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Senate Republicans land on Obamacare fix, tee up dueling vote with Dems

Senate Republicans have finally landed on a plan to tackle expiring Obamacare subsidies to counter Senate Democrats, but both are likely to fail in a vote set for later this week.  Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., announced Tuesday that Republicans had coalesced around a proposal from Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., who chairs the Senate

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European talks reshape Ukraine’s peace plan as Zelenskyy refuses territorial concessions

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Kyiv is nearly ready to present a refined peace plan to the United States after days of talks with European partners, even as he maintains that Ukraine cannot give up any territory to Russia. Zelenskyy said he reviewed the results of negotiations held in London with European national

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Jim Caviezel starring in Bolsonaro biopic as son of jailed former president launches 2026 campaign

A biopic about Brazil’s jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro is in production, his son Carlos has confirmed. In a post shared on X after his brother, Flavio, entered the country’s 2026 presidential race, Carlos lavished praise on American actor Jim Caviezel, who stars as the ex-president in the film. ‘Jim Caviezel, thank you for everything,’

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EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Kirk’s final book battles the ‘machine of modern life,’ urges a return to the Sabbath

Charlie Kirk’s final book is a ‘manifesto against the machine of modern life,’ encouraging his followers to ‘stop in the name of God’ and honor the Sabbath. Kirk, the founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, was assassinated Sept. 10 after years of promoting civil discourse on college campuses and mentoring young adults across the

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Republican populism craters as Trump stumbles, Democrats surge

As a Democrat who’s been on winning and losing presidential campaigns against Donald Trump, it’s clear to me that the Republican Party’s top competitive edge in recent elections was its anti-establishment populist message. I say ‘message’ because actions always matter more than words — especially when the actions contradict the words. That’s happening now. Trump

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Taiwan unveils $40B defense spending plan to counter China military threat over next decade

: Last week, Taiwan President William Lai unveiled a massive $40 billion supplemental defense procurement proposal, casting it as proof that the independently ruled, democratic island is serious about countering escalating military pressure from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The PRC has not governed Taiwan for even a single day but claims it as

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MIKE DAVIS: Why SCOTUS must reinstate Trump US Attorneys Alina Haba and Lindsey Halligan

On about two dozen occasions, the Supreme Court had to step in during President Trump’s second term because many inferior courts refused to accept that he is the president. The justices must do so again, after lower courts invalidated the appointments of acting U.S. attorneys Alina Habba of the District of New Jersey and Lindsey

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High-stakes US push for Ukraine peace meets hard limits in Moscow

White House envoy Steve Witkoff is in Moscow is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday after a whirlwind weekend of negotiations with Ukraine aimed at securing a peace deal. All eyes are on Putin as Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and occasional foreign policy envoy, feel out whether Putin might

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Trump warns Honduras of ‘hell to pay’ if election count changes, presses officials to finish tally

President Donald Trump threw himself in the middle of Honduras’ razor-thin presidential race on Monday, warning that there would be ‘hell to pay’ if election officials altered the results.   Writing on Truth Social, Trump, without offering evidence, accused Honduras of ‘trying to change the results.’ ‘If they do, there will be hell to pay!

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Trump says ‘don’t read anything into it’ when asked about declaring Venezuela’s airspace closed

President Donald Trump defended calling Venezuela’s airspace closed, saying the country is sending criminals into the U.S., but told reporters not to ‘read anything into it’ when asked whether the warning suggested an imminent strike. While speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Trump said Venezuela is ‘not a very friendly country’ and

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