April 17, 2026 This morning, after a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect Thursday, Iran announced the Strait of Hormuz was open to commercial ships.

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April 16, 2026 Congress is back in session, and there is a frantic feel in the air.

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April 15, 2026 On the evening of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln went to Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., to see a production of the comedy Our American Cousin. The Linc...

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Billionaire Opponent of Diversity Is Underwriting Mailers Targeting Black Voters in Virginia to Aid Donald Trump The front group trying to defeat new maps by using images of Barack Obama and MLK is fueled by Peter Thiel, the 40th richest man in the U.S.

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April 14, 2026 There are signs the political game has changed in the United States since Hungarian voters rejected Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s leadership on Sunday, April 12.

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MAGA Is Winning Its War Against U.S. Science When a political movement believes that ignorance is strength

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Talking with Lisa Graves On the corruption of our politics — and the Supreme Court

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John Roberts Supersized Trump’s Power over DOJ, Fueling the Fulton County Raid and Other Wreckage Trump’s dark desires to prosecute his enemies are abetted by his appointees–and by the Roberts Court

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Chinese Electrotech is the Big Winner in the Iran War An energy-hungry world is being pushed away by America and into China’s arms

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Trump Rages at Pope Leo, JD Vance Fumbles Iran Deal & Hungary Ousts Viktor Orban | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

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April 13, 2026 On April 12, the day of Hungary’s parliamentary elections, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) posted on social media that it was closely watching the election and stood firmly behind ...

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April 12, 2026 By the end of 2024, inflation in the U.S., which had soared in the aftermath of the Covid-19 lockdowns, was almost back to the Federal Reserve’s goal of 2%.

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April 11, 2026 At 4:30 a.m.

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Losing the World's Respect The Iran War looks like a tipping point

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April 8, 2026 On April 8, 1865, General Ulysses S.

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Have you seen this petition yet? 300,000 Children Married in America. I Was One of Them. End Child Marriage Now.

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April 6, 2026 (Monday) “It’s really difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is,” journalist Aaron Rupar of Public Notice told George Grylls of The Times about President Donald J.

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Trump has really, seriously, frighteningly lost his mind His latest threat is bonkers

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NATO Isn't Freeloading. They're Responding Rationally to a President Who Told Them They're On Their Own. There's a land war on their continent and a U.S. president who's questioned Article 5. Of course they're hedging.

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Stop the Cruelty; It Hurts Us All A kinder, gentler nation is possible.

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The Terrorist in Chief It’s time for us to face up to the ugly reality

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March 31, 2026 At 4:11 this morning, President Donald J.

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March 30, 2026 Showing reporters on Air Force One a series of posterboard images of his new ballroom last night, Trump told them: “I thought I’d do this now because it’s easier.

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What Did Republicans Expect? Republicans privately fret...but they empowered Trump

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The Game Is Rigged. And Now They're Not Even Hiding It. Insider information is golden, and it's being used to screw the average American, again.

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March 24, 2026 This morning, economist Paul Krugman came right out and said it: “People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets.” Another word for that, he said, is “treason.” The evidence for such a cl...

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