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Demonstrators gather at the Capitol Reflecting Pool near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on February 17, 2025 to protest against Project 2025 and the Trump administration. (BRYAN DOZIER/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Senate Dems wary of government shutdown

Russell Payne
Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Nixon Library on June 12, 2024 in Yorba Linda, California. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

RFK Jr. directs FDA to revise this rule

Joy Saha
Linda McMahon, former Administrator of Small Business Administration, speaks during the final night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

DOE to layoff half of workforce

Alex Galbraith
Sarah McBride, Democrat running for Delaware's Congressional seat, is seen on the second night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Tuesday, August 20, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Hearing comes to halt over McBride diss

Alex Galbraith
SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks at a town hall with Republican candidate U.S. Senate Dave McCormick at the Roxain Theater on October 20, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Michael Swensen/Getty Images)

Trump cuts Tesla ad at White House

Alex Galbraith
Mel Gibson (Getty/Andreas Rentz)

Gibson case may have led to DOJ firing

Alex Galbraith
A Southwest Airlines plane lands at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, California, United States on June 8, 2023. (Tayfun CoSkun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Checking bags on Southwest will cost you

Quinn Sental
Stock Market Arrow Graph Going Down (Getty Images)

Stocks slump as trade war grows

Quinn Sental
The US and Canadian flags are pictured at Peace Arch Historical State Park in Blaine, Washington, on March 5, 2025.) (Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump escalates economic war on Canada

Charles R. Davis
SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk participates in a town hall-style meeting to promote early and absentee voting at Ridley High School on October 17, 2024 in Folsom, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Musk having trouble running DOGE, Tesla

Alex Galbraith
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on November 06, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump promises more protester arrests

Alex Galbraith
Same-sex marriage supporter Vin Testa, of Washington, DC, waves an LGBTQIA pride flag in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building as he takes pictures with his friend Donte Gonzalez to celebrate the anniversary of the United States v. Windsor and the Obergefell v. Hodges decisions on June 26, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

SCOTUS weighs "gay conversion" therapy

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Students protest against the war in Gaza on the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel at Columbia University in New York, New York, on Monday, October 7, 2024. (Victor J. Blue for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump admin. arrests Palestine activist

Russell Payne
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, speaks during a rally York Expo Center in York, PA, for the 2024 US presidential campaign, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Walz doesn't think Harris was ever ahead

Alex Galbraith
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to sign the "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order in the East Room of the White House on February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump dodges Fox News' recession talk

Alex Galbraith
(l-r) Special guest Mike Myers as Elon Musk, James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump and Marcello Hernández as Marco Rubio during the “Trump Musk Rubio” Cold Open on Saturday, March 8, 2025 (Will Heath/NBC)

Trump handles Rubio, Musk spat on "SNL"

Alex Galbraith
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Co-Chair of the newly announced Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), arrives on Capitol Hill with his son on December 05, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Judge: DOGE can access Treasury data

Griffin Eckstein
King Charles III (Yui Mok - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

King Charles launches Apple radio show

Kelly McClure
(Getty/pixdeluxe)

Maine Social Security snafu a "mistake"

Griffin Eckstein
CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

SpaceX Starship explodes during test

Griffin Eckstein
The CBS Broadcast Center stands in Manhattan on September 13, 2018 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

CBS wants Trump "60 Minutes" suit tossed

Griffin Eckstein
President Donald Trump appears at a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Judge reverses "illegal" NLRB firing

Griffin Eckstein
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX, testifies during the House Financial Services Committee hearing titled Digital Assets and the Future of Finance: Understanding the Challenges and Benefits of Financial Innovation in the United States, in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, December 8, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

SBF tells Carlson about life in prison

Griffin Eckstein
McDonald's restaurant on April 28, 2022 in San Leandro, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

McDonald’s is getting an AI “makeover”

Joy Saha
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