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Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) on Thursday urged Democratic Maine Senate candidate Nirav Shah to end his newly launched campaign, reviving prior criticism of his handling of a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak while he led Illinois’ …

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• Trump ‘left instructions’ to bomb Iran ‘at levels that they’ve never seen’ if he’s assassinated
  

   

• Secret Service advised Trump to not fly Qatari-gifted Air Force One
  
  

• McCarthy to Johnson: ‘Stop recessing’

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President Trump is taking the wind out of a potential GOP win as Republican frustrations mount over how he is handling the issue of affordability ahead of the midterms. 

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Republicans are growing increasingly frustrated that weeks of legislative gridlock have brought much of their agenda to a standstill, leaving lawmakers with a thin list of accomplishments to tout on the campaign trail. 

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Iran was developing a plan to kill President Trump, which Israeli intelligence shared with the U.S. earlier this week, according to reports. Trump himself said on Wednesday, as he departed the NATO summit in Turkey, that he was a target. The plot was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

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Democrat Graham Platner has formally withdrawn from the Maine Senate race, allowing members of the party to choose their new nominee this month.

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Caroline Sunshine, who served as an aide to President Trump during his first term, suggested Thursday that Vice President Vance was set up to take the blame for the failed memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the U.S. and Iran.

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The House will vote next week on legislation making daylight saving time permanent nationwide, reviving a years-long effort to eliminate the twice-yearly clock changes.

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Democrats’ chances of taking back control of the Senate have suffered with recent developments in Maine and Michigan, complicating their chances of winning the two critical battlegrounds.

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An attorney for the family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Houston man killed by immigration agents, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers’ account of the shooting is “completely false.”

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