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Lara Trump speaks during the second day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 16, 2024.

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Republican hopefuls wait for Lara Trump decision in North Carolina Senate race, sources tell CNN

Bush and Obama fault Trump’s gutting of USAID on agency’s last day

Court fights renew in earnest in effort to challenge Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order after SCOTUS ruling

Marathon voting session underway in Senate on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

FBI arrests one man, searches laptops in 16 states in crackdown on North Korean tech-worker scheme

House committee subpoenas Pfizer executive in probe of alleged Covid vaccine delay

Trump administration sues Los Angeles over sanctuary city policy

‘This is not a luxury’: Families in Trump states agonize over GOP’s proposed Medicaid cuts

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President Donald Trump walks to speak at an event to promote his domestic policy and budget agenda in the East Room of the White House on Thursday, June 26, 2025.

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Trump aims to change the nation and further cement his power as deadline looms for ‘big, beautiful bill’

Trump doesn’t have to grab power; Republicans are giving it to him

Trump is losing support among independent voters. Who are they?

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ might be unloved and a mess – but it will still probably pass

Trump is creating new universes of people to deport

Why Trump needs the world to believe Iran’s nuclear program is ‘obliterated’

The Supreme Court blessed same-sex marriage 10 years ago. Is a backlash brewing?

Trump claims a forever peace in the land of forever war — but it could be fleeting

If not a war, what has Trump started?

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President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Thursday, June 26.

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Fact check: Trump makes big false claims about his big domestic policy bill

US President Donald Trump, center, during a news conference with Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, left, and Marco Rubio, US secretary of state on the second day of the 2025 NATO Summit on June 25, 2025 in The Hague, Netherlands. Among other matters, members are to approve a new defense investment plan that raises the target for defense spending to 5% of GDP.

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Pirro endorsed threat to criminally investigate January 6 prosecutors in office she now runs

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Far-right activist with history of anti-gay comments fired from leadership role at Kennedy Center after CNN investigation

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TEHRAN, IRAN - JUNE 16: Smoke rises after a reported Israeli strike on a building used by Islamic Republic of Iran News Network, part of Iran's state TV broadcaster, on June 16, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. Over recent days, Iran has been hit by a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting military and nuclear sites, as well as top military officials, prompting Iran to launch a counterattack. (Photo by Stringer/Getty Images)

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Fault Lines

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2025/05/29: Participants seen holding a banner at the protest. New Yorkers gathered outside House Representative Nicole Malliotakis office in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to protest her decision to vote in favor to pass the so called Big Beautiful Bill, a bill that contains severe cuts to social services like healthcare, housing and food assistance federally funded programs and big tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Sweeping GOP budget bill illuminates the central fault line in the modern Republican coalition

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Iranian hackers could target American defense companies working in Israel, US agencies warn

Sen. Thom Tillis announces he’s not seeking reelection, a day after voting against Trump’s agenda bill

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House GOP leadership discussing new ways to limit classified information on Capitol Hill

Big Trump wins, boomerang appeals define Supreme Court term

From sports to birth certificates, Supreme Court to confront more anti-transgender policies

Senate votes to move forward on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill,’ though measure’s fate remains in question

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GOP support for Trump agenda in limbo as Senate barrels toward weekend vote

After Supreme Court term, Chief Justice Roberts shrugs off ‘venting’ by those who lost

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Initially wary of Trump, Roberts and Barrett offer the president his biggest win of the Supreme Court term

Justice Department abruptly fires 3 prosecutors involved in Jan. 6 criminal cases

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the Strom Thurmond room in the U.S. Capitol building, in Washington D.C, on December 19, 2018. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)

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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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JD Vance, Donald Trump's running mate, takes the stage at the Republican National Convention on July 17, 2024.

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