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FBI confirms hackers targeted Kash Patel's personal emails

The FBI on Friday confirmed that hackers targeted the personal emails of Director Kash Patel, hours after an Iranian government-linked hacking group posted documents and images online, claiming to ...

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‘Visibly upset and struggling’: Acting ICE head hospitalized twice over stress, officials say

Acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons has been hospitalized at least twice for stress-related issues as he has carried out President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration ag...

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Troop deployments test Republicans’ nerves on Capitol Hill

A growing number of House Republicans are airing public concerns about President Donald Trump‘s possible deployment of U.S. ground troops in Iran as the Pentagon sends thousands of American paratro...

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The religious right is breaking up over Israel and Iran

Vice President JD Vance speaks with Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee upon his arrival at Ben Gurion airport on October 21, 2025, in Te...

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Senate agrees to end shutdown for most of DHS

After two months of unyielding negotiations, both parties gave up early Friday on reaching a grand accord to reform and fund the Department of Homeland Security.Instead, Senate Republicans accepted...

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Trump plays Texas hold ’em with Senate endorsement

As the MAGA faithful gather for another day of CPAC in Grapevine, Texas, they are openly celebrating what they believe is tantamount to a major midterms victory: keeping President Donald Trump from...

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The Surprising Reason for the New Homophobia

Long ago, the bright-eyed Disney Channel star Shia LaBeouf entered adulthood and set about to become a great man. He studied method acting; he worked with edgy directors; he groaned and screamed li...

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How a diplomatic snub evokes the complicated US-Brazil relationship in the second Trump era

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Oct. 26, 2025, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesDarren Beattie, the re...

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‘Many have tried. Few have succeeded’: Tech, labor brace for years-long war in California

SAN FRANCISCO — Tech moguls plotting to shift California’s balance of power are opening their wallets in a high-profile declaration of war on organized labor’s clout.The response from California’s ...

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Texas saddles up for data center clash

HOUSTON — The data center boom is hitting Texas. Data center politics haven't been far behind.The tech companies and electricity giants gathered here in the second-biggest state have heaped praise ...

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Kristi Noem is Gone. Now Mass Deportations Can Really Begin.

Markwayne Mullin cultivated a reputation in Congress as a brawler, but he sounded more like a peacemaker as he was sworn in this week as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. “I don’t c...

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Republicans split on how to legislate on data centers

Republicans in Congress are no closer to addressing how data centers affect electricity bills, a week after the president urged legislation.GOP leaders pledged to work with the White House to ensur...

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Airports become political battlegrounds as DHS shutdown drags on

The six-week-old Department of Homeland Security shutdown is hinging not only on what lawmakers do in the Capitol, but on how they get there.Members of Congress are some of America's most frequent ...

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‘I have no idea what they are trying to do’: Allies say Trump sends mixed signals on Iran

President Donald Trump says he’d prefer a deal to end the war with Iran, but U.S. allies say they’re watching his actions and aren’t convinced.Even as his top envoy tasked with negotiating with Ira...

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Trump orders DHS to pay TSA workers to end 'chaos' at airports

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s directing the Department of Homeland Security to cover the salaries of airport transportation security officers who are going without pay because of a...

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The Education Department is poised to lose its longtime HQ

The Education Department is abandoning its Lyndon B. Johnson building headquarters this August to make room for a new tenant: the Energy Department.Thursday's announcement is the latest in a series...

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House Ethics panel hears charges against Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

The bipartisan members of a House Ethics panel heard the arguments for and against charging Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick with violating House rules. Now they must decide whether she’s guilty — a...

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War scrambles Trump admin's fragile efforts to deport Iranian nationals

In early February, a federal judge was prepared to order the release of an Iranian national, Esmael Rajabi, from ICE custody, finding that the Trump administration was nowhere near effectuating his...

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Mullin has a limited window of time to prove himself at DHS

Newly minted Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has a short window to calm the turmoil inside and around his embattled department before it could cause lasting damage to Republicans in th...

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What Happens When MAGA Goes Global

SEOUL — There is a man in a Donald Trump mask wearing an American flag as a cape, and he is walking down one of the busiest streets in Seoul. His strides are long, his chest puffed out, as if he is...

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Trump said he voted by mail in Florida because he ‘should be’ in D.C. He cast his ballot from Palm Beach.

President Donald Trump — a relentless critic of mail-in voting — said Thursday that he voted by mail in Florida’s special elections this month because he felt he should be in Washington D.C. “inste...

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