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Obama pushes Virginia voters to approve partisan redistricting that could hand Democrats four House seats

Four days before a statewide referendum that could reshape the battle for the U.S. House, former President Barack Obama released a new video urging Virginians to vote "yes" on a measure that would let the Democratic-controlled legislature redraw the state's…
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Trump rebuffs NATO's belated offer on Strait of Hormuz, calls alliance a 'paper tiger'

President Donald Trump told NATO to "stay away" after the alliance contacted him to offer help in the Strait of Hormuz, help that arrived, in Trump's view, only after the crisis had already passed and the United States had handled…
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Trump rejects NATO offer of help after Strait of Hormuz reopens and oil prices drop sharply

President Trump dismissed NATO as "useless" and told the alliance to "stay away" from the Strait of Hormuz after Iran declared the critical waterway open to commercial shipping, a move that sent crude prices tumbling 10 percent within minutes. The…
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Sen. Chuck Grassley signals he may seek a ninth term — and he'd be 101 when it ends

Sen. Chuck Grassley, the longest-serving member of the United States Senate, is not ruling out another run. The Iowa Republican told the Daily Iowan he would decide on a ninth term in roughly a year to eighteen months, and he…
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DOJ escalates D.C. pipe bomb case with terrorism and weapons of mass destruction charges

A federal grand jury has added armed terrorism and weapons of mass destruction charges against Brian Cole Jr., the Virginia man accused of planting pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican national committee headquarters in Washington on the night before…
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Live Nation and Ticketmaster found liable in landmark federal antitrust verdict

A New York federal jury found Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary liable Wednesday for illegally monopolizing the concert ticket market, a verdict that caps a roughly five-week trial and hands the entertainment conglomerate one of the most significant antitrust…
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California spends billions on Medi-Cal for illegal immigrants — including sex-change procedures, watchdog finds

Illegal immigrants living in taxpayer-funded homeless shelters in San Francisco have undergone sex-change procedures and cross-sex hormone therapy through California's Medi-Cal program, Fox News Digital reported, drawing fresh scrutiny to Gov. Gavin Newsom's decision to extend full Medicaid benefits to…
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Trump declares Iran conflict 'very close to being over,' says Tehran eager for negotiations

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the war with Iran is "very close to being over," describing a regime weakened by American military action and eager to return to the negotiating table, a striking claim that came as U.S. officials…
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Gabbard sends criminal referrals to DOJ over ex-intel watchdog and whistleblower tied to 2019 Trump impeachment

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's office has referred at least two former Intelligence Community officials to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, targeting the former inspector general and the whistleblower whose actions set the first impeachment of President Trump…
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Justice Jackson lectures on 'judicial restraint' while the court she sits on cleans up lower-court overreach

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used a Yale Law School lecture this week to warn that the high court's emergency rulings are having a "potentially corrosive" effect on the judiciary, a claim that lands differently when you consider which…
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