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Some of America’s largest cities are now being governed by progressives. What will we learn?
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A U.S. military official said the president’s seemingly dramatic announcement on Wednesday referred to a previously reported effort to shepherd commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.
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The Republican congresswoman from South Carolina, who made enemies on both sides of the political aisle, is just one of several flashy lawmakers to be leaving Capitol Hill.
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Republicans are struggling to extend a powerful surveillance authority set to lapse this weekend after President Trump alienated lawmakers with his choice of acting spy chief.
Three Vietnam War veterans are suing to stop President Trump from building an arch just steps from Arlington National Cemetery, where 400,000 service members, veterans and their relatives are buried.
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President Trump held a Situation Room meeting on Wednesday afternoon to discuss potential new strikes against Iran, hours after telling reporters the U.S. would "hit them again hard today," two U.S. sources said. Zoom in: The sources said one option Trump is considering is launching an operation that is big in scale but short in duration, with the aim of pressing Iran to change its position in the negotiations. The sources did not provide specifics. State of play: Qatari mediators held talks with Iranian officials on Wednesday in Tehran to try and restore some momentum behind the deal the U.S. and Iran have been negotiating for weeks. - Barring a breakthrough, U.S. strikes could follow. - The U.S. struck Iranian radar and air defense…
Tech millionaires claim China is behind a wave of local opposition to U.S. data centers, while providing little direct evidence.
Since the opening of Camp East Montana in Texas last year, immigration lawyers and rights advocates have expressed concerns about conditions inside the facility.
OpenAI has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting U.S. debates over tariffs and AI data centers, the company said Wednesday. Why it matters: The campaigns don't appear to have been effective, but they show how pro-China actors are testing AI tools to amplify existing political and economic divisions in the U.S. Driving the news: OpenAI said it uncovered two operations that used ChatGPT to generate posts, comments and political cartoons about U.S. tech policy. - One campaign, dubbed "Data Center Bandwagon," generated comments and comics claiming AI data centers were driving up electricity prices for American families. - A second operation, "Tech and Tariffs," used ChatGPT to…
President Trump's top aides so feared leaks about their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files that they held multiple damage-control meetings in the classified confines of the Situation Room, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan write in "Regime Change ," their hotly awaited book about Trump's second term. - In a New York Times Magazine excerpt , posted today ahead of the book's publication on June 23, the two Times reporters describe in cinematic detail how top Trump officials, including Vice President JD Vance and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, gathered in the Situation Room last summer to debate how to manage the growing scandal. - The White House is now abuzz over the leak about leak control. Behind the scenes: Vance had "floated to…