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Members of Trump’s cabinet remained on decoy plane, after Trump’s quiet exit
US President Donald Trump reportedly left a plane in Turkey secretly last month and travelled on another aircraft because of security concerns involving Iran. Two cabinet members, Marco Rubio and Scott Bessent, stayed on the original aircraft as a decoy, a move intended to preserve continuity of government if anything happened to Trump. Trump boarded…
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Trump’s chilling five-word response when asked if he’ll declare national emergency to control midterm elections
President Donald Trump declined to rule out declaring a national emergency in relation to the November midterm elections when asked about using such powers to impose tighter voting rules. His response has drawn attention because election administration is primarily a state responsibility, and any attempt to use emergency powers to alter it would likely prompt…
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Tafoya makes ‘common sense’ pitch to disaffected Democrats as she vows to fight Minnesota’s ‘socialist lurch’
Michele Tafoya has won the Republican nomination for the US Senate seat in Minnesota and is pitching herself as a “common sense” candidate who can attract disillusioned Democrats as well as Republicans. Speaking to Fox News Digital after her primary victory, she framed her campaign as a stand against a “socialist lurch” within the Democratic…
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Make policy based on science, not on RFK’s lifestyle choices
Kennedy is neither a doctor nor a medical researcher, and his personal practices should not guide federal policies.
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Grocery boss warns Mamdani’s city-run stores pit government against ‘its own citizens’
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is advancing plans to open five city-run grocery stores, prompting criticism from John Catsimatidis, chief executive of supermarket chain Gristedes. Catsimatidis argues that government-run shops would compete unfairly with private businesses, including supermarkets and bodegas, because they could benefit from public resources and different operating constraints. The proposal is…
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Paramount may leave California over antitrust enforcement, lawyer says
Paramount’s chief legal officer is telegraphing a willingness by the company’s chief executive to leave California as the media company faces growing antitrust scrutiny from the state government there. “His intent is to be committed to California,” Makan Delrahim, Paramount’s top legal official, said at Politico’s The California Agenda: Sacramento Summit. Delrahim added, however, that “there is a…
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Trump approval takes another hit: Poll
President Trump’s approval rating dipped again this week, following a downward trend in support for the president amid the ongoing Iran war and mounting affordability concerns ahead of November’s midterms. The latest survey from The Economist/YouGov survey, published on Monday, found 33 percent of respondents said they approved of how Trump has handled his job…
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Brendan Carr is one firing away from an unchecked FCC
President Donald Trump’s nomination of Danielle Thumann Severs to the Federal Communications Commission could allow the agency to retain a voting quorum without its sole Democratic commissioner, Anna Gomez. The Verge argues that this may make it easier for Trump to dismiss Gomez, eliminating the FCC’s remaining formal opposing voice and raising concerns about independent-agency…
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JD Vance ‘tells Ukraine to stop targeting oil tankers because it was affecting US companies’
US Vice-President JD Vance privately urged Ukraine to stop striking oil tankers near the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal at Novorossiysk after the attacks began hurting American energy firms, according to Ukrainian officials cited by the Financial Times. Ukraine has been waging a long-range drone campaign against Black Sea shipping to disrupt oil revenues funding…