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Trump declared that “massive” oil and mineral exploration is “getting ready to begin” in Greenland, a claim that runs well ahead of permits, timelines, and the consent of the people who actually own the resource. In an Oct. 14 Truth Social post, Trump announced that large-scale oil, gas, and mineral exploration would soon start in Greenland, […]
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The Supreme Court will decide whether a watchdog can access the records needed to prove the DOGE operation is subject to open-records law, with the Trump administration fighting to keep them closed. The justices granted review on Oct. 13 in the long-running fight over whether the Department of Government Efficiency must answer to the Freedom of […]
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The Justice Department gave California two days to review a list of alleged noncitizen voters and set their ballots aside, a demand that, depending on where you sit, is either overdue housekeeping or mid-election strong-arming. The acting Deputy Attorney General sent California a letter on Oct. 13 demanding officials review a list of suspected noncitizen registrants […]
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Saudi authorities confirmed a strike that set a limited fire at Aramco’s Dhahran headquarters on Oct. 13, with no injuries, as the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition traded missiles and drones. It is the clearest sign yet that the war with Iran is widening through its proxies, and that the Gulf’s oil nerve centers are now […]
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Two senior Iranian officials told Reuters that Tehran has shifted tactics against Strait of Hormuz shipping with one stated goal: to stop Washington from lowering oil prices before the November elections. It is a rare thing for an adversary to announce that it is trying to rig an American vote by squeezing the pump. The […]
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The 2027 cost-of-living raise announced today will be the biggest in years, and that is not good news. The Social Security Administration announces the 2027 cost-of-living adjustment today, and the forecasts point to roughly 3.6%, the largest increase since 2023 and well above last year’s 2.8%. A bigger check sounds like a win for […]
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A 1988 law protecting a Supreme Court nominee’s video-rental records is now the Court’s tool for deciding whether Big Tech can track what you watch online. SCOTUS is hearing arguments in Salazar v. Paramount Global over whether the Video Privacy Protection Act, passed after a newspaper published Robert Bork’s rentals during his confirmation, reaches […]
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In a single night, the Senate fight played out in Georgia, Maine, and Iowa. Georgia, Maine, and Iowa held Senate debates on Tuesday, the same day Georgia opened early voting, and the Georgia clash between Sen. Jon Ossoff and Rep. Mike Collins turned on the Epstein files, a megadonor’s money, and abortion. With control of the […]
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Britain has told Parliament that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard almost certainly directed a plot against the air base American bombers flew from to strike Iran. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the September security incident at RAF Fairford was highly likely coordinated in Iran and almost certainly directed by the IRGC, Britain’s most direct attribution […]
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The Supreme Court just heard the case that could do to criminal sentencing what it already did to the administrative state: end automatic judicial deference to the bureaucrats who write the rules. The justices heard argument Tuesday in Beaird v. United States, a case asking whether courts must keep deferring to the US Sentencing […]
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The Financial Times reported that the administration warned Kyiv and European capitals it could halt the mechanism Ukraine uses to buy US weapons and cut off intelligence-sharing, to pressure Ukraine into stopping its deep strikes on Russian oil refineries. A US official denied making any explicit threat, and nothing has actually been cut, but the […]
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Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant at Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home early Monday morning, part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation. No charges have been filed, Omar denies wrongdoing and calls it political targeting, and only anonymous sources have reported the probe’s specific subject. Omar is one of the most disliked figures […]
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The surveillance company that blanketed America with license-plate cameras is laying off workers, because a backlash that crosses party lines is finally costing it customers. Flock Safety, whose roughly 120,000 cameras read and log American drivers’ movements in 49 states, is cutting about 18 percent of its staff as cities cancel contracts and a federal […]
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to make the December execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan public, and to livestream it, caught the Army off guard and opened a visible fault line on the right, with the vice president declining to endorse it and a Republican senator calling it “beyond disgusting.” On Oct. 10, Trump himself […]
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The Justice Department is using antitrust law to investigate five TV networks for how they covered the president, and conservatives should be uneasy even about a probe aimed at outlets they distrust. The DOJ’s Antitrust Division confirmed on Oct. 10 that it is investigating ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and Fox over their brief, coordinated suspension of […]
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Trump announced a deal to let Russia ship large volumes of diesel into the United States, easing sanctions on Moscow for the first time beyond the usual short windows since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Three days on, pump prices have barely moved, and the deal has delivered a political headache for the president’s own […]
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Trump said Oct. 10, “I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president,” a day after Zelensky criticized the Russian diesel deal (SOURCE HERE). The same day, Russian strikes killed at least 20 people in Zaporizhzhia (SOURCE HERE). What he said On Zelensky: “I suggest they get a new leader who can make […]
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An attack on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on Oct. 10 killed 12 people, one of them an American, and injured 309 (SOURCE HERE). Trump said the U.S. “may” join Saudi strikes on the Houthis. That would be the first direct U.S. military action against them since May 2025 (SOURCE HERE). State of play The […]
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The Cook Political Report moved 18 House races toward Democrats on Oct. 9 and now rates 21 races as toss-ups, 15 of them held by Republicans (SOURCE HERE). Democrats need a net gain of three seats to take the House (SOURCE HERE). Here is how things stand. By the numbers The forecast: Cook says “the […]
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Trump named Katie Zacharia, a senior communications adviser at Trump Media & Technology Group, as White House press secretary on Oct. 9 (SOURCE HERE). She replaces Karoline Leavitt and starts Monday (SOURCE HERE). Who she is Trump Media: Senior communications adviser for Truth Social and Trump Media & Technology Group since June (SOURCE HERE). DHS: […]
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Iran has kept the capacity to build ballistic missiles and drones, Western officials say, and one of them says Russia is supplying missiles (SOURCE HERE). The Pentagon said in April that Iran “can no longer build missiles,” and Trump has now paused strikes until after Nov. 3. Why it matters The pause has a clock […]
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Trump announced Oct. 9 that Russia will ship diesel to American and global markets, and Treasury issued a license that suspends sanctions on Russian diesel until April 2027 (SOURCE HERE). The first shipment would cover hours of U.S. demand, not weeks, and the deal comes three weeks after Trump signed a sweeping Russia sanctions law. […]
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The Pentagon confirmed Oct. 8 that it will livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, set for Dec. 3 (SOURCE HERE). It would be the first public execution in the U.S. since 1936, and some of the sharpest objections are coming from Republicans. State of play The sentence: Trump approved Hasan’s death […]
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America’s Story As Told Through Her Flags. Colonial Flag, America’s premier flag maker and the exclusive partner of Freedom 250, brings you this series. The History This was the flag of the California Gold Rush of 1849, carried by “Forty-Niners” on their wagons and ships. It saw the flag transition from a government symbol to a […]
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A bipartisan army of 39 state attorneys general just asked the Supreme Court to stop the betting apps, and it has split the right down the middle. Attorneys general from 39 states, and the D.C., filed a brief on Oct. 7 urging the Supreme Court to take up New Jersey’s fight to regulate prediction […]
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Four in five Republicans agree with four in five Democrats on one thing this week: your tax dollars should not pay for campaign ads, no matter whose face is in them. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Oct. 6 found 86 percent of Americans think it is inappropriate to use federal money for the campaign-style ads promoting […]
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The DOJ announced on Oct. 5 that it had filed civil actions to strip the citizenship of 40 naturalized Americans accused of hiding serious crimes and fraud, a batch Attorney General Todd Blanche called “the largest denaturalization effort in modern history.” The cases target genuinely alarming conduct. Anyone who values citizenship as something more than a […]
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Google and Constellation Energy announced a deal on Oct. 6 that puts more than $4.3 billion into reviving American nuclear capacity, adding 890 megawatts of new output by uprating eleven existing reactors to feed Google’s data centers. It is the clearest signal yet that the AI boom will be powered by the atom, not the windmill. […]
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth flew out to the USS Abraham Lincoln on Oct. 7 to pin a Presidential Unit Citation on a strike group returning from nearly eleven months at sea, the same day Axios reported the Pentagon has told Central Command to finish preparing to resume major combat operations against Iran, possibly before the November […]
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The government is using its power to license broadcasters as leverage against one it does not like, and the people warning against it are Republicans. Trump’s FCC has ordered an unprecedented early review of all eight of ABC’s owned television stations, and ABC is in federal court arguing the move is punishment for coverage the […]
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Boeing won a contract worth up to $14.7 billion to triple production of the seeker at the heart of the Patriot interceptor, the weapon the US has been burning through at a frightening pace across three wars at once. The industrial base is scrambling to catch up with a shortage the Iran war laid bare. […]
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The Supreme Court had the chance to strike down the major magazine bans, but chose to wait. On its first order list of the new term, the Supreme Court took no action on the marquee challenges to state magazine and “assault weapons” bans, neither granting them nor throwing them out. The gun cases that could […]
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Dozens of IRS employees went digging through the private tax files of the famous and powerful, and the agency often never told the victims. A Treasury watchdog found that IRS employees ran dozens of suspicious searches of the tax records of government officials, business leaders, and celebrities, and that the agency cannot reliably detect or […]
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Many of the voters who powered Trump’s 2024 win are drifting away a month before the midterms. A new poll finds Latino voters, who moved sharply toward Trump in 2024, swinging back to Democrats, with the President’s approval among them down to 27 percent. For a party that counted on a durable Hispanic realignment, it […]
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Trump unveiled a “Super Intelligence Force” to coordinate federal AI policy, chaired by the Director of National Intelligence, alongside an accord in which the largest AI companies pledge to police themselves. It is a bet that America wins the AI race by moving fast and trusting the firms building the technology. Whoever leads in advanced […]
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The administration has pulled federal election-security support ahead of the midterms, gutting the staff and programs at CISA that once coordinated with states and policed online “misinformation.” The press is framing it as a dangerous retreat. The truth is more divided than that. CISA spent years as the agency conservatives accused of pressuring social media […]
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America moved its bombers out of England after a plot against the base. The US withdrew its last B-1B bombers from RAF Fairford over the weekend, days after British counter-terrorism police broke up a suspected Iran-linked plot targeting the base that staged American strikes on Iran. The Pentagon insists it can still hit Iran at […]
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I was in Poland when the news started to feel close. A Russian drone hit a passenger train in Ukraine near the Polish border. A fire damaged a Starlink station in Poland. Investigators now say it was arson and suspect the people responsible acted on orders from Russian intelligence. No one has been charged yet. […]
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A proposition that is gaining little attention may be the most harmful Democrats seemingly always have a policy solution that doesn’t address the source of the problem and ends up exacerbating the problem. One of those people is Bob Hertzberg (alias Huggy Bear) who just can’t divorce himself from trying to save Californians from themselves. […]
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The Supreme Court is about to decide how hard it is to sue over your retirement plan. The justices hear arguments Monday in a case over whether workers can take their 401(k) plan’s managers to court for putting their savings in underperforming, high-fee funds. The ruling will reach almost every retirement account in the country. […]
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The Supreme Court, which opens its new term Monday, has agreed to decide whether a Kentucky church can build a small prayer grotto on its own land after neighbors sued and a state court blocked it. The case tests how much protection a federal religious-liberty law really offers against local land-use fights. Across the country, […]
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard attacked two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, and the US surged a Marine amphibious group and a second carrier toward the Gulf in response. The fight over the passage that carries a fifth of the world’s oil is escalating fast. Hormuz is the single most important oil chokepoint on earth, and […]
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A new White House report estimates that the Democratic Socialists of America platform would cost roughly $49 trillion over a decade, or more than $350,000 per household. It is an advocacy document aimed at the midterms, and its number may be a conservative underestimate. Socialism has moved from the fringe to the ballot line, with […]
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Twenty million seniors are about to get a check from Washington. The administration announced one-time payments of $90 to more than 20 million Medicare enrollees to help cover their Part B premiums, drawn from a dormant federal fund. It is a direct and unusual move, and it lands five weeks before the midterms. Help with […]
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The G7 agreed to release up to 100 million barrels of diesel and crude over four months to pull down fuel prices driven up by the Iran war, and oil fell sharply on the news. It is a coordinated intervention aimed at the pump, not the wellhead. Diesel runs the economy, moving the trucks, trains, […]
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The Iran analysts at the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project say a senior Iranian delegation close to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei visited southern Lebanon this week to shore up Hezbollah. The trip signals that Iran is moving to rebuild its most important proxy at the proxy’s weakest point in years. Hezbollah has been the […]
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New claims for unemployment benefits fell again last week to 197,000, holding near levels the country has not seen in more than half a century. For a labor market everyone keeps predicting will crack, the layoff data refuses to cooperate. This is news the current administration needs to sell. Low layoffs are the hardest evidence […]
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The Court returns Monday to a docket built for a fight. The Supreme Court opens its new term on October 5 with argument days stacked on religious liberty, the administrative state, and the reach of federal courts, before it even gets to the guns and immigration cases waiting behind them. It is shaping up as […]
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The justices will decide whether migrants can be held without a bond hearing. The Supreme Court agreed to review whether the administration can hold deportable immigrants in mandatory detention, sometimes for a year or more, without an individualized bond hearing. The case hands the Court a direct test of executive power over immigration enforcement. At […]
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The Ninth Circuit is deciding who a Christian charity may hire. The Ninth Circuit heard arguments over whether a Christian homeless mission can hire only fellow believers, or whether a state can force it to apply that faith test to janitors and cooks alike. The case is a live candidate to reach the Supreme Court […]
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