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Democrats are looking to make gains in the South next year. It could be their last shot.
A new class of Democratic party chairs see repairing the party’s relationship with the working class as key to its political comeback.
05:55 AM on 05/27/2025 Politico Top Stories RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals
The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.
03:18 PM on 05/27/2025 Politico Top Stories DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow rapid deportations to countries where immigrants have no ties
The administration is challenging a judge’s ruling that blocks the deportations unless certain procedures are followed.
05:23 PM on 05/27/2025 Politico Top Stories Judge pleads with Trump administration for reason over rhetoric in deportation case
A Biden appointee issued a withering order Monday night rejecting the Trump administration’s demand that he reconsider or delay a ruling granting deportees bound for South Sudan certain protections.
07:05 AM on 05/27/2025 Politico Top Stories 21 Unexpected Heavy Hitters for a Democratic Shadow Cabinet
Here’s who the party should tap to take on Trump and refresh the Democratic brand.
05:55 AM on 05/27/2025 Politico Top Stories The pool's open. Trump's laid off the team that helps protect swimmers.
The loss of the CDC's drowning-prevention unit is one that water safety advocates fear will have a direct impact on children’s safety.
06:00 AM on 05/26/2025 Politico Top Stories Who can use Floridas beaches? Depends on where you are
The fight over beach access is unlikely to end in Florida, where growing populations and eroding beaches create arguments over invisible lines in the sand.
04:00 PM on 05/26/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump grants extension to European Union on tariff hikeTrump says Putin has gone absolutely CRAZY!
“Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever,” Trump says in an excoriating post aimed at the Russian president.
10:09 PM on 05/26/2025 Politico Top Stories Thats the Way Militaries Work in Russia and China and North Korea
A military veteran in Congress raises the alarm about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s firing of high-ranking officers.
02:00 PM on 05/26/2025 Politico Top Stories World Food Programme director calls food situation in Gaza 'a catastrophe'
"We need to get in, and we need to get in at scale," Cindy McCain said.
02:19 PM on 05/26/2025 Politico Top Stories The Trump administrations conflicting messages to the public and the courts
Government lawyers paint a very different picture in court filings from the one Trump and his allies do on TV and social media.
07:00 AM on 05/26/2025 Politico Top Stories Republicans Love Steakhouses. Democrats Love Bistros. They All Love Spending Big at These DC Eateries.
Where Republicans and Democrats are spending their money in D.C.
04:45 AM on 05/26/2025 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 05/26/2025 Politico Top Stories Canadas Liberals are already thinking about how to remove Mark Carney. Its not personal.
The party that couldn’t dislodge Justin Trudeau wants to make sure nothing like it happens again.
07:05 AM on 05/25/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps contract-cutting blitz rattles a once-flourishing DC industry
The General Services Administration, which oversees government contracting, is leading a review of more than 20,000 consulting agreements for what is “non-essential.”
10:00 AM on 05/25/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump MAGAfies West Point
Appearing in a red MAGA cap, the president delivered what sounded at times like a rally speech to the crowd of West Point graduates.
01:53 PM on 05/25/2025 Politico Top Stories Mike Johnson urges Senate not to make major changes to megabill
"We've got to deal within the realm of what's possible," the House speaker said Sunday.
11:03 AM on 05/25/2025 Politico Top Stories The Not-So-Secret Society Whose Members Run State
A group named after Benjamin Franklin is attracting scrutiny, and suspicion, as its members gain top diplomatic slots.
04:00 PM on 05/25/2025 Politico Top Stories What life is this?: The crypto investors who bought a dinner with Trump
The event — billed as the “most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the World” — is the latest example of the president’s stunning pivot from crypto scourge to evangelist.
05:00 AM on 05/25/2025 Politico Top Stories Michael Anton Was a Menswear Writer And He Hated Trumps Fashion
A dive into the weird world of StyleForum reveals the secrets of “conservative business dress.”
07:00 AM on 05/24/2025 Politico Top Stories DOGE appointee sparks turf battle at Interior: 'Ignore the email from HR'
The Interior bureau that holds the key to Trump’s fossil fuel agenda is riven by feuding between career staff and an emissary from Elon Musk's budget-cutting operation.
10:00 AM on 05/24/2025 Politico Top Stories The Biden ads that never ran
A buzzy book about Biden's decision to run for reelection reported footage from a staged town hall was "wasn't usable." POLITICO has obtained the ads at the center of the story.
10:59 AM on 05/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Eric Adams appears to be running a real campaign, as Cuomo rakes in cash
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams says she’s qualified for public matching funds, per Friday night’s filing.
10:54 PM on 05/24/2025 Politico Top Stories From Andrew Cuomo to Zohran Mamdani: the Race to Become NYCs Mayor, in PhotosLarry Summers Says Trumps Latest Attack on Harvard Is a Prescription for Failure
The former Harvard president says Trump’s effort to ban international students would damage not just Harvard but America.
03:23 PM on 05/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Im not looking for a deal: Trump revives global trade war
The president vowed to hit the European Union and phone manufacturers with new tariffs.
05:30 PM on 05/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Meet the former Democrat leading Trumps charge against 10 universities
Leo Terrell says he plans to ‘“intensify’” the crackdown on schools in the wake of Wednesday night’s shooting.
04:49 PM on 05/24/2025 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 05/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Californias frustration with homelessness is boiling over, poll finds
A survey from POLITICO and the UC Berkeley Citrin Center asked registered voters if they supported an aggressive approach to clearing encampments.
09:00 AM on 05/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Investors Are Sending a Warning to Congress. Will Washington Listen?
If lawmakers don’t absorb a gentle message from the bond markets, they may get an even more unpleasant one.
07:55 AM on 05/23/2025 Politico Top Stories Trade talks bog down as countries and White House race to meet July deadline
President Donald Trump promised that his administration would be able to make quick trade deals with more than 50 trading partners. But halfway into his self-imposed deadline, talks have gotten bogged down.
10:00 AM on 05/23/2025 Politico Top Stories How Mike Johnson doused a GOP dumpster fire
The speaker spent months keeping flare-ups from growing into a conflagration even Donald Trump couldn’t extinguish.
04:45 AM on 05/23/2025 Politico Top Stories How a Freedom Caucus Revolt Ended in the White House
When conservative holdouts continued to push for more concessions, Trump made clear he’d had enough.
06:19 PM on 05/23/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps hands-off megabill strategy to face test in Senate
Trump’s Thursday calls to at least two senators suggest he may not be willing — or able — to sit on the sidelines for as long as he did with the House.
06:52 PM on 05/23/2025 Politico Top Stories Bad news for Trumps Golden Dome: He cant build it without Canada
The president would have to rely on his “51st state” to track Chinese and Russian missiles that could come at the U.S. from over the horizon.
05:55 AM on 05/23/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump uses legal setbacks on mass deportation for public relations
The legal losses are stacking up but they help him tell a political story.
06:30 AM on 05/23/2025 Politico Top Stories Harvard sues Trump administration to protect its international student enrollment
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem notified the university Thursday that its certification for the Student and Exchange Visitor Program was revoked.
09:15 AM on 05/23/2025 Politico Top Stories The New Rights Favorite Pastor
Doug Wilson has built a theocratic regime in Moscow, Idaho, where men rule and biblical teachings guide everything. Now he’s taking the model national, with a receptive crowd in the GOP.
10:00 AM on 05/23/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump threatens EU with 50 percent tariff from June 1 |