Topic: US Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-13 08:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Wisconsin guard Nick Boyd, right, drives to the basket against Washington center Lathan Sommerville (24) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the third round of the Big 10 Conference tournament Thursday, March 12, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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[2026-03-13 08:11 UTC+10:00] [US military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The US already spent more than $11.3bn in first six days of conflict, but price tag does not include all spending
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[2026-03-13 08:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures during a ceremony in which she receives the keys to the city in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)
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[2026-03-13 08:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng on Sunday and Monday in Paris for a new round of trade talks, the Treasury Department said Thursday, paving the way for President Donald Trump’s state visit to Beijing starting March 31.
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[2026-03-13 08:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Washington, DC – In September, the United States began launching dozens of deadly military strikes against alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific.
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[2026-03-13 07:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Denver Broncos linebacker Dre Greenlaw runs during the second half of an NFL football game against the Washington Commanders, Nov. 30, 2025, in Landover, Md.. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams, File)
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[2026-03-13 07:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has said the US stands to gain financially from rising oil prices triggered by the war with Iran, drawing criticism from some lawmakers.
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[2026-03-13 07:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Iran's place in the men's FIFA World Cup is in doubt following US strikes on the country. (Reuters: West Asia News Agency/Majid Asgaripour)
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[2026-03-13 07:37 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-13 07:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: La líder opositora venezolana, María Corina Machado, hace un gesto durante una ceremonia en la que recibe las llaves de la ciudad en Santiago, Chile, el jueves 12 de marzo de 2026. (Foto AP/Gustavo Garello)
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[2026-03-13 07:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: NWSL: Portland Thorns vs. Washington Spirit — Prime Video
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[2026-03-13 06:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, campaigns for Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, who is running for an open U.S. Senate seat, at the Montclare Senior Residences of Avalon Park in Chicago, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Sophia Tareen)
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[2026-03-13 06:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri court has rejected a legal challenge to new U.S. House districts backed by President Donald Trump that are aimed at helping Republicans win an additional seat in the midterm elections.
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[2026-03-13 06:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani has warned the United States against escalating the war by hitting key energy infrastructure, after US President Donald Trump threatened to take out Iran’s electric capacity “within one hour”.
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[2026-03-13 06:26 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
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[2026-03-13 06:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has suggested Iran’s national football team should not take part in the upcoming 2026 Fifa World Cup in North America, suggesting that their safety could not be guaranteed.
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[2026-03-13 06:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Since starting a war with Iran caused oil and gasoline prices to spike, President Donald Trump has pivoted from a focus on keeping energy prices low to painting high oil prices as a positive.
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[2026-03-13 06:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is seen at the White House, Friday, March 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-03-13 06:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Karoline Leavitt has slammed an ABC News report warning of a potentially Iranian drone attack in California as “reckless” and “completely false.”The White House spokeswoman called the report that the FBI had quietly warned state law enforcement Iran might retaliate for US airstrikes a ”phony story” in a post to X Thursday – and demanding an immediate retraction.
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[2026-03-13 06:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: JD Vance is usually out front selling the president's policies, but has recently kept a noticeably lower profile. (Reuters: Eduardo Munoz)
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[2026-03-13 05:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats blocked a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security for the fourth time in the past month, as Transportation Security Administration agents are expected to miss their first paychecks this week.
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[2026-03-13 05:47 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The economic fallout of the US-Israeli assault and Tehran’s retaliation is spreading fast, and pushing the most vulnerable towards disaster
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[2026-03-13 05:39 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Welcome to our live rolling coverage of the conflict in the Middle East, this Friday March 13.
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[2026-03-13 05:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump is seen in his limousine, known as “The Beast,” for the motorcade to the White House after his arrival on Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
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[2026-03-13 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: PITTSBURGH (AP) — Christian Jones had 20 points in George Washington’s 66-62 win against Fordham on Thursday in the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament.
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[2026-03-13 05:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz has accused EU leaders of weakness over the US-Israeli war on Iran, warning that Brussels’ “servile” attitude toward US President Donald Trump risks fueling Euroskeptic sentiment.
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[2026-03-13 05:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz has accused EU leaders of weakness over the US-Israeli war on Iran, warning that Brussels’ “servile” attitude toward US President Donald Trump risks fueling Euroskeptic sentiment.
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[2026-03-13 05:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Pro-Iranian hackers are targeting sites in the Middle East and starting to stretch into the United States during the war, raising the risk of American defense contractors, power stations and water plants being swept into a wave of digital chaos that could expand if Tehran's allies join the fray.
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[2026-03-13 04:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Thursday that US military escorts for oil tankers through the crucial Strait of Hormuz “can’t happen now” but are “quite likely” to be in place by April — as Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to keep the waterway closed as a “tool to pressure the enemy” with higher energy prices.
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[2026-03-13 04:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The second Trump administration’s surge of interventionism has sent shockwaves across the globe. To Moscow, watching from the sidelines, this is long-awaited confirmation that the era of multilateralism has ended, replaced by the unapologetic return of Great Power politics.
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[2026-03-13 04:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Sen. Josh Hawley rolled out long-shot legislation this week to override the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, part of a two-drug regimen responsible for the majority of abortions in the US.
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[2026-03-13 04:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW YORK — Oil prices have soared since the US and Israel launched their war against Iran, and President Donald Trump is now turning to America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of a wider agreement from many of the world’s wealthiest countries to tap into emergency stockpiles.
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[2026-03-13 04:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The CEO of FireEye Kevin Mandia gives a tour of the cybersecurity company’s unused office space in Reston, Va., March 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Nathan Ellgren, file)
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[2026-03-13 04:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Eswatini’s King Mswati III speaks during a news conference after talks with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in the Serbia Palace in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
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[2026-03-13 04:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Donald Trump has said that it would not be appropriate for Iran’s national football team to participate in the FIFA World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the United States in the summer.
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[2026-03-13 04:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Republican Gov. Tate Reeves responds to a reporter’s question during a news conference Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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[2026-03-13 04:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives her the daily, morning news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, the day after the Mexican army killed Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho.” (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
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[2026-03-13 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The threat to Americans from international terrorist groups is “higher now than it’s been in decades” as the war against Iran nears the end of its second week, Sen. Ted Cruz has warned.
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[2026-03-13 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump is considering waiving the Jones Act to speed up oil shipments as his administration works to bring down gas prices.
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[2026-03-13 04:00 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Two weeks into Donald Trump’s campaign against Iran, the conflict is beginning to take on a shape that few strategists publicly predicted but many privately feared.
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[2026-03-13 03:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: For the past month, US President Donald Trump and his secretaries of state and of war have emphasised a vision of the United States as a white Christian European nation at war with the non-Christian, non-white world.
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[2026-03-13 03:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The U.S. Capitol photographed Wednesday, March 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
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[2026-03-13 03:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The Senate passed on a bipartisan basis a bill barring Wall Street investors from buying up single-family homes, sending the legislation back to the House where it faces an uphill battle before reaching President Trump’s desk.
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[2026-03-13 03:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: An Illinois-based Costco shopper is suing the big-box retailer for tariff refunds in a possible class-action case after President Trump’s core import taxes were overruled last month.
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[2026-03-13 03:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Pentagon cut ties with Anthropic because use of its artificial intelligence models would “pollute” the US military’s supply chain, a top War Department official claimed Thursday.
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[2026-03-13 03:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, baja del Air Force One en el base de Andrews, Maryland, el miércoles 11 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Luis M. Álvarez)
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[2026-03-13 03:04 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The US president says higher oil prices benefit the country as Iran war pushes petrol costs above $100 per barrel
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[2026-03-13 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Irans’s players pose for a team photo before an Asian group A qualifying soccer match against North Korea for the 2026 World Cup, June 10, 2025, at Azadi Stadium in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)
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[2026-03-13 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-13 02:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The View sounded off on United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and the U.S. Department of Defense in the wake of a fatal missile strike at an elementary school in Iran, and also took a moment to call out the Pentagon’s reported spending.
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