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- Supreme Court takes up dispute over access to DOGE recordsThe U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether the Department of Government Efficiency must follow federal public records law, a fight that started with a watchdog group's request for DOGE's organizational…
- Supreme Court to hear Trump attempt to withhold DOGE documentsThe U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear the Trump administration's appeal to keep records about the Department of Government Efficiency away from the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in…
- Zelenskyy says Russia ‘did not heed’ Trump’s call for energy ceasefire and gave ‘no early warning’ before strikes on Kyiv – Europe liveUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine stopped striking Russian oil refineries for two days after Trump announced an energy ceasefire, but Russia kept hitting Ukraine anyway.
- US midterm elections: 10 under-the-radar races worth watchingRepublicans are pouring money into a batch of lower-profile races across the US, hoping to limit their losses in a November midterm where polls show…
- New White House press secretary a "devoted fan" of Trump and MAGAKatie Zacharia, a 41-year-old attorney and frequent pro-Trump commentator, becomes President Trump's new White House press secretary, with her first…
- Government spent $10 million on pro-Trump ads after president said super PAC would fundTaxpayers paid nearly $10 million to air pro-Trump ads after President Trump pledged on Oct. 5 that his MAGA Inc. Super PAC would cover the bill…
- Saudi airport stays shut as Houthi attacks kill 20 people in a weekHouthi missiles and drones have killed at least 20 people in a week of attacks on Riyadh's main airport in Saudi Arabia, and President Trump is now…
- Bad blood in Texas Senate race and errors with Flock license plate readers: Morning RundownAllies of Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton believe someone inside his own party is sabotaging his campaign against Democrat James…
- Ukraine strikes Russian data centre again despite Trump warningA Ukrainian drone strike on Sunday damaged a Yandex data centre in Vladimir, east of Moscow, the third attack on the Russian tech giant's sites this…
- US: Justice Department probes Trump's press pool boycott for antitrust violationThe US Department of Justice is investigating whether ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News broke antitrust law when they halted coverage of President…
- Republican US senator facing re-election settles six-year bakery debtKansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall says he has paid off a $678.75 bakery bill from his 2020 election watch party, six years after a Hutchinson…
- Despair after 200-year-old ‘grandmother’ tree toppled for Trump’s border wall: ‘It crushes your heart’Contractors building Donald Trump's border wall used an excavator Monday to topple a 200-year-old cottonwood known as the "grandmother" in the…
- Rio court confirms Flávio Bolsonaro ally’s first-round victoryRio de Janeiro's regional electoral court confirmed Saturday that Douglas Ruas, the candidate backed by presidential hopeful Flávio Bolsonaro, won…
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