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Battleground Iowa House race takes bizarre turn with alleged RFK Jr. intervention
A Libertarian challenger in a top Iowa battleground says Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the district’s current representative, GOP Rep....
Summer ICE
WINTRY MIX: The Knicks ticker-tape parade. World Cup festivities. Pride Month. America 250. The Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce wedding. It’s all happening this summer in New...
Brian Kemp endorses Burt Jones in Georgia’s gubernatorial runoff
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in the state’s rancorous GOP gubernatorial runoff, aligning the popular governor with President Donald Trump on...
"Extremely dangerous": Republicans spark fury with apparent meddling in Dem primaries
House Democrats are seething over what is, by all indications, a nationwide Republican effort to elevate Democratic primary candidates viewed as more beatable in November.Why...
What a U.S.-Iran peace deal could mean for energy, inflation
The prospect of a reopened Strait of Hormuz and a pending U.S.-Iran peace deal could help ease the big inflation risk hanging over Kevin Warsh's...
All eyes on Warsh at new Fed chairman's first policy meeting
As Kevin Warsh leads his first policy meeting as Federal Reserve chairman this week, he is not getting the luxury of starting the job in...
Scoop: CIA director doubts Iran's intentions on deal, sources say
CIA Director John Ratcliffe told President Trump and other senior officials that intelligence gathered by U.S. intelligence agencies raised serious doubts about Iran's willingness to...
Newsom says he's under investigation by the Justice Department
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that the Department of Justice has opened an investigation into him.Why it matters: Newsom alleged in a video that...
The 8 unresolved questions in Trump's Iran deal
The U.S.-Iran deal was signed electronically on Sunday by President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, senior administration officials...
Vance calls his ‘childless cat ladies’ comment ‘one of the dumbest things I ever said’
Vice President JD Vance now concedes that it was “boneheaded” of him in 2021 to call Kamala Harris and other Democrats “childless cat ladies.”The admission...
Musk's Success Inspires More Outrage Than Admiration on Left
Democratic heads exploded last week. It could have been for any of the typical reasons. A black teen who cruelly stabbed a white kid was...
New Zealand’s diplomatic breakaway
LOS ANGELES — In many World Cup host cities, competing teams also find themselves jostling for soft-power supremacy around their matches. But before its first...