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Vance Issues Reality Check To Israel: America Is Your Only Ally, Start Acting Like It

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'Anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the president of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in,' Vance said.

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Bill Pulte assumes role of US acting director of national intelligence

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Bill Pulte assumes role of US acting director of national intelligence

Head of Federal Housing Finance Agency who investigated Trump’s enemies takes over top intelligence roleTimeline of Bill Pulte’s appointment as acting director of national intelligenceBill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, became the acting director of national intelligence (DNI) on Friday, following a tug-of-war between Donald Trump and Washington lawmakers over the short-term future of the cabinet intelligence post.Tulsi Gabbard, the outgoing DNI, initially planned to leave her post on 30 June, but Trump shortened her tenure to Friday. Senators planned to confirm Jay Clayton, the president’s DNI nominee, by Friday, which would have denied Pulte an opportunity to serve as acting director. But Trump abruptly called off on Wednesday a Senate confirmation hearing for Clayton and directed him not to appear in front of Senate lawmakers. Continue reading...

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Timeline of Bill Pulte’s appointment as acting director of national intelligence

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Timeline of Bill Pulte’s appointment as acting director of national intelligence

Trump loyalist’s rise to lead US spy agencies sparked firestorm over his lack of experience and partisanshipBill Pulte assumes role of US acting director of national intelligenceBill Pulte took the reins on Friday as the acting director of national intelligence, placing the staunch Trump loyalist in charge of America’s intelligence apparatus.Pulte’s path to the job began with the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard last month, and Trump’s selection of Pulte for the interim job set off a firestorm in Washington as senators from both parties criticized Pulte’s almost total lack of experience for the job, as well as his practiced dedication to retaliating against Trump’s political rivals. Continue reading...

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Iran Deal Puts Vance in the Hot Seat

Thursday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Phil Wegmann discuss the political fallout from Trump's 14-point MOU to end the war with Iran: does it represent a diplomatic opening or a capitulation? They also cover the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, the stakes for JD Vance as he defends the Iran deal, Vance's fraud task force targeting unemployment benefits, and the World Cup/patriotism debate.

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Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

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Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. We begin with our 2021 interview with historian Clint Smith, originally aired a day after President Biden signed legislation to make Juneteenth the first new federal holiday since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Smith is the author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. “When I think of Juneteenth, part of what I think about is the both/andedness of it,” Smith says, “that it is this moment in which we mourn the fact that freedom was kept from hundreds of thousands of enslaved people for years and for months after it had been attained by them, and then, at the same time, celebrating the end of one of the most egregious things that this country has ever done.” Smith says he recognizes the federal holiday marking Juneteenth as a symbol, “but it is clearly not enough.”

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Big dogs, Buc-ee's and the great BBQ debate: World Cup fans discover everyday America

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Big dogs, Buc-ee's and the great BBQ debate: World Cup fans discover everyday America

After a week of the World Cup, visitors to the U.S. are marveling on social media about things like free drink refills. It's a respite as tensions between Washington and its allies run high.

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Interest rate cut not likely on the table, even after Iran deal and somewhat falling oil prices

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Interest rate cut not likely on the table, even after Iran deal and somewhat falling oil prices

The announcement of an end-of-hostility deal between the United States and Iran has done little to shift investor expectations that the Federal Reserve will hold or even raise interest rates this year, even as oil prices fall in response to the apparent diplomatic breakthrough. President Donald Trump recently announced the planned signing of the ceasefire […]

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Democrat Hannah Pingree and MAGA ally Bobby Charles will face off for Maine governor

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Democrat Hannah Pingree and MAGA ally Bobby Charles will face off for Maine governor

Both emerged from the state’s ranked choice voting process early Friday morning.

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Lebanon strikes by Israel test US-Iran deal as peace talks postponed

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Lebanon strikes by Israel test US-Iran deal as peace talks postponed

Renewed fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed militia group Hezbollah is testing a preliminary deal between the U.S. and Iran to begin nuclear talks and avoid a return to all out war. Iran has made a ceasefire in Lebanon, where Hezbollah is based, a priority condition to continue talks with the U.S., and a planned…

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