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Trump endorsement fails to clear GOP field as former governor joins South Carolina Senate race

Mark Sanford joins a crowded GOP field challenging Trump-endorsed Darline Graham in South Carolina's special Senate primary set for Aug. 11.

Trump’s patience ‘running out’ as Thune fires back over stalled election security bill

Karoline Leavitt says Trump's patience is running thin with John Thune over the SAVE America Act as Senate Republicans face a 50-vote math problem.

Top House Democrat says anti-Israel activists’ threats kept him from town halls for a year

Rep. Adam Smith said he hasn't held a town hall in over a year after anti-Israel activists screamed death threats at him and threatened his wife.

WATCH: AOC won’t rule out White House bid after poll names her Democrats’ top 2028 pick

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sidestepped questions about a 2028 presidential bid after a new poll showed her leading all Democratic presidential candidates.

Justice Department sues Colorado over in-state tuition and financial aid for illegal immigrants

The Trump administration filed its fourteenth lawsuit challenging in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, this time targeting Colorado's ASSET Act.

Fox News Poll: Voters want major change amid economic and political discontent

Trump approval holds at 39% as Democrats lead the generic ballot by 7 points, the highest for either party in Fox News polling since 1996.

Rubio’s Chesterton Moment

Chesterton wrote a novel over 100 years ago that helps place the significance of Rubio’s most recent speech on the century’s left-wing terrorism problem.

House approves GOP’s stock trading ban, voter ID bill in mostly partisan vote

House Republicans narrowly passed a GOP priority bill Wednesday to prohibit members of Congress from purchasing publicly traded stocks and require voters to show a photo ID at the polls.

House GOP adopts budget blueprint to tee up filibuster-proof defense funding, voter ID bill

House Republicans on Wednesday narrowly adopted their budget blueprint for a filibuster-proof bill containing up to $95 billion in defense funding, farm aid and election integrity measures.

COVID-inspired House bill would guarantee Americans in the hospital can see their clergy

Rep. Mike Flood is fighting for Americans in a hospital or nursing home to never again be barred from seeing clergy, as happened during COVID-19.

Apartment owners take Mamdani to court over ‘irrational’ rent freeze amid his crackdown on landlords

A group of landlords on Wednesday sued to block New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's historic rent freeze as they face the self-declared socialist's barrage of drastic changes to the city's rental sector that will formally recognize tenant unions and could ban credit checks on prospective renters.

Mamdani says NYC can’t arrest Netanyahu but the federal government should

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said late Tuesday that the city would not be able to execute an arrest warrant issued by the world's top war-crimes court for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, but urged the federal government to do so.

Kalshi goes all in on midterm election betting

Executives from the online prediction market Kalshi came to Washington on Wednesday to debut a new "Midterms Hub" for placing bets on the November elections.

Hegseth’s new testosterone standard for troops could undercut military’s transgender ban, judge says

A federal judge suggested Wednesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new policy requiring troops to meet testosterone levels -- and delivering testosterone replacement therapy -- could undercut the rationale behind the department's restrictions on trans troops.

AOC, Buttigieg lead hypothetical 2028 Democrats in New Hampshire; Rubio closes gap with Vance

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has climbed into the pole position in the early jockeying for the 2028 New Hampshire Democratic primary sweepstakes.

House Republicans push $95 billion package for the Iran war and Trump’s priorities

House Speaker Mike Johnson will try to advance a Republican-only $95 billion budget proposal Wednesday, a long-shot effort to fund the Iran war and other White House priorities over Democratic objections as a GOP priority before the midterm elections.

Special prosecutor drops all felony criminal charges against Louisiana Attorney General Murrill

A special prosecutor on Wednesday dismissed felony criminal charges against Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, who was indicted on accusations of threatening the jobs of New Orleans officials who fought a Republican-led overhaul of courts in the heavily Democratic city.

Spanberger’s ICE rollback to blame for toddler killing, Virginia ‘hotbed’ of illegal immigrant crime: DHS

DHS says Gov. Abigail Spanberger's rollback of Virginia's 287(g) agreement created a "hotbed" for illegal immigrant crime after a toddler's killing.

‘Revenge of the normies’: Halo veteran-turned-candidate pitches outsider revolt in Nevada swing district

Video game composer Marty O'Donnell is sick of career politicians, and argues his outsider business appeal will draw in independents in competitive Nevada swing district.

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