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TikTok has finalized its U.S. joint venture, ending saga over its fate
The long and winding road over the fate of TikTok — the enormously popular social video platform that has been a force in American youth…
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Here Are All the Democrats Who Voted to Keep Funding ICE
In apparent blissful ignorance of the country’s ICE-induced bedlam, several House Democrats voted alongside nearly every Republican member…
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Jack Smith Reminds Us: Aileen Cannon Is Still Destroying America
First: I do not understand why the Democrats haven’t been shouting about Grijalva nonstop, making sure America knows how many days it’s…
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Rail fracture possible cause of deadly Spanish train accident
An official investigation commission has identified a rail fracture as a possible cause of the devastating train accident in southern…
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Trump Official Tries to Turn Capitol Hill Into an IndyCar Race Venue
But the board’s charter, as circulated to dozens of nations last week, makes little mention of Gaza. Instead, its goals appear to be as…
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Turns Out FBI Director Kash Patel Hates Reading
FBI Director Kash Patel doesn’t like to read briefings. Forty-five current FBI employees spoke to The New York Times about the state of…
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Trump Says His Hand Is Bruised Because He Takes “Big Aspirin”
Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services cut off $10 billion in funding for social services such as childcare and…
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US stocks open lower as Intel weighs
stocks opened mostly lower on Friday (Jan 23), putting the main indexes on track for a second consecutive weekly drop, as Intel tumbled on…
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Testify To Ambition And Touch The Sky
I’ve built companies through messy markets and wild swings. That grind taught me something simple: attitude sets the ceiling. If you want…
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Watch Trump Try to Defend $1 Billion Price Tag on His “Board of Peace”
Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services cut off $10 billion in funding for social services such as childcare and…
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Trump Disinvites Mark Carney From Board of Peace After Davos Speech
Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services cut off $10 billion in funding for social services such as childcare and…
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ICE Arrested Half-Naked Man While Looking for Someone Already in Jail
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents dragged a half-naked elderly grandfather out into the snow in handcuffs while on a manhunt—but…
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EU to send nearly 450 generators to Ukraine amid brutal winter
The European Union is set to deliver almost 450 emergency generators to Ukraine following massive Russian attacks on the country's energy…
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French government survives no-confidence vote amid budget wrangling
France's minority government led by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has once again survived two votes of no confidence brought by the…
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Mandela's prison key, sunglasses and shirt can be sold after daughter wins court battle
A South African court has dismissed an appeal by the country's heritage body to stop the sale and export of various artefacts connected to…
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The Leo Strauss Letter That Previewed a Modern-Day Divide
As 65-year-old letters between conservative heavyweights reveal, the right’s internecine clashes on foreign policy are nothing new. Source…
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Is Universal Childcare the Democrats’ Winning Issue This Year?
An important component to all of these plans will be raising provider pay and trying to build on the network of experienced programs that…
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Why Europe's far right has split with Trump over Greenland
NUUK, Greenland — One year ago, days before Donald Trump reclaimed power, the head of Denmark’s People’s Party took a trip to Mar-a-Lago.…
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Challenging Official Histories in “Natchez” and “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”
Rev displays the rhetorical power, leavened with humor and warmth, of a skilled public speaker, but many others are charismatic, too.…
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Those Nine Democrats Were Wrong to Vote the Clintons in Contempt
Comer: I didn’t—I wasn’t paying attention to your question. Stansbury: OK, we’re here pursuant to a motion you brought for contempt. And…
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Louise Bourgeois’s Art Can Still Enthrall
In recent years, Noche Flamenca, New York’s finest flamenco troupe, has been taking inspiration from the art of Francisco Goya. The…
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How Do You Write About the Inexplicable?
I’m a rational person. I grew up in a family of scientists. My dad, who studied the brain, told me when I was a kid that Santa and God…
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If Anyone Can Pull Off a General Strike, It’s Minnesotans
The Minnesota movement thinks, as political philosopher Rodrigo Nunes puts it in Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal, ecologically: It brings…
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Trump’s Terrifying Davos Speech Is a Wake-up Call to the Global Elite
On Wednesday, President Trump traveled to Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum and delivered a speech that was unusually…