President Donald Trump recounted his response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in an interview and event leading up to the 25th anniversary this week, repeating statements that lack evidence about ...
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One year after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed, conspiracy theories still don’t stand up to scrutiny. There’s no evidence of an inside job or a “hit” by a foreign government.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Florida Republicans billed their party’s June 27 gathering in South Florida as the “Sunshine State Showdown.” But for U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, the event’s headliner and GOP ...
President Donald Trump said he’s instructed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises. He said this was “based on my very good relationship” ...
President Donald Trump delivered a rare primetime address about an issue that has consumed him for years — the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden. In his nearly 30-minute speech, ...
If your time is short The edited image substituted Vice President Kamala Harris’ face for that of a woman in a McDonald’s uniform named Suzanne Bernier, who died in 2007. An X user took credit for ...
The stock market has gone up during President Donald Trump’s second term, but his $30,000 figure for average 401(k) gains is not supported. Fidelity Investments data shows that during the majority of ...
With average nationwide gasoline prices above $4.50 a gallon, politicians are revisiting a perennial idea to ease high pump prices: suspending the federal gasoline tax. President Donald Trump said he ...
President Joe Biden canceling the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline did lead to hundreds of job losses, but most of those jobs were temporary. The pipeline would have created only 35 long-term jobs.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that partisan gerrymandering claims are "political" questions that federal courts can’t answer. The court said "excessive" gerrymandering was "incompatible with ...
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