 2024 on a promise to ban congressional stock trading, has insisted he doesn’t talk to his fina...

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One simple way to heal American politics: run more union members | Dustin Guastella

Our research shows that candidates who come from the union movement are exactly what many Americans craveAmerican politics feels hopelessly broken. Extreme political polarization, enormous amounts ...

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Trump announced a hostile takeover of LA’s wildfire rebuild. Collaboration ensued.

President Donald Trump’s push to take control of rebuilding wildfire-scarred Los Angeles is over.Despite the president’s recent vow that his administration would wrest authority from local governme...

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47 years of deep mistrust and misperception paved the way to war between Iran and the US − and complicate any negotiations

Trust between Iran and the United States was shattered long ago. Sean Gladwell, Moment/Getty ImagesIt has been said that trust is like glass: Once it is shattered, nothing will ever be the same. In...

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I Recognize the Look on Liam Ramos’s Face

When the first photo of 5-year-old Liam Ramos went viral in January, it became an instant symbol of the Trump administration’s mass-deportation campaign: his blue bunny hat, his Spider-Man backpack...

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FDA backs away from RFK Jr.’s claims about drug’s promise for autism patients

The Food and Drug Administration does not have sufficient evidence to back the use of the generic drug leucovorin for treating children with autism, two senior agency officials told reporters Monda...

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