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Johnson scores major win as House GOP advances Trump’s top election priority

Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to bypass Democratic opposition on a key election integrity bill took a major step forward in the House of Representatives on Wednesday.It’s a major victory for Johnson,...

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House adopts budget framework for $95B party-line package

House Republicans managed to overcome internal disagreements and approve a budget framework Wednesday — a key step toward unlocking the power to skirt the Senate filibuster and pass a $95 billion p...

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Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

Almost 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to cut off access to Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence models or risk cripp...

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Trump’s split screen: War and campaigning

President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning attended his third dignified transfer since the war in Iran started, watching silently as four U.S. soldiers returned to American soil for the last time....

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Trump’s air war in Iran may be reaching its limits

President Donald Trump’s latest threat to bomb Iranian infrastructure is unlikely to rattle Tehran — and instead underscores the limits of what an air war alone can accomplish.The Trump administrat...

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Lisa Murkowski is undecided on Blanche’s confirmation. Her state is getting a windfall from DOJ.

The Justice Department has been lavishing nine-figure policy wins on Alaska — and openly touting what a “huge” time it's been for the state — as attorney general nominee Todd Blanche is scrambling ...

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Trump administration announces deal to export nuclear materials to Saudi Arabia

The Trump administration announced a major civil nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, after decades of on-and-off conversations between the country and the Obama, Biden and Trump White Hous...

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Can Andy Burnham save Britain? Wait, what would that even mean?

However long Andy Burnham may last as the United Kingdom’s prime minister, he has already made clear he won’t play the role of international anti-Trump liberal dreamboat previously held by Emmanuel...

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House Republicans put American History Museum on blast

The National Museum of American History’s director weathered attacks Wednesday from Republicans on the House Administration Committee in the wake of a White House report that accused the institutio...

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Inside Trump’s Reversal on ICE

President Trump woke up this morning with an urgent message for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers deployed on U.S. streets: They were to pay no mind to the internal memo, issued barely a...

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Trump Still Hasn’t Found What He’s Looking For

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.Since President Trump returned to office a year and a half ago, he has dispatched investigators and...

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The Canoeist Accused of Destroying the Reflecting Pool

Photographs by Carolyn Van HoutenThe summer after the country celebrated its 200th birthday, David Hearn paddled a canoe nicknamed the Queen Mary around the Reflecting Pool as part of an event inte...

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Pete Hegseth, You Call That a Pull-Up?

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.Pete Hegseth wants us to watch him sweat. Videos of the secretary of defense in a T-shirt and shorts working out alongside military personnel...

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J. D. Vance’s New Book Wasn’t Meant to Be Read

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.J. D. Vance’s new book, Communion, answers a question no one had thought to ask: What would Augustine’s Conf...

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The Wingman

Photographs by Philip CheungRead more about the Democrats who might run for president in 2028 here.“My wife, Gabby, was shot in the head.”Obviously, I knew this. Senator Mark Kelly’s wife, the form...

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The Secretary of Homeland

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.The most important policy decision made by Markwayne Mullin in his short tenure atop the Department of Homeland Security stood for barely a d...

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Maine Is a Mess

Photographs by Cassandra KlosKathie Purdy doesn’t mind the phone calls. And there have been a lot of them—producing a sustained buzzing from her iPhone throughout the nearly two weeks since Graham ...

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The top of Arizona’s GOP ticket is littered with 2020 election deniers

To make it out of a Republican primary in Arizona, there’s one key litmus test: believing the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.Election deniers who played prominent roles in efforts to ov...

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Poll: Trump’s MAGA base is souring on his Iran war

Half of President Donald Trump’s MAGA base thought Iran’s war was worth its economic costs in May. Now, just a little more than a third do.That precipitous, 13-point drop in just two months, accord...

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‘Medical freedom’ takes a back seat in Florida’s midterm fights

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Republican-dominated Florida has become the preeminent lab for the medical freedom movement, with the state's leaders and lawmakers banning masks in schools and fluoride in w...

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Transcript: Trump Iran Tirade Goes Nuclear as GOP Midterm Panic Grows

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 22 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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