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Maria Bartiromo Is Suddenly Out at Fox and No One’s Sure Why

Maria Bartiromo, who has been a prominent fixture on Fox News for more than a decade, is leaving the conservative-media giant, which abruptly...

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Hegseth Is Extending the Iran War Trump Says Is Over

While President Donald Trump is projecting confidence about a nearing end to the protracted war in Iran that has progressed into its sixth month —...

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Whistleblower Raises Alarming Possibility About Mail Ballots

With nine weeks before Election Day, a federal whistleblower is raising alarm that the U.S. Postal Service’s rushed implementation of a new and...

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Trump Personally Bullying Apple to Make It ‘Lake America’

Over the weekend, Google announced that it would comply with Donald Trump’s executive order directing the official renaming of Lake Ontario to...

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Texas’s Primary Losers Really Don’t Like the Primary Winners

Democratic representative James Talarico and state Republican attorney general Ken Paxton emerged victorious from their contentious primaries and are...

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Canada Rejects Trump’s Ridiculous ‘Lake America’ Rebranding

On Thursday, President Trump made good on perhaps the silliest threat he has directed toward Canada amid the burgeoning trade war, signing an...

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Trump Makes Good on Ridiculous ‘Lake America’ Rebranding

The trade war President Trump started with Canada seems to be preoccupying him far more than the actual war he started in Iran. That was apparent on...

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Meta Will Pay Billions to Avoid Jury in Addiction Trial

Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has agreed to pay up to $17 billion in penalties to a coalition of states to settle the landmark federal...

26.08.2026 7

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Politicians Are Now Competing to Prove Who Hates Data Centers the Most

The backlash to data centers seems to be spreading like a contagion, and, with the midterm elections only a few months away, candidates are trying...

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Outgunned Ken Paxton Needs a Trump-Musk Bailout

Ken Paxton secured the Republican Party nomination in the Texas Senate race with a political boost from President Donald Trump, but what should be a...

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80-Year-Old Ed Markey May Trounce Another Young Challenger

Six years ago, Ed Markey successfully fended off a prominent primary challenge from a far younger representative. Recent polling suggests the...

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Trump’s Childhood-Vaccination Meddling Is All Wrong

This week President Donald Trump attempted to upend how vaccines are administered to children in the U.S., signing an executive order that lowers the...

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Max Miller’s Reelection Chances Look Increasingly Bleak

The final deadline for Representative Max Miller to remove himself from Ohio’s general-election ballot came and went Monday as the congressman...

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Munitions Shortage Has Trump Up in Arms Against Hegseth and ‘Leakers’

As the United States’ war in Iran continues into its sixth month amid fitful peace talks, President Donald Trump is forcefully denying reports that...

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Trump Is Making Another Big Mess With the White House Helipad

Of all of President Donald Trump’s often haphazard changes to the nation’s capital and the White House, the creation of a helipad at the...

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Todd Blanche’s Nomination Is Actually In Serious Trouble Now

Todd Blanche’s nomination to become the next U.S. attorney general appears to be in peril. First, a key committee postponed its scheduled Thursday...

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Anthony Fauci Finally Turns Down an Interview Request

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s highly anticipated Capitol Hill clash with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul took an unexpected turn early Wednesday morning when the...

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Case Against Olympian Looks As Murky As Reflecting Pool

The federal government’s highly publicized renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool fell short of Donald Trump’s lofty visions as...

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Mamdani Is Making Those City-Owned Grocery Stores Sound Pretty Good

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced new details about his administration’s plan to open municipal grocery stores in each of the city’s boroughs,...

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Feast Your Eyes on a Brand-New Photo of Mitch McConnell

Senator Mitch McConnell has been absent from Congress for more than a month as he recovers from what he says was a fall. This week, the former Senate...

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Mamdani and Netanyahu Are in a Vicious War of Words

Tensions between Zohran Mamdani and Benjamin Netanyahu have deepened after the Israeli prime minister fired back at the mayor’s video accusing him...

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Is Penn Station Really Going to Become Trump Station?

The Trump administration continues to officially push to change the name of New York’s iconic Penn Station in midtown Manhattan — and you’ll...

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Bill Cassidy Folds on Trump CDC Pick After Getting Tiny Concession

All eyes were on Bill Cassidy once again this week in anticipation of how the Louisiana senator and physician would vote on the confirmation of...

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Pete Hegseth Is Taking His Macho Shtick to New Levels

When Pete Hegseth took the helm of the Department of Defense, he vowed to “restore the warrior ethos” to the military and began an overhaul of the...

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Fetterman Reveals What Would Make Him Leave the Democratic Party

Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman has long downplayed the Beltway chatter that he’s considering leaving the Democratic Party, even as he...

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What We Know About the Deadly ICE Shooting in Maine

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian man, in Biddeford, Maine, Monday...

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Of Course Nancy Mace Is Weighing Running for Graham’s Seat

Nancy Mace’s political career appeared to be over last month following a demoralizing Republican gubernatorial primary loss with the three-term...

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What Is Going on With Mitch McConnell’s Health?

In mid-June, Mitch McConnell was admitted to the hospital for an undisclosed reason, marking the latest health concern for Kentucky’s senior senator...

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Possible GOP Governor Pick Won’t Say How Many People He’s Killed

Tuesday’s Democratic primaries in Colorado ended with several notable results for the left. Democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeated veteran...

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Tom Kean Jr. Suddenly Reappears As If Nothing Happened

Tom Kean Jr., the Republican representative who has been absent from Washington, D.C., and his district since March, was seen by reporters for the...

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Mamdani and Democratic Socialists Rule Election Night in NYC

In a series of closely watched primary elections that doubled as the first true test of Zohran Mamdani’s growing political movement, the mayor’s...

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What’s at Stake on a Blockbuster NYC Election Day

After months of seemingly endless mailers, television ads, and door knocks from intrepid canvassers, New Yorkers will head to the polls Tuesday to...

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Game 4 Watch Party Devolves Into Sudden Dolan-Mamdani Feud

Game four of the NBA Finals was supposed to be a return to normalcy for New York Knicks fans. Once again, they would be allowed to gather for a public...

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Trump to Make Magical New York Experience Highly Unpleasant

The New York Knicks hope to continue their dream playoff run and go up 3-0 over the San Antonio Spurs at game three of the NBA Finals in Madison...

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Platner Tries to Find Someone to Blame for Latest Scandal

There have been moments when Graham Platner’s first-time Maine Senate campaign has felt undeniable and moments when it has felt untenable. The...

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Andy Kim Wants Delaney Hall to Outrage You

Delaney Hall, a federal immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, has been the site of escalating clashes in recent days as demonstrators...

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A Brief Investigation Into Trump’s Knicks Fandom

New Yorkers are still riding high after the Knicks soundly defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday and booked their first appearance in the NBA...

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Trump’s Weaponization Slush Fund Is ‘Completely Insane’

This week, the Justice Department announced that President Trump intended to settle his unprecedented $10 billion lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury...

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The Race to Be the Face of Manhattan Is Extremely Tight

On June 23, New Yorkers will finally cast their ballots in midterm primary elections. A series of new polls from Emerson College and PIX 11 are...

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What We Know About the Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak

An outbreak of the rare and dangerous hantavirus aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius has left three passengers dead, forced the medical...

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Trump ‘Wants Action,’ May Restart Iran War

President Donald Trump continues to insist the Iran war is essentially over after an April cease-fire agreement, but his order for the United States...

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New Details Emerge About WHCD Shooter’s Path to Violence

An annual Washington, D.C., tradition was upended Saturday when a man identified as Cole Tomas Allen rushed a security checkpoint at the White House...

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The Whole Mike Vrabel–Dianna Russini Mess, Explained

Football fans and team executives alike descended on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this week for the start of the NFL draft, one of the most highly...

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Kathy Hochul Finds a Way to Tax the Rich

A New York Democratic leader is proposing a new tax targeting the ultrawealthy who largely live outside the city limits, but it might not be the one...

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Swalwell ‘Best Friend’ Ruben Gallego Is Now on the Hot Seat

Eric Swalwell resigned from Congress on Tuesday amid several allegations of sexual misconduct against him. Now, one of Swalwell’s formerly closest...

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When Will Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales Go Away?

It briefly looked as if Congress might do something unprecedented this week: simultaneously expel four House members currently engulfed in scandal....

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Congress May Kick Out 4 of Its Most Problematic Lawmakers

The race to become California’s next governor was thrown into disarray late last week following the emergence of numerous allegations of sexual...

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Noem. Bondi. Who’s Next?

For the better part of a year, President Donald Trump largely avoided the seemingly endless revolving door of staff firings, resignations, and...

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Trump Ousts Pam Bondi as Attorney General

Weeks after dismissing Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem, President Trump has reportedly fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to...

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Airports Won’t Snap Back to Normal When the Shutdown Ends

The Department of Homeland Security has been shuttered for more than a month as congressional lawmakers remain at an impasse over funding for the...

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