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us politics 7 3h ago 4 min read

Putin's Envoy Dmitriev Returns to New York for Fresh Round of Ukraine Talks With Witkoff and Kushner

Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev is in New York this week for follow-up talks with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, according to Reuters, three weeks after Putin hosted the two Americans at the Kremlin for a three-hour session Ushakov called 'highly useful.' Rubio says both sides want a limited ceasefire on grain and energy strikes, but four and a half years into the war, nobody's announced an actual deal.

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us politics 7 11h ago 4 min read

US Invites Putin to December G20 Summit at Trump's Own Golf Club in Doral

Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed Washington has invited Vladimir Putin to the G20 leaders summit set for December 14-15 at Trump National Doral, which Trump personally owns. Trump himself said a day earlier he doesn't know if he'll meet Putin in Miami, and Bloomberg has reported Putin is more likely to skip it for the APEC summit in China in November.

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gb politics 8 17h ago 3 min read

UK Freezes £120 Million-a-Year Chagos Payments After Trump Calls Deal 'Terrible'

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting confirmed Wednesday that Britain is pausing annual payments to Mauritius under the Chagos Islands sovereignty deal after President Trump trashed it to PM Andy Burnham's face at the UN. A £35 billion giveaway for islands America needs for a military base was always a bad trade, and now it's stuck in limbo with no US buy-in.

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us politics 8 18h ago 4 min read

Trump Calls Ukraine Deal 'Close' at UN, Warns He Could 'Annihilate' Iran If Talks Fail

Trump met Zelensky at the UN Tuesday and predicted a Ukraine peace deal is near, even as neither side has agreed to stop hitting the other's energy infrastructure. In the same UN speech, Trump threatened to "annihilate" Iran if no deal materializes after the midterms, while the Pentagon's own inspector general says the Iran war has already strained U.S. munitions stockpiles.

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us politics 7 20h ago 4 min read

Trump Won't Rule Out National Guard Near Polling Places, No Deployment Has Happened

With midterms under 50 days out, retired military lawyers, Democratic senators and the NAACP are sounding alarms that Trump could send troops or armed federal agents to polling places, something federal law flatly bans. The administration has denied any such plan on the record, and no armed officers have actually been deployed to a polling site, so the fight right now is over words and contingency planning, not action.

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us politics 7 23h ago 4 min read

New Polls Show Hispanic Voters Swinging Hard Toward Democrats, GOP's Salazar Breaks With Trump on ICE Raids

Multiple polls this month show Hispanic voters souring on Trump's second term, with a New York Times/Siena survey finding 78% want Democrats controlling Congress. Miami Republican Maria Elvira Salazar just released a campaign ad telling Trump his immigration enforcement 'has gone too far,' even as her own district voted for him by 14 points in 2024.

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us politics 7 23h ago 4 min read

Missouri Redistricting Fight Hits Supreme Court for Third Time in Three Weeks as Absentee Voting Already Underway

A federal appeals court ordered Missouri to use a Trump-backed GOP map for November, directly contradicting the state Supreme Court, and now the U.S. Supreme Court has to sort it out again. Absentee ballots using the old map are already being cast, so whichever way this goes, someone's vote gets messed with.

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us politics 9 1d ago 4 min read

Xi Jinping Arrives in Washington for First State Visit Since 2015 as Trade Truce Deadline Nears

Xi Jinping touched down for a White House visit Wednesday, his first U.S. state visit in over a decade, with a trade truce set to expire November 10. Nobody expects a breakthrough on AI, tariffs, or Taiwan, but a congressional panel is pressing Trump to use the moment to demand freedom for detained Chinese pastors instead of just smiling for cameras.

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us politics 7 1d ago 4 min read

ICE Officer Who Shot Austin Delivery Driver Wasn't Wearing a Body Camera, Sources Say

Since an ICE officer shot Venezuelan DoorDash driver Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in Austin on Sunday, September 20, the case has produced a federal habeas lawsuit, a hospital readmission over possible paralysis, and confirmation that the officer had no body camera running when he fired. DHS still hasn't explained why, despite a promise from Secretary Markwayne Mullin that every ICE officer would be equipped by month's end. Facts about the shooting itself remain contested between local officials, and DHS has not answered basic questions about what happened before the gun came out.

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us politics 7 1d ago 4 min read

Trump Administration Caps 2027 Refugee Admissions at 17,500, Nearly All Slots for White South Africans

The State Department told Congress on Tuesday it will admit 17,500 refugees in fiscal year 2027, down from Biden's 125,000 target, with almost all slots going to Afrikaners from South Africa. The program is projected to cost $500 million while applicants from Afghanistan, Sudan, Congo and Myanmar remain locked out.

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us politics 6 1d ago 4 min read

Lula Opens UN General Assembly With Broadside Against US Tariffs and Israel, Twelve Days Before Brazil Votes

Brazil's Lula da Silva used his traditional opening slot at the UN General Assembly to accuse Washington of treating Latin America as its 'backyard,' call Israel's Gaza campaign a genocide, and warn against foreign interference in Brazil's October 4 election. The speech doubled as a campaign pitch against his US-backed rival, Flávio Bolsonaro, with real tariffs and real visa revocations behind the sovereignty rhetoric.

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us politics 7 1d ago 5 min read

San Francisco Sues Trump Media Over $100,000-a-Month Early Access to Trump's Posts

San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu filed suit against Trump Media on Monday, calling its Truth API subscription service a pay-to-play insider trading scheme that lets trading firms pay up to $100,000 a month for a head start on Trump's market-moving posts. Trump Media calls the lawsuit the work of left-wing activists who don't understand the difference between public and nonpublic information. No court has ruled on the merits yet, and this is now the third lawsuit against the service in six weeks.

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us politics 7 1d ago 4 min read

Two Days Before Trump-Xi Summit, Pressure Mounts to Free Political Prisoners Held in China

Democrats, human rights groups, and family members of detainees are pushing President Trump to raise specific political prisoner cases when he meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Sept. 24 in Washington. The ask is built on one real precedent: Trump raising Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri's case in May led to Jin's release in July. Whether that pattern repeats for the Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners, and Zion Church pastors still locked up is an open question nobody can answer yet.

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us politics 9 1d ago 4 min read

Trump Tells UN: 'To the Victor Belong the Spoils' on Venezuela Oil, Warns Iran to Deal or Be 'Annihilated'

Trump used his UN General Assembly speech Tuesday to claim credit for the January 2026 operation that toppled Nicolás Maduro, tout a 65-billion-barrel oil deal with Venezuela, and threaten to 'annihilate' Iran if it doesn't make a deal after the midterms. He also signed a Greenland security pact and called for the International Criminal Court to be abandoned entirely.

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us politics 9 1d ago 4 min read

Trump Says Iran Choice Is Deal or 'Annihilate,' Decision Waits Until After Midterms, as Tehran Offers to Reopen Hormuz

At the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump told Iran it faces a deal or destruction, but says he won't decide until after November's midterms. Hours later a senior Iranian official told Reuters Tehran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the US eases military pressure, even as new US sanctions grounded Iranian airlines and Iran's parliament approved new Hormuz transit fees.

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us politics 7 1d ago 4 min read

Senate Democrats Demand Trump Draw a Line on China Chip Sales Before Xi Summit, While Congress's Own AI Bills Stall

With Xi Jinping arriving Wednesday for his third Trump summit in a year, eight senior Senate Democrats sent Trump a letter demanding tougher AI export controls on China, and Chuck Schumer made the same demand from the Senate floor. Meanwhile Congress's own AI agenda is going nowhere: a kill-switch bill got blocked by a fellow Republican, and Capitol Hill sources say lawmakers will likely punt AI legislation to 2027.

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us politics 7 1d ago 4 min read

Trump Signs Commission Making Rubio Permanent National Security Adviser While He Keeps Secretary of State Job

Trump has signed a commission formally making Marco Rubio his national security adviser, on top of his job as Secretary of State. He's the first person to hold both jobs at once since Henry Kissinger in the 1970s. The arrangement is efficient on paper, but it also means one man now runs foreign policy with zero Senate check on half his authority.

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us politics 8 1d ago 4 min read

Kirk Family Blames Utah Officials for 'Reckless Decisions' as FOIA Documents Reveal IRS Agents Detailed to FBI Dissent-Tracking Center

Charlie Kirk's family filed a wrongful death notice against Utah Valley University officials on September 9, alleging security failures let a rooftop sniper kill him a year ago. Separately, documents obtained by American Oversight show the FBI has pulled IRS agents and analysts into a new center built to enforce a Trump directive that treats anti-capitalist and anti-Christian beliefs as domestic terrorism indicators.

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us politics 7 1d ago 4 min read

Cuban Delegation Walks Out of Trump's UN Speech as White House Press Ban Heads to Federal Court

Trump told the UN General Assembly Tuesday that Cuba's communist government 'will fall,' prompting Cuba's delegation to walk out mid-speech. Hours earlier he told CNN's Kaitlan Collins she 'should not be here covering' him, one day after CNN, MS NOW and Politico sued the administration over last week's White House access ban.

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us politics 7 1d ago 4 min read

Trump Promises $500 ACA Rebate Checks as Vance Prepares to Cut Fraud-Flagged Enrollees From Coverage

The Trump administration says roughly 1 million Obamacare enrollees in 30 states will get $500 rebate checks starting next month, while Vice President JD Vance is set to announce the removal of hundreds of thousands of people from ACA coverage over alleged fraudulent enrollment. Neither the rebate's funding mechanism nor the specific fraud criteria for the coverage cuts has been detailed in public reporting so far.

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