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In the first debate since Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary became a two-person race, Abdul El-Sayed and U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens repeatedly turned policy disagreements into a fight over ...

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 ...

Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat and a former U.S. House representative, cast his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed as “an extremist,” after the Aug. 4 primary ...

In a March CNBC interview, former President Donald Trump said of entitlement programs such as Social Security, "There’s a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting." However, Trump ...

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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” ...

A jogger runs up a boat ramp that is normally underwater in Folsom, Calif., on Oct. 3, 2022. Widespread drought in large parts of Europe, the United States and China this past summer was made 20 times ...

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