BY MIKE LILLIS and SUDIKSHA KOCHI |
House Republicans have spent months scrambling to unite around a midterm strategy that will keep them in the majority following November's elections. In just the last two weeks, President Trump has made their task much tougher.
On the messaging front, the president's attacks on Iran have muddled his "America First" mantra and caused the price of gas to spike — with other staples expected to follow — undermining a promise to slash consumer costs that Republicans were hoping to take to voters in this year's campaign.
The massive price tag of the war has challenged Trump's vow to shrink deficits, avoid foreign entanglements and dedicate taxpayer dollars to domestic problems. |
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As a growing number of lawmakers head for the exits, two former House members are gambling Tuesday that voters will reward experience over novelty as the Democratic Party wrestles with generational change.
Former Reps. Jesse Jackson Jr. and Melissa Bean are running for their old House seats, south and west of Chicago. Yet, their reelection bids are no sure bet, with both competing in crowded Democratic primaries. |
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Texas and Florida are facing criticism and potential legal challenges over moves to exclude Islamic schools from their school voucher programs.
Both states have tried to designate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest U.S. Muslim advocacy group, as a foreign terrorist organization, despite it lacking a criminal conviction or any similar federal categorization.
And now, GOP efforts to expand school choice options are running directly into what critics say is a rising wave of Islamophobia. |
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Democrats are fighting over a rare Senate opening in Illinois, with Tuesday's party primary likely to decide the deep-blue state's next senator.
At the top of the 10-candidate field, Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robin Kelly and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton are blitzing ads, exchanging jabs and drawing support from national figures as they barrel toward the March 17 showdown. And Gov. JB Pritzker (D), who's backing Stratton, looms large. The winner will be all but assured to succeed Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), whose decision to retire after five terms set off a high-stakes scramble in Prairie State politics. |
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From "Grand Theft Auto" to "SpongeBob SquarePants," the White House has turned to memes from pop culture and video games to sell President Trump's war with Iran.
The videos follow a broader trend in the Trump administration's social media strategy, which increasingly uses artificial intelligence, pop culture and at times sarcasm to promote Trump's policy priorities and slam his political opponents. |
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BY ELLEN MITCHELL and FILIP TIMOTIJA |
President Trump is facing a difficult set of options in attempting to reopen the Strait of Hormuz amid Iranian attacks on tankers in the vital shipping route.
Trump on Friday evening said the U.S. had conducted heavy strikes on Kharg Island, Iran's key oil export location, in what appeared to be a warning of what could come to Tehran. But Trump said he had told the military not to strike Iran's oil infrastructure. |
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Long lines and flight delays are plaguing airports around the country as spring break ramps up, sparking concerns that the partial government shutdown could exacerbate problems during an already busy travel season.
Industry leaders say this spring could bring record-breaking air traffic, with an estimated 171 million passengers expected to fly in March and April, up 4 percent from the record set last year, according to a forecast from Airlines for America (A4A). |
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A super PAC backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) for Senate is airing television ads in Palm Beach, Fla., where President Trump is spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort, as his endorsement in a competitive primary runoff hangs in the balance.
Lone Star Liberty PAC came out with a new television ad on Friday that accuses Paxton's opponent, Rep. John Cornyn (R-Texas), of having "betrayed" Trump, citing his votes to confirm Merrick Garland as U.S. attorney general and Lisa Monaco as deputy attorney general in 2021. |
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) on Friday told comedian and HBO's "Real Time" host Bill Maher that he refused "to take any of your bait" in speculating on his chances of running for president in 2028.
Twice did Maher suggest Shapiro was running while interviewing him about his new memoir, "Where We Keep the Light." The host first asked the governor about what "is the story with always writing a book when you're running for president?" Shapiro said he merely wanted to write about the "goodness" of working people in his state, a message he said other politicians should share. |
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OPINION | The history of American exceptionalism is defined by a double-helix: a story of world-altering inventions and a story of the governance that gave them purpose. When the automobile first revolutionized our mobility, we did not just build engines. We built a framework for safety and accountability — including seatbelts and speed limits — that turned a novel machine into a reliable tool connecting the American people to greater access, agency and opportunity. |
OPINION | Alas, time marches on. I am old enough to remember the laugh-out-loud fairy tales spun by "Baghdad Bob" during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. For those of you who are not regular students of American military history, "Baghdad Bob" — real name Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf — was the spokesman and information minister for Saddam Hussein and his murderous regime. Also known as "Comical Ali," al-Sahhaf became famous for openly denying the obvious in ever more fanciful ways as Hussein's regime rapidly lost its war for survival. |
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For years, the agricultural sector has faced a tight labor market as farmworkers age and fewer new immigrants and younger Americans are willing to toil in the fields. Top Trump administration officials vowed that mass deportations would help, leading to "higher wages with better benefits" and a "100 percent American work force."
But the administration has quietly acknowledged in recent months that its immigration raids and crackdown on the border have aggravated the issue. So it has instead turned to an alternative source, making it cheaper for farmers to hire immigrant farmworkers on temporary visas. |
Two weeks in, the war in the Persian Gulf has become an asymmetric contest, pitting the unrivaled conventional military might of the U.S. and Israel against an Iranian government waging a guerrilla fight to block oil shipments and upend the global economy.
The Americans and Israelis quickly took control of Iran's skies and have used thousands of airstrikes to pummel the country's leadership and its armed forces—destroying much of the navy and its ability to launch long-range missiles. |
In the two weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, President Donald Trump increasingly has been knocked on his political heels.
He's grown more agitated with news coverage and has failed to find a way to explain why he started the war — or how he will end it — that resonates with a public concerned by American deaths in the conflict, surging oil prices and dropping financial markets. Even some of his supporters are questioning his plan and his overall poll numbers are declining. |
BY DAN DIAMOND & AARON STECKELBERG
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For nearly two centuries, the White House's main entrance — framed by a row of graceful Ionic columns — has been a signature image of the seat of American power.
Now the Trump-appointed head of a federal arts commission is proposing to replace them with a more ornate style favored by President Donald Trump. Those more decorative columns, a style known as Corinthian, are considered the most luxurious in classical architecture and appear on buildings such as the U.S. Capitol and the Supreme Court. They have long been deployed on Trump's properties, and the president has handpicked them for his planned White House ballroom, too. |
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