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Why Britain and America Can't Stop Firing Their Leaders

LONDON — Donald Trump and Keir Starmer will never be linked in the same fashion as political tandems Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher or Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. But the two beleaguered lead...

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How Donald Trump Helped Make Spain’s Prime Minister a ‘Rockstar’

MADRID — When Europe’s leaders hold their periodic gatherings in Brussels, Pedro Sánchez isn’t often at the center of media attention.As a rule, when Spain’s 54-year-old prime minister strides down...

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Congress thought it had a spy-powers deal. Then Trump came in.

Congress appeared to be on track to reauthorize a national spy program that’s due to expire in the coming days. Then Donald Trump stepped in.The president’s decision to name Bill Pulte — a MAGA all...

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What does Josh Gottheimer want now?

Josh Gottheimer didn’t raise tens of millions of dollars, carefully cultivate home-state political allies and spend more than a decade burnishing a bipartisan “problem solver” reputation to be send...

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Air-safety legislation sparks partisan brawl over taxing private jets

A little-noticed provision tucked into an air-safety bill pending in Congress would make it easier for wealthy people to avoid paying state and local taxes on their private jets.The legislation wou...

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All that glitters

Aaron Schock could not stop talking about the gold. He returned from a trip to Caracas in early 2025 telling a confidant that Venezuela’s vice president had promised him a gold mine — an honest-to-...

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A political nerd’s guide to Britain’s by-election

For a few seismic days this summer, a scattering of towns and villages in the north of England will become the center of the political world.The Makerfield parliamentary by-election on June 18 is a...

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How America Gave Up on Its Own History

Illustrations by Tyler ComrieThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.On a July afternoon in 2019, I found myself in a large, sun-dappled room within...

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Transcript: Trump 250 Turns Humiliating as MAGA Ally Harshly Mocks Him

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 8 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented ...

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Court blocks Trump’s $100K visa fee

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s bid to slap a $100,000 fee on employers who seek to hire foreign workers for specialized roles, labeling the policy an unauthorized “tax” that r...

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Pentagon walks back Latter-day Saints Church classification after pushback from Utah lawmakers

The Pentagon on Monday revised its religious-affiliation policy, days after Utah lawmakers criticized newly released faith codes that omitted The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a Ch...

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul talks Trump, Mamdani and budget wins

ALBANY, New York — With the Empire State’s legislative session now complete, Gov. Kathy Hochul and POLITICO’s Albany Bureau Chief Nick Reisman sat down to talk about the recently completed state bu...

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Hochul helped Mamdani. Now she’s setting limits.

ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul helped New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani close a massive budget gap. Next year may be different.The governor told POLITICO in an exclusive interview that the 3...

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NASA quietly talking to Congress about more moon money

NASA has begun quietly lobbying Congress for a major cash infusion — perhaps as much as several billion dollars — as the agency pushes to meet President Donald Trump’s ambitious order to land astro...

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How the Pentagon picked a fight with Mormons

The spires of the historic Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2016. | George Frey/Getty Images Over the weekend, the Department of Defense stepped into one of the more delica...

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Trump’s AI meeting looks iffy — but the fight over tech profits is very much on

President Donald Trump’s embrace of a potential financial partnership between the federal government and the artificial intelligence industry is turning the political fight about tech on its head —...

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Bass will face progressive challenger in LA mayor runoff

LOS ANGELES — Karen Bass, the embattled Los Angeles mayor, has been forced into a runoff against progressive challenger Nithya Raman, after Spencer Pratt failed to advance from the primary in the n...

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IRS failed to match taxpayer records with ICE data accurately, report finds

The IRS failed to consistently and accurately match taxpayer information with records from Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the Trump administration accelerated its deportation efforts last s...

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Republicans hope Trump retreats on Pulte to save spy law

The Trump administration and congressional Democrats are locked in a high-stakes stalemate that’s dramatically increasing the likelihood that a major government surveillance program will expire.Dem...

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Paramount blasts Netflix, pushes back on Teamsters’ warnings about Warner Bros. deal

LOS ANGELES — Paramount Skydance accused Netflix of launching a "scorched-earth campaign" against its prospective purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery in a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice — ...

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Some Maine Democrats are wavering on Graham Platner

PORTLAND, Maine — Darcy Halvorsen, 59, had already cast her ballot early for Graham Platner in Maine’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary when she read news of sexual text messages the oysterman had se...

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