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Republicans worry Trump's tariffs could harm economy

Republican lawmakers are growing alarmed over signs that President Trump’s expanding trade war is hurting the economy, something they’re hearing...

yesterday 10

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Alexander Bolton

Mark Carney: 'Canada never, ever, will be part of America'

Canada’s incoming prime minister, Mark Carney, is pledging to continue Justin Trudeau's legacy of standing up to President Trump and rejecting...

yesterday 30

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Sarah Fortinsky

Trump ‘not at all’ worried about joint Russia, China, Iran military exercises

President Trump said he is “not at all” worried that Russia, China and Iran are doing joint military exercises. Trump was asked by a reporter on...

yesterday 30

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Lauren Irwin

Florida school shooting thwarted, police say

A Florida teenager was arrested Sunday after a video emerged of him apparently threatening to carry out a mass shooting on the local high school....

yesterday 10

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Lauren Irwin

What to know about Mark Carney, elected next Canadian prime minister

Mark Carney, a former central banker, won his Liberal Party's election in a landslide on Sunday to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister of...

yesterday 10

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Sarah Fortinsky

Noem announces new ICE acting chief after predecessor reassigned

Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced a new acting chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday, just weeks after...

yesterday 10

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Lauren Irwin

Stephen Moore: Tariffs 'are not a pick-me-up' for economy

President Trump’s former economic adviser, Stephen Moore, criticized the president’s approach to tariffs, saying the strategy does not provide the...

yesterday 10

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Sarah Fortinsky

Ex-Social Security official describes ‘significant’ risk of sensitive data going to wrong hands under DOGE

Tiffany Flick, a former Social Security official, detailed what she sees as a “significant” risk of sensitive government data heading into the...

yesterday 6

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Lauren Irwin

Johnson looks to pass stopgap as government shutdown deadline looms

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is looking to lock down the votes to pass his stopgap funding bill and avert a government shutdown by Friday’s...

yesterday 20

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Mychael Schnell

X outage affects thousands of users

An outage on the social media platform X appeared to impact thousands of users on Monday morning. According to outage-tracking website...

yesterday 20

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Miranda Nazzaro

Read: House Republicans' stopgap funding bill

House Republicans over the weekend rolled out a short-term government funding plan, kicking off a crucial stretch for GOP leadership to lock down...

yesterday 10

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Rebecca Beitsch

DHS highlights self-deportation feature for migrants in new app

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has launched a new app where migrants can indicate they plan to “self-deport.” The CBP Home app appears...

yesterday 10

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Rebecca Beitsch

Wisconsin Democrats look to harness anger with Musk in court race

Wisconsin Democrats are launching a full-court press against Elon Musk as they look to use angry voter sentiment against him as a tool to turn out...

yesterday 10

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Caroline Vakil

Fired special counsel: 'I don't think we have watchdog agencies anymore'

The ousted head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) said his removal by President Trump is among a series of firings that have taken a wrecking...

yesterday 9

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Rebecca Beitsch

Musk blames 'massive cyberattack' for X outage

Elon Musk said his social media platform X was targeted in a "massive cyberattack" on Monday, prompting outages for thousands of users. "There was...

yesterday 7

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Miranda Nazzaro

Trump vows to find, apprehend and deport student 'terrorist sympathizers'

President Trump on Monday said the arrest of a Columbia University student who led pro-Palestinian protests would be the first “of many to come.”...

yesterday 8

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Brett Samuels

Washington Post restructuring newsroom; columnist resigns

The Washington Post is planning a major overhaul of the outlet's newsroom as part of a new direction the company is headed under billionaire owner...

yesterday 7

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Dominick Mastrangelo

Rubio confirms ICE arrest of pro-Palestinian Columbia student protest leader

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a green card-holding Columbia University graduate student and pro-...

yesterday 80

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Lexi Lonas Cochran

The Roberts court is America's last safeguard against Trump’s tyranny 

How will history judge the nation's highest court?

yesterday 40

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William S. Becker, Opinion Contributor

Democrats’ performative protest exposes the party’s lack of an alternative

The widening divisions within the Democratic Party are now on full display following Trump’s address. 

yesterday 30

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Douglas E. Schoen, Opinion Contributor

Reuters beclowns itself, to Hamas’s benefit

Reuters retracted a report that falsely claimed a victim of a Palestinian terrorist attack was a member of Mossad, Israel's top intelligence...

yesterday 30

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Becket Adams, Opinion Contributor

Walz: Democrats shouldn't have played 'so safe' in 2024

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is reflecting on his and Vice President Harris's loss in last year's presidential election, and believes Democrats should...

yesterday 10

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Elizabeth Crisp

Fighter jets again intercept aircraft near Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate

The North American Aerospace Defense Command said the most recent incident occurred Sunday.

yesterday 10

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Michael Ramsey

Morning Report — This week: Funding suspense, tariff two-step, DOGE bites  

In today’s issue: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) says he has the votes to dodge a possible government shutdown by next weekend. A floor vote could...

yesterday 10

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Rachel Scully

Trump, Texas GOP's deregulation push sparks hope and fear in the oil field

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part two in a four-part series. Read part one here. President Trump and...

yesterday 10

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Saul Elbein

Canada’s parochial panic about Trump’s America is ridiculous

Much of the alarmist rhetoric in Canada stems from a fundamental failure to grasp the evolution of U.S. strategic thought.

yesterday 8

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Andrew Latham, Opinion Contributor

How right wing media amplifies Trump’s war on truth

Americans and people around the world are now experiencing the disastrous consequences of our becoming a “post-truth” society.

yesterday 8

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Svante Myrick, Opinion Contributor

Trump’s $5 million idea to reduce the deficit and reduce immigration fraud 

Donald Trump and his pet program DOGE have been looking for ways to reduce the deficit. The president’s latest idea is a “gold card” visa program,...

yesterday 8

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Nolan Rappaport, Opinion Contributor

New York is walking a thin line on Palestinian Studies

Political interference in curricular matters is an unwarranted violation of academic freedom.  

yesterday 8

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Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor

Joe Walsh: Trump could 'stop the midterms,' run again

Former Rep. Joe Walsh (III.), an ex-GOP member-turned-pundit, speculated Sunday that President Trump could "stop" the midterm elections scheduled...

yesterday 8

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Ailia Zehra

NOAA set to fire 1,029 more employees

Staffing levels at the nation's already hobbled weather, climate and oceans agency could take a further nosedive in the days ahead. The National...

yesterday 6

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Rachel Frazin

Hamas offering 5-to-10-year truce with Israel: US official says

Hamas offered to hand over governance of the Gaza Strip in exchange for a five-to-10-year truce in its war with Israel, President Trump’s special...

yesterday 7

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Laura Kelly

US added to human rights watchlist over Trump moves

The United States has been added to CIVICUS's monitor list of potential human rights threats due to President Trump's restrictive executive orders...

yesterday 7

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Elizabeth Crisp

Border czar on Columbia arrest: 'Absolutely we can' deport a legal immigrant

Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, said Monday that federal authorities “absolutely can” deport a legal immigrant after U.S. Immigration and...

yesterday 6

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Lexi Lonas Cochran

Trump turns screws on Zelensky heading into Jeddah talks

President Trump is inflicting mounting pain on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of planned talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, as U.S....

yesterday 7

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Colin Meyn

Former USAID employees on cuts: 'We are going to put lives in jeopardy'

Two former employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), who were terminated last month, told CNN the 83 percent spending...

yesterday 7

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Ailia Zehra

Karl Rove: Trump claims of DOGE 'fraud' discoveries will backfire

Republican strategist Karl Rove said President Trump’s claims that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has discovered “hundreds of...

yesterday 7

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Ailia Zehra

Purim in Casablanca: Celebrating in Gaza’s shadow

For Morocco’s Jews, the festival of Purim, beginning March 13, has contemporary resonance, illustrating the tenuous existence of diaspora Jewish...

yesterday 7

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

Not every Trump move is authoritarian — focus on the real threats

Trump's administration has committed real violations of law and democratic norms, but policy disagreements and norm violations do not invalidate...

yesterday 7

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Pete Sepp And Eli Lehrer, Opinion Contributors

Democrats release their own stopgap funding bill as House GOP plows forward

Congressional Democrats rolled out their own short-term funding patch to keep the government running beyond Friday's shutdown deadline, as House...

yesterday 2

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Aris Folley

Cargo ship hits a tanker in fiery crash off England

A cargo ship struck a tanker Monday in a fiery crash in the North Sea off the coast of eastern England, causing fuel to stream into local waters....

yesterday 3

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Tara Suter

DOGE likely subject to open records law, judge rules

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is likely covered under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a federal judge ruled late Monday,...

yesterday 5

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Zach Schonfeld

D.C. Mayor calls out ‘$1.1 billion problem’ in House GOP stopgap plan

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) on Monday sounded alarm over what she described as a "$1.1 billion problem" in a plan rolled out by House...

yesterday 2

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Aris Folley

House Rules Committee advances GOP’s stopgap ahead of shutdown deadline

The House Rules Committee voted Monday night to advance the GOP's bill to avert a government shutdown, dispatching the measure to the full chamber...

yesterday 2

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Mychael Schnell

Larry Summers: Odds of a recession 'close to 50/50'

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said Monday that the odds of a recession are “close to 50/50.” “I told [Kasie Hunt] @CNN today, I think...

yesterday 3

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Tara Suter

Rubio suggests Ukraine won't return to pre-2014 borders

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters Monday that Ukraine was unlikely to win back all of the territory captured by Russia since 2014, as...

yesterday 5

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Ailia Zehra

Trump puts pressure on Zelensky ahead of Saudi Arabia talks

Presented by GE Aerospace {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Heading into Jeddah talks, Trump puts...

yesterday 1

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Ellen Mitchell

Ontario premier says he needs 'to sit down as quickly as possible' with Trump on tariffs

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Monday that he needs "to sit down as quickly as possible" with President Trump regarding tariffs. ‘We're seeing...

yesterday 20

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Tara Suter

Trump considers easing safety screenings for chemicals

The Trump administration will consider easing regulations under which it considers the safety of existing chemicals — drawing concerns from public...

yesterday 30

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Rachel Frazin

Musk blames Ukraine for X outage

Presented by Ericsson — Elon Musk said his social media platform X was targeted in a “massive cyberattack” on Monday and later claimed the...

yesterday 20

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Julia Shapero