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Markets Rally as Trump Pauses Tariffs. Should Presidents Have This Much Power?

Markets Rally as Trump Pauses Tariffs. Should Presidents Have This Much Power?
10.04.2025 40

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Trump Advisors Struggle To Defend, or Even Explain, His Tariff Strategy

Trump Advisors Struggle To Defend, or Even Explain, His Tariff Strategy
07.04.2025 2

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Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Preorders Over Trump Tariffs

Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Preorders Over Trump Tariffs
04.04.2025 6

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Senators Make Modest Moves To Reclaim Tariff Powers From Trump

Senators Make Modest Moves To Reclaim Tariff Powers From Trump
04.04.2025 8

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FCC Chair Investigates Disney Over Potential Past and Present DEI Policies

FCC Chair Investigates Disney Over Potential Past and Present DEI Policies
01.04.2025 6

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Federal Judge Tosses Defamation Lawsuit Against NewsGuard

Federal Judge Tosses Defamation Lawsuit Against NewsGuard
28.03.2025 5

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One Federal Clause Allows DOGE To Cancel Contracts at Will

21.03.2025 3

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Rand Paul Seeks Information on U.K. Requests for Americans' Private Data

20.03.2025 10

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Allies Cancel Orders of F-35s, the Fighter Jets That Will Cost $2 Trillion

18.03.2025 80

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Taking $200 Out of an ATM Should Not Trigger Federal Financial Surveillance

15.03.2025 50

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Biden Rushed Out Billions for Green Energy Projects Before Trump Took Office

13.03.2025 3

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Trump Declares Tesla Vandals 'Domestic Terrorists'

13.03.2025 30

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Trump Is Weaponizing the DOJ Just Like He Accused Democrats of Doing

08.03.2025 10

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Apple Takes U.K. to Court Over Demand To Weaken Encryption

07.03.2025 5

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No, HHS Didn't Spend $8 Million 'Making Mice Transgender'

06.03.2025 8

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Trump Loves Tariffs. Fentanyl Is Just an Excuse.

05.03.2025 20

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U.K. Pledges To Support Ukraine After Trump Snubs Zelenskyy

03.03.2025 3

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FCC Chair Brendan Carr Wants More Control Over Social Media

01.03.2025 20

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Judge Orders Newspaper To Delete Editorial Critical of City Government

27.02.2025 30

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D.C.'s U.S. Attorney Is a Menace to the First Amendment

26.02.2025 30

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TSMC May Acquire Fellow CHIPS Act Beneficiary Intel

21.02.2025 10

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U.K. Demands Access to Any Apple User's Data, Anywhere in the World

18.02.2025 3

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Trump Bans AP From Oval Office for Not Saying 'Gulf of America'

13.02.2025 20

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Trump's Empty and Expensive Plan To Build 250 Statues of 'American Heroes'

11.02.2025 5

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Will Elon Musk Cut as Much Government as Al Gore Did?

07.02.2025 5

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Transcript Proves the 60 Minutes Scandal Was Always Fake

06.02.2025 20

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How the FCC's 'Warrior for Free Speech' Became Our Censor in Chief

05.02.2025 6

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Obama's Failure To Close Guantanamo Meant It Was Open for Trump To Use

31.01.2025 30

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Like Biden, Trump Does Not Control the Price of Eggs

28.01.2025 4

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Trump's Aggressively Broad Executive Order on Transgender People

23.01.2025 8

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Trump Pledges To Revoke E.V. Mandate in Direct Repudiation of Biden's Platform

21.01.2025 3

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TikTok Is Back Online as Trump Proposes Nationalizing It

20.01.2025 4

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These Lawmakers Actively Use TikTok Even After Voting To Ban It

18.01.2025 20

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Gavin Newsom Prohibits Offering To Buy People's Property

16.01.2025 50

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Trump Would Have Been Convicted for Election Interference, Says Jack Smith

14.01.2025 5

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The Incoming FCC Chief Is No 'Warrior for Free Speech'

14.01.2025 10

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Review: The Radicals Who Tried To Kill Gerald Ford

10.01.2025 2

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Biden's Infrastructure Bills Leave a Legacy of Big Spending and Little Payoff

09.01.2025 40

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Bernie Sanders Is Still Wrong About Immigration

Immigration Joe Lancaster | 1.3.2025 3:15 PM As President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration approaches, many of his supporters have spent the last...

04.01.2025 10

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Wicked and the Importance of the Public Domain

Copyright Joe Lancaster | 1.1.2025 8:00 AM Every January 1, numerous creative works enter the public domain, meaning their copyrights have expired...

01.01.2025 5

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IRS Failed To Properly Dispose of Sensitive Tax Documents, Report Finds

IRS Joe Lancaster | 12.31.2024 12:00 PM Earlier this year, a federal judge sentenced a former IRS contractor to five years in prison for leaking...

31.12.2024 2

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Kay Granger, Like Joe Biden, Is a Symptom of America's Gerontocracy

Politics Joe Lancaster | 12.23.2024 2:35 PM Just as democracy means a system of government ruled by the dēmos , or the common people, gerontocracy...

23.12.2024 6

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Review: Why Did MTV Stop Playing Music?

Television Joe Lancaster | From the January 2025 issue It's one of pop culture's great questions: Why did MTV, a cable network literally called...

20.12.2024 6

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Prominent Progressives Struggle To Condemn Murder Without Defending the Murderer

Politics Joe Lancaster | 12.18.2024 2:45 PM Earlier this month, a gunman shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Days later, police...

18.12.2024 3

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Amazon Warehouses Benefit Local Economies, Study Finds

Amazon Joe Lancaster | 12.16.2024 3:00 PM It is often taken as a given that corporate retail giants like Amazon are "killing Main Street." "Amazon...

17.12.2024 10

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Just What the CEO Shooting Needs: A Video Game Moral Panic!

Violence Joe Lancaster | 12.11.2024 12:30 PM On Monday, police arrested Luigi Mangione, suspected of being the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare...

11.12.2024 10

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D.C. Circuit Court Upholds TikTok Ban, Prioritizing 'National Security' Over Free Speech

Free Speech Joe Lancaster | 12.6.2024 3:15 PM A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the federal government can tell a foreign-owned website...

07.12.2024 20

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FDA Policy Worsens Homelessness by Limiting Access to Antipsychotics

Homelessness Joe Lancaster | 12.5.2024 11:50 AM Homelessness, sadly, is a pervasive problem that persists even in developed countries like the U.S....

05.12.2024 20

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Eric Adams Gamed a New York Campaign Finance Scheme That Was Ripe for Corruption

Corruption Joe Lancaster | From the January 2025 issue In September 2024, federal officials indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams on charges...

05.12.2024 9

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Joe Biden Rarely Issues Pardons but Made an Exception for His Son

Pardons Joe Lancaster | 12.2.2024 2:25 PM With just weeks left in office, President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, for all federal...

03.12.2024 20

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