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Trade court wrestles with Trumps replacement tariffs
A three-judge panel mulled the duties President Donald Trump imposed after the Supreme Court voided his Liberation Day tariffs.
03:27 PM on 04/11/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump endorses focused immigration enforcement funding bill
His support for a narrow budget reconciliation measure is a boost for Senate GOP leaders who want a tightly controlled process.
05:53 PM on 04/11/2026 Politico Top Stories Mamdani still thinks Trumps a fascist. But he says they both love New York.
The mayor discussed his complex relationship with the president in a sitdown with POLITICO.
05:55 AM on 04/11/2026 Politico Top Stories At 100 days, Mamdani is already a different kind of mayor
The New York City mayor has notched major wins while dropping some campaign promises as he confronts a hostile fiscal landscape.
05:55 AM on 04/11/2026 Politico Top Stories NYC employee says she was fired after reporting alleged relationship between top Mamdani appointee, subordinate
The Department of Investigation has started to probe the situation involving Harun Goodwin, Mamdani’s probation commissioner.
10:00 AM on 04/11/2026 Politico Top Stories James Blair to temporarily depart White House for Trumps political operation
The move is the clearest sign yet the White House wants a unified approach ahead of the midterms.
01:47 PM on 04/11/2026 Politico Top Stories Wisconsin Republicans have a new target after a crushing loss
The Supreme Court result, some Republicans say, is a show of just how bad things have gotten for the state GOP in one of the most important battleground states.
01:00 PM on 04/11/2026 Politico Top Stories This is very real: Surging gas prices drive inflation to highest level in 2 years
Oil prices exploded in March as global energy markets absorbed a once-in-a-generation supply shock from the U.S.-Israel war with Iran.
10:31 AM on 04/11/2026 Politico Top Stories The nations cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
05:00 AM on 04/11/2026 Politico Top Stories CIA is trusting AI to help analyze intel from human spies
The agency plans to have AI “co-workers” built into all of its analytic platforms within the next few years.
03:19 PM on 04/11/2026 Politico Top Stories The Middle East war depleted US weapons. Rebuilding will require China's cooperation.
Beijing has a stranglehold on the critical minerals the U.S. needs to rebuild its weapons cache following five weeks of war.
11:04 AM on 04/11/2026 Politico Top Stories Trumps Favorite European Strongman Is in Trouble. Soccer Explains Why.
Hungary’s strongman has built his regime on a fusion of football and politics. Can it carry him to another term?
12:01 AM on 04/11/2026 Politico Top Stories Democrats Are Obsessed With the Wrong Senate Races
Sherrod Brown and Roy Cooper aren’t driving the political conversation, but their races may ultimately decide the Senate majority.
04:45 AM on 04/11/2026 Politico Top Stories Seems like losing: What the US hasnt won in Iran
As negotiations begin this weekend in Pakistan, the war has reaffirmed Iran’s regional significance.
06:07 PM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories We lose the midterms: Republicans worry Iran might have already cost them Congress
The two-week temporary ceasefire has done little to quell GOP fears about the war in Iran costing the party seats in November.
05:23 PM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories Oil industry pleads its Hormuz case with White House
Oil executives are citing international treaties, sanction laws and high payments in opposing Iran's plan to charge ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
03:58 PM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories Israel greets Iran ceasefire with more unease than relief
Critics on the left and right say the truce leaves Israel’s core concerns unresolved, even as Trump hails a new opening for the region.
09:58 AM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories Anthropic loses appeals court bid to pause supply chain risk label
A three-judge panel declined to temporarily block the Trump administration’s move to punish the AI startup.
06:45 PM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories Zeldin stars at climate denial conference
The EPA administrator became the first agency chief to speak at the Heartland Institute's annual gathering of people who say climate change benefits humanity.
01:41 PM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories A wow moment: Democrats election hot streak goes scorching
Two races in battleground states on Tuesday saw the party make massive gains compared to 2024.
12:33 AM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories Mamdani says free buses wont happen this year
The mayor defended the City Council speaker from personal attacks and reflected on Trump’s war with Iran in a wide-ranging interview with POLITICO.
10:00 AM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories Free transit promise runs into reality in Albany
The mayor campaigned on a plan to make buses free. But it isn’t going to happen this year, he acknowledged in an interview.
05:55 AM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories Trumps ceasefire already under strain
Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates were targeted by Iranian fire in the hours after the ceasefire, and Israel continued to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon on Wednesday.
03:18 PM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump threatens 50 percent tariffs on Iran arms supplies. His legal path is murky.
While the president has often wielded tariffs to pressure other countries, the Supreme Court this spring took away his main legal tool.
09:35 AM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump sending Vance, Witkoff and Kushner to Pakistan for ceasefire talks with Iran
The engagement comes as the fragile two-week ceasefire agreed to Tuesday evening is already being tested.
02:00 PM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories Hegseth declares victory in Iran but says US forces will remain in region
The Defense Secretary repeatedly referred to the U.S. military operation in the past tense.
09:03 AM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories California sheriffs ballot seizure spurred by local election integrity group, documents show
Links between Republican Chad Bianco's office and the group stretched back years, according to affidavits.
03:28 PM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories Heres how different US tariff revenue was in 2025
Our chart updated every weekday in 2025, showing how tariff revenue was changing.
10:47 AM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change
The Trump administration recruited five marginalized researchers to challenge the international consensus on global warming. Here’s how it went wrong.
10:00 AM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump's flood-the-zone approach to unflattering news cycles has hit a new extreme
Everyone else: Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. Trump: Rosie O’Donnell? The Red Sox? Coca-Cola?
05:00 AM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories How Gettysburg Became a Refuge for Conservatives Battered by Trump-Era Strife
It might take a mock battlefield to solve America’s political divisions.
04:00 PM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories Why Marco Rubio Is Escaping the Brunt of Fury Over IranBlanche: Only Donald Trump knows why Pam Bondi was fired
The new acting attorney general says he’d take the job permanently, if offered.
03:12 PM on 04/08/2026 Politico Top Stories Swalwell campaign denies false, outrageous claims of inappropriate behavior
His gubernatorial campaign blasted “flailing opponents who have sadly teamed up with MAGA conspiracy theorists because they know Eric Swalwell is the frontrunner in this race.”
04:13 PM on 04/08/2026 Politico Top Stories Republican Clay Fuller wins special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene
But his narrower-than-expected victory is still giving Democrats reason to celebrate.
08:25 PM on 04/08/2026 Politico Top Stories Liberal judge cruises to victory in Wisconsin Supreme Court raceDemocrats Colossal Missed Opportunity to Shape the Supreme Court
The collapse of Harriet Miers’ 2005 nomination is still reverberating.
05:55 AM on 04/08/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump on the warpath is Ruttes toughest test yet
With recriminations growing between the U.S. and Europe, NATO’s leader will try again to avoid an all-out rupture.
10:00 PM on 04/08/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump announces Iran ceasefire ahead of 8 p.m. deadline
He said the ceasefire was subject to Iran opening the Strait of Hormuz.
06:42 PM on 04/08/2026 Politico Top Stories 4 ways Trump has suggested the Strait of Hormuz could be reopened and why they're a tough lift |