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Deb Haaland says federal cuts to Medicaid and SNAP are among the biggest challenges New Mexico is facing right now — safety net programs the state relies on heavily.

Warsh on whether the Fed has a soft inflation target: "There's no soft inflation target. There's no implicit inflation target. There's a target of price stability and it's 2% as measured by PCE."

59% of Americans think Trump spends too much time on White House renovations — and he chose the final week before midterms to call the building "decrepit and dirty."

Dutch intelligence allegedly watched Kushner log into a UAE account on his hacked phone — and the Saudi crown prince reportedly put roughly $1 billion into an account for his personal benefit.

Duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes were 7% of new home completions in 1979. In 2025, they're 1.1%.

Nebraska is facing a $700-800 million budget hole, and one option lawmakers are weighing is clawing back the property and income tax cuts they passed just a few years ago.

Halloween candy prices have jumped 45% over the past five years, with chocolate costs rising due to bad weather in cocoa-producing regions.

Teachers in Texas are donating plasma 2-3 times a week just to pay their bills. That's not a fringe story — that's middle-class financial survival in 2024.

The ambassadors who just presented credentials to Zelenskyy in Kyiv experienced a Russian ballistic missile strike the night before their meeting — Canada, Spain, Switzerland, Egypt, and Türkiye all represented.

The Lincoln Project's new Ohio ad argues Ramaswamy put a woman who defended her daughter's accused abuser in a campaign spot — and Stuart Stevens says they're running it everywhere digitally.

Military aid to Israel ranked as a top-three liability for congressional candidates in 2026, alongside data centers and the war in Iran — and Chuck Todd says the Israel result caught him off guard.

Google was found guilty of antitrust violations last year and the penalty was so small that its stock went up the next day and market cap grew by over $200 billion. Bodnar's using that as his case for why antitrust enforcement is broken.

A data center near Cedar Rapids got $529 million in property tax breaks and was only required to create 30 jobs. Iowa GOP gov candidate Zach Lahn says that deal needs to end.

Focus groups and polling now show a growing chunk of Republicans actively rejecting the MAGA label — citing broken promises on tariffs, Epstein, wars, and gas prices that never came down.

Don Lemon just pointed out that the woman campaigning for a man a jury found liable for sexual abuse is herself married to an alleged registered sex offender.

JD Vance, now VP, just admitted he couldn't pronounce the names of countries in the Middle East — said so himself while telling a story about gas prices.

Jeffries just named corruption alongside affordability as Democrats' two closing arguments — and specifically cited Epstein transparency as one of the fights they've been waging on the floor.

A pregnant woman on WIC is already calculating what her next recertification will look like six months out — because by then, she'll have a newborn who depends on formula.

DOGE staffers as young as 18 were given super admin status at federal agencies — no classified or personal data was off-limits — and nobody can confirm whether any of it was dragged and dropped to SpaceX servers.

Trump says DC restaurants were being robbed at gunpoint mid-service — "your hands are up, they're robbing the whole restaurant" — and claims it's no longer happening.