Politico Top Stories News55714 stories between 11/10/2009 at 18:33:04 and 01/26/2025 15:36:06
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 Iran
“He’s the least crazy,” one Democratic senator said.
11:49 AM on 04/09/2026 Politico Top Stories Blanche: 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 race
Chris Taylor’s win doesn’t come as a surprise.
09:37 PM on 04/08/2026 Politico Top Stories Democrats 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
President Donald Trump has floated several — at times contradictory — ways for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, even as Iran’s blockade is already driving up prices and squeezing economies amid an uncertain future.
05:19 PM on 04/08/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump with no guard rails: Civilization will die post shows his growing power over social media
"In his first term, I think people would have been a lot more worked up about whether or not a post like this should or should not stay up," former Facebook official Katie Harbath said.
06:07 PM on 04/08/2026 Politico Top Stories Congress is absent as Trump threatens Iranians will die
Democrats erupt in protest, but Republicans make their peace with “negotiating Trump style.”
03:38 PM on 04/08/2026 Politico Top Stories Michigan Senate candidate El-Sayed declines to disavow Hasan Pikers past comments
Piker has been accused by Democrats and Republicans of making antisemitic and pro-terrorist comments.
08:15 PM on 04/08/2026 Politico Top Stories Loomer, Fox and 'a RINO': Inside Trump's earthquake endorsement in California
MAGA allies had long been laying the groundwork for Trump’s endorsement of Steve Hilton in California’s gubernatorial race.
09:04 PM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories Jim Jordans dream might not be deferred much longer
The Ohio Republican will be well-situated if Republicans lose the House majority.
04:45 AM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories IRS staffing shortage collides with GOP's tax cut campaign pitch
A government watchdog draft report seen by POLITICO says the agency has been slow to bring on new workers to handle taxpayer requests.
06:00 PM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories Pentagons new plans in Iran give Trump a way out of war crime accusations
Defense officials are expanding a list of strike options.
06:45 PM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories Vance is on standby in Iran talks
The negotiations are led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner but Vance could be tagged in if there is a direct meeting with Iranian officials.
05:03 PM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump: I cant tell you whether war is winding down or escalating
A day ahead of the president’s latest deadline for Iran, the president praised the successful recovery of two U.S. airmen from inside Iran.
03:00 PM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories Poll: Heres what MAHA actually believes
A new POLITICO Poll finds that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy again supporters don’t align with him — or each other — on some key issues.
05:00 AM on 04/07/2026 Politico Top Stories The woman who thinks civil rights went too far
Harmeet Dhillon has spent a year trying to turn the Justice Department in the opposite direction. Now the online right wants to see her as attorney general.
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