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What to expect in the Illinois primary

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💥 Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: illinois,JB Pritzker,Vote 2026 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — Illinois' multiple political realities will converge on Tuesday when the state holds a primary shaped by comeback bids, the retirement of longtime incumbents and the looming 2028 presidential campaign. Voters will choose candidates for a full slate of offices, including governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, state Legislature and local offices. He is leading the race to succeed Democratic US Senator Dick Durbin, who is retiring after five terms. Among the Democrats running there are US…

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Trump says White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has early-stage breast cancer, but will continue to work during treatment

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✨ Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: breast cancer,Donald Trump news,Susie Wiles 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer but will continue to work during her treatment, President Donald Trump said in a social media post Monday. Trump said Wiles' prognosis was "excellent" and called her "one of the strongest people I know." He said Wiles plans to begin treatment immediately, but did not indicate that she would step back from her role as one of his closest advisors. He…

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Congressional Republicans are resisting calls to hold hearings on the Iran war, creating a new standoff with Democrats

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🔥 Read this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: congress,iran attacks ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States' war with Iran is entering its third week, but Congress has yet to publicly test the Trump administration's case for the conflict. Republicans in Congress have so far avoided public debate about the war, even as Senate Democrats have used every tool at their disposal to demand hearings with Trump administration officials. Increasingly frustrated, Democrats are threatening this week to force a series of votes on the war, hoping efforts to modify the Senate voting…

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Trump threatens to ‘blow hell’ on Iran’s Kharg Island in impromptu phone call with PBS News

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,iran war ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: US President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to strike Iran's Kharg Island again after last week's attack that destroyed key military facilities, saying: "I told them straight out - I'll beat the hell out of her." The comments came during a three-minute phone call Monday morning with PBS News correspondent Liz Landers, while the president was attending what he described as a "very important meeting" on the Iran war. Trump announced Friday on Truth Social that he had "completely…

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Trump suggests he may postpone his trip to China because of the war with Iran, but Besant says it’s not about pressure on the Strait of Hormuz

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: China,Donald Trump news,iran attacks,Strait of Hormuz 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump may postpone his trip to China because of the war with Iran, but Treasury Secretary Scott Besent said Monday it's not to pressure Beijing over the Strait of Hormuz. Read more: Tehran claims the US attacked it from the UAE as the Iran war enters its third week Besant said any delays to Trump's trip to Beijing at the end of the month would not be due to disagreements over the…

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AP Analysis: After two weeks of war with Iran, Trump has reversed his policy stance

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💥 Explore this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: analysis,Donald Trump news,iran attacks,iran war 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In the past two weeks since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, President Donald Trump has been increasingly politically hammered. He has become increasingly agitated with news coverage, failing to find a way to explain why he started the war — or how he would end it — that resonates with a public wary of American deaths in the conflict, rising oil prices and declining financial markets. Even some…

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WATCH: Pirro slams judge blocking Justice Department subpoenas to Feds in Powell investigation

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Department of Justice,Donald Trump news,Federal reserve,james boasberg,Jeanine Pirro,Jerome Powell 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday threw out subpoenas the Justice Department issued to the Federal Reserve in January, a severe blow to an investigation that had already drawn strong criticism on Capitol Hill. The investigation into testimony by Chairman Jerome Powell last June about the building's $2.5 billion renovation also delayed Senate consideration of Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump's pick to replace Powell when his term expires on May 15. He…

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WATCH: Rollins says US is working on solutions to keep fertilizer costs low for farmers amid Iran war

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💥 Read this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: brooke rollins,farmers,fertilizer,iran attacks,u.s. department of agriculture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Trump administration is looking to help American farmers cope with war-related high fertilizer prices. Watch in the video player above. “We are looking at all possible ways to keep fertilizer costs low as these farmers go into the growing season,” Agriculture Secretary Brock Rollins said Friday. He watches: Hesgeth says more than 15,000 enemy targets have been struck in the Iranian conflict Speaking to reporters at the White House, Rollins said she had held talks on…

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The US State Department reduces US citizenship waiver fees by 80% to $450

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🔥 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: State Department,U.S. citizenship 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Washington (AFP) - The US State Department has reduced by 80% the fees imposed on Americans to officially renounce their US citizenship. After years of legal battles with several groups representing Americans who want to renounce their citizenship, the department on Friday published a final rule in the Federal Register that reduces the cost from $2,350 to $450. Read more: Nonprofit libraries were ordered by the State Department to stop processing passport applications The new fees, which took effect Friday,…

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Brooks and Keyhart talk about Trump’s mixed signals on the Iran war

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💥 Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Brooks and Capehart 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Jeff Bennett: As the war in Iran intensifies, President Trump this week sent mixed messages about when the war could end. The attacks here in the United States sparked a wave of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric.To discuss this further, we turn to Brooks and Capehart's analysis. These are The Atlantic's David Brooks and MS NOW's Jonathan Capehart.Always great to see you both.So, Jonathan, on Iran, if the goal is to weaken Iran and stabilize the region, the early picture looks…

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