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'All bets are off': Trump's war on Iran confounds the world's central bankers
The specter of a prolonged energy crunch could dash the hopes of consumers, businesses and investors worldwide for rate cuts this year.
05:00 AM on 03/19/2026 Politico Top Stories Inside the White House plan to sell the Iran war online
The administration is bucking decades of decorum by depicting the Iran war as a violent video game.
05:00 PM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories Trumps intel agencies back his claims on peace deals, Europe
The 2026 Annual Threats Assessment laid out escalating threats to the U.S., including the potential for new countries to launch missile attacks against the mainland.
05:11 PM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories Iran and oil imperil Trump-Japan summit
Geopolitical tensions over Iran and China have roiled the agenda of the president's upcoming summit with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
06:00 PM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories Gabbard dodges questions about foreign threats to midterms
The Trump administration has been moving to assert greater power over U.S. elections based on claims of widespread fraud and foreign interference in past votes.
03:22 PM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories FBI is buying data that can be used to track people, Patel says
This is the first confirmation that the FBI has resumed actively buying people's data for investigations.
12:50 PM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories States reconsider Cesar Chavez celebrations after sexual abuse allegations
Leaders in several states said they were considering scrapping state holidays honoring the labor leader.
05:03 PM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories Fight over local Facebook group pits the ACLU against a powerful NJ law firm
“They’re suing us for being critics. Not defamation. Not harassment. For criticism,” said Alan Levy, an attorney who, together with his wife, filed suit in September 2024.
05:28 PM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories Mullin presents himself as a different kind of DHS secretary during tense confirmation hearing
“My goal at six months is that we’re not in the lead story every single day,” Mullin told senators.
02:38 PM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories Mullins DHS nomination set for quick vote as of now, Rand Paul says
The Oklahoma senator’s secretive travel a decade ago emerged as a late-breaking issue in his confirmation.
02:10 PM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories King of Illinois: Pritzker swings Senate race as he targets Trump
Juliana Stratton’s victory in a heated Senate primary vindicates the governor’s political operation heading into 2028.
12:16 AM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories This tech-backed mayor jumped into Californias govs race with a bang. Now he might as well drop out.
Matt Mahan, a centrist Democrat with an anti-establishment streak, is polling at 3 percent.
05:00 AM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories Senate Republicans struggle to make their voting fight uncomfortable for Democrats
So far discussions of the SAVE America Act are falling short of the “talking filibuster” conservatives are demanding.
04:45 AM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories March
Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker
03:51 PM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories Infiltrating the Supreme Court
A roundtable conversation with top Supreme Court reporters on secrecy at the court, the justices’ ethics and how they do their job at a crucial moment.
05:00 AM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories Forget Regime Change. How About Behavior Change?
In Iran, Venezuela and Cuba, Trump’s top priority is making sure whoever’s left in charge deals differently with the United States.
05:00 AM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories Will Iranians Rise Up? Here Are the Odds.
Iranians despised the Ayatollah. That doesn’t mean they’ll side with the United States.
02:01 PM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories Vance Is Handcuffed: The Tech Fight Bedeviling 2028 Republicans
Republicans’ evolving stances on AI are offering a preview of the post-Trump debates within the party.
10:00 AM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories Its Going to Take ICE a Long Time to Dig Out of This
After controversial shootings in Minneapolis and Portland, a former ICE chief breaks down how the agency ended up here — and what has to change.
12:00 PM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories Why Trumps Federal Reserve Pick May Surprise Him
A childhood job at a racetrack taught Kevin Warsh more than he realized about how to amass power.
05:55 AM on 03/18/2026 Politico Top Stories AIPAC makes a $22M gamble in Illinois
The group has taken a sharp tactical shift in several House races as it weathers Democrats’ souring views of Israel — and of AIPAC itself.
04:45 AM on 03/17/2026 Politico Top Stories 5 things to watch in Tuesdays Illinois primaries
Tensions over AIPAC’s influence in the Democratic Party, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s fundraising power and generational fights will be in the spotlight.
05:55 AM on 03/17/2026 Politico Top Stories Never heard him so angry: Trump is furious that global allies arent pitching in in Iran
Their assistance, the president said on Tuesday, is no longer needed.
12:31 PM on 03/17/2026 Politico Top Stories Trumps top counterterrorism aide resigns, citing Iran war
Joe Kent, the head of the National Counterterrorism Center, said in a social media post Tuesday morning he “cannot in good conscience” support the administration’s war in Iran.
10:17 AM on 03/17/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump presses allies for Hormuz pledges, but not specifics
The White House wants a fast show of unity to calm oil markets, even as contributions remain murky and key partners hesitate to sign on.
05:04 PM on 03/17/2026 Politico Top Stories 1 reason Trump wont give up on Putin peace deal China
The Trump administration believes that incentivizing Russia to end the war in Ukraine could eventually shift the global order away from China.
02:32 PM on 03/17/2026 Politico Top Stories Republicans hope Mullin will turn the page at DHS from Noem. Democrats arent buying it.
The top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee assured reporters the Oklahoma Republican would face “robust” questions at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
03:18 PM on 03/17/2026 Politico Top Stories Brendan Carrs equal time curveball crashes the midterms
The FCC chair's warnings against partisan bias on broadcast TV talk shows could mean far fewer candidates on the air this year — especially Democrats.
10:00 AM on 03/17/2026 Politico Top Stories Netflixs Chief Opens Up About Trump, YouTube and Europe
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos sits down for a wide-ranging interview as he prepares to make his case to EU officials.
02:00 AM on 03/17/2026 Politico Top Stories Were going to have a problem: Republicans want Trump to move on from 2020
Facing a difficult midterm landscape, there's a growing view in the GOP that revisiting election grievances risks distracting from the issues that matter most.
05:40 AM on 03/17/2026 Politico Top Stories Trumps patience runs out: Inside the final days before the strike on Iran
President Donald Trump, already upset with Tehran’s violent crackdown, gave diplomacy a final shot, but ultimately decided time was up.
04:02 PM on 03/17/2026 Politico Top Stories Trump Buries the 20th Century
Donald Trump's legacy became clearer than ever with the attack on Iran's regime, the latest 20th century artifact to crumble in the Trump era.
05:00 AM on 03/17/2026 Politico Top Stories The Trump health care policy red and blue states are embracing
Blue and red states are embracing a policy finalized during Trump's first term that encourages Obamacare sign-ups.
04:00 PM on 03/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Trumps latest tariffs face a fresh set of legal hurdles
Here are the key issues in the court fight over Trump’s newest tariffs after the Supreme Court’s ruling.
07:00 AM on 03/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Top US allies are turning toward China instead. Blame Trump.
European allies broadly support building closer ties to China — and believe America's role as a global superpower is fading.
10:00 AM on 03/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Democrats push Trump for more details of Iran vision as war rages on
Democratic lawmakers have consistently criticized the administration for not laying out its goals in the war more clearly.
03:07 PM on 03/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Iran says Russia and China providing military cooperation
Tehran has had “good cooperation with these countries: politically, economically, even militarily,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told MS NOW.
07:56 AM on 03/15/2026 Politico Top Stories Formula 1 cancels races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia amid Middle East conflict
It isn’t the first global sporting event interrupted by Middle Eastern hostilities.
06:47 PM on 03/15/2026 Politico Top Stories The reviews are in. It's not looking good, America.
Allies are giving the U.S. one-star and two-star ratings on its efforts to protect democracy and dependability in a crisis.
10:00 AM on 03/14/2026 Politico Top Stories It's not just oil. Here comes Hormuz inflation.
Garden supplies, birthday balloons and semiconductors could get hit by price inflation or shortages.
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