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Paxton and Platner visit Washington to shore up support for their controversial Senate candidacies

U.S. Senate hopefuls Ken Paxton and Graham Platner are in Washington, D.C., to rally party support. Paxton, a Republican from Texas, plans to meet with President Donald Trump after securing his endorsement.

 

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Jon Ossoff and Keisha Lance Bottoms show off head start in Georgia as Republicans battle in runoff

Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia is criticizing his potential election rivals, Rep. Mike Collins and former coach Derek Dooley, calling them “Trump puppets.”

 

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Treasury Secretary Bessent confirms limited steps toward a $250 bill featuring Donald Trump

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirms his agency has a design for a $250 bill featuring President Donald Trump.

 

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Trump’s DOJ sues 4 Democratic-run states over denying undercover license plates for federal agents

State officials are defending their policies of limiting the issuance undercover license plates to federal immigration authorities after President Donald Trump’s administration sued them over the matter.

 

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Trump is getting the Republican Party he wants. But can he win in the midterms?

President Donald Trump has been showcasing his influence in Republican primaries, recently endorsing Ken Paxton in Texas.

 

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Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election are casting a shadow over Georgia’s GOP runoffs

President Donald Trump’s repeated false claims about his 2020 election loss is almost certain to play a role in Georgia’s four-week runoff campaign as Republican voters choose nominees for governor, secretary of state and the U.S.

 

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Georgia Republicans dig in for runoffs for Senate and governor as campaigns go into overtime

Rep. Mike Collins and Derek Dooley will compete for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in a June 16 runoff, as neither received at least 50% of the vote in Tuesday’s primary to win outright.

 

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Georgia Republicans scramble to pick a candidate to take on Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff

Georgia Republican Rep. Mike Collins is positioning himself as a strong supporter of Donald Trump in his bid to challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff.

 

On the voting rights trail, bus riders to Montgomery retrace old steps while fighting a new fight

The year was 1965 and Black Americans had come to Montgomery, Alabama, to demonstrate peacefully voting rights.

 

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Supreme Court voting rights ruling fuels a new push to defend Black representation

A new generation of civil rights leaders is rallying against efforts to dismantle the Voting Rights Act.

 

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Tax cuts collide with inflation as voters weigh Trump’s economy in the midterms

Republicans want voters to think of working-class tax cuts when they weigh the economy and the 2025 law that President Donald Trump calls his “big beautiful bill.”

 

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Hegseth gets bipartisan grilling on rising costs of the Iran war and Trump’s end game

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has faced tough questions from Republican and Democratic lawmakers about the Trump administration’s end game for the Iran war, the rising cost of the conflict and its impact on diminishing U.S. weapons stockpiles.

 

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ANALYSIS: Trump’s success at purging Republican dissenters may not help in midterm elections

The primary election results in Indiana have shown how President Donald Trump can punish Republican lawmakers who defy him.

 

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Florida Republicans slice and dice congressional districts: How a new map could cost Democrats seats

The redrawn congressional district lines that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will soon sign into law are intended to help Republicans pick up as many as four U.S.

 

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Florida legislature approves new congressional map intended to boost Republicans in midterms

Republicans have scored another victory in the nationwide redistricting battle. The Florida Legislature approved a new congressional map on Wednesday intended to help the party gain four seats.

 

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Florida redistricting and a rocky special session put Ron DeSantis back in the Republican spotlight

Ron DeSantis is back in the national spotlight as he pushes for a new congressional map in Florida. His proposal aims to give Republicans four more seats, equivalent to the expected Democratic gains in Virginia.

 

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Correspondents’ Dinner’s biggest moments involve laughs, cringing and high-stakes politics

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has produced viral moments that were funny, cringeworthy or undeniably tense and that endure across social media.

 

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Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat seeking his 13th term in Congress, dies at age 80

Georgia’s Democratic congressman David Scott has died at age 80. Scott was the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and was seeking his 13th term in Congress despite challenges from within his party.

 

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US forces board a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean, the Pentagon says

U.S. forces have boarded an oil tanker previously sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude oil in Asia.

 

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As Vance rallies with Turning Point, some supporters bristle at Trump’s war, memes and feuds

Vice President JD Vance used a Turning Point USA event to defend President Donald Trump’s aggression in Iran and play down the resulting tensions between Washington and the Vatican.

 

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The Trump and Leo chronicles: A president and a pope square off over Iran and its aftermath

Pope Leo XIV, a studious and soft-spoken cleric, and Donald Trump, an unapologetically bellicose politician, have long been on a rhetorical collision course.

 

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A president and a pope: The world’s most influential Americans are at odds over Iran

Donald Trump is accustomed to criticism from coast to coast — Democrats, disaffected Republicans, late-night comedians, protesters.

 

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North Carolina’s electoral future may hinge on rural Black voters who feel ignored by Democrats

Democrats in North Carolina are scrambling to turn out rural Black voters and say the party cannot win the state without them.

 

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Midnight train from Georgia: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle in the shutdown

Long security lines at airports are driving people crazy as Congress and President Donald Trump try to work out a budget stalemate.

 

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Emily Gregory is Donald Trump’s new state representative and a new hope for Democrats in Florida

Florida state Rep.-elect Emily Gregory is the latest face of Democrats’ optimism after she won a special legislative election in President Donald Trump’s home state House district.

 

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Trump casts Florida mail ballot as he pushes Congress to severely limit that voting option

President Donald Trump has cast another mail ballot in Florida as he continues to publicly bash the voting method as a source of fraud and push Congress to curtail the practice.

 

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What to know about the resignation of Joe Kent

The Trump counterterrorism official who resigned Tuesday had been a staunch supporter of the president through his 2020 election defeat, the Jan. 6 riots and years of conservative media advocacy and failed congressional bids.

 

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Trump side-stepped diplomacy on his way to war in Iran. Now, he’s asking China and others for help

President Donald Trump relied on his gut and largely side-stepped diplomatic coordination as he made the decision to launch strikes on Iran with Israel.

 

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Americans unite in aggravation over sticker shock at the gas pump in a time of war with Iran

It seems that a country divided on many fronts is finding common ground at the gas pumps. There, the cost of the Iran war is hitting Americans squarely in the wallet and aggravating people across the political spectrum.

 

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Democrat Roy Cooper needs to defy North Carolina history to keep winning streak alive in Senate race

North Carolina Democrats have had success in winning elections for governor. It’s a different story in Senate races.

 

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