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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said this week that he’d “be lying” if he said he wasn’t thinking about running for president in 2028. In an interview taped Thursday, CBS News’s Robert Costa asked Newsom about the prospect of running for president and whether it’s “fair to say, after the 2026 midterms, you’re going to…
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U.S.-China trade tensions appear to have cooled before an upcoming meeting between Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Throughout the government shutdown, President Trump has maintained that his administration would “clear out dead wood, waste and fraud.” Because Democrats “started this thing,” he has said, the shutdown presents “an unprecedented opportunity” to eliminate “Democrat-oriented” programs and give his opponents “a taste of their own medicine.” Trump then posted an image of himself on…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that the U.S. and China will likely avoid 100 percent American tariffs on Chinese good after negotiators settled on a plan for a possible trade agreement. Bessent told NBC News’ Kristen Welker that “after two days of negotiations” with Chinese International Trade Representative Li Chenggang in Malaysia, a “framework”…
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President Trump on Sunday signed a flurry of trade agreements and deals outlining cooperation on critical minerals with key Asian partners as he kicked off his trip to Asia. Trump arrived in Malaysia, where he is attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and oversaw a peace agreement signing between Cambodia and Thailand. Following that…
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President Trump on Sunday attended a ceremony to formalize a peace agreement between Thailand and Cambodia to put to rest a border dispute, giving the president a platform to bolster his image as a global peacemaker. “On behalf of the U.S., I’m proud to help settle this conflict and forge a future for the region,”…
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Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s mounting controversies are testing the willingness of Democratic voters and politicians to support a compromised candidate who could be their best option to defeat Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) next year. Platner has been hit with a string of negative headlines in recent days. Most notable was the revelation that he…
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President Trump is testing pressure points within the GOP with a series of particularly bold moves that have shown just where some Republicans are willing to draw a line on certain issues. Farm state Republicans have expressed concern about Trump’s idea to import beef from Argentina as U.S. cattle ranchers face economic headwinds.  Meanwhile, New…
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Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro on Saturday slammed President Trump’s effort to receive a $230 million payment from the Department of Justice (DOJ) as compensation for the various federal probes into his conduct. “I think that it’s rife with conflicts of interest,” Shapiro told NewsNation’s Batya Ungar-Sargon.  “I cannot see a world in which that does…
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The shutdown, now the second-longest in history, has prevented Congress from funding the benefits, which reach more than 41 million Americans.

The longtime Democratic strategist says President Donald Trump’s administration will dangerously “accelerate their craziness” as voters jump ship.

President Trump on Saturday slapped Canada with a 10 percent tariff on top of its current rate after an advertisement lobbying against tariffs aired during the World Series. The Canadian ad, which has angered the president, features different parts of speech former President Ronald Reagan gave in 1987 about “free and fair trade” when announcing…
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“I mean, they’re rewriting history, censoring historical facts,” Newsom said on the “All the Smoke” podcast.

The late night host made a blunt remark on the “symbolism” of President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom.

Tom Nichols, a staff writer at The Atlantic and former professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College in Rhode Island, envisioned bleak developments Friday.

President Trump on Saturday said the lack of progress toward peace between Russia and Ukraine amid their more than three-year war is “very disappointing.” The president has attempted to chart a course for peace since the start of his second administration after making a pledge to end the war in a day on the campaign…
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As federal workers remain in limbo amid the government shutdown, President Trump is traveling to Asia in an effort to unpack key foreign policy topics at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summits. Trump is also set to meet with high-ranking counterparts during stops in Malaysia, Japan and South…
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President Trump on Saturday placed preliminary blame on Hamas should its ceasefire with Israel fail, but called the current deal in place an “enduring peace.” “I think it will hold,” Trump told reporters after meeting with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani during a refueling stop in Doha aboard Air Force One while en…
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Comedian Bill Maher on Friday alluded to the notion that President Trump could seek a third term after the demolition of the White House’s East Wing to make way for a massive ballroom. Maher told his panelists on HBO’s “Real Time,” former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele and former Biden White House communications director…
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A majority of Americans say they have a negative opinion of President Trump sharing AI-generated videos mocking protesters and Democratic leaders related to the government shutdown, according to a new poll.  A YouGov survey found 70 percent of American respondents said they strongly or somewhat disapprove of Trump’s artificially generated video where he’s in a…
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“I am not done,” Harris said.

Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) also scorched President Donald Trump with a line he confessed he’s “used many times.”

President Trump nominated cryptocurrency regulator Mike Selig to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), almost a month after the Trump administration withdrew its nomination of Brian Quintenz. White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks announced Trump’s “excellent choice” early Saturday morning. Sacks called Selig “deeply knowledgeable about financial markets and passionate about modernizing…
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In a national broadcast on Friday night, Maduro accused the administration of President Donald Trump of “fabricating a new eternal war.”

“I immediately understand the subtext of this language.”