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Democrats map out clear but narrow route through red states to retake Senate

Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper, who is running for U.S. Senate, speaks to reporters after casting his ballot on the first day of in-person early voting in the state's primary election, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

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Iran hit hundreds of buildings, dozens of aircraft as war drains U.S. munitions, IG says

A projectile streaks through the sky over central Israel during an Iranian missile attack on Sunday, June 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) **FILE**

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Iranian missile and drone attacks on U.S. outposts in the Middle East have damaged or destroyed hundreds of buildings and dozens of American combat aircraft since the start of the war against Tehran, according to a major new report from the Pentagon’s inspector general.

A projectile streaks through the sky over central Israel during an Iranian missile attack on Sunday, June 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) **FILE**

Iran hit hundreds of buildings, dozens of aircraft as war drains U.S. munitions, IG says

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The U.S. Capitol is seen from the Washington Monument in Washington, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Kill switch, monitors, moratoriums: Many plans but no consensus as Congress debates regulating AI

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency on Thursday, Oct 23, 2025, the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) convenes its fourth plenary session in Beijing. (Li Xiang/Xinhua via AP)

China spy chief warns AI threatens communist rule, is main battlefield for major powers

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U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Irish Open at the Trump International Golf Links course in Doonbeg, Ireland, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Alarm bells sound for Trump and GOP just weeks away from the midterm elections

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Congressman Al Green reads a version of a letter he wrote during a press briefing outside the office of Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia in Houston, on Friday, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Annie Mulligan)

House vote on Trump impeachment reveals rifts among Democrats

By George Caldwell - The Washington Times

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U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Irish Open at the Trump International Golf Links course in Doonbeg, Ireland, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Alarm bells sound for Trump and GOP just weeks away from the midterm elections

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Congressman Al Green reads a version of a letter he wrote during a press briefing outside the office of Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia in Houston, on Friday, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Annie Mulligan)

House vote on Trump impeachment reveals rifts among Democrats

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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner joins immigrant rights supporters as they demonstrate during a May Day rally outside the federal courthouse in Philadelphia, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Federal judge refers Philadelphia’s district attorney for prosecution

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High School teacher June Kelly, left, and SJ Marcotte, right, who teaches business leadership, both with a group of educators from Vermont, hold signs in support of the Department of Education, Thursday, March 20, 2025, outside the department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Trump’s federal worker buyouts cost $6.7 billion

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Liberal judge Noel Wise says foreign students can bash America

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FILE - Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran performs during "Ed Sheeran's Play: Live from New York" presented by TikTok at Domino Square in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sept. 13, 2025. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

Ed Sheeran tour in trouble after artists drop out in solidarity with rapper Macklemore

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The practice court at the University of Maryland's new Barry P. Gossett Basketball Performance Center in College Park, Maryland. The 45,000-square-foot building cost $52 million and took just more than two years to build. (George Gerbo/The Washington Times) ** FILE **

University of Maryland replaces DEI language with ‘belonging and community’

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The Rev. Zachary Swantek, Princeton University’s Catholic chaplain and director of the Aquinas Institute - the university’s Catholic campus ministry - raises the host during the Eucharist at a side altar of the school's chapel during a Mass in Princeton, N.J., on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

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This image taken from undated video released by the Ansar Allah Media Office, the media arm of Yemen's Houthi rebels, on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, shows Houthi fighters chant after praying beside military vehicles during what the group says was their advance against Saudi-backed forces at an undisclosed location in southern Yemen. (Ansar Allah Media Office via AP)

Saudi Arabia hits back at Houthi strongholds in Yemen after attacks on air base

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Lithuanian soldiers are securing the area where Italian fighter jets during NATO's Baltic Air Policing Mission shot down a drone early morning near Pratkunai village, Kaisiadorys district some 90km (55,9 miles) northwest of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (AP Photo) corrects and removes byline attribution

NATO jet shoots down suspected Belarusian drone over Lithuania

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Vice President J.D. Vance talks to reporters before he boards Air Force Two, Monday, Sept. 14, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Vance signals U.S. mediation in Yemen war as Houthis expand control over Bab el-Mandeb Strait

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Trump administration approves sending powerful bombs to Israel in $2.8 billion weapons sale

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Visitors walk past a display depicting artificial intelligence and a human hand at the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Monday, June 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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High School teacher June Kelly, left, and SJ Marcotte, right, who teaches business leadership, both with a group of educators from Vermont, hold signs in support of the Department of Education, Thursday, March 20, 2025, outside the department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Trump’s federal worker buyouts cost $6.7 billion

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Trump unloads on Supreme Court appointees: ‘Shell of their original selves’

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Republicans should frame the midterms as ‘common sense versus crazy’

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U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Irish Open at the Trump International Golf Links course in Doonbeg, Ireland, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Alarm bells sound for Trump and GOP just weeks away from the midterm elections

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An election worker sorts vote-by-mail ballots at the Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections Office for the Florida primary election in Doral, Fla., Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-KY, sits at a table alone in the studio ahead of a Kentucky Educational Television (KET) debate, Monday, May 4, 2026, in Lexington, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)

Republican Massie moves to impeach Hegseth

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President Donald Trump tours "Alligator Alcatraz," a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, on July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Florida’s former ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ kept migrants in metal cages: DHS inspector general

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FILE - Immigration activists rally outside the Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments over the Trump administration's plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 Census, in Washington, April 23, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court won’t let Trump use post office to block mailed ballots

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Is empathy a virtue or a weakness? Vance, Musk and others say it’s gone too far

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This photo taken with a smartphone shows defense attorney Delia McCarthy, left, and Jeffrey Buskey, center, charged with multiple counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault, leaving a courtroom during a break in Buskey's trial in Manchester, N.H., Monday, Sept. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer)

Mistrial declared in New Hampshire youth detention center sex abuse case

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency on Thursday, Oct 23, 2025, the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) convenes its fourth plenary session in Beijing. (Li Xiang/Xinhua via AP)

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FILE - Maryland head coach Mike Locksley encourages his players before an NCAA football game against Northern Illinois, Sept. 5, 2025, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Mike Buscher, File)

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