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Watch live: Trump seeks to sell economic agenda, tax cuts in Las Vegas speech
President Trump will deliver remarks Thursday afternoon in Las Vegas highlighting his administration’s economic agenda and promoting the sweeping tax cuts enacted through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which he signed into law last year. The speech comes as Trump seeks to reassure voters on the economy ahead of November’s midterms. Affordability remains a…
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El-Sayed campaign backed by over $100,000 from dozens of members of group with alleged terror ties
Fox News reports that Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, has received more than $100,000 in campaign donations from dozens of individuals affiliated with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group Fox News describes as having “alleged terror ties”. The report, described as exclusive, comes shortly after El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic…
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Schumer claims victory as Senate moves to avert shutdown; GOP says he got played
The US Senate has quietly advanced a stopgap funding bill aimed at averting a government shutdown, moving the measure through another procedural step as a fragile truce between Republicans and Democrats holds. The development matters because it suggests progress towards avoiding a funding lapse ahead of the 1 October deadline, though the political framing of…
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Corie Henson Leaving Beast Studios To Return To LA
Corie Henson is stepping down as president of Beast Industry Studios, the production arm of MrBeast’s business empire, and will return to Los Angeles to be closer to her family after spending much of the past year based in Greenville, North Carolina. Her exit prompts a search for a new studio chief as the company,…
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For Babydog, it’s time to help the greyhounds
Federation of Humane Organizations of West Virginia President Theresa Bruner is calling on Sen. Jim Justice to support the Greyhound Protection Act in the Senate Agriculture Committee to end state-subsidized greyhound racing.
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Fears for Mitch McConnell, 84, increase after 47 missed votes… and no sighting of the hospitalized Republican
Concerns are mounting over the health of Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, 84, who has not been seen in public or issued any video statement since falling at his Washington DC home on 14 June. He has now missed 47 consecutive Senate roll-call votes, and the absence of a live appearance has fuelled speculation among commentators…
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Sabato Crystal Ball shifts Kansas Senate race in Democrats favor
Election handicapper Sabato’s Crystal Ball on Tuesday night shifted the Kansas Senate race from a safe Republican race to likely Republican following megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton’s Democratic primary win. Sabato’s Crystal Ball says a Hamilton win is a “longshot” but highlighted his $3.09 million fundraising advantage over incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) last quarter as…
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Big Oil wants to rig the courts. You’ll pay for it on your utility bill.
Congressman Mike Levin argues that rising energy costs and climate disaster expenses stem from fossil fuel industry deception and lack of corporate accountability, proposing the Energy Bills Relief Act as a solution.
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DAVID MARCUS: Experts crowned El-Sayed — then Michigan voters turned his win into a near-disaster
Fox News opinion writer David Marcus reflects on Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, in which progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated establishment-backed Rep. Haley Stevens. He argues that most of the media had treated the race as effectively decided in El-Sayed’s favour, with late polling showing him with double-digit leads, whereas his own on-the-ground reporting suggested…
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Progressive El-Sayed narrowly wins Michigan Senate primary
Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive Democrat, has won Michigan’s closely fought Democratic Senate primary, narrowly beating the more moderate candidate Stevens. The tight margin underlined ongoing tensions between progressive and moderate factions within the state’s Democratic Party. His victory sets up a general election contest against Republican Mike Rogers, in a race both parties regard as…