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Trump Pressures Romania on Andrew Tate in Stunning New Low
“This is not a capitulation-this is a coercion,” a source familiar with the meeting told Reuters. “That person, in my mind, is a hero.”…
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Trump <i>Should</i> Win at Supreme Court — If His Provocations Haven’t Spooked the Justices
At issue is Trump’s firing of the head of the Office of Special Counsel. Source link
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Republicans Want Lower Taxes. The Hard Part Is Choosing What to Cut.
Since their party swept to power, Republicans have entertained visions of an all-inclusive tax cut — one that could permanently lower…
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California’s Push for Electric Trucks Sputters Under Trump
President Trump’s policies could threaten many big green energy projects in the coming years, but his election has already dealt a big…
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Trump Launches Mass Purge of Air Traffic Control Staff
“This is not a capitulation-this is a coercion,” a source familiar with the meeting told Reuters. “That person, in my mind, is a hero.”…
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Not Antichrist, but Anti-Bush: Explaining Trump
What we’re seeing in Washington is the reaction against conservatism of an earlier era. Source link
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Column: Democrats belatedly wake up to start battling Trump and Musk
WASHINGTON — A president’s first few weeks in office were once expected to be a “honeymoon,” a pleasant if brief period of bipartisanship…
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Analysis: Trump vowed to take politics out of prosecutions. The Eric Adams case tells a different story
WASHINGTON — On her first day as President Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi promised to remove politics from criminal prosecutions and…
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Musk and Trump Are Cutting Popular Programs. That’s Deliberate.
Most likely, their popularity is precisely what the Trump-Musk administration dislikes about them. For anti-government ideologues, it’s…
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Gold gains as investors eye Trump tariff moves
GOLD prices edged higher on Monday (Feb 17) after falling more than 1 per cent in the previous session as market participants awaited more…
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Trump's vision for Gaza gets a road test with Rubio's Mideast trip
JERUSALEM — The United States’ new top diplomat, Marco Rubio, is facing a quandary. The secretary of State has been handed a pair of…
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Supreme Court gets first chance to weigh in on Trump firing
The Trump administration has appealed to the Supreme Court to permit firing Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel…
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Trump cleaves through federal workforce with 'probationary' firings
President Trump has taken a cleaver to the federal bureaucracy over the last week, sparing almost no part of the government as agencies…
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Europe panics as Trump reshapes US foreign policy
Mere weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump's message for Europe is clear—and unpalatably delivered for many of Washington's…
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Trump aide lays out 4 key tenets to talks with Putin over Ukraine
During a Sunday morning appearance on Fox News, President Donald Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz laid out four key tenets to…
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Trump administration wants Supreme Court to allow firing of whistleblower agency head
The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to permit the firing of the head of the federal agency dedicated to protecting…
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Trump cuts hit FDA employees in food safety, medical devices and tobacco products
The Trump administration's effort to slash the size of the federal workforce reached the Food and Drug Administration this weekend, as…
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Democrats hunt for Trump vulnerability, zero in on inflation
Democrats, scrambling to find a weak spot in President Trump's political armor, are accusing him of abandoning his vow to lower costs for…
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More U.S.-Russia talks expected as Trump pushes to end war in Ukraine
Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to his Russian counterpart Saturday and key Trump administration officials will reportedly meet with…
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Justice Department independence threatened as Trump team asserts power over cases and staff
Pam Bondi had insisted at her Senate confirmation hearing that as attorney general, her Justice Department would not "play politics."…
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Dan Osborn is looking for 'working-class heroes' to shake up U.S. politics
Omaha, NE — Dan Osborn, a mechanic by trade, has been rebuilding a 1988 Pontiac Firebird in his garage. He plans to drop in a…
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Column: Pick your battles or all-out opposition? Our columnists debate Trump vs. the Democratic resistance
These are times that try Democratic souls. Shut out of power in Washington and facing an unbridled president taking a sledgehammer to…
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California officials detail Trump funding freeze 'chaos,' warn another could cripple state
Maricela Ramirez was at an education conference in Washington, D.C., at the end of January when she and other attendees heard the…
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How Trump’s One-for-One Tariff Plan Threatens the Global Economy
The world economy was already grappling with a perplexing assortment of variables, from geopolitical conflicts and a slowdown in China to…