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Trump signs executive order allowing only attorney general or president to interpret meaning of laws
President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order declaring that only the attorney general or the president, instead of federal…
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Trump Breaks Major Campaign Promise With Toothless IVF Executive Order
SSA has other means of combatting this issue. Since 2015, the SSA has had a policy of automatically terminating entitlement to…
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Associated Press ban will continue until news organization uses 'Gulf of America,' Trump says
President Trump said Tuesday the Associated Press will continue to be barred from White House events, the Oval Office and Air Force One…
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Trump Guts Crucial OPM Team as Elon Musk Gains Even More Power
The Trump administration has fired members of the “privacy team” at the Office of Personnel Management, a move that will hinder public…
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Trump's lawyers ask Supreme Court to fast-track approval of agency officials' firings
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s lawyers alerted the Supreme Court over the weekend to what they called “an unprecedented assault on the…
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Whistleblower protection agency head tells Supreme Court to keep him at post after Trump firing
The head of a whistleblower protection agency asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to keep him at his post while litigation over President…
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Illegal immigrants now paying up to $30,000 as cartels raise prices under Trump
Mexican migrants, who usually pay the lowest rates, are now regularly shelling out $10,000 apiece, and prices as high as $16,000 are not…
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Putin appoints ex-space agency chief representative for space cooperation
(Reuters) - Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on Tuesday appointed the former head of Russia's space agency, Yuri Borisov, as special…
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Trump Press Secretary Hit With Embarrassing Fact-Check on Fraud Claim
“We had that a couple months ago, long before this other discussion. So, I don’t think that had anything to do with that,” Homan insisted.…
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Russian and US Officials Meet in Saudi Arabia for High-Stakes Peace Talks to End Ukraine War as Both Nations Draw 3 Major Goals
The United States and Russia agreed on Tuesday to begin efforts toward ending the war in Ukraine, the deadliest conflict in Europe since…
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Goldberg: Is Trump's Napoleon quote just idle trolling? This context suggests otherwise
The president of the United States posted a possibly apocryphal quote often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte on social media Saturday: “He…
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Trump Saved Eric Adams’s Bacon—and Put the Country Up for Sale
Given that Adams is hardly guaranteed reelection as New York mayor, his likelihood of someday ascending to the presidency seems a stretch.…
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Andrew Tate attacks Biden amid reports Trump officials lobbied Romania
Amid reports that the Trump administration has urged Romanian authorities to lift travel restrictions on influencer Andrew Tate and his…
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AI (and Other) Wars: Mr. Vance Goes to Paris
The week of February 10, 2025: AI & the fight with the EU, tariffs, vaping, and much, much more. Source link
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America's "Oil Weapon" Hits Russia Hard
"The oil weapon alone will not win the war in Ukraine, but it might just have brought Vladimir Putin to the bargaining table," Rebecca…
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Polish prosecutors probe an exhibition of Russian armor from Ukraine that contained live explosives
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors in Poland said Tuesday they are considering whether to open a criminal investigation into an open-air…
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Democratic super PAC sets sights on GOP's Medicaid cut proposals
A political action committee that backs House Democrats is gearing up a campaign to go after vulnerable Republicans for proposed cuts to…
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Trump administration, Russia hold talks on ending Ukraine war, reopening ties
WASHINGTON — The United States formally brought Russia in from the cold Tuesday with high-level talks aimed at ending Moscow’s war with…
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DOJ Lawyers Admit Trump’s DOGE Purges Are Too Chaotic Even for Them
These employees included people working on improving health care, regulating food packaging, or responding to infectious-disease…
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Some Democrats Look to Weaponize Government Shutdown to Fight DOGE
Trump is ‘shutting down the government already. And so, we shouldn’t enable a further shutdown of services,’ Eric Swalwell said. Source link
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Musk compares 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' to rabies
Elon Musk said he experienced "Trump Derangement Syndrome" at a party he went to before the election and compared it to people contracting…
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Trump’s Rift With Europe Adds Fuel to a Rally in Defense Stocks
European defense stocks continued their rally on Tuesday, as President Trump’s threats to reduce American military support to the…
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White House Says Elon Musk Isn’t Running DOGE—So Who Is?
The White House now claims that Elon Musk—the man who has been using DOGE to cripple the federal government—actually has no power over the…
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US: Wall St opens higher with Fed policy, Trump tariffs in focus
WALL Street’s main indexes opened higher on Tuesday (Feb 18), as investors focused on potential tariff developments and the US Federal…