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Trump says DC restaurants were being robbed at gunpoint mid-service — "your hands are up, they're robbing the whole restaurant" — and claims it's no longer happening.
Trump just said Venezuela "sent me as a gift a boatload of a million barrels of oil" after claiming the U.S. "took over Venezuela very successfully." No context given on what either of those things means.
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Diesel is nearly $7 a gallon in central Florida right now, with regular gas at $4.79 — and residents are blaming Trump's Iran policy for the spike.
Trump hasn't been to Mississippi in seven years and his own side is already warning he won't spend the night — that's the rally Hyde-Smith is getting.
Obama made one offhand Cheesecake Factory joke about White House renovations and Trump spent two full minutes at a rally defending his plasterwork and tile choices in response.
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A local official says diesel doubling from $3 to $6 a gallon is eating into firefighting budgets — and fire trucks have to idle the entire time they're pumping.
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Jeffries says Republicans gerrymandered nine seats in Texas and Florida — and Democrats plan to win several of them on election day anyway.
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Warren on day 640 of Trump's second term: costs are up across gas, groceries, housing, and healthcare — and she's laying it directly on Trump's policies, not market forces.
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A Dem strategist is so confident in the gas-and-groceries attack on Trump that he's running it unchanged, full speed, until November 3rd.
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Former Trump White House staffer Sarah Matthews says Trump's sons landed Pentagon contracts for businesses they had zero involvement in before Trump took office again.
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Wayne County set aside $7M and erased up to $700M in medical debt for 300,000 families — about a penny on the dollar. 100,000 families have already gotten the letters.
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Airline ticket prices are hitting decade highs — and jet fuel costs driven by the war in Iran are the main reason.
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Shaheen says Trump is negotiating around a congressionally enacted sanctions bill to cut a deal with Putin for "a day's worth of diesel" — her words, not a paraphrase.
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43% of builders cut prices in October — the highest share since 2020 — and nearly two-thirds have been offering sales incentives for 19 straight months. Home builder confidence just hit its lowest point since 2012.
Benson asked her rally crowd point-blank if they wanted John James leading Michigan, got a loud "No," then promised to fight anyone who stands in the way of voting rights or privacy.
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Data centers gave Lombardo $2 million. He gave them $240 million in tax breaks. Ford is making that the centerpiece of his argument against the governor.
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Trump just told reporters he's thinking about striking Iran "maybe tomorrow" — then immediately said he wouldn't confirm it if he was actually going to do it.
Flanagan's contrast with Tafoya in one line: Tafoya belongs to a yacht club with a $140,000 initiation fee and owns a Florida mansion. Flanagan: "I have never been more proud to call Minnesota my home."
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Filling a standard heating oil tank in Maine now runs $1,800 — $700 more than last year — and it won't last more than a few weeks. That number is reportedly one of the biggest things on Susan Collins' mind right now.
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JVL's argument that Trump could blame Democrats for rising gas prices after re-escalating with Iran rests on this: 40% of Lay's potato chip buyers didn't know they were made from potatoes. His point is that you can't assume something is too dumb to work.
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