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Tehran says its plan could reopen the waterway and restart negotiations with Washington before the November midterm elections.
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A development involving Elon Musk has renewed scrutiny of privately backed tools or services that could touch election data.
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Chinese reporters accompanying President Xi Jinping clashed with U.S. journalists and security personnel during his White House state visit.
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President Trump and China’s President Xi thanked each other for past hospitality and discussed opportunities to meet again.
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Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook joined the two presidents at a White House dinner focused on a consequential economic relationship.
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A Democratic-led resolution seeking to limit President Donald Trump’s war powers involving Iran failed in the Senate.
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The White House visit paired red-carpet ceremony and personal diplomacy with Trump’s earlier accusations against China.
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Muslim Americans are responding to Republican politicians’ messages opposing Sharia as an unspecified election approaches.
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The Sept. 24 edition of “The Takeout” focuses on Trump’s ceremony for Xi Jinping and the restoration of journalists’ White House access.
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A Senate measure addressing war powers involving Iran failed to secure enough support, even with new backing from Republican senators.
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Three independent candidates visited Capitol Hill to discuss AI and argue that officeholders can operate outside the two major parties.
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A review identified more than 30,000 noncitizens added to voter rolls in 11 states since 2000, though the count remains subject to revision.
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The breaks are emerging less than six weeks before Election Day as Republicans work to protect a slim congressional majority.
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Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Amazon’s founder joined business leaders at Thursday’s White House state dinner.
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New polling finds broad concern about the midterms, but earlier elections do not show that such worries consistently reduce voting.
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Trump’s national ratings have fallen to a record low, while Democrats are now favored in the contests for control of the House and Senate.
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Trump and Xi held a short summit covering a broad agenda, the focus of an NPR conversation with Mary Louise Kelly and Emily Feng.
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The U.S. is trying to recover unserviceable F-35 components diverted while being shipped from Australia to the United States.
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Republicans stopped a Democratic war powers resolution as some in the party began distancing themselves from President Trump over the conflict.
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The narrow vote came days after President Donald Trump threatened Iran in a United Nations address and as gas prices disrupted midterm politics.
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The tracker focuses on which party voters want to hold the House majority, rather than any single congressional contest.
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Rising diesel prices are straining businesses as Republican lawmakers press President Trump to consider banning diesel exports.
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The leaders met as the United States and China extended a tariff pause and continued competing over advanced artificial intelligence.
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The fish-centered dinner includes squash soup, sesame-crusted sea bass and a dessert made with White House honey.
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Republican lawmakers are pressing the Pentagon to explain how sensitive F-35 parts were diverted to Hong Kong and ended up in China.
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Four Republicans joined nearly all Senate Democrats, but the chamber defeated a House-passed resolution requiring U.S. troops to leave the Iran conflict.
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Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul and Thom Tillis supported a war powers resolution that failed in the Senate.
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The administration stepped back from a restriction that an economist warned could raise transportation and consumer costs after brief regional relief.
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The Bad News Babes defeated Team Congress at Audi Field as the annual charity game raised more than.
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The former White House communications director said Leavitt and John Kelly would have advised Trump against barring media outlets.