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May 2026
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02:39 PM on 05/17/2026 Politico Top Stories Why Elon Musks Friend Thinks Hes Wrong About AI
From autonomous weapons to workforce disruption, the stakes around AI are rising. Trump’s AI adviser insists the answer isn’t slowing down.
06:16 AM on 05/17/2026 Politico Top Stories What Canadians Are Grudgingly Learning From Trumps Undiplomatic Ambassador
Ambassador Pete Hoekstra has spent a year enraging Canadians. Is a détente now possible?
02:00 AM on 05/17/2026 Politico Top Stories $30 for a hamburger: Trumps facing no good options on beef prices
The president is caught between pleasing ranchers, a loyal GOP constituency and addressing voters' affordability concerns.
03:45 PM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories House talks look at blocking some state AI laws, including in California and New York
Previously unreported details of negotiations come as the White House grapples with challenges from the emergence of Mythos.
06:25 PM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories Mullin has more work to do to repair the relationship between DHS and Congress
Democrats and at least one powerful Republican still have concerns about Mullin’s leadership of the department.
11:57 AM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories Supreme Court rejects bid to revive Democrats Virginia redistricting plan
The justices turned down the longshot emergency appeal without comment.
06:41 PM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories RFK Jr.s department to make it easier to fire career staff
Managers received notices Friday that job classifications were changing.
07:33 PM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories Colorado governor says he will grant clemency to Trump-aligned election conspiracy theorist
Tina Peters allowed a far-right activist to access her county’s election system to help efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
04:58 PM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories Slap in the face': Republicans skewer Pentagon over Poland move
Army leaders also appeared taken aback by the administration’s abrupt action.
12:07 PM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories Big promises, thin results from Trumps China trip
President Donald Trump returns from his two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping with hints of deals but no progress on key issues that vex the U.S.-China relationship.
02:47 PM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories Keisha Lance Bottoms lead is making some Georgia Democrats uneasy
The former Atlanta mayor has dominated primary polls for months, but Democrats are concerned her political baggage will tank their chances this fall.
04:00 AM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories Carney pitches Alberta pipeline pact as proof Canada still works
Ottawa and Premier Danielle Smith unveiled a pact to fast-track a pipeline carrying more than 1 million barrels of oil a day to the Pacific.
03:55 PM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories From JFK to Trump, a Veteran Republican Reflects on the Party He Once Knew
Ahead of his new memoir, the former senator looks back on nearly 60 years of public service, the presidents he’s served and Trump’s GOP.
02:00 AM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories Acting FDA leader tries to explain past Planned Parenthood work to abortion opponents
Kyle Diamantas, who was elevated to FDA acting commissioner earlier this week, is telling anti-abortion groups he asked to be taken off a case defending Planned Parenthood due to moral objections.
12:05 PM on 05/16/2026 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.
04:00 AM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories Silicon Valley Wants to Put a Chip in Your Brain
A battle is looming not just over privacy, but the future of the human species.
02:00 AM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories Politics Is Breaking Us Just Ask These Therapists
The political therapy boom has arrived.
02:00 AM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories SCOTUS Preserved Abortion by Mail. Opponents Already Know Their Next Moves.
The mifepristone ruling reveals how conflicts over abortion are still evolving after the fall of Roe v. Wade.
02:00 AM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories I Helped Craft the 25th Amendment. It Was Never Meant to Oust a President.
What began as a safeguard for continuity of government has increasingly been referred to in discussions about removing a president from office.
02:00 AM on 05/16/2026 Politico Top Stories Landry wants to be kingmaker in Louisiana. Hes annoying other Republicans.
GOP lawmakers and strategists say he’s overstepping with his efforts to boost Julia Letlow’s Senate campaign.
04:00 PM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Crush their souls: Democrats ditch the niceties after GOP gains upper hand on redistricting
High-minded appeals to good government are out. Ruthless partisan tactics are in.
03:45 AM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Newsom tries to balance Californias books and head off 2028 liabilities
The likely presidential contender is using his final budget to blunt attacks on the state’s spending, taxes and fiscal stability.
06:03 PM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Green New Deal champion AOC absent as New York weakens climate law
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was first elected after campaigning on climate change, hasn’t weighed in as Gov. Kathy Hochul moves to weaken New York’s climate law.
05:00 PM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories No idea it was coming: Pentagon officials stunned by Hegseth decision on troops in Poland
It wasn’t clear why the Defense secretary issued the order not to send troops on a routine mission to a country the administration refers to as a “model ally.”
04:05 PM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Supreme Court extends order maintaining abortion pill access
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the majority decision.
04:37 PM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Poll: Democrats would give up Black voting power to beat the GOP
In a new POLITICO Poll, a plurality of Democrats say the party should counter Republican gerrymandering, even if it means reducing the number of majority-minority districts.
03:45 AM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Newsom says Dems have 'break-the-glass' contingency plan for California gov's race
The governor said a Democratic lock-out in top-two gubernatorial primary is unlikely.
02:49 PM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Bessent discusses investment board, expanding US-China trade with Trump in Beijing
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on Thursday and discussed topics ranging from market access for U.S. businesses in China to the Strait of Hormuz.
01:27 PM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Taiwan emerges as flash point in Trump-Xi talks
A Chinese summary of the meeting stressed the self-ruling island was the "most important issue" in bilateral relations between Washington and Beijing.
05:15 AM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Vance takes fraud fight to Maine
The vice president visited Bangor, Maine, to tout his fraud crackdown, stump for Paul LePage and offer an olive branch to Sen. Susan Collins.
02:00 PM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories One of the safest Florida seats for Democrats faces a candidate fiasco
Redistricting, a looming federal criminal trial and a primary with racial undertones are just a few of the dynamics shaping the race to represent the Broward County district.
03:45 AM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories How the largest LGBTQ+ rights group is approaching the midterms and anti-trans attacks
Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson on its $15 million plan to help Democrats win the House, and push back on anti-trans political attacks.
04:00 AM on 05/15/2026 Politico Top Stories MAGA world is giving the House GOP cover on Trumps housing push
In a barrage of social media posts and interviews with right-wing media, administration officials and prominent conservatives are urging the GOP to give the president an affordability win.
04:15 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories White House cuts $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California
CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz has repeatedly targeted the state over hospice care.
03:02 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories Maryland gerrymandering push reignites after major losses nationwide
An earlier push to redraw the state was snuffed out in the state Senate, but prominent Marylanders argued that the recent Supreme Court decision targeting the Voting Rights Act has changed the calculus.
04:30 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories Trumps disappearing China hawks
The once vocal GOP wing that warned against making deals with Beijing has largely left the conversation ahead of Trump’s China summit.
02:57 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories Iran war is fueling Chinas clean energy surge ahead of Trump-Xi talks
The Iran war is driving countries toward Chinese EVs, solar and batteries — strengthening China's hand as Trump seeks trade wins in Beijing.
03:30 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories Trumps immigration policies chill Japanese shipyard investment
Japanese investment in the U.S. shipbuilding sector is years away due to administration hostility to skilled foreign labor, analysts and foreign government officials say.
05:42 PM on 05/14/2026 Politico Top Stories 10,000 rulings: The courts overwhelming rebuke of Trumps ICE policies
A POLITICO analysis reveals judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90 percent of cases since the agency mandated that millions of immigrants must be locked up while they face deportation proceedings.
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