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US vice-president writes to top Iranian security official in sign Washington has not abandoned diplomacy Hopes of averting a major new conflagration between Iran and the US soon after Tuesday’s midterm elections could rest on Iran’s response to a personal letter from the US vice-president, JD Vance, offering to restart diplomacy. The letter, written after predominantly Qatari mediation, was sent to the secretary of Iran’s supreme national security council, Mohsen Rezaei on Sunday. It requires Tehran to agree to make commitments on its nuclear programme at the start of a process that would lead to the opening of the strait of Hormuz within seven days in return for US sanctions relief. Continue reading...

A federal judge has ruled that chronically ill people on Medicaid won’t be bound by new work requirement rules that the latest Trump administration guidance requires in order to qualify for “medically frail” exemptions

Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs shot back at the Department of Justice (DOJ) for asking him to order his election officials to set aside ballots for hundreds of people the federal government identified as alleged non-U.S. citizens. In a Wednesday response to the DOJ’s request, Hobbs said, “Without individualized proof of ineligibility, it would…

As the election approaches, it is more clear than ever that the president values loyalty over all else.

The GOP Senate candidate keeps changing the same old story.

A woman has been shot just outside the Republican Party of Virginia's offices in Richmond

The Justice Department has sent subpoenas to Democrat Mary Peltola’s Senate campaign and the campaign of the second Dan Sullivan running in Alaska following a report that leftist operatives recruited the challenger to confuse voters and draw votes from the Republican incumbent, Sen. Dan S. Sullivan. A U.S. official told NBC News that investigators had ...

The Alaska Division of Elections reported roughly 58,000 early ballots cast as Dan Sullivan faces a same-name independent challenger on the ballot.

Chinese state media outlets issued scathing condemnations of Sanrio, the Japanese company behind characters such as Hello Kitty, over a TV collaboration. The post China Declares War on Hello Kitty over Japanese TV Collaboration appeared first on Breitbart .

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter rejected the Justice Department's demand that California officials segregate ballots from 20,000 voters it describes as "likely noncitizens."

A new study from NewsBusters shows networks are piling on the negative for GOP candidates while keeping negativity at bay for Dems.

President orders trade talks on foreign-made factory robots, threatens tariffs.

The state filed 14 criminal counts against the prediction market and its co-founders after an undercover agent wagered $114.87 on sporting events.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch a criminal investigation into Bank of America for its violations of anti-money laundering laws. In a letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Massachusetts Democrat called the Treasury Department’s recent $1.21 billion fine of Bank of America a “slap on…

The federal government has appealed a court decision allowing California to count ballots allegedly sent to noncitizen voters

The astronauts of NASA's Artemis III mission met with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday (Oct. 28), just as the Artemis II spaceflyers did six months ago.

President Trump ensured Flávio Bolsonaro, who lost a presidential election in Brazil and faces multiple criminal investigations there, could enter the United States, U.S. officials said.

Cohen on Thursday introduced a proposed overhaul of the Controlled Substances Act, challenging decades of misguided assumptions.