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The fate of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda was in Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s hands — and she used that leverage ...

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The “presidential lean” of a state can, over time, tell us something about how it is trending.— Though 2004 and 2024 produced similar topline national results, there has been some significant change ...

He followed the playbook that had marked his life in business before politics. He focused on branding — labeling the ...

Mamdani’s results are the inverse of what pollsters predicted prior to the election: that Cuomo, who resigned from the ...

The House has passed the massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump calls “beautiful,” getting it to ...

This year’s Independence Day should be relatively unimpeded by the tariffs because retailers stock up in advance. But 2026’s ...

President Trump has been urging lawmakers to send him the bill to sign into law by July 4, but also acknowledged the timeline ...

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused a Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter of harassing her ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a tough test in an upper house election this month as his minority government ...