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Chuck Grassley

Chuck Grassley

United States Senator from Iowa since 1981

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  • Oct 1

    Senator Marsha Blackburn blocks Donald Trump's judicial pick Samuel Adkisson in Tennessee

    Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn declined to submit a blue slip for White House lawyer Samuel Adkisson, halting his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

  • Oct 1

    Trump weighs US diesel export ban as fuel prices top $6.50 per gallon

    President Donald Trump held emergency consultations on curbing American diesel exports to lower domestic fuel costs, facing pushback from oil producers and foreign allies.

  • Sep 22

    US weighs voluntary limits on diesel exports as pump prices hit $6.52

    Energy Secretary Chris Wright contacted American refiners to discuss voluntary export reductions after diesel climbed to $6.52 a gallon ahead of the November midterms.

  • Sep 22

    Republican Senator John Curtis urges subpoena of Donald Trump Jr. over oligarch-funded wedding

    Utah Senator John Curtis called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden over business dealings and foreign payments connected to a Bahamas wedding.

  • Jun 2

    Trump backs off $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' fund after GOP rebellion and court order

    President Trump is reconsidering a controversial $1.776 billion fund to compensate his allies after facing fierce opposition from his own party and a federal court order temporarily halting the program.

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A Peshawar school roof collapses

Zelensky resumes refinery strikes as Peshawar school collapse kills dozens of children

Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine has resumed strikes on Russian refineries after a roughly three-day US-requested pause, as Kyiv counted more than 850 Shahed drones between midnight and 9am on 15 October. In Peshawar, a private-school roof collapsed onto classrooms, killing at least 32 children and a teacher in the latest hospital count.

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  • Ukraine Patriot missile supply depleted

    Ukraine has exhausted its inventory of Patriot air-defense missiles, CNN reports, citing official sources.

  • EU summit opens in Brussels

    EU leaders fail to reach a budget deal in Brussels and ask Council President António Costa to draft a revised compromise proposal.

  • Oregon elementary school shooting

    CBS and CNN report the Bend school shooter was a 16-year-old boy, citing law enforcement sources. Police have not confirmed who shot him.

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Culture, media and the new divides

Poland's TVN security review and AgoraEU funding warnings are national-level steps, not new EU-wide rules or rulings.

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