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'This is about attention': Mike Lee's MAGA crusade is driving his colleagues crazy
The Utah Republican’s crusade for the SAVE America Act has strained his relations inside the Senate GOP.
07:00 AM on 03/21/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump threatens to send ICE to airports amid DHS standoff
It’s his latest bid to push Democrats, who have refused to greenlight DHS funding without changes to how it carries out immigration enforcement.
01:58 PM on 03/21/2026 Politico Top Stories You can bet on climate disasters. Business is booming.
Traders are placing wagers on the likelihood of disasters, activists being jailed and oil depots exploding.
10:00 AM on 03/21/2026 Politico Top Stories UN secretary general says hes cooperating with Trumps Board of Peace in Gaza but doesnt want it in Hormuz
In an exclusive interview with POLITICO, António Guterres said the Board is not an effective way to manage crises.
11:05 PM on 03/21/2026 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 03/21/2026 Politico Top Stories The Campaign to Take Down Alex Bores Is Just the Beginning
A leading AI industry-backed Super PAC is targeting a pro-regulation candidate — and building a strategy that other politicians will have to contend with.
05:00 AM on 03/21/2026 Politico Top Stories Look how much Canadians hate the United States now
It’s not just about the trade war. Nearly half of America’s neighbors to the north now think the U.S. is a bigger threat to world peace than Russia.
05:55 AM on 03/21/2026 Politico Top Stories Meet the Kurdish guerillas hoping America will support them blazing a path to Tehran
President Donald Trump has ruled out enlisting Kurdish militias to invade Iran, but at least some of the fighters are betting that as the war drags on, the U.S. may still come calling.
01:00 PM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump stretches America First on Iran. His voters are going along with it.
Still, his hold could grow more tenuous if the number of U.S. casualties rises and the war stretches into the summer.
05:00 AM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories Hormuz has to reopen: Why the oil industry cant help Trump tame rising gasoline prices
Oil industry executives say much of the administration’s messaging on supply disruptions from the Iran war has discouraged drilling.
11:19 AM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories The states where higher gas prices could shape the midterms
The map of price hikes shows highest increases are mostly in states that lean Republican.
01:06 PM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories Putin offered to stop sharing intel with Iran if US cuts off Ukraine
The U.S. rejected the Russian proposal, which has nonetheless sparked concerns in Europe amid growing transatlantic tensions.
12:57 PM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories UK allows US to use bases to bomb Iranian sites targeting ships in Strait of Hormuz
Ministers agreed Friday that permissible actions include degrading missile sites being used by Tehran to attack ships in the Strait.
03:14 PM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories This Military Tragedy Became a Blockbuster Movie. Heres What It Didnt Tell You.
More than 20 years after Operation Red Wings, the mission that inspired the bestselling memoir and film “Lone Survivor,” Navy SEALs are finally opening up about what really happened.
05:00 AM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories Federal judge reverses Pentagon press restrictions
The New York Times won a lawsuit arguing that Secretary Pete Hegseth’s policies violated the Constitution.
06:10 PM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories Confrontation between billionaire CEO and Lutnick hints at trouble with huge data center project
The two had a heated exchange at the Nvidia AI conference in Silicon Valley.
06:11 PM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories Opinion | My Time with Jrgen Habermas, Europe's 'Last Intellectual'
The sting of rejection lingered for years.
04:02 PM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories Perfect storm: Wall Street turmoil muddies Trumps pitch to boost 401(k)s
The private credit market’s recent woes will be a stark test of just how far Trump’s administration is willing to take its deregulatory hammer to Wall Street.
04:55 AM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories How biotech giant Bayer landed a win that made MAHA furious
The company says it told the White House that it would take Roundup off the market if it didn’t get reassurances about MAHA’s ire for the industry.
01:29 PM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories Hochul proposes weakening New Yorks climate law
The governor wants to delay regulatory deadlines and implement accounting changes that will make emissions reduction targets easier to meet.
09:37 AM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories The last line of defense against Paramount megadeal
California's Rob Bonta is coordinating his antitrust review with at least one other state attorney general: Letitia James of New York.
05:00 AM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories Pete Buttigiegs 2026 project
The former Transportation secretary and onetime presidential candidate is traveling the country for the midterms. The road may lead him beyond.
05:55 AM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories The Number of MAGA Fractures Is Growing
Iran is pressuring Trump's coalition. It's not the only issue.
05:00 AM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories A Major Shock to the System: POLITICO Reporters Dissect the Iran War Fallout
Our reporters unpack the strategy, risks and politics behind the Iran strikes.
04:00 PM on 03/20/2026 Politico Top Stories Strike on key Iranian gas field is a new phase of the war. Trump blames Israel.
Israel’s targeting of the South Pars gas field is a major escalation in the war that energy watchers feared could turbocharge the economic disruption.
05:37 PM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories Republicans balk at going it alone on Iran war funding
Key lawmakers doubt budget reconciliation is a viable path for a $200 billion Pentagon infusion.
06:15 PM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories Pentagon weighs sending more troops to Middle East
The discussions, while evolving, would mark a drastic new step in the Iran war.
02:41 PM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories UN chief suggests both sides may be committing war crimes in US-Israel conflict with Iran
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres decries attacks on energy infrastructure in an exclusive interview with POLITICO.
06:07 PM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories US acknowledges gaps with Israel on Iran war objectives
An Israeli attack on a major Iranian gas facility Wednesday night appeared to open a fresh fissure in the coordination between the two allies.
04:09 PM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump is poised to take Irans Kharg Island. Heres what could unfold next.
The president’s attacks on Iran’s oil infrastructure could determine the course of the war — and its domestic political fallout.
10:00 AM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories The GOP is dismissing Joe Kent. They might come to regret it.
The ideological fault line Joe Kent’s defection exposed this week is providing hard for the GOP to paper over.
05:34 PM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories Mullins nomination to be DHS chief advances out of committee
Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania broke with his fellow Democrats to vote to advance Mullin’s nomination.
09:48 AM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump digs in on Powell, suggesting DOJ probe should continue
The president's comments in the Oval Office leave Kevin Warsh, his nominee to replace Powell as Fed chair, in limbo.
02:31 PM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories DeSantis rejects gas tax pause, warns of Cuba 'exodus' amid global turmoil
DeSantis said even if the state suspends gas taxes, fluctuations in oil prices may erase any potential savings for motorists.
01:10 PM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories Political operatives with Trump ties raked in millions of dollars in commissions from DHS ad campaign
The ads became a sore spot within the White House over Kristi Noem.
05:56 AM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories He has to justify what he did: Black leaders slam JB Pritzker after Illinois primary
Hard feelings linger after the billionaire governor lifted Juliana Stratton to victory over the Congressional Black Caucus’ preferred candidate.
05:00 AM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories Federal workforce unhappy, disengaged, new survey finds
A year after DOGE, a new survey of government employees shows low job satisfaction and engagement.
04:30 PM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories New Washington state law bans law enforcement from covering face
All officers, including federal police, must show their faces while on duty.
05:23 PM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump lauds Japans promise, however vague, to help with Iran
But the allies offering to help secure the Strait of Hormuz made no firm commitments.
01:38 PM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories They hold the cards now: Trump allies fear Iran is slipping beyond the presidents control
Trump supporters who backed his promise to avoid new Middle East wars worry Iran’s attacks on shipping are pushing the U.S. toward escalation — and maybe even boots on the ground.
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