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Did You Really Think Trump Would Side with Ukraine?

The world is starting to understand that there is no way to fully and lastingly protect itself from President Donald Trump.The man just can’t let things go — and he’ll get creative to get what he w...

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Europeans aren’t betting on a Democratic Congress to save Ukraine

European officials are resigning themselves to the fact that a Democratic victory in the midterms won’t rescue Ukraine from the Trump administration’s shift toward Russia.Democratic leaders have vo...

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James Talarico blames rise in GOP 'extremism' for prompting his 'God is non-binary,' six sexes remarks

Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico blamed Republican extremism for prompting some of his past controversial remarks during a new interview, including assertions that God is "nonbinary" and ...

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Alberta premier faces a separatist challenge inside her own party

CALGARY, Alberta — Albertans voted overwhelmingly this week to remain in Canada. Now the fight over the future of the province has moved inside Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party.Se...

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US Embassy in Ottawa accuses Canada of election meddling

OTTAWA — The Trump administration is accusing prominent Canadian politicians of interfering in American elections. The U.S. Embassy in Ottawa detailed the allegations in a “fact sheet” distributed ...

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Millions of Amazon settlement checks credit Trump ahead of the midterms

Millions of Americans are expected to receive a settlement check from Amazon credited to “President Trump’s Federal Trade Commission” in an unprecedented move coming weeks before the midterm electi...

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Russia launched covert influence campaign to undermine US candidates supportive of Ukraine, lawmakers say

The Russian government has launched a covert online influence campaign to sway public opinion and undermine both Democrats and Republicans sympathetic to Ukraine ahead of the midterms, two key Demo...

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Zuckerberg considered leaving CA over wealth tax, Meta says

Meta warned Wednesday that its CEO Mark Zuckerberg could leave California if the state enacts a billionaire tax.The company said Zuckerberg had informed its special committee of the possibility, an...

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US, allies warn of critical vulnerabilities in programming underlying 70% of the internet

Cyber agencies in the U.S. and across Europe, Australia, Canada and elsewhere Wednesday urged organizations to take their websites offline immediately after OpenAI tools found critical bugs in a fo...

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Michigan’s sleeper race is waking up

It’s nearly impossible to break through the political media maelstrom in Michigan right now if your name isn’t Abdul El-Sayed or Mike Rogers.But GOP and Democratic operatives in Lansing, Washington...

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Mike Wallace, Gotham’s Chronicler

Mike Wallace once handed me a matchbook, the kind of paper trinket that served like ticker-tape as a currency of the twentieth-century city: given out at corner stores and newsstands, boxing matche...

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'This is how you blow up a permitting deal': Sen. Whitehouse slams Trump over offshore wind

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a lead Democratic negotiator on the Senate's permitting bill, said Wednesday that the Trump administration’s targeting of offshore wind projects is jeopardizing the biparti...

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Brendan Carr takes up Trump’s ‘fake polls’ fight

Brendan Carr warned broadcasters Wednesday to vet their polling carefully, suggesting his Federal Communications Commission could punish outlets for sharing results the administration believes dece...

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Democrats furious after pollster boosting far-left candidates admits fabricating surveys: ‘Absolute scumbags’

Democrats are up in arms after a so-called polling firm that projected far-left candidates as strong contenders in several primaries admitted that it had fabricated its polling data.Wedgewood Polli...

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This Democrat’s accountability plan has Trump fuming

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) at a news conference in the US Capitol on June 18, 2026. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images The 2026 midterms are less than two weeks away, w...

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Trump releases heating oil to the northeast to reduce surging prices

The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it will release up to one-third of the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve in a bid to lower the cost of the fuel as winter looms — and as Maine's b...

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Will the Tech Oligarchs Turn on Trump?

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the growing calls for Medicare for All. David discusse...

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Trump throws Netanyahu a last-minute lifeline. It may not be enough.

TEL AVIV — President Donald Trump’s political brand is still riding high in Israel — but it may not save Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from an electoral defeat next Tuesday.Despite providing an...

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The Baffling Gender Politics of Netflix’s New Stanford Prison Experiment

From left: Chris Lee, Shavonnah Jefferson, and Kiana Goana in The New Stanford Prison Experiment —NetflixThis article discusses all six episodes of Netflix’s The New Stanford Prison Experiment.For ...

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Labor women confronted Meta about threats to Australian MPs before Haines attack

CANBERRA — The attack on independent member of parliament Helen Haines has brought a focus on violence against elected officials, but the issue of safety was already top of mind when a representati...

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Poll: Voters tiring of Newsom, yet may not really want change

SACRAMENTO, California — Most California voters rate Gavin Newsom’s tenure governing California as “poor” or “fair” and want his successor to take the state in a different direction, according to a...

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