Featured photo: Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks as President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Republican senators listen at the U.S. Capitol. Office of Senator John Thune, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is spending the last days before the midterms on the road trying to save his majority. Many […]
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Featured photo: Vice President JD Vance in his official U.S. Senate portrait. 118th U.S. Congress, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Vice President JD Vance has written directly to one of the most hard-line figures in the Islamic Republic, proposing to restart talks before President Trump decides whether to resume strikes on Iran. The outreach may […]
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Featured photo: Hillary Clinton’s official portrait as Secretary of State. U.S. Department of State, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Five days before the midterms, Hillary Clinton told Democrats what a new majority would do first. Not lower grocery bills. Not cheaper gas. Investigations. On the Oct. 28 episode of High Stakes, the Vox Media podcast […]
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Featured photo: Sen. Ted Cruz’s official portrait. U.S. Senate, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Sen. Ted Cruz spent Wednesday with President Trump, and he used the time to make a case he has been making all year: arm the Iranian people and let them finish the regime themselves. “[Trump] wants the threat posed by the […]
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Featured photo: The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) underway in the Atlantic Ocean. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Brian G. Reynolds, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. President Trump says the clock is running out on Iran. On Sunday he told Tehran’s rulers they have two paths left: a deal, or […]
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Featured photo: Rep. Ilhan Omar, official portrait, 116th Congress. Photo: Kristie Boyd, U.S. House Office of Photography, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. A federal court filing by the Justice Department has put a new name into the investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and with it a question the congresswoman has brushed aside for a […]
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Featured photo: El Capitolio in Havana, Cuba. Photo: Virtual-Pano, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent the communist government in Havana a message on Friday that no American official has delivered so plainly in decades. He told Cubans who want change that the moment has come, and that the Central […]
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Featured photo: U.S. Border Patrol agents on watch at the border fence line in Arizona. Photo: CBP Photography, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. President Trump promised to close the southern border. Federal data now show he did. The U.S. Border Patrol recorded 98,708 apprehensions at the southwest border in fiscal year 2026, the lowest total […]
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Featured photo: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signs the guest book as President Donald Trump looks on at the White House, Feb. 4, 2025. White House photo by Dan Scavino, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it official: the goal is no longer to contain Iran’s regime. It is […]
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Featured photo: Official portrait of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. U.S. Department of Defense photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. With the midterms 13 days away, House Democrats have made removing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth a headline campaign promise, and their leader won’t say whether President Trump is next. “In the minority, we ran Pam Bondi […]
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