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Trump threatens more US strikes in Iran as ceasefire deadline looms

President Donald Trump said U.S. attacks on Iran will likely resume should the ceasefire expire on Wednesday, as tensions over the critical Strait of Hormuz waterway threaten to again undermine pea...

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Iran war accelerates America’s breakup with the world

The Iran war is damaging America’s influence around the world and exacerbating tensions with countries already whipsawed by President Donald Trump’s second term — an erosion of power that could be ...

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Satire website The Onion launches new bid to take over Alex Jones’ Infowars

Satirical news website The Onion announced Monday what might seem to many like one of the media outlet’s signature jokes: it’s in the final stages of an agreement to take over Infowars, the far-rig...

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California Dems want to quickly fill Swalwell’s seat. They’re hitting a snag.

California Democrats are maneuvering to quickly replace Rep. Eric Swalwell in an upcoming special election.But the effort may be undermined by one of their own, threatening to leave the seat unfill...

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Prof. Schlevogt’s Compass No. 55: Fortification via the V-Strategy – the Poisoned Chalice Equation

J.D. Vance bears Donald Trump’s poisoned chalice and risks enduring taint – a power-attuned buffer strategy can turn risk into advantage Few fig...

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Judge blocks DOJ effort to sanction immigration lawyer who tried to stop client’s deportation

A federal judge in Guam has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to punish an immigration lawyer it accused of filing meritless litigation that briefly delayed a Laotian immigrant’s deportation ...

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The 1 question that will dominate Kevin Warsh’s Fed nomination hearing

The main thing that senators, Wall Street and the White House want out of Kevin Warsh’s nomination hearing for Federal Reserve chair on Tuesday is to know whether he will bow to President Donald Tr...

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This is how Democrats say Oversight Republicans are trying to squash the Epstein investigation

Members of both parties have for months been hijacking House Oversight Committee business to call votes on subpoenas for high-profile figures in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation — and Democrats sa...

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Dueling PACs gear up for GOP primary wars over immigration

The GOP's escalating infighting over immigration now has a pair of PACs lining up millions of dollars on opposing sides of Republican primaries across the country.The dueling pledges turn a congres...

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MORNING GLORY: President Trump must reject a second Munich and hold firm again Iran

Americans must worry that Munich 2.0 looms.2026 cannot become as infamous as 1938.President Donald Trump’s dispatch of negotiators to Islamabad for the resumption of negotiations with the rump regi...

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Fed chair nominee Warsh set to commit to be ‘strictly independent’ on rates

Federal Reserve Chair nominee Kevin Warsh will tell lawmakers at his confirmation hearing Tuesday that the central bank’s autonomy to set interest rates is essential but always needs to be earned.W...

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Kash Patel files defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic

Kash Patel has filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic, accusing the magazine and its reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick of defamation over an article that alleged the FBI director has a drinking p...

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Chavez-DeRemer stepping down as Labor secretary

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is stepping down from her Cabinet post amid a series of misconduct allegations against her and her top staffers.White House communications director Steven Cheung...

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‘The absolute edge of precedent’: FERC prepares to take on data centers

The White House wants federal energy regulators to act on data centers. They're gearing up to take a big swing.Over the coming weeks, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will hammer out the de...

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Supreme Court takes up another clash between religious & LGBTQ rights

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Colorado can exclude Catholic preschools from the state’s universal pre-K program because they won’t agree to accept children with same-sex parents.Th...

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How the World Cup got so complicated

LOS ANGELES — This summer’s World Cup has been in the works for a decade. But as kickoff approaches, an unexpected convergence of threats — from labor strife and high ticket prices to geopolitical ...

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What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat

At the end of Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 movie, There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day-Lewis’s oil-baron character, old now and richer than Croesus, beats Paul Dano’s preacher to death with a bowling pin...

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California treasurer Fiona Ma tied to Chinese school cited in scathing audit

Fiona Ma, California’s state treasurer and a candidate for lieutenant governor, has ties to a private Chinese boarding school at the center of a scathing California county audit, according to a pos...

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Republicans stare down a growing, neverending FISA crisis

Hill Republican leaders are finding themselves in a never-ending crisis over the fate of a government spy law that has unleashed a bitter, intraparty battle within the House while also threatening ...

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Louisiana Senate showdown tests MAHA’s political power

Leaders of the Make America Healthy Again movement have pitched themselves as a political force that will make or break GOP prospects in the midterms. But they have yet to make a splash in the only...

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7 Practical Ways to Protect the Midterms Right Now

Free and fair elections are a powerful tool of democracy, even in a backsliding democracy… just ask Viktor Orbán.That’s why there’s growing concern across the political spectrum about protecting th...

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