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Jeffries Warns Trump’s Iran War Is Hitting Americans at Home as Midterms Near
The Iran war is bringing foreign policy closer to home for American voters. As gas prices…
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Starmer Puts Big Tech on Notice Over Children’s Safety Online
Executives from Google, X, TikTok and Meta were called into Downing Street on Thursday by Prime Minister Keir Starmer to account for…
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EXIM’s Conference and America’s New Trade Playbook
The Export-Import Bank of the United States will gather policymakers, financiers and industrialists in Washington at the end of April with a…
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Swalwell’s Collapse Exposes Washington’s Due Process Problem
The political collapse of Eric Swalwell has been swift—and his exit from California’s gubernatorial race may not be enough to shield him…
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Melania Trump Lends Whistler Painting to Tate Britain and Van Gogh Museum
First Lady Melania Trump has authorized a rare international loan from the White House Collection,…
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POLITICS ACROSS THE POND
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SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
One Rule for Labour and Another for Everyone Else?
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is facing mounting pressure after dismissing calls for an investigation into his Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, who admitted breaking rules…
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TRUMP’s diArY
J.D. Vance Is Having a Very Bad Week
J.D. Vance is having a bad week—but more precisely, he is having the kind of week that clarifies a political position he once seemed to occupy…
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Trump Changes Course Again
There will be no “end of Iran”—at least not now—despite the sweeping rhetoric from Donald Trump earlier in the day. By evening, the White House had shifted course,…
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Trump Admits He Doesn’t Know What Happens Next With Iran
Inside the White House press briefing room, the atmosphere among the press was boiling. Journalists stepped over one another, a touch more combative than usual—something of…
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Trump Delays Strike Threat After ‘Productive’ Talks With Iran
President Trump said Monday on Truth Social he would pause his threat to strike Iran’s power plants for at least five days, citing what he described…
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Trump Threatens to Obliterate Iran’s Power Plants
President Trump on Saturday night issued a direct warning to Iran, saying the United States would destroy its power plants if the Strait of Hormuz…
Iran War Enters Day 11: What We Know So Far
Military developments Political statements Retaliation / threats Economic impact Market reaction Regional responses
Day 5 of War on Iran: What We Know So Far
War enters its fifth day: Israel has launched what it called a “broad wave” of new strikes across Iran, while also targeting Hezbollah positions in Beirut as…
CRYPTO SCOOP
Howard Lutnick Reveals: Trump to Unveil Bitcoin Reserve Strategy at White House Crypto Summit
President Donald Trump is expected to announce a significant shift in cryptocurrency policy this week, including plans for a Bitcoin strategic reserve, according to Commerce…
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Alberto Simoni: Don’t Celebrate Too Soon After Orbán
Alberto Simoni, U.S. Bureau Chief for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, covers the White House and American politics at a moment of deep transatlantic uncertainty. A longtime foreign policy editor who spent a decade shaping the paper’s international coverage, Simoni has interviewed—and closely followed—the rise and…
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We Still Do Not Know Melania Trump
We should start with a simple admission: we do not know Melania Trump. And after watching the documentary—now streaming on Amazon Prime —we still do not. The film presents access, but it delivers distance. Melania appears exactly as the world has come to expect her: composed, controlled,…
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