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President Donald Trump takes the stage during a rally with U.S. Army troops on June 10, 2025 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“An out-of-touch plea for more money”: Trump seeks $1.5 trillion for new defense budget

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President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool via Getty Images)

Trump is considering a ground war in Iran. Experts say he should walk away

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President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at Winfield House, London on December 3, 2019. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images)

“They weren’t there for us”: Trump vows to leave NATO after allies refuse to enter Iran War

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A warehouse purchased by the Department of Homeland Security that is slated to become an immigration detention facility is seen on March 10, 2026 in Williamsport, Maryland. DHS spent $102.4 million earlier this year to buy the 830,000-square foot warehouse in an industrial park "to provide short-term housing for individuals in immigration custody awaiting immigration processing and related administrative procedures," according to a DHS notice. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Dozens of lawmakers to investigate companies building Trump’s detention centers

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President Donald Trump at the "Shield of the Americas" Summit at Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida, March 7, 2026. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump and Latin allies push rebrand of failed War on Drugs

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Attorney General Pam Bondi attends a press briefing held at the White House February 20, 2026 in Washington. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Getty Images)

“Damning evidence”: Trump’s DOJ shares memo alleging Trump took docs related to business interests

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U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks with Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia at the White House on November 18, 2025. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Saudi Arabia tells Trump to seize “historic moment” and continue war on Iran: report

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A general view of Tehran with smoke visible in the distance after explosions were reported in the city, on March 02, 2026. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)

Trump’s Iran war price tag just keeps rising

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A poster of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos accompanies ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) as he delivers an opening statement during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in the U.S. Capitol Building on March 04, 2026. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“Heartbreaking”: Judge denies asylum claim for Liam Conejo Ramos, family

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard talks to reporters at the White House on July 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“I would not participate”: Gabbard defends presence at FBI election center raid in Georgia

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Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla. testifying during his Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Mullin takes Senate grilling, makes case for top job at DHS

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks to guests following an event to release the new Make America Healthy Again Commission report in the East Room of the White House on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A judge shot down RFK Jr.’s vaccine overhaul. The fight is far from over

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People held in custody in a cell during a walk around El Salvador CECOT mega prison in the municipality of Tecoluca on January 30, 2026 in San Vicente, El Salvador. (Photo by Alex Peña/Getty Images)

“Black hole”: El Salvador disappearing US deportees into CECOT, rights group says

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The Kansas state capitol in Topeka. (Photo by Don and Melinda Crawford/Getty Images)

“There are no good options”: Kansas’ new driver license law puts transgender Kansans in a bind

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Homeless veterans are housed in 30 tents on a sidewalk along a busy San Vicente Boulevard outside the Veteran's Administration campus in West Los Angeles as viewed on April 22, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)

Trump’s troubled plan for some homeless vets

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A demonstrator holds a picture of Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei at Enghelab Square in central Tehran on March 9, 2026, as supporters gather for a rally backing his appointment to replace his father after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in joint U.S. and Israeli strikes on February 28. (Photo by Arezoo/Getty Images)

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei strikes defiant tone in first public statement

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US President Donald Trump speaks during the "Shield of the Americas" Summit at Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida, March 7, 2026. (Photo by Saul Loeb/Getty Images)

“A giant mess”: Trump’s war in Ecuador won’t slow the flow of drugs into the US

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Smoke and flames rise at the site of airstrikes on an oil depot in Tehran on March 7, 2026. (Sasan / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s “unpredictable” war in Iran has no end in sight

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President Donald Trump speaks as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on during a "Great, Historic Investment in Rural Health Roundtable" in the East Room of the White House on January 16, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Iran war enrages Make America Healthy Again movement

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Signs point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District across from Wigwam Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Seminole, Texas. ((Photo by Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images))

“Awfully coincidental”: Review of US measles status delayed seven months

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A plume of smoke rises after an explosion on March 2, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was confirmed killed after the United States and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran on February 28. Iran retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel, and targeting U.S. allies in the region. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

“Did not help us at all”: Hundreds of Americans stranded overseas following Iran strikes

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U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commander at Large Gregory Bovino speaks during a news conference at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal on January 25, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The news conference comes after 37-year-old legal observer Alex Pretti was fatally shot during a confrontation with federal agents. The Trump administration has sent a reported 3,000 federal agents into the area, with more on the way, as they make a push to arrest undocumented immigrants in the region. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

“We are not afraid”: Minnesota state prosecutor opens investigations into Bovino, ICE officers

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a re-election rally at Maceachron Park on June 21, 2024 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. (Joy Malone/Getty Images)

“Pay a fair share”: Sanders, Khanna propose wealth tax on billionaires

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U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth attends a Medal of Honor Ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 02, 2026. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“This is not Iraq”: Hegseth denies that US attack on Iran is another forever war

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