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Trump says he’ll send everyone $5,000. The math behind it doesn’t match his own numbers

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President Trump is leaning into his vow to pay a $5,000 “dividend” to every U.S. adult citizen if Republicans win the midterms, saying he will pay the mammoth tab by tapping into surging investment in U.S. manufacturing.

Democrat James Talarico mixes liberal politics with Christianity in Texas run for U.S. Senate

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James Talarico has been sounding the same alarm for years: Christian nationalism, he argues, threatens both Christianity and American democracy.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Texas state Rep. James Talarico speaks at a food drive at the Frederick Douglass Human Services and Justice Center, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

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D.C.’s housing authority paid for 17 sex offenders, 13 ineligible immigrants

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DOJ has charged more noncitizen voting cases since September than Biden did in 4 years

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D.C.’s housing authority paid for 17 sex offenders, 13 ineligible immigrants

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Devin Jacob Ballard, a U.S. Marine who has been in custody in an alleged robbery and murder of a woman on Japan's southern island of Okinawa, is sent over to the Naha prosecutors' office in Japan, Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. (Kotaro Ueda/Kyodo News via AP)

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President Donald Trump, center right, shakes the hand of China's President Xi Jinping as first lady Melania Trump, right, and China's first lady Peng Liyuan, left, watch as they arrive at the National Archives Museum, Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

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In this photo provided by Ukraine's 65th Mechanized Brigade press service, a Ukrainian soldier prepares an FPV drone to fire towards Russian positions in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026. (Andriy Andriyenko/Ukraine's 65th Mechanized Brigade via AP)

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Trump doxes Tom Cotton over daylight saving time bill

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President Richard M. Nixon points to the transcripts of the White House tapes after he announced during a nationally televised speech that he would turn over the transcripts to House impeachment investigators in Washington on April 29, 1974. In 1974, Richard Nixon may well have avoided criminal charges on obstruction of justice or bribery, related to the Watergate scandal, only because President Gerald Ford pardoned him just weeks after Nixon resigned the presidency. (AP Photo/File)

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Jack Smith spotted in ‘No Kings’ T-shirt at ‘Power to the People’ music festival

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Botched Tennessee execution renews debate over lethal injection

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‘Jane Doe’ lawyer says more than seven men were involved in alleged Cornell rape

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Christa Pike remains unconcious, her lawyer says, after surviving botched Tennessee execution

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Could Russia’s tactics pull Germany, and NATO, into war? Berlin’s spy chief warns of the risk

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Devin Jacob Ballard, a U.S. Marine who has been in custody in an alleged robbery and murder of a woman on Japan's southern island of Okinawa, is sent over to the Naha prosecutors' office in Japan, Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. (Kotaro Ueda/Kyodo News via AP)

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