Politics
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Hassan demands details on Trump accounts closed over money laundering red flags
Capital One told a federal court it shut Trump-affiliated bank accounts after its anti-money laundering team found “suspicious transactions.” Hassan wants to know what those transactions were, and whether anyone told law enforcement.
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Hassan makes rare primary endorsement, backing Stefany Shaheen for Congress
Sitting senators almost never pick sides in contested primaries in their own state. Hassan just did, with the Democratic race for New Hampshire’s open US House seat deadlocked and 12 days left.
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Sullivan overtakes Shaheen in back-to-back polls ahead of Sept. 8 primary
Two polls released in the past week put the Marine Corps veteran narrowly ahead of the longtime frontrunner for the first time, with both leads inside the margin of error and less than two weeks to go. For the first time since the race began, Maura Sullivan leads Stefany Shaheen in the contest for the…
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Hassan and Shaheen are leading the US Senate fight against Trump’s ICE
New Hampshire’s two US Senators have spent 2026 at the center of the congressional pushback against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), helping kill a planned detention warehouse in Merrimack and forcing the agency’s then director to admit that its shooting investigations were biased from the top.
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Ayotte co-headlines New Hampshire multimillionaire’s comeback after Epstein files scandal
The governor and the inventor hold the marquee slots at this week’s Freedom Summit in Manchester. Ayotte arrives with a fresh Epstein donor problem; Kamen returns to a big stage five months after resigning from the nonprofit he spent 37 years building. UPDATE: Gov. Kelly Ayotte cancelled her appearance at the tech conference last-minute, citing…
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NH Dems want to know if Ayotte is making millions off the housing crisis
Ayotte left the board of directors of the world’s largest corporate landlord when she took the governor’s office. Whether she kept the shares is a question state disclosure law does not answer.
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Sununu campaigns with ex-cop suspended over conduct with 15-year-old high school student
The Republican Senate candidate posed for photos alongside Jon Stone, whose police disciplinary file detailed his conduct with a 15-year-old student and threats to massacre his own department, two years after Kelly Ayotte campaigned at the same Claremont gun shop.
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Trump-backed DiLorenzo runs against China. His newest endorser lobbies for it
Anthony DiLorenzo says he’ll stop China from stealing American technology and buying American land. His newest endorser is paid to lobby for a company on the Pentagon’s list of Chinese military firms.
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NH GOP dismantled Sununu Youth center oversight. Now they’re fighting a federal probe
Rep. Maggie Goodlander is asking the US Department of Justice to investigate the Sununu Youth Services Center after two watchdogs documented new abuse. The Republican officials dismissing her request have overseen the facility through decades of scandal, weakened its independent oversight, and produced state reviews that survivors and advocates say cleared the state of responsibility.
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‘Insane’: Pappas rips Trump move that could raise drug costs for 174,000 in NH
The Trump administration killed the subsidy holding down Medicare drug plan premiums. Pappas is fighting to restore it, and says likely Senate rival John Sununu stands with Big Pharma.
