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A Beleaguered Gentleman: Speaker Mike Johnson

The sky is cloudless and blue on a warm April afternoon as a cheerful Mike Johnson, seated on a beige couch next to an unlit fireplace in an office...

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New Details of Afghanistan Chaos

01.04.2024 20

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Is DoD Tracking Reports of Misused Aid in Ukraine?

While the Pentagon has assured Congress that no U.S. military equipment sent to Ukraine has been diverted, stolen, or otherwise misappropriated, a...

16.03.2024 30

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‘Did Not Exonerate’: Special Counsel Hur Faces Heated Congress

13.03.2024 7

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Biden’s State of the Union Address Strikes Campaign Tone

Joe Biden delivered a State of the Union address with a full head of steam maintaining his momentum during aggressive and polarizing remarks that, at...

09.03.2024 10

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Biden Urged To Wed Billionaire Tax With Social Security in SOTU

08.03.2024 9

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Trump Never Lost Control of GOP, Just Tightened Grasp

07.03.2024 60

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Haley: Nominating Trump Means ‘Suicide for Our Country’

As Nikki Haley stubbornly clings to life ahead of Super Tuesday, warning that nominating Donald Trump for president a third time would mean “suicide...

02.03.2024 3

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Trump Easily Defeats Haley in SC

In the afternoon, at the grassroots Conservative Political Action Conference, Donald Trump called himself a “political dissident,” but by the...

26.02.2024 10

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Pence Launches $20M Plan To Defend Conservative Principles

22.02.2024 30

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Sharp Elbows, Even Sharper Knives in Trump Inner Sanctums

Charlie Kirk is a MAGA juggernaut. Kirk founded Turning Point USA in 2012 and quickly turned the nonprofit into a quasi-party apparatus, raising more...

17.02.2024 10

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Special Counsel Hur: Biden ‘Elderly Man With Poor Memory’

10.02.2024 80

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The Border Bill Meets Its Predicted Demise

08.02.2024 30

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Trump Bashes Haley but Has His Own Dem Mega Donors

While former President Trump complains that a cabal of Democratic donors, Wall Street investors, and other elites are supporting Nikki Haley in...

07.02.2024 10

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Trump Calls on Europe To Shoulder ‘Equal’ Ukraine Burden

Former President Trump does not sound like a man ready to abandon Ukraine as some fear. This week, he instead called on Europe to match...

03.02.2024 8

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House Speaker: Biden Finally Admits ‘Crisis’ at Southern Border

After years of insisting otherwise, the White House now calls the situation at the southern border “a crisis.” The administration had often...

30.01.2024 3

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Haley, Trump Battle for Future of GOP in New Hampshire

SALEM, New Hampshire — Nikki Haley, the business-friendly moderate, insisted that in America, coronations are out of character, while Donald Trump,...

24.01.2024 9

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Haley Sticks in Trump’s Craw After Losing New Hampshire

CONCORD, New Hampshire — Nikki Haley smiled through her loss, congratulated Donald Trump on his win here, and then burned bridges with the former...

24.01.2024 20

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Nikki Haley Gets the Two-Person Race She Wanted

SEABROOK, New Hampshire — She stepped over the frozen corpse of the rival campaign and kept sledding along. “Boy,” Nikki Haley exclaimed as the...

23.01.2024 10

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Haley Launches Ad in NH Featuring Warmbier Family

On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Nikki Haley wants voters to think about leadership on the world stage, and then about character. Her campaign...

21.01.2024 20

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DeSantis’ Future Uncertain as New Hampshire Primary Approaches

MANCHESTER, N.H.—His presidential political obituary had already been published, his super PAC was in the process of making layoffs, and his...

21.01.2024 30

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Nikki Haley Has Seven Weeks To Flip the Script

18.01.2024 6

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Chris Christie Bows Out of GOP Presidential Race

12.01.2024 5

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Sununu Warns NH: Vote for Christie Is a Vote for Trump

Nikki Haley won’t say it. Allies and her top campaign surrogate will. They want Chris Christie to drop out before he, in their estimation, hands...

11.01.2024 9

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Trump Allies Demand Accountability From Fauci

House Republicans were eager to cross-examine Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former chief White House medical adviser, about his response to the COVID-19...

10.01.2024 30

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Young Trump Voters Want Carlson or Vivek as VP

Young Republican voters overwhelmingly want Donald Trump to be the GOP nominee in 2024, and they only disagree on whether he should choose Tucker...

21.12.2023 30

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DeSantis Hits Haley for Not Accepting CNN Invitation

Candidates not named Donald Trump are at war over the time and place of their next showdown after the Republican National Committee bowed out of the...

12.12.2023 8

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Knives Out in Tuscaloosa at Final GOP Debate of 2023

TUSCALOOSA — The four contestants not named Donald Trump resumed their running knife fight as momentum was challenged, old roles were reprised, and...

08.12.2023 20

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Social Conservatives Love Trump but Want More From DeSantis

Former President Donald Trump earns high marks for his “pro-family” platform while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has made combatting...

08.11.2023 4

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Hawley To Introduce Bill Reversing Citizens United

More than a decade ago, President Obama scolded the Supreme Court for reversing “a century of law” and opening “the floodgates for special...

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White House Backs 1st Amendment Protections for Student Protesters

Citing the First Amendment, the White House Tuesday rejected calls to pull the visas of students who express support for Hamas while Republicans...

25.10.2023 1

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Before Joining Biden Admin, Some White House Staffers Attacked ‘Apartheid’ Israel

The U.S. Secret Service arrested dozens of protesters outside the White House this week on charges of unlawful entry. The immediate aim of the...

20.10.2023 8

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Different Wars, Same Battle for Democracy: Biden Links Ukraine and Israel

In a rare Oval Office address, President Biden described the United States as “the indispensable nation,” standing by allies in the Middle East...

20.10.2023 3

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Before Joining Biden Admin, WH Staffers Attacked ‘Apartheid’ Israel

The U.S. Secret Service arrested dozens of protestors outside the White House this week on charges of unlawful entry. The immediate aim of the...

19.10.2023 30

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DeSantis Draws Red Line on Gaza Refugees, GOP Field Follows Suit

Just three days: That’s how long it took for Republicans to adopt a new orthodoxy on how the Biden administration should respond to Palestinian...

17.10.2023 3

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WH Ups Pressure on Tuberville To Abandon Pentagon Blockade

As the war in Israel intensifies, the White House will accelerate its efforts to break the blockade on Pentagon promotions that Sen. Tommy Tuberville...

12.10.2023 2

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Biden Admin Says Calls for Israel Ceasefire ‘Not Accurate’

Statements from the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs and Secretary of State Antony Blinken posted to social media over the weekend “did not...

09.10.2023 2

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Biden Preaches Democracy as House Begins Impeachment Inquiry

Nothing stood still as President Biden told supporters that democracy, properly defined, “means rule of the people, not rule of monarchs, not rule...

29.09.2023 2

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They Courted Chinese Investment, Now Running for President

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie did not attend. It was instead his trusted lieutenant governor, Kim Guadagno, who celebrated the foreign investment. In...

25.09.2023 3

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Tuberville’s Pentagon Blockade Becomes 2024 Abortion Redline

It was a natural question for Gov. Ron DeSantis, who served in the military and who signed a six-week abortion ban into law in Florida. Was Sen. Tommy...

20.09.2023 9

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Hawley Proposes 18% Credit Card Interest Rate Cap

On the question of credit, the senior Republican senator from Missouri finds himself well to the left of the White House, only slightly less...

11.09.2023 20

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Inside the MTG and Ken Buck Feud Over Jan. 6 Defendants

“You can’t stop me,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. “I’ll tear them to pieces.” Republicans know by now to take the archconservative at...

09.09.2023 5

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