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Trump extends Iran ceasefire, blockade amid uncertainty over peace negotiations

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he will not go forward with new strikes on Iran at the request of Pakistani officials, extending the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran.Trump said Pakis...

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The Republican insider now running Trump’s Labor Department

Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s sudden exit from the Labor Department on Monday is surfacing a belief long held by many inside the agency and in the business community: Her deputy was running the operation a...

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Southern Poverty Law Center indicted for fraud, money laundering

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on fraud charges for its use of paid informants to monitor and track racist organizations, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Tuesday.T...

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The House Ethics Committee wants to do better

Three lawmakers accused of serious ethical lapses have been forced to resign in just over a week, prompting even members of the House Ethics Committee to question whether the panel is up to the tas...

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Court filing backs up claims of ‘shadow administrator’ at FEMA

Documents submitted as evidence in a suit against the Trump administration appear to back up allegations that officials delegated leadership of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to an outside...

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Mullin: No more money to pay DHS employees as of May

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Tuesday his department will run out of money to pay employees’ salaries the first week of May, as lawmakers race to end a two-month shutdown of the...

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Big Sky Crack-Up

Jason Boeshore, a grain-elevator manager on the eastern plains of Montana, fired off a rocket this month to the private Signal chat he shares with the 23 other members of the state Democratic Party...

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Markey at POLITICO Summit: Ready for ‘battle’ with Trump on health care

Sen. Ed Markey is fed up with the Trump administration's health care upheaval and is gearing up for a Democratic reversal of Republicans’ sweeping changes after the midterm elections.At POLITICO’s...

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Oz unveils nationwide plan to tackle Medicaid fraud at POLITICO Summit

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz is taking his fraudbusting effort to all 50 states.At POLITICO's Health Care Summit on Tuesday, Oz unveiled a nationwide plan t...

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‘Sock puppet’: Warsh, Warren clash over financial disclosure, Fed independence

Sen. Elizabeth Warren sharply questioned Kevin Warsh over his financial assets and his willingness to break with President Donald Trump in a contentious opening to a hearing on the future of the Fe...

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Preventing extinction from ASI on a $50M yearly budget

ControlAI's mission is to avert the extinction risks posed by superintelligent AI. We believe that in order to do this, we must secure an international prohibition on its development. We're workin...

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Health care leaders sweat federal Medicaid, Obamacare changes at POLITICO Summit

States are scrambling to implement the Medicaid work requirements Congress imposed as part of last July’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a policy predicted to kick millions, including many working a...

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At POLITICO Summit, top drug lobbyist calls Trump’s efforts to codify his signature drug pricing deals 'the wrong policy prescription'

The top lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry cautioned against President Donald Trump’s push to codify his most-favored-nation deals into law as the “wrong policy prescription,” but said he ha...

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