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Other Dan Sullivan can stay on ballot, judge rules thehill.com/homenews/campaig…

Other Dan Sullivan can stay on ballot, judge rules

An Alaska judge ruled on Friday that a candidate with the same name and party affiliation as Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) can stay on the ballot to challenge the incumbent senator for his seat, ove…

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Usha Vance pokes fun at ‘political significance’ of maternity dress thehill.com/homenews/adminis…

Usha Vance pokes fun at ‘political significance’ of maternity dress

Second lady Usha Vance poked fun at a New York Times article examining the public image of pregnant women in President Trump’s orbit, joking that she did not realize her maternity dress carried so …

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US, Iran test each other’s red lines in new fighting thehill.com/policy/internati…

US, Iran test each other’s red lines in new fighting

The delicate ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was put to the test on Friday when the U.S. military reopened strikes against the Middle Eastern nation over an alleged infringement of the agreemen…

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Kaitlan Collins pushes back on Trump rhetoric: Democratic socialism ‘is not communism’ thehill.com/homenews/media/5…

Kaitlan Collins pushes back on Trump rhetoric: Democratic socialism ‘is not communism’

CNN’s chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins pushed back on President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about the rise of democratic socialism in the U.S., which Trump has incorrectly conflated with…

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Buttigieg targeted in false report, police say thehill.com/homenews/state-w…

Buttigieg says family targeted in ‘politically motivated hoax’ 

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Friday that he was briefly separated from his 4-year-old twin children after an anonymous caller reported false accusations to Child Protectiv…

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Erdoğan cashes in on Trump relationship for Turkey thehill.com/policy/internati…

Erdoğan cashes in on Trump relationship for Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is cashing in on his relationship with President Trump, scoring benefits from sanctions relief to dropped court cases ahead of a high-stakes NATO summit in An…

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Vance defends Iran strategy amid peace negotiations: ‘America wins either way’ thehill.com/homenews/adminis…

Vance defends Iran strategy amid peace negotiations: ‘America wins either way’

Vice President Vance stood by the administration’s Iran strategy Friday, saying the U.S. will come out on top regardless of whether peace negotiations with Tehran produce a deal. “If we make the fi…

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Weinstein loses bid to overturn California rape conviction thehill.com/regulation/court…

Weinstein loses bid to overturn California rape conviction

A California appeals court on Friday upheld ex-Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s 2022 rape and sexual assault conviction in the state but ordered that the trial judge who gave him 16 years i…

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Vanilla Ice sees Freedom 250 concert scrapped due to bad weather thehill.com/blogs/in-the-kno…

Vanilla Ice sees Freedom 250 concert scrapped due to bad weather

A concert intending to commemorate America’s 250th birthday as part of President Trump‘s “Great American State Fair,” was abruptly canceled Friday just two hours before “Ice Ice Baby” rapper Vanill…

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Maher challenges Vance on Trump election fraud claims: ‘That s— has to stop’ thehill.com/homenews/adminis…

Maher challenges Vance on Trump election fraud claims: ‘That s— has to stop’

Comedian Bill Maher on Friday challenged Vice President Vance over President Trump’s false claims of election fraud, saying the GOP must stop insisting they were “cheated” by losses and return to a…

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Trump rips former national security adviser after guilty plea: “Hopefully, he will be dealt with harshly!” thehill.com/homenews/adminis…

Trump rips former national security adviser after guilty plea: “Hopefully, he will be dealt with...

President Trump slammed his former national security adviser after he pleaded guilty on Friday to improperly retaining sensitive materials from his time in the White House.  “John Bolton, a very du…

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House Democrats wary of replicating GOP's internal chaos after New York primaries thehill.com/homenews/house/5…

House Democrats brace for headaches with growing left wing

The election of a trio of far-left candidates in New York’s primaries could create headaches for House Democratic leadership determined to stage a unified and effective pushback to President Trump …

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Secret Service didn’t secure mobile devices, putting leaders at risk, report says thehill.com/homenews/adminis…

Secret Service didn’t secure mobile devices, putting leaders at risk, report says

The Secret Service left itself vulnerable to hacking due to issues with both official and personal devices, a government watchdog found in a report ordered after the assassination attempt on Presid…

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Iran launches retaliatory strikes on Bahrain after latest US attacks thehill.com/policy/internati…

Iran launches retaliatory strikes on Bahrain after latest US attacks

Iran launched a drone attack against Bahrain early Saturday, hours after the U.S. military carried out strikes on Iranian military sites. Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, said it w…

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Pete Buttigieg recounts swatting incident targeting family thehill.com/homenews/state-w…

Buttigieg says family targeted in ‘politically motivated hoax’ 

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Friday that he was briefly separated from his 4-year-old twin children after an anonymous caller reported false accusations to Child Protectiv…

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Centcom: US conducts additional strikes on Iran thehill.com/policy/defense/5…

Centcom: US conducts additional strikes on Iran

U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said on Saturday that U.S. forces conducted additional strikes against multiple Iranian targets in response to an attack against a Panama-flagged tanker near the Stra…

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Trump names new ICE director thehill.com/homenews/adminis…

Trump names new ICE director

President Trump announced his nomination of Lance Schroyer as the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Saturday.  The president commended Schroyer’s experience as a fo…

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Iran captain calls World Cup a ‘disaster’ after final group stage match thehill.com/policy/sports-ga…

Iran captain calls World Cup a ‘disaster’ after final group stage match

The captain of the Iranian men’s national football ripped FIFA and its president Gianni Infantino on Friday for its experience during the World Cup, as it awaits word on whether its tournament run …

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Sunday shows preview: Trump-Cassidy divisions on display as Louisiana eyes successor thehill.com/homenews/sunday-…

Sunday shows preview: Trump-Cassidy divisions on display as Louisiana eyes successor

Louisiana Republicans will decide their nominee for Senate on Saturday in a runoff that has become another test of President Trump’s influence over the party. GOP voters in the Pelican State h…

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Other Dan Sullivan can stay on ballot, judge rules thehill.com/homenews/campaig…

Other Dan Sullivan can stay on ballot, judge rules

An Alaska judge ruled on Friday that a candidate with the same name and party affiliation as Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) can stay on the ballot to challenge the incumbent senator for his seat, ove…

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