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Trump says strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure paused for 5 days amid US-Iran talks

President Donald Trump said Monday the United States would pause “any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure” for five days as Tehran and Washington engage ...

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Why Texas isn’t cheering oil price spike

Oil prices are higher than they’ve been in years, but Houston isn’t celebrating.In decades past, Texas’ largest city and the broader state economy would get a sugar rush from $100-a-barrel oil, eve...

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The ever-evolving Latino vote is rapidly shifting away from Trump and Republicans

In 2024, Trump and other Republicans scored notable gains in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, along with other heavily Hispanic areas. Getty Images/Michael GonzalezIn 2024, Donald Trump dramatically...

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The California reckoning after Cesar Chavez’s fall

LOS ANGELES — Cesar Chavez’s name and likeness are swiftly being stripped from public landmarks. But the labor rights leader’s now-disgraced legacy cannot so easily be excised from the California i...

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Wright urges oil and gas industry to up production amid Iran war

HOUSTON — Energy Secretary Chris Wright told oil and executives Monday that surging crude prices amid the war in Iran should encourage their companies to ramp up production, even as he continued to...

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Pressure builds on Congress as DHS shutdown threatens to drag into April

The shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security is at risk of shattering the record for the longest-ever funding lapse for any federal agency if President Donald Trump and congressional Democra...

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Democrats want new Hill leaders. At 87, Maxine Waters isn’t budging.

Maxine Waters is plotting her comeback at 87.The California Democrat, dubbed “Auntie Maxine” by a legion of young progressives she won over in the first Trump administration, has all but locked dow...

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'When will it end?’ The ‘elevator pitch’ oil executives and diplomats are making to the White House in Houston

The Trump administration is sending its top energy officials to Houston this week to meet with oil industry executives and foreign dignitaries — and they can expect to get an earful as its war in I...

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Time to Draft a ‘Project 2029’ to Fix the Justice Department

In just the last few weeks, President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has confirmed some of its critics’ worst fears in full public view.To wit: Attorney General Pam Bondi hung a banner with Trum...

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Jeffries tells Trump to ‘keep his reckless mouth shut’

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Donald Trump could get "somebody killed" after the president accused Democrats of being the country's "greatest enemy” after Iran.On Sunday, the...

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Kennedy’s latest MAHA-approved plan could supercharge peptide boom

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is poised to declare victory on widening access to one of the country’s biggest wellness fads: peptides, the building blocks of proteins that biohackers claim...

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Trump’s voter crackdown reaches college campuses

College campuses are already getting a taste of President Donald Trump’s effort to impose broad, new voting restrictions across the country.While Trump’s push for a partisan elections bill faces se...

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Senate advances Mullin’s DHS nomination

Sen. Markwayne Mullin is officially on a glidepath for confirmation to lead the Department of Homeland Security.Senators voted 54-37 to advance the Oklahoma Republican’s nomination, setting up a fi...

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Tulsi Gabbard’s Iran pivot comes with contradictions

One might be tempted to think that the most shameless shape-shifter in the Trump administration is JD Vance. After all, the vice president once called Donald Trump America’s Hitler, and ten years l...

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White-collar lawyers’ newest gig: Representing people in the Epstein files

The fallout from the Epstein files has created a mini hiring boom for elite lawyers.Scores of people named in the files — including high-profile figures as well as people whose names may have simpl...

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They once called him a ‘goose-stepping extremist.’ They’re now sitting out his comeback bid.

When Brandon Herrera ran for Congress in 2024, the Republican Jewish Coalition called him “a goose-stepping extremist” and spent big to take him down. Two years later, he’s the presumptive GOP nomi...

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Inside the Ohio election quietly splitting JD Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy

Two of President Donald Trump’s closest allies have endorsed dueling candidates for Ohio state treasurer. The winner could signal whose word carries more weight in the American heartland.The race i...

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Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday

Border czar Tom Homan confirmed Sunday that immigration agents will be at airports starting Monday.In an interview with CNN’s "State of the Union," Homan told host Dana Bash that he is devising a p...

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Democrats pile on Trump for post celebrating Mueller’s death

Democrats are skewering President Donald Trump after he proclaimed on Saturday that he was glad former special counsel Robert Mueller had died.“Every day, this president shows his basic indecency a...

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Donald Trump Is Nothing Like Robert Mueller

Robert Mueller III was a Bronze Star Marine veteran, an FBI director, and an American citizen. When the president of the United States heard the news that Mueller died today, he put it this way: “G...

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Trump-Xi summit on hold until Iran conflict ends, people briefed say

The Trump administration is telling foreign officials and others that it will not reschedule a summit between the president and Chinese leader Xi Jinping until the Iran war ends.A Washington-based ...

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