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Trump Signals He May Skip Son's Wedding Over Iran Tensions

President Trump is uncertain whether he can attend his son's wedding this weekend, citing geopolitical pressures and military concerns as potential obstacles to his attendance.In remarks to reporte...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Trump Kills AI Oversight Order, Fears It Could Slow U.S. Against China

President Donald Trump scrapped a landmark executive order on artificial intelligence Thursday, abruptly pulling the plug on a plan that had been weeks in the making. Speaking to reporters in the O...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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DNC Chair apologizes for burying report, finally releases damaging 2024 postmortem

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin faced a choice this week: keep the party's election postmortem locked away or admit the silence had become worse than the content itself. He chose tra...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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DNC's Post-Mortem Report Turns Heat on Biden, Party Leadership

Democrats released a draft report examining their 2024 election defeat, a document that became a source of internal embarrassment for the Democratic National Committee before it ever reached public...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Trump's 250-Foot Washington Monument Clears Federal Review

A federal advisory panel has greenlit plans for a massive 250-foot arch to be constructed in Washington, marking a significant step forward for the Trump-backed project. The panel's approval signal...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Trump warns Supreme Court on birthright citizenship, calls potential ruling a 'disgrace'

Donald Trump has raised the stakes in the ongoing debate over birthright citizenship, declaring it would be a "disgrace" if the Supreme Court upholds the current constitutional guarantee that grant...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Missing congressman fuels furor in key battleground district

Rep. Tom Kean Jr. has vanished from public life for nearly three months, and the mystery is starting to rattle both his party and voters in one of the nation's most competitive House races.The New ...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 10 min read

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DNC's damning 2024 postmortem finally sees light after internal fiasco

The Democratic National Committee released an internal report examining the party's losses in 2024, marking an attempt to move past what had become a growing embarrassment within leadership ranks. ...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Supreme Court Sidesteps Death Penalty Clash Over Mental Disability

The Supreme Court has declined to intervene in a contentious death penalty case involving an Alabama prisoner whose fluctuating intelligence test scores raise questions about his mental fitness for...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Colbert's Forgotten White House Bid: When the Satirist Got Serious

Late-night comedy host Stephen Colbert once tested the waters of a presidential run, a forgotten moment in American political theater that played out on national television. The episode, preserved ...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Trump to Sign AI Oversight Order, Reversing Hands-Off Stance

President Trump is preparing to sign an executive order that would establish federal oversight of artificial intelligence models, marking a sharp pivot from the White House's previous reluctance to...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Trump's $1.8B Fund Faces Scrutiny Over Spending Controls

A proposed $1.8 billion fund linked to Donald Trump is drawing fire from watchdog groups and lawmakers who question whether adequate safeguards exist to govern how the money gets spent.The central ...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Duggan Abandons Michigan Governor Bid, Cites Dual Deficit

Former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has ended his independent campaign for Michigan governor, announcing the decision Thursday with a blunt assessment of his political prospects. Behind in both pollin...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Two Minnesota Autism Clinics Face $46 Million Fraud Charges

Federal prosecutors have brought charges against two Minnesota autism therapy providers accused of orchestrating a sweeping Medicaid fraud scheme that cost taxpayers $46 million. According to the J...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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High Court Clears Path for Companies to Sue Cuba Over Cold War Seizures

The Supreme Court has opened the door for American businesses to pursue compensation for assets that Fidel Castro's government confiscated during the early years of the Cuban Revolution. The ruling...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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GOP Weaponizes Budget Rule to Ram Through Immigration Spending

Republicans are deploying an arcane budgetary tool designed decades ago to cut deficits, repurposing it now to bypass Democratic obstruction and fund immigration enforcement initiatives. The mechan...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Castro Indictment Reignites Fury Among Miami's Cuban American Community

The Department of Justice's decision to bring criminal charges against Raúl Castro has struck a nerve in South Florida, where Cuban Americans are viewing the move as a vindication of decades-long c...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Trump's $1.8B IRS Deal Explodes Into Rare Bipartisan Firestorm

A proposed arrangement between the Trump administration and the Internal Revenue Service to establish a $1.8 billion fund has triggered unexpected pushback from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Taiwan leader says he'd welcome Trump call, defying decades of U.S. protocol

Taiwan's government signaled openness this week to a direct phone conversation with Donald Trump, a move that would shatter four decades of diplomatic convention and likely draw swift rebuke from B...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 10 min read

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Democratic Group Spends Big to Torpedo Craig Over ICE Votes in Minnesota Senate Fight

A major Democratic outside group is launching a $2 million advertising blitz against Rep. Angie Craig in Minnesota's intensifying Senate primary, zeroing in on her past support for immigration enfo...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Party Fracture: Democrats' Midterm Edge Masks Deep Internal Rage

A new poll reveals a troubling portrait of Democratic voters heading into the midterm election: they are angry, fractious, and openly hostile to their own party's direction.The New York Times and S...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Pennsylvania's Swing Counties Sound Alarm on Cost of Living Crisis

Voters across northeastern Pennsylvania are voicing alarm over surging expenses that residents describe as historically severe. The region spanning from Scranton to Allentown, home to two competiti...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Women's Museum Bill Implodes Over Trump Control and Culture War Language

A decade of bipartisan work to establish a Smithsonian women's history museum on the National Mall is collapsing into partisan acrimony just days before a House floor vote, with Democratic support ...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Smithsonian Quietly Strips Museum Labels in Growing Culture War

The Smithsonian Institution is facing criticism over changes made to interpretive text displayed alongside artworks and artifacts, with detractors characterizing the moves as institutional self-cen...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Blanche's Wild Turn as Trump's New Justice Enforcer

Todd Blanche arrived in Trump's orbit as something of an establishment figure, a lawyer whose credentials suggested temperance and institutional restraint. That persona lasted roughly until he took...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Colorado Democrats turn on Polis over commuted election denier's sentence

The Colorado Democratic Party formally censured Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday night for reducing the prison term of a former county clerk convicted of tampering with voting systems, escalating an i...

Sarah Mitchell May 21, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Trump Administration Moves to Cut His Own Tax Bill

The Trump administration has taken steps that would directly benefit the former president's personal finances, marking what observers describe as an unprecedented use of federal power to advance a ...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Big Tobacco's $5M Gift Preceded Vape Policy Shift

Reynolds American donated $5 million to MAGA Inc. just days before the Trump administration rolled out a new e-cigarette policy that the tobacco giant had been actively pursuing, raising fresh ques...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Colorado Democrats Turn on Polis Over Controversial Commutation

Colorado's Democratic Party formally rebuked Gov. Jared Polis this week, expressing the frustration of grassroots members over his decision to commute the prison sentence of Tina Peters.The rebuke,...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Former Federal Prosecutor Charged After Emailing Herself Trump Classified Documents Report

A onetime managing assistant U.S. attorney in Florida faces federal charges after allegedly stealing and concealing confidential materials from special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into Presi...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Vanessa Trump Battles Breast Cancer

Vanessa Trump disclosed her breast cancer diagnosis Wednesday in an Instagram post, revealing that she has already undergone a medical procedure and is developing a treatment strategy with her phys...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Nimitz Carrier Sails Into Caribbean as Castro Faces U.S. Charges

The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier has entered the southern Caribbean, its arrival coinciding with a significant escalation in U.S. pressure on Cuba. On the same day the carrier reached the region, th...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Durbin fires back at Trump's $1.8B 'anti-weaponization' fund, demands Jan. 6 rioter details

Sen. Dick Durbin is escalating pressure on the Justice Department to block payments to January 6 rioters from a new $1.8 billion fund, calling the prospect both absurd and offensive to taxpayers. T...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 8 min read

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Trump's Primary Picks Dominate GOP Elections

Candidates endorsed by Donald Trump have secured decisive victories across Republican primary contests, cementing the former president's grip on the party apparatus and demonstrating the continued ...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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GOP Set to Jettison Ballroom Funding From ICE Enforcement Bill

Senate Republicans are preparing to strip out ballroom construction funds from their immigration enforcement legislation, backing away from a provision that drew internal objections from party memb...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Judge Overturns White House Bid to Dodge Records Law

A federal judge has blocked the White House's attempt to sidestep requirements under the Presidential Records Act, striking down a government memo that sought to exempt officials from mandatory doc...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Trump's 1.8 Billion Dollar Payout Fund Breaks Its Own Rules

An 1.8 billion dollar fund designed to compensate Trump allies who claim they were wronged by federal authorities is drawing scrutiny for departing sharply from established administrative precedent...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Pennsylvania Democrat Vows to Purge Trump's Influence on Day One

Chris Rabb, a progressive Pennsylvania Democrat, is laying out an aggressive opening move if he reaches higher office: systematically undo the policies and personnel decisions left behind by the Tr...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Castro indictment signals new Cuban reckoning under Trump

The Justice Department has indicted Raúl Castro, the 94-year-old former Cuban president, on charges connected to the shooting down of two civilian aircraft over the Florida Strait three decades ago...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Israel votes split GOP field in latest primary battle

Republican primary races are fracturing over Middle East policy as candidates spar over Israel support, with one prominent Trump critic finding himself at odds with the party establishment on the i...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 3 min read

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Trump Warns Coast Guard Grads of 'Very Rough' Waters Ahead

President Trump delivered a commencement address to Coast Guard graduates that mixed humor about the service branch's appearance with somber warnings about global turmoil, creating a tone that lurc...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 7 min read

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Four Pennsylvania House seats could decide control of Congress, and Shapiro's 2028 future

Pennsylvania has become the pivotal battleground for House control, and come November, four Republican-held districts will determine whether Democrats can reclaim the chamber. The concentration of ...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Disease Surveillance Networks Collapse Under Budget Ax

The Trump administration's cuts to international aid programs have dismantled critical disease monitoring systems across East Africa, leaving the region vulnerable to infectious disease outbreaks a...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Black Conservative Leader Woodson Dead at 89

Robert Woodson, a pioneering voice in black conservative activism who championed self-reliance over government intervention as the answer to poverty and racism, has died at 89. Woodson's decades-lo...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Federal Prosecutor Accused of Lifting Sealed Trump Documents Files

A Justice Department prosecutor faces allegations that she improperly transferred sensitive records from the special counsel's investigation into former President Donald Trump's handling of classif...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 6 min read

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Trump's Primary Revenge Spawns His Own Rebels in Congress

Donald Trump's push to oust Republican senators who crossed him in primaries is delivering immediate payback, but it's also backfiring in unexpected ways on Capitol Hill.The strategy has enraged GO...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 5 min read

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Trump's Kentucky Win Shows Raw Power to Vanquish Party Rebels

Rep. Thomas Massie's loss in Kentucky's GOP primary delivered a stark lesson about the limits of independence in modern Republican politics: when the party's dominant figure decides you have to go,...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 4 min read

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Rubio's Cuba Gambit: From Immigrant Son to Regime Change Architect

Marco Rubio is positioning himself to reshape U.S. policy toward Cuba in ways that reflect a lifelong obsession with the island's political future. As secretary of state, the Florida Republican now...

Sarah Mitchell May 20, 2026 0 comments 5 min read