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Trump says he's banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House
President Donald Trump announced Friday he intends to ban CNN, MS NOW, Politico and other news outlets from covering the ... Read More
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Candidate for Idaho's 1st Congressional District admits to possessing child porn
BOISE, Idaho — One of the candidates running in the race for Idaho’s 1st Congressional District had “hundreds of images” of child pornography, court records showed, and he entered a plea deal in his criminal case. ...Read more
Pete Hegseth is rebuilding the Army’s ‘brass ceiling’
Dan Driscoll resigned as secretary of the Army on Aug. 31, 2026. His departure leaves the Army without a Senate-confirmed civilian leader six months into the war with Iran, its busiest period since the wars in Iraq and ...Read more
National Democratic group throws weight behind Bill Hill amid growing attention on Alaska's US House race
National political groups aligned with the Democratic and Republican parties are increasingly flooding Alaska with ads in the U.S. House race, a sign that the contest between independent Bill Hill and Republican freshman ...Read more
AOC to stump in upstate NY for Democrats ahead of midterms
NEW YORK — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has donated $300,000 to New York State Democrats and plans to campaign for Democrats in upstate New York ahead of the coming congressional midterm elections.
The progressive NYC ...Read more
Russians fear Putin will send them to war once election is over
Russians are growing fearful that President Vladimir Putin may soon order a massive new mobilization for the war in Ukraine after this weekend’s parliamentary elections.
That fear stretches to officials in the Kremlin ...Read more
Making a Bet in the Big Casino
When it came to how I was gonna die, I split my bet. I put some money on cancer because it's got good odds. I also got money down on civil war because there's a lot of buzz about civil war. That kind of thing will move ...Read more
Gautam Mukunda: AI's greatest threat is biological, not robotic
Anthropic PBC researcher Jacob Coxon quit last week and posted on social media that it was because “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Evan Hubinger, who leads...Read more
Commentary: Is the Iran war turning young voters away from Republicans ahead of the midterms?
President Donald Trump won a surprising number of Gen Z voters in 2024, with a particularly strong performance among young men. Although Kamala Harris still won a majority of the 18-29 age cohort, Trump received the ...Read more
Commentary: Bring your cat indoors -- Before it's too late
When police in Salem, Ohio, received a call for assistance for an injured cat, they couldn’t have been prepared for what they found. He had been shot with a crossbow, lost the use of his legs and, with the bolt still ...Read more
Commentary: Why Trump's renaming fixation is frightening
Heard the latest? President Donald Trump, after deciding that Lake Ontario will henceforth be known as Lake America, has floated the idea that New Mexico should be renamed New America. This continues a trend that began on ...Read more
Abby McCloskey: Finally, a Mamdani policy even Republicans can love
It used to be conservatives who wanted to tread carefully with new things. These days, it’s progressives sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence. And I’m not just talking about the risk of human extinction.
Two...Read more
Jackie Calmes: Trump loves to throw around taxpayers' money
Donald Trump Jr. has a lot more in common with his dad than just a name, sharing the president's penchant for shady dealings and for kleptocratic Russians. Sometimes the two proclivities go together. That was the case in ...Read more
Not Quite Grateful for a Broken Arm, but It's a Reminder of People's Amazing Resilience in the Face of Disabilities
On the Sunday evening of Labor Day weekend, after a delightful dinner with close friends, I tripped over one of those ubiquitous electric rent-a-scooters. I went down hard, landing on my knee and arm, though luckily not ...Read more
With an Eye Toward 2028, Vance Makes a Pitch to Voters Who Want to Return to 1928
SAN DIEGO -- How many of us are lucky enough in life to find ourselves exactly where we belong?
Vice President JD Vance is one lucky guy. This administration is a legit three-ring circus, where President Donald Trump ...Read more
Both Parties Aiming to Lose the Off-Year Elections
This election is a contest to see which party can do its best to lose. Looking forward from mid-September, President Donald Trump's Republicans seem to be well ahead at this. But the Resistance (or don't they call ...Read more
Trump says he was 'only kidding' after threatening Helene aid cut for NC
President Donald Trump threatened to withhold Helene relief funding for North Carolina if Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley does not win the seat — after which the president said he’s “only kidding.”
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Pentagon official's 'contemptuous' briefing sparks bipartisan ire
WASHINGTON — Senators from both parties emerged from a classified briefing with the Pentagon’s policy chief on Thursday morning expressing outrage at what they described as the official’s stonewalling.
The stated ...Read more
Miami Republican congresswoman's new campaign ad slams Trump on immigration
MIAMI — Miami Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar chastised President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda and warned him against listening to his advisers in a new campaign ad released Thursday — just seven weeks...Read more
Charlotte leaders push back on Trump claims of 'blood-soaked killing fields' in NC
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte leaders are pushing back on President Donald Trump’s portrayal of the city and North Carolina as extraordinarily violent, saying his description clashes with recent crime trends.
Trump made...Read more
Ratepayer bill aimed at data center buildout blocked in Senate
WASHINGTON — High-profile legislation amounting to lawmakers’ first real stab at addressing voter anger over data centers stalled in the Senate on Thursday after securing overwhelming support in the House a day earlier...Read more
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