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New bipartisan bill aimed at red tape crimping energy and infrastructure projects

Callie Patteson · July 25, 2025 10:45 am

North Carolina Senate showdown ‘a true toss-up’ as Roy Cooper and Michael Whatley inch closer to 2026 bids

Samantha-Jo Roth · July 25, 2025 9:32 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv on July 13, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant Hamas group in Gaza.

Israel to resume allowing food drops amid Gaza aid crisis

Emily Hallas · July 25, 2025 9:27 am

President Donald Trump meets with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, July 22, 2025, in Washington

Rethinking Russiagate in the shadow of the Epstein files

W. James Antle III · July 25, 2025 7:00 am

Trump administration tries to control the inflation narrative

Taylor Millard · July 25, 2025 6:10 am

President Barack Obama (L) speaks as Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan (R) listens while making personnel announcements during an event in the East Room at the White House, on January 7, 2013 in Washington, DC. President Obama has nominated Brennan to become the new director of the CIA. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Obama, Brennan, and the ‘collusion’ lie

Hugo Gurdon · July 25, 2025 6:05 am

House GOP weighs whether to save expanded Obamacare tax credits

Rachel Schilke · July 25, 2025 6:00 am

Trump’s AI art affinity

Dain Fitzgerald and Jason Agnew · July 25, 2025 5:57 am

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, with Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, left, responds to reporters' questions before the start of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill split along party lines over how much power to cede to the Pentagon

Jamie McIntyre · July 25, 2025 5:50 am

Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, where a third of the population lives, May 2025. (Bethany Williams)

Colonial ghosts and Arctic dreams: Trump’s interest and Greenland’s hard choices

Bethany Williams and Daniel Allott · July 25, 2025 5:37 am

Financier Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, 1997. (Davidoff Studios/Getty)

MAGA’s Epstein stress test

Daniel Ross Goodman · July 25, 2025 5:35 am

Congress passes spending cuts — but the small savings may make for bigger budgeting troubles

Kevin R. Kosar · July 25, 2025 5:27 am