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Trump makes another affordability push as Americans sour on the economy

The White House on Wednesdaymoved to scrap Biden-era fuel economy requirements, saying the change would help drive down automobile prices. It’s the latest attempt to convince Americans that their b...

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NDAA delays pile up as GOP leaders work through last-minute snags

Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are scrambling to hammer out a host of complex, 11th-hour intraparty policy fights in the massive annual defense policy bill, delaying the release of final legisl...

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Republicans Are in Trouble, but Democrats Could Blow It

In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump carried Tennessee’s Seventh Congressional District by 22 points. Last night, in a special election to represent the district, the Republican Matt Van...

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Trump asserts executive privilege to thwart Jan. 6 lawsuit

President Donald Trump has asserted executive privilege to prevent courtroom adversaries from accessing evidence in a long-running lawsuit that accuses him of stoking violence at the Capitol on Jan...

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China debate delayed Trump security strategy

A pair of documents laying out the Trump administration’s global security strategy have been delayed for weeks due in part to changes that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insisted on concerning Ch...

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Bill Gates: Shrinking global health funding will cause rise in childhood mortality rates

Gates Foundation co-founder Bill Gates said childhood mortality rates are expected to rise this year after a decadeslong drop, amid global cuts to health funding.In an interview with POLITICO’s Da...

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What the Trump Administration Is Getting Right — and Wrong — on AI

Last week President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence policy took a fresh twist with his latest executive order, launching a “Genesis Mission” that claims to accelerate scientific research and...

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After AI push, Trump administration is now looking to robots

Five months after releasing a plan to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is turning to robots.Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been meeting with ro...

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Pentagon watchdog says Hegseth’s Signal use put troops at risk

The Pentagon inspector general found Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app to discuss sensitive Yemen strike plans risked exposing U.S. tactics and endangering troops — e...

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Electricity Should Be Free at Noon

Electricity prices are becoming an outsize issue in American politics because they themselves are legitimately outsize. Compared with the cost of consumer goods, which have been rising rapidly over...

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Watchdog finds fraudulent Obamacare signups and Republicans cry foul

A federal watchdog dropped what a top House Republican called “a bombshell” Wednesday, revealing how easy it is for fraudsters to extract Obamacare payments by setting up health insurance accounts ...

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'Some of you are probably fine with it’: Newsom confronts business elite on Trump

NEW YORK — Gavin Newsom lit into an audience full of financial power brokers here Wednesday, criticizing what he cast as their complicity with Donald Trump’s agenda.In a message designed more for t...

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GOP wins tight House race in red Tennessee district

What happenedRepublican Matt Van Epps won Tuesday’s special election in Tennessee’s deep-red 7th Congressional District, defeating Democratic state lawmaker Aftyn ...

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Progressives challenge San Francisco mayor’s embrace of CEOs

SAN FRANCISCO — Riding a city comeback narrative and a wave of popularity, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is facing a test over one of his signature strategies: leveraging his close ties to wealt...

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Three Ideas for Lowering Electricity Costs

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Obamacare subsidies expire this month. Many Republicans are shrugging.

Obamacare premiums are set to spike for tens of millions of Americans next month. Plenty of rank-and-file Republicans are happy to sit back and ride it out.Some vulnerable GOP lawmakers up for reel...

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New Hampshire Republicans contend with the Trump Era

In an era of hyperpartisanship in which battle lines are proudly drawn to entrench both the red and the blue, the idea of a robust, purple faction might sound fanciful. Purple states keep politics...

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Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat

NEW YORK — A New York City-based Republican club will honor a far-right German leader at its annual gala — just eight weeks after its statewide counterpart was disbanded over a group chat in which ...

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What Josh Shapiro Believes

It is a rare thing to see Josh Shapiro sweat. For all the grief the Pennsylvania governor gets for imitating Barack Obama—the staggered cadence, the side-of-the-mouth delivery for effect—their esse...

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Second boat strike tests GOP loyalty to Trump

Republicans have largely marched in lockstep with President Donald Trump's campaign to kill alleged drug smugglers off the coast of Latin America. But after the recent revelation of potential war c...

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Summers banned for life from prestigious economics group

The American Economic Association has banned former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers for life over his involvement with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019.The decision by one ...

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