On Sunday the United States pulled every B-1 bomber off a British airfield and sent it home. Twelve of them, parked for seven months at Fairford in Gloucestershire, where they had been flying the war against Iran. The crews were ordered up so fast that the tankers meant to get them across the Atlantic were […]
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Former special counsel Jack Smith monitored the phone communications of Susie Wiles when she was Donald Trump’s campaign chief in 2024, newly released documents show. This included her communications with at least five journalists, 21 different defense attorneys, and several political advisers. Smith’s team obtained the information through what is called a pen register, sometimes […]
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Twenty years ago the intelligence services looked at a voting-machine company founded by Venezuelan engineers, tied to the government in Caracas, and newly in possession of an American equipment firm, and called the arrangement a national security threat. Washington forced the company to sell the American firm. This summer the same file was declassified. It […]
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Vice President JD Vance crossed the continental United States to campaign for the Senate race in a state President Donald Trump won by 13 points in 2024. Though Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan won his second term in 2020 by 13 points, he’s in a close race with Democrat challenger Rep. Mary Peltola for reelection. RealClearPolitics’ […]
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China has infected every part of our internet stack. From our telecoms to our routers, we are in the midst of a full-scale invasion. But it’s not just your home services that are adversely impacted, because the data centers running every AI trained model are particularly vulnerable. Why? China owns an essential device that every […]
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Every Senate Democrat voted on Wednesday to keep a member of Congress free to buy stock. The roll call was 53 to 47. All 53 Republicans voted to advance the bill. All 47 Democrats, and the independents who sit with them, voted no. Sixty votes were required. The measure died seven short, and the brokerage […]
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A federal judge in Miami ruled Thursday that Congress had no power to make it a crime for a noncitizen to vote in a federal election. The headline writes itself, and it is wrong in the way that matters. He did not rule that citizenship cannot be required to vote. He ruled that Washington cannot […]
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The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the 2030 U.S. census, to cease counting illegal immigrants, could boost congressional seats and electoral votes for battleground states such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin at the expense of large states such as California and Texas, research suggests. A 2024 study projected immigration trends under the Biden administration for the […]
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The push to effectively elect a president through a national popular vote is within striking distance, just 48 votes shy, prompting Electoral College advocates to step up their appeal to state Democrat lawmakers across the country. In April, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill to make her state the latest to join the National […]
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The man who guarded Abdul El-Sayed for years is now trying to keep him out of the U.S. Senate. Jordan Domingue, a Marine combat veteran, was El-Sayed’s chief security officer and personal assistant. Now he is backing Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s open Senate race and warning voters about the Democratic nominee he once protected. […]