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Left-wing Texas Senate candidate James Talarico says he opposes defunding the police and has a "proven track record" of supporting law enforcement. Perhaps that is true now, but in 2022, he called to slash police and prison budgets and redirect the money to social programs, a move he argued would "make prisons obsolete," video footage shows. Talarico's remarks came during a 2022 speech he delivered to a group of Texas inmates graduating from a high school diploma program. After approvingly quoting the prominent prison abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore—Talarico described her as an "anti-prison activist" who said "prisons are a catchall solution to our social problems"

I'll take a wild guess and say ... the Democratic Socialists of America? Obviously, but they're not alone. Give Politico some credit in this report from the House GOP confab this morning. The word pounce never appears. And readers have to get to the penultimate paragraph before seeing the word seized. Otherwise, we all know what Politico wants to say in this reaction from The Morning After, when Democrat establishmentarians more or less find themselves on the ceiling of the ballroom of the Poseidon after the tsunami. Republicans may not be pouncing yet, but they're coiling themselves in anticipation of the messaging bonanza to come: Inside a closed-door House GOP meeting

Brits visiting the United States for the first time for the 2026 World Cup are apologizing to Americans on social media. “We owe America a huge apology,” one fan from England said. Foreign World Cup fans have been traveling to various towns across the country this month to watch games, allowing them to get a glimpse of life in the United States, and some have taken to social media to admit they have been pleasantly surprised. “We owe America a huge apology, because America is nothing like the media tells us. Everyone is so friendly, everyone is so accommodating, and I’ve honestly had the best time,”

Second Lady Usha Vance took to social media Wednesday afternoon to have some fun at the expense of the New York Times, which had just published an absurd article in which the author vigorously clutched her pearls over the recent MAGA baby boom. Egads, wrote Vanessa Friedman (who is apparently the paper's chief fashion critic), not only is Vance enjoying her pregnancy, she's flaunting it for all to see! To which Mrs. Vance basically replied, "Oh well." Friedman's premise seemed to be that the second lady – along with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Katie Miller, wife of Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller,

RNC (Republican National Committee) Chairman Joe Gruters was making the media rounds after Tuesday's New York primary, pointing out that Republicans are not only on offense for the midterms, but have a good chance to hold and flip even more seats in the Empire State — especially after the Mamdani/Democrat Socialist takeover on Tuesday night. Gruters dubbed the New York Democrat socialist slate accurately: "leftwing wackadoos who only a mother could love." But that doesn't mean he is taking any chances on New York. The RNC has a war chest of $123.8 million cash on hand, which means they have money to play with. Like epically trolling

President Donald Trump's meeting with Senate Republicans might have been meant to find a way to pass voter ID and citizenship verification legislation, but it devolved into a tense shouting match over the war in Iran. Tensions among Senate Republicans were already simmering with Trump over his last-minute decision to nuke the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, a bipartisan housing package filled with his priorities that the GOP viewed as an easy win to sell to voters in the upcoming midterm elections. Trump described the closed-door affair in a positive light afterward. "I think we had a really great meeting, and we're very proud of the party,"

CARACAS, Venezuela — Powerful back-to-back earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday evening, causing widespread damage, collapsing buildings and sending panicked residents into the streets. The 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes roiled the region, with buildings evacuated in cities as far away as Brazil’s Amazon, about 1,700 kilometers (1,050 miles) from Caracas. In a brief address to the nation late Wednesday, acting President Delcy Rodríguez said the earthquakes caused damages in several states, but she did not give any figures on the number of homes and buildings affected, or on injuries or fatalities. The earthquakes damaged the country’s main airport, Simón Bolívar International Airport, severely