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Miranda Devine: Dems seek a blue-collar MAGA man to win back Trump voters — but better look in the mirror

Democrats have spent the last 10 years accusing Donald Trump of being the second coming of Hitler and melting down when Elon Musk or anyone else perceived as close...

A lack of cooperation with ICE to deport an illegal immigrant resulted in a family tragedy

On April 9, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Roman Amatitla would be charged...

California’s ‘Mad Max’ gas nightmare — with drivers to pay the price

California depends on oil from the Middle East, Asia and Latin America — because...

A note to our readers

As I begin my first week as POLITICO's Global Editor-in-Chief, I want to start...

Rudy Giuliani hospitalized in critical condition, spokesman says

Rudolph Giuliani, the ex-mayor of New York City and a former adviser to President Donald Trump, is in critical but stable condition at a hospital, his spokesman said Sunday.

Jackson, Jones in dead heat in Georgia’s GOP gubernatorial race: Survey

A new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll found that businessman Rick Jackson and Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (R) are separated by just 2.4 percentage points with less than three weeks before the GOP gubernatorial primary. The survey, released Thursday, found that 27.2 percent of respondents backed Jackson, a healthcare executive who entered the race in February....

Cruz objects to Paul in testy GOP spat over ‘spy fridges’ on Senate floor

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the conservative stalwart, and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a hero to libertarians, got into a testy spat on the Senate floor when Cruz objected to Paul’s routine request for unanimous consent to transfer a few acres of federal land to a local Boys & Girls Club and the fight spiraled into...

Louisiana will change congressional maps before midterms, governor says

Louisiana will change its congressional maps before the 2026 midterm elections, top officials said Thursday, following a notable Supreme Court decision on a key portion of the Voting Rights Act. "The State is currently enjoined from carrying out congressional elections under the current map. We are working together with the Legislature and the Secretary of...

Johnson faces tough decision on DHS funding bill

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is facing a tough decision on whether to bring a Senate-passed bipartisan bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the floor on Thursday, as pressure from the White House and the upper chamber intensifies. Walking onto the House floor Thursday, Johnson told CNN and other reporters he will...

House investigating Airbnb over Chinese AI models

House Republicans have launched an investigation into U.S. companies' use of Chinese-developed artificial intelligence, starting with a probe into Airbnb and Anysphere, the parent company of Cursor. In letters sent Thursday to the companies, the Republican chairs of the House Committee of Homeland Security and House Select Committee on China said their joint investigation is...

Leveraging Artemis II means rejecting NASA budget cuts 

We should embrace this optimistic future, remembering that investment in space exploration is also an investment on Earth.

Republicans would lose big if midterms were held today: Brit Hume

Fox News’s chief political analyst, Brit Hume, on Wednesday said Republicans would lose big if midterm elections were held today, citing voter concerns about the Iran war and affordability.  “I think if the election were held today, given in the middle of this conflict, that the House would be obviously gone. And there’s a good...

China on the ropes: The ‘Donroe Doctrine’ gains ground in Latin America

Beijing is losing access to rare minerals in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, while the F-16s roar across the skies of Peru and Argentina.

Luna announces MK Ultra hearing

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said Wednesday that the House Oversight Taskforce on the Declassification of Federal Secrets will hold a hearing next month into the controversial MK Ultra program. “Hearing on May 13. MK Ultra. House Oversight Taskforce,” Luna, who chairs the task force, wrote in a post on social platform X. Project MKUltra...

Gaming out a nuclear Iran

What would a nuclear Iran do? Or, more particularly, what would the fanatical, murderous military cabal dominating Iran do? 

Fetterman laughs when asked about relationship with Democrats: ‘Well, I mean, cordial’

Centrist Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) let loose a hearty chuckle and admitted that he’s not that “popular” in the Senate Democratic caucus, even though he flipped the Senate seat in Pennsylvania long held by Sen. Pat Toomey (R), allowing Senate Democrats to have majority in 2023 and 2024. Asked by Fox News anchor Sandra Smith,...

First Trump tariff refunds expected about May 11 

The federal government is expecting to issue the first refunds of President Trump’s invalidated tariffs on or about May 11, according to new court documents.  U.S. Court of International Trade Judge Richard Eaton, who oversees the process, revealed the timeline following a closed hearing on Wednesday. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been working for weeks to refund $166 billion in Trump’s tariffs,...

Today’s far-reaching presidents should look instead to George Washington’s restraint

Washington defined the presidency not by what it could do, but by what it must refuse to become.

A tale of two kings

King Charles’ visit, like that of his grandfather King George VI with President Franklin Roosevelt in June 1939, comes at a time of global peril.

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