Politics
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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.
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Trump’s tariffs, Ayotte inaction squeeze a beloved New Hampshire farm
Touring Bohanan Farm on Friday, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cinde Warmington heard what Trump’s tariffs are costing a fifth-generation Hopkinton dairy operation and pitched a state gas tax suspension for immediate relief at the pump.
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UNH poll: Trump’s slide in New Hampshire deepens. Ayotte and Sununu are running in his shadow
New Granite State Poll data puts the president at 37% approval, with the sharpest fresh erosion on his handling of the economy. President Donald Trump’s job approval in New Hampshire fell to 37% according to Granite State Poll data released Wednesday by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, with 62% of residents disapproving. His…
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She called for armed conflict with Iran for 10 years. Now it’s here, raising prices, and Kelly Ayotte is silent.
While in the US Senate, Kelly Ayotte (R) tried to kill Obama’s diplomacy with Iran, branded his deal a capitulation, and demanded armed confrontation for years. Now that war—which Trump twice promised would end in “total victory” within two weeks—is grinding into its fifth month and hardening into the kind of forever war Trump once…
