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Trump’s Super PAC Will Spend $10 Million on Texas Senate Race

5 septembre 2026 à 16:27
A financial filing announcing the TV and digital ad buy is the first general election spending by MAGA Inc. The group intends to boost the Republican nominee, Ken Paxton.

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Ken Paxton at a campaign rally in McAllen, Texas, in July.

Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones

5 septembre 2026 à 18:48
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.

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About 80 percent of the 870,000 families that currently get child care subsidies from the Health and Human Services Department have single working parents, most of them mothers, according to department data.

Is Work Starting for Trump’s Arch? It Depends Who’s Asking.

5 septembre 2026 à 11:19
The Justice Department told a court the government would only conduct archaeological excavation, a day after a Trump official announced the project was in motion.

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A view along Memorial Bridge toward Arlington National Cemetery, which is expected to be blocked by President Trump’s planned arch.

Missouri Asks Supreme Court to Allow Voting Map Benefiting Republicans

5 septembre 2026 à 09:40
Missouri’s Supreme Court said a map redrawn to help Republicans could not be used in November and said voters should decide on the new boundaries.

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The emergency request came after the Missouri Supreme Court said that the map used in last month’s primary election was invalid, and that voters should have had a chance to weigh in on new district lines.

The Fall of James Orr, the Man Called Farage’s Brain

5 septembre 2026 à 05:29
James Orr, who has ties to Peter Thiel and JD Vance, was suspended from Reform U.K. after he was filmed apparently arranging contributions from a man posing as a foreign donor.

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James Orr was the head of policy for Reform U.K. until his suspension on Friday.

What the War in Iran Has Cost One Gold Star Family

5 septembre 2026 à 05:02
First Lt. Tyler James Feehan, who was 25, had been deployed to an air base in Jordan when enemy missiles and drones lit up the sky. He is among the 18 Americans who have died since the war began.

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Stephen and Shari Feehan have stayed in close touch with their son’s fiancée, Claire Fletcher, whom he was supposed to marry right after returning from his deployment to Jordan.

In Red States, Law-and-Order Republicans Turn Against Flock Cameras

5 septembre 2026 à 05:02
The governors of Texas and Florida have taken steps to curtail the use of license-plate readers, even as the police say they help with solving crime.

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Vehicles driving past a Flock license-plate reading camera in Farmers Branch, Texas, north of Dallas.

Appeals Court Maintains Block on Federal Voter Identification Tool

5 septembre 2026 à 01:11
A federal appeals court panel declined to let Homeland Security reopen access to a voter-screening tool that incorporated Social Security data.

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Voting machines in West Columbia, S.C., last month. The Trump administration has launched a legal effort to put in place new restrictions on voting before the midterm elections in November.

German Far-Right Surges, in Threat to Postwar Taboo on Extremists in Power

5 septembre 2026 à 00:01
Sunday’s vote in the state of Saxony-Anhalt could produce the strongest showing in the history of the Alternative for Germany party, and potentially a far-right government in the statehouse.

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Ulrich Siegmund, the Alternative for Germany party’s main candidate in Saxony-Anhalt. Surveys suggest the far-right party could be the first to win a German state election since World War II.
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