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Flu season is here. We’ve examined these 20 claims
As flu activity picks up, we revisited rumors about vaccines, questionable home remedies and more that we've investigated.
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ICE paid $495M for Minnesota prison offered to state for $75M. Here’s proof
The story spread amid the White House's highly-publicized attempts to portray Minnesota as a hotbed of fraud.
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MAHA devotees ‘without a home’ as RFK Jr.’s movement and Trump’s base eye ‘divorce’
The nascent Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement finds itself “without a home,” according to Politico’s Playbook, with its alliance with President Donald Trump going through what Politico called its roughest patch yet.After Tuesday’s Democratic sweep, Politico reported, there is “plenty of reason for divorce”…
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GOP’s desperate post-wipeout plans crumble as big-name conservatives refuse to play along
Republicans hoping to use their final weeks in power to blunt this week’s Democratic wave are running into resistance from their own side, according to new reporting.Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), 93, won’t resign early to let outgoing Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds appoint his successor before…
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Stephen A. Smith on Trump, Democrats and the politics of chaos
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Trump invites battleground Republicans to Rose Garden dinner
President Donald Trump has invited a group of GOP lawmakers including Republicans in competitive races to dine with him Wednesday night at the White House as many in the party press the president to unleash his massive war chest ahead of the November elections, according…
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Susan Collins on Trump, tariffs and the state of her senate race over Maine lobsters
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Republicans aren’t exactly flocking to Trump’s midterm convention
President Donald Trump has a vision for next week’s GOP convention in Dallas: a televised spectacle putting Republican candidates in front of midterm voters and top party donors just two months before the Election Day — with Trump himself headlining the show.But a POLITICO survey…
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Vance offers olive branch to pro-Israel Republicans in closed-door speech
LAS VEGAS — Vice President JD Vance has faced skepticism from some in the Jewish Republican community. He waded directly into the fray Monday — and was met with raucous applause.In a closed-door appearance at the Republican Jewish Coalition leadership summit, Vance addressed what he…
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Paxton allies launch $15 million ad campaign
Allies of Texas GOP Senate hopeful Ken Paxton are planning a $15 million ad campaign starting Tuesday, the first major ad buy on behalf of Paxton in his battleground matchup with Democrat James Talarico.Two new ads from Lone Star Liberty PAC, the pro-Paxton super PAC,…
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Fact Check
Flu season is here. We’ve examined these 20 claims
As flu activity picks up, we revisited rumors about vaccines, questionable home remedies and more that we've investigated.
Fact Check
ICE paid $495M for Minnesota prison offered to state for $75M. Here’s proof
The story spread amid the White House's highly-publicized attempts to portray Minnesota as a hotbed of fraud.
National News
MAHA devotees ‘without a home’ as RFK Jr.’s movement and Trump’s base eye ‘divorce’
The nascent Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement finds itself “without a home,” according to Politico’s Playbook, with its alliance with President Donald Trump going through what Politico called its roughest patch yet.After Tuesday’s Democratic sweep, Politico reported, there is “plenty of reason for divorce”…
National News
GOP’s desperate post-wipeout plans crumble as big-name conservatives refuse to play along
Republicans hoping to use their final weeks in power to blunt this week’s Democratic wave are running into resistance from their own side, according to new reporting.Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), 93, won’t resign early to let outgoing Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds appoint his successor before…
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‘It’s so over’: Once-feared lobby declared dead in new column after midterm shellacking
Political analyst Matthew Yglesias argued in his “Slow Boring” Substack that the political clout of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was collapsing, declaring: “It’s so over for AIPAC.”His thesis was that AIPAC’s power rested less on money than on voters broadly agreeing with it…
