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Medicaid cuts haunt Republicans in battleground states

Democrats in battleground states seeking to flip control of Congress in November are counting on a potent weapon: the deep cuts to Medicaid that Republicans approved last year in their signature le...

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Eric Adams looms large over criminal bribery trial of former city official

NEW YORK — The criminal case against a high-ranking aide to former New York City Mayor Eric Adams commenced Monday, kicking off what could become the first of several criminal trials touching Adams...

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Trump says he is open to trilateral summit with Putin and Xi

President Donald Trump said Monday he was open to a trilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, but said such a meeting would not focus on the war in ...

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GOP lawmakers scramble to spare Ukraine from Trump

Republican lawmakers are incensed about President Donald Trump’s dismissal of Ukraine — and powerless to stop him.That frustration hit a new peak on Monday as they sought to address the president’s...

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Republican Official Warns Election Threats Are “Coming From Within”

The Republican lieutenant governor of Utah, Deidre Henderson, is warning that the federal government is threatening the integrity of American elections. “In the past two elections that I oversaw as...

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Wanted: Tech experts to help Congress regulate AI

Lawmakers are under pressure to pass legislation to address the threats from advanced artificial intelligence, but many have serious doubts they have the capacity to regulate the technology’s explo...

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Inside the quiet money pullback — for both parties — in Georgia’s Senate race

The money spigot is sputtering in Georgia's Senate race amid growing expectations that Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff will win reelection.The Senate Leadership Fund, Republicans’ top Senate super PAC, ...

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Republicans already know who they want to blame if they suffer big midterm losses

Republicans are already starting to blame each other as the midterm election spirals further out of their control.Everyone is bracing for President Donald Trump's ire if the party loses big in Nove...

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Carney warns Alberta not to stumble into ‘Brexit’

EDMONTON, Alberta — Voters in Alberta head to the polls on Monday in a vote that will ask whether the province should take the next step toward a binding vote on separation from Canada. A “yes” vot...

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Maine Has Changed. Susan Collins Hasn’t.

Senator Susan Collins desperately needed to change the subject. As she stepped around cow manure at the annual Fryeburg Fair, a reporter was asking her about President Trump’s musing that he might ...

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The Democratic Party’s New Villain

A new boogeyman arrived in Democratic campaign ads this year with such force that it was possible to forget it had ever been absent. Slotted between clichés about “rising costs,” the “rigged econom...

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Maine Sen. Collins’ success bringing home federal funds is a perfect example of the thin line between political favoritism and effective representation

Through her multiple reelection campaigns, Republican Sen. Susan Collins has focused on the money she brings to Maine. Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesGive politicians the power to decide who gets a gov...

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California billionaire tax falling short of majority support, poll finds

A proposed tax on billionaires remains short of majority support as Californians begin casting ballots, according to a new Citrin-POLITICO poll. Likely voters are essentially where they were a mont...

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‘A warning sign for polling’: Why one GOP pollster thinks a blue wave may fall short

Democrats are salivating over, and Republicans are bracing for, a potentially massive blue wave. One GOP pollster is urging everyone to calm down.Patrick Ruffini, a founding partner at Echelon Insi...

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The tech industry has officially become Republican-coded

American voters across the political spectrum now assume most top tech CEOs are conservative, according to new results from The POLITICO Poll. And a plurality of voters say they believe tech is the...

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What recent polling suggests will happen in the US midterm elections

As the November midterm elections approach, many people in the US are feeling rather pessimistic about their futures. An Economist/YouGov survey in the US completed on October 12 asked how responde...

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States face foreign threats — and a fractured federal partnership — ahead of midterms

State and local election officials have spent years preparing for a litany of election threats — from bomb threats at polling places to large-scale disinformation campaigns and state-backed hacking...

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SCHOEN, COOPERMAN: Democrats could be riding a midterm wave. These numbers should terrify the GOP

With an 8-point lead on the generic congressional ballot — among their highest of the cycle — Democrats could well be on the cusp of a major wave election.We say this based on historical trends and...

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4 dead in ‘violent’ fire at Canadian military base, PM Carney says

A fire Saturday at Canada‘s main NATO military training base killed four service members and seriously wounded dozens of others in an unprecedented incident, Prime Minister Prime Minister Mark Carn...

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Democrats’ Tejano star sings to swing South Texas

EDINBURG, Texas — A man walks out to a packed arena filled with fervent fans. Nostalgic music blasts out over the speakers as the audience of the spectacle sways and sing along. Firehouse-red campa...

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Republicans want a message. Trump keeps making news.

Republicans are playing whack-a-mole with President Donald Trump in the final two weeks of the midterms.GOP candidates are desperate to stick to tax cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill, Trump accoun...

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