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Georgetown researcher targeted for deportation settles with Trump admin

The Trump administration has agreed to allow Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri to return to his job at the school while litigation continues over efforts to deport him because of his...

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Trump says JPMorgan, Bank of America rejected his deposits

President Donald Trump on Tuesday went after the nation’s biggest banks, accusing them of discriminating against him in recent years as his administration weighs options for cracking down on percei...

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Carney on Trump: ‘We’ll speak when it makes sense’

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Tuesday that Canadian investment in the United States — already among the highest in the world — could decline if trade relations deteriorate and a new ec...

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Josh Shapiro urges White House to help feed starving Gazans

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Tuesday that the Trump administration should surge aid into Gaza, as Democrats increasingly take Israel and the White House to task over conditions in the territ...

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Indiana’s Braun says there are ‘no commitments’ on redistricting

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Gov. Mike Braun is noncommittal on calling a special session to mid-decade redistricting despite pressure from the White House, but said the issue could come up when Vice Pre...

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Georgia GOP worries Senate race will turn into Trump vs. Kemp proxy war

Republicans are increasingly anxious about the burgeoning Senate primary that could rupture the fragile alliance between Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and President Donald Trump.Three Republicans have al...

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Drone deliveries one step closer to reality — but don’t count on them soon

The Trump administration on Tuesday took a significant step toward enabling Amazon’s dream of drone-delivered packages — but having the gadgets drop your favorite socks on your porch is still month...

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Comer issues subpoenas for DOJ’s Epstein files, depositions with former officials

The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday issued subpoenas for Department of Justice records on the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, as well as for interviews with a slate of former government officia...

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A $715 billion tax cut turns into a $4.5 trillion sales job

Republicans minimized the size of their tax cuts when they pushed them through Congress, using a controversial accounting method to make most of them appear to cost the federal government nothing.B...

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Appeals court upholds Texas law requiring ID numbers to cast mail-in ballots

A federal appeals court has ruled that Texas may enforce a state law that invalidates mail-in ballots submitted without a voter’s state identification number or partial Social Security number.A thr...

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Trump-Schumer standoff heads for fall rematch

Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer went head-to-head last week for the first time in nearly six months. Turns out they were only shadow-boxing — and the real bout is still to come.The president pulled ...

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Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams are in a high-stakes staring contest

NEW YORK — Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams refuse to get out of each others’ way in the New York City mayoral race — virtually sealing victory for democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani.The former governo...

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After BLS firing, Trump leaves clean-up job to successor

Budget constraints and workforce cuts have taken a toll on the Labor Department’s production of economic data. And that was before President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Stati...

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MORNING GLORY: Memo for President Trump, Secretary Burgum and Director Nesvik

Before the United States Senate broke for the summer and decamped from D.C., one nominee it did confirm was Brian Nesvik, who will lead the United States Fish and Wildlife Service ("USFWS.") The Se...

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Poor People Are America’s Swing Voters

In January, while the world waited to see what a second Donald Trump Presidency would look like, photos from the Inauguration offered a snapshot of what was to come. Some of the wealt...

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How Do You Destroy a Country’s Reputation? Just Ask Benjamin Netanyahu

How do you systematically and recklessly devalue a brand? Just ask Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister has done it to Israel extravagantly. He has achieved something on a scale unparalleled in t...

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Why the White House Backed Down From Its First Big Education Cuts

The email arrived at 10:55 p.m. on Friday, July 25, with an upbeat subject line: “Big News: Key Federal Title Funds Set to Release Next Week.” It was sent by North Dakota’s schools superintendent, ...

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Trump rules Bessent out for Fed chair

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will not be the next chair of the Federal Reserve.Trump, in an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, said Bessent told him Monday e...

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Trump says he will ‘probably not’ seek a third term

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would “probably not” run for a third term.“I’d like to run,” he said when asked about the possibility on CNBC’s Squawk Box. “I have the best poll numbers I’ve...

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‘Unlike Anything We’ve Seen’: The Energy Industry is Counting on the AI Boom

The biggest winner from AI — at least aside from the tech industry — might surprise you.Of all the industries jockeying to capitalize on the rise in artificial intelligence, the electric power sect...

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Trump on Texas redistricting: ‘We are entitled to five more seats’

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Republicans were “entitled to five more seats” in Texas, in one of his first public comments on the state’s new proposed congressional map.Trump had remained ...

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