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Could Russia’s tactics pull Germany, and NATO, into war? Berlin’s spy chief sounds alarm

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, centre, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speak to media with National Academy of science building damaged after a Russian drone strike, on the background, Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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German intelligence officials warned of a widening conflict in Europe with Russia on Monday after attacks on Kyiv during German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s visit to the Ukrainian capital on Sunday.

Senate candidates prep for a flurry of October debates — but not everywhere

From left, U.S. Senate candidates Shenna Bellows, Troy Jackson, Dr. Nirav Shah, and Jordan Wood prepare for their televised debate at the WCSH-6 studio Thursday, July 16, 2026, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Debate season is about to pick up speed, at least in the states where candidates have agreed to take the stage.

From left, U.S. Senate candidates Shenna Bellows, Troy Jackson, Dr. Nirav Shah, and Jordan Wood prepare for their televised debate at the WCSH-6 studio Thursday, July 16, 2026, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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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)

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

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President Donald Trump dances as he departs after speaking during an event at Butler High School in Vandalia, Ohio, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., speaks at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemoration at the South Carolina Statehouse, Jan. 19, 2026, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File)

Khanna’s staff ratifies first long-term union contract in Congress

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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)

Ex-Watergate investigator calls Justice Department review of 1970s probe a ‘fairy tale’

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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., speaks at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemoration at the South Carolina Statehouse, Jan. 19, 2026, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File)

Khanna’s staff ratifies first long-term union contract in Congress

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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)

Ex-Watergate investigator calls Justice Department review of 1970s probe a ‘fairy tale’

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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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Green energy’s instability a national security risk

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Kash Patel and country singer Alexis Wilkins announce engagement

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Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks at the Republican convention, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Karoline Leavitt to join Fox News as contributor

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Hegseth teases shift of U.S. troops from Europe to Latin America

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Coast Guard restoring full operations at six stations after recruiting increases

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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)

Taiwan navigates dangerous diplomatic waters between Trump, Xi 52 minutes ago

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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)

Ukraine war forcing U.S. defense companies to rethink how weapons are built

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Trump appoints intel chief Jay Clayton to coordinate federal government’s use of AI

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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., takes questions from reporters as senators depart a classified briefing on President Donald Trump's directed strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities last weekend, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump doxes Tom Cotton over daylight saving time bill

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Trump nixes talk of a diesel-export ban after Europe taps stockpiles

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President Donald Trump gestures at a campaign rally at The Mitchell Center in Mobile, Ala., Friday, Oct. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump sends $90 checks to 20 million senior citizens ahead of midterms

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From left, U.S. Senate candidates Shenna Bellows, Troy Jackson, Dr. Nirav Shah, and Jordan Wood prepare for their televised debate at the WCSH-6 studio Thursday, July 16, 2026, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Senate candidates prep for a flurry of October debates — but not everywhere

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times 29 minutes ago

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)

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

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President Donald Trump dances as he departs after speaking during an event at Butler High School in Vandalia, Ohio, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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Former President Barack Obama speaks during the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center, June 18, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., speaks at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemoration at the South Carolina Statehouse, Jan. 19, 2026, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File)

Khanna’s staff ratifies first long-term union contract in Congress

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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)

Ex-Watergate investigator calls Justice Department review of 1970s probe a ‘fairy tale’

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

The U.S. flag flies in front of the Capitol in Washington on June 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) **FILE**

Precis AI to roll out Willard tool for the Washington policy crowd

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Activists take a stand as the Supreme Court begins its new term with a case about whether oil and gas companies should help pay for damage caused by disasters linked to climate change, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court wades into climate change dispute between energy companies and states 37 minutes ago

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito attends a meeting in Rome, Sept. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Alito says he knows who leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Festivalgoers wave their arms during a performance at the Power To The People Festival on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026, in Columbia, Md. (AP Photo/Alyssa Piazza)

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

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Emergency vehicles arrive at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution after the execution of Christa Pike was halted Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Botched Tennessee execution renews debate over lethal injection

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Harvard faces backlash against push to hire conservative faculty

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A nurse, prepares a combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine for a patient at a pediatrics clinic in Easley, S.C., March 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File)

Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.

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This combination of photos released by the U.S. Army taken on May 16, 2025, shows from top left, Sgt. Declan Coady, Master Sgt. Class Nicole Amor, Maj. Cody Khork, Master Sgt. Class Noah Tietjens, Maj. Jeffrey O’Brien and Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan, after they were killed following an Iranian drone strike on March 1, 2026, in Port Shuaiba in Kuwait. (U.S. Army via AP)

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

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, centre, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speak to media with National Academy of science building damaged after a Russian drone strike, on the background, Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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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)

Marine arrested in slaying of Okinawan woman; Japan seeks apology from U.S.

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Then-Army Secretary Dan Driscoll speaks at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., during the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit on July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

Driscoll speaks out for first time since ouster by Hegseth as Army secretary

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This undated photo released by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, shows the institute workers in a lab. (The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East via AP)

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