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White House to unveil program to protect water systems against hackers

The Trump administration will soon announce a program to provide free cybersecurity services to vulnerable U.S. water facilities, following a cascade of cyberattacks across at least a dozen states ...

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Political newcomer Darline Graham wins South Carolina’s GOP Senate runoff

Sen. Darline Graham defeated Rep. Ralph Norman in South Carolina’s snap Senate GOP primary, a significant win for President Donald Trump after a string of his endorsed candidates stumbled in recent...

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ICE Has Quietly Changed Its Deadly-Force Rule

ICE quietly enacted new rules this month that will keep officers involved in deadly-force incidents—such as firing a gun and using a choke hold—off the streets until the completion of an investigat...

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Dolly Parton Loved Us All, Darlin'

Dolly Parton performs in 1978. —Bettmann/CorbisDolly Parton, the beloved country-music superstar known for writing about the lives of regular people in more than 3,000 songs and, in later years, fo...

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Trump-backed candidate wins primary for Oklahoma governor

Former state Sen. Mike Mazzei narrowly won Oklahoma’s GOP gubernatorial primary Tuesday, boosted by President Donald Trump’s endorsement, a significant personal loan and a host of outside money.His...

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‘It's put up or shut up time’: Battleground Republicans want the Darline treatment

President Donald Trump notched a major win on Tuesday night. Republicans in battlegrounds wonder if it was the best use of his time and money.Sen. Darline Graham defeated Rep. Ralph Norman in South...

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Trump Plans to Buy Midterm Ads About His Own Record

President Trump gathered his top political advisers in the Oval Office early this month to solve a problem of riches: how to spend his super PAC’s $400 million political war chest with fewer than 1...

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Trump’s trade moves add to GOP’s midterm anxieties

Republicans were already struggling to defuse simmering voter frustrations over the cost of living ahead of the midterms. Then President Donald Trump rekindled his trade wars.Trump’s latest actions...

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A Pork Tenderloin, a State Fair and Democrats’ Best Shot at Iowa in Decades

DES MOINES — Choosing America's best state fair is a bit like asking a parent to decide on their favorite child.So I won't say that Iowa is tops because I don't want to alienate Minnesota, Ohio an...

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‘Dead in the water’: Why Bessent should fear the bond market

Wall Street celebrated when President Donald Trump tapped Scott Bessent to lead the Treasury Department. Now, the former hedge fund manager is being tested by the markets that catapulted him to pow...

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Australia wanted more US missiles. The Iran war may make them harder to get.

The Iran war is straining U.S. munitions stockpiles, causing concern in Canberra as Australia scrambles to prepare itself for potential conflict in the Indo-Pacific.Canberra’s defense plans depend ...

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Trump orders flags lowered to honor Dolly Parton

President Donald Trump ordered flags to be lowered across the nation to honor Dolly Parton, the iconic country singer and entertainer who died Tuesday at age 80.“Very sad to report that Dolly Parto...

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‘Purely just up to Iran’: Bessent’s D-Day unlikely to end war, calm energy markets

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s latest plan for Iran — what he called an “economic D-Day” — is supposed to end the war and tame the oil markets.Energy market analysts and even some Trump allies ...

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Trump scoffs at ‘affordability’ issues. The White House knows it’s a big deal.

President Donald Trump often dismisses “affordability” as a political attack line from Democrats. He’s still worried about it.The president’s latest bid to lower beef prices is a last-ditch effort ...

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Every politician says they’re for the working man, so why are only 1% of elected officials from the working class?

Both major U.S. political parties regularly tout their commitment to working-class Americans and claim to be the party of the working class. However, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans nomin...

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Federal court deals potential blow to Republicans over TV advertising rates

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that political parties — recently allowed by the Supreme Court to spend unlimited amounts in consultation with campaigns — aren’t entitled to the significan...

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Canada hits back with countertariffs on American goods

Canada is retaliating against the Trump administration with counter-tariffs targeting more than 700 products, putting its hardest squeeze on American steel and aluminum.The dollar-for-dollar measur...

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Muslim Brotherhood-linked networks embedded across Canadian institutions, new report alleges

A new report is warning that networks aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood have become deeply embedded in Canada, raising concerns that Islamist influence taking root north of the border could pose ...

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Secret Service says it’s ‘aware’ of Iranian state media threat against Barron Trump

The Secret Service is “aware” of a video reportedly published by Iranian state media that appears to threaten President Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron, the agency confirmed Tuesday.“The U.S. S...

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The Iran war is already on November ballots

President Donald Trump’s decision to wage war in Iran is on the ballot this November — not as a foreign policy issue, but an economic one.In Ohio and Iowa, Democratic candidates are attackingRepubl...

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Judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn conviction

A federal judge this week struck down a bid by Ghislaine Maxwell, the co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence.In a ...

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