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Trump Tests Fed’s Independence With Order Expanding Authority Over Agencies
The Federal Reserve’s independence from the White House has long been enshrined in the law. But an executive order that President Trump…
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Federal judge won’t immediately block Elon Musk or DOGE from federal data or worker layoffs
A federal judge refused Tuesday to immediately block billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing…
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DOGE impersonators demand sensitive information at S.F. City Hall, flee before deputies arrive, authorities say
Authorities believe three unidentified men posing as federal officials attempted to seize sensitive information from San Francisco City…
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Can Elon Musk shut down a federal agency? Yes, if presidential rule replaces constitutional governance
WASHINGTON — Can Elon Musk close a federal agency, send its employees home and halt spending programs that were approved by Congress? Yes,…
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Trump and Biden add to long, strange history of presidential pardons
All it took was a few strokes of the pen for Donald Trump and Joe Biden to add to a long, strange American tradition. The presidential…
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Syria's Alawites, tainted by Assad, endure a fall from grace
DEIR SHMAYEL, Syria — In the mountains east of Syria’s Mediterranean coast, armed patrols root out Assad loyalists, masked gunmen monitor…
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Opinion: The limits of an imperial presidency
Whatever Trump and his advisors say, I know he won’t be able to remake Washington easily and swiftly. President-elect Donald Trump is…
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Hong Kong Airport Authority sells record HK$18.5 billion of bonds
THE Airport Authority of Hong Kong sold HK$18.5 billion (S$3.3 billion) of bonds in the largest-ever issuance in the financial hub’s local…
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Driver of exploding Cybertruck left letters of anguish: 'I needed to cleanse my mind'
A Green Beret who drove an explosives-laden Tesla Cybertruck to Las Vegas and detonated its payload at Trump International Hotel left a…
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A decorated Green Beret, a Cybertruck packed with explosives and a blast that rocked Las Vegas
A driver had rented a Tesla Cybertruck out of Colorado and appeared to arrive in Las Vegas around sunrise on New Year’s Day. Cameras…
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FCC's net neutrality rules struck down, in another blow to Biden administration
A federal appeals court on Thursday dealt a blow to President Biden’s Federal Communications Commission, striking down the agency’s…
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Feds look for links between Cybertruck explosion and New Orleans attack, seek other suspects
Authorities are looking for possible connection between the attack in New Orleans that killed 15 and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck…
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What we know about Shamsud-Din Jabbar, accused in deadly New Orleans attack
The FBI has identified Shamsud-Din Jabbar as the man who drove a truck into a crowd on New Orleans' Bourbon Street early Wednesday,…
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Israeli airstrike kills 50 in Beit Lahia, Hamas authority says
At least 50 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a building in the northern Gaza Strip, the Hamas-controlled health…
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Gaza health authority reports further deaths from IDF strikes
Five people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip and in Nuseirat, a refugee camp in the centre, the…
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Brazil's tax authority to summon foreign crypto exchanges for information
By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's tax authority will soon call foreign crypto exchanges not based in the country to explain…
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Israel tech sector accounts for 20% of economy, Innovation Authority says
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's high-tech sector now accounts for 20% of the country's economic output, the Israel…
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Hamas-run health authority says another 18 killed by Israel in Rafah
A further 18 people have been killed in fresh Israeli attacks in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a spokesman for the territory's…