Politics

US to mediate new round of negotiations to end Russia-Ukraine war

U.S. mediators will sit down with representatives of Ukraine and Russia next week in another attempt to end a war President Donald Trump has repeatedly pledged to settle.The talks, the first face-t...

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The Told-You-So Primary Starts Tomorrow

Just hours from now, the 2026 elections will be over, and the 2028 elections will begin immediately with the first contest: The Told-You-So primary.Recriminations, rationalizations, and exit-poll p...

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Republicans Can Blame Trump for Their Midterm Woes

When it becomes clear Tuesday night or Wednesday morning that Republicans have taken “a thumper,” to borrow Bill Clinton’s phrase, President Donald Trump will lunge for scapegoats.Trump will claim ...

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RT’s guide to the US midterm elections: What’s at stake and why presidents lose

Iran, Israel, and the economy are all on the ballot in a vote that’s shaping up to be a referendum on Trump’s second term With US President Dona...

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The States Where Democrats Have the Most to Gain

David Crowley had every reason to exalt as he bounded into a campaign rally at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater on Thursday. The night before, the Milwaukee County executive’s hometown Bre...

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Pentagon's top spies tasked with 'no-fail' mission as Hegseth puts foreign midterm meddling in crosshairs

Ever since the 2016 presidential election that first got President Donald Trump elected and the ensuing Russiagate scandal, there has been increased scrutiny on foreign meddling in U.S. elections a...

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JD Vance Kicks Off New Conspiracy to Sow Doubt About Election

Vice President JD Vance is once again spreading racist lies for attention.At a midterm elections rally for Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy in Swanton, Ohio, on Monday, Vance basele...

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LEE CARTER: The 5 words that explain this election better than any commercial

Eleven billion dollars.Actually, more than that. Political advertising spending and reservations have now exceeded $11.6 billion, making this the most expensive election cycle for political adverti...

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What the hell is going on in the Michigan Senate Race?

Haley Stevens stunned all sides with her announcement on Sunday (Picture: Getty Images) On Sunday morning, a sitting Democratic congresswoman sat in a Michigan church next to the...

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How mad are voters about data centers? Watch these races.

Data centers have become political napalm. Election Day will show how far it’s spread.The supercomputing hubs are the unifying force of the midterms, triggering the latent doomerism of voters acros...

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No clear challengers for Chuck Schumer’s post, barring a midterm catastrophe

Chuck Schumer is about to find out what his path to keeping power looks like.If Democrats win a Senate majority in Tuesday's midterms, pulling off what was once seen as a longshot feat, senators an...

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The Senate race giving Big Tech the chills

A Silicon Valley nightmare could be brewing in Ohio.Some of the biggest names in technology are dumping money into efforts to keep former Sen. Sherrod Brown out of Washington. But with the populist...

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‘A lot of Republicans have held their tongues:’ Anger at Trump is growing

Republicans are already privately blaming President Donald Trump as they brace for losses on Tuesday.Even as they race to distance themselves from his actions on tariffs, the unpopular Iran war and...

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Geothermal is heating up. Can the grid keep up?

The AI data center boom that has lifted power sector players like geothermal company Fervo Energy could also threaten to sink them.Fervo, whose shares launched on the NASDAQ in May, is caught up in...

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‘Are You With Us, the Workers, Or Are You With the Big Tech Billionaires?’

Liz Shuler, who leads the largest labor coalition in the country, has a warning for politicians hoping to run in 2028: The next two years will be a “which-side-are-you-on moment.”The AFL-CIO presid...

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OpenAI is already pitching 2028 hopefuls on how to talk about AI

OpenAI’s top lobbyist is privately telling prospective 2028 candidates that artificial intelligence will define their bids for the White House.In a memo circulated among some contenders and obtaine...

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What Hakeem Jeffries’ Albany years reveal about how he’d lead the House

NEW YORK — On the road to becoming House Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries toiled for years under top-heavy leadership. He bore witness to corruption in the highest ranks of government. And, as he...

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At Long Last, the Rules Apply to Donald Trump

One of the first columns I ever wrote about Donald Trump appeared in the Daily Beast, where I worked at the time, in the summer of 2015. As I recall, it was not long after Trump said of John McCain...

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Republicans Are Closing Ugly

Faced with flagging numbers over an unpopular and unnecessary war in Iran, inflation exacerbated by tariffs, lawless immigration enforcement, and corruption, Republicans have gone back to basics fo...

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The Backlash to Corruption Is Going Global

Nicole Irvin voted for Donald Trump three times because she thought he had business savvy and appreciated that he was politically incorrect. “I like his roughness,” she told me. I met her in the pa...

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Does Morris Katz Know What Working-Class Voters Want?

One day over the summer, Morris Katz slouched into our booth at a diner in Brooklyn Heights, removed his backwards baseball cap, and stuffed a Zyn pouch into his mouth. He took out his iPhone (no c...

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