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President Donald Trump on Friday announced that he would put a temporary cap on credit card interest rates with a limit of 10 percent, in line with an idea he floated on the campaign trail.“Please ...
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Donald Trump has sent waves of federal agents to Democratic-run “sanctuary cities” over the past eight months, depicting the operations like episodes in a roving MAGA reality show. The places targe...
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Donald Trump said Thursday a Republican senator who is crucial to the party’s chances of keeping the Senate this year should “never be elected to office again.” Susan Collins has seen it before.Tru...
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If the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties was still functioning as it did before Donald Trump returned to the presidency, Julie Plavsic and her former col...
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Donald Trump's broadside against the defense industry might sound like a populist cry targeting wealthy CEOs.But the president's tirade was actually building for months, according to industry execu...
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President Donald Trump will host Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the White House in early February, he announced Friday on Truth Social, marking an abrupt detente in the relationship between t...
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When NATO members agreed last summer to increase defense spending, they lavished praise on Donald Trump for forcing the issue, believing that flattery would go a long way to keeping the president c...
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The head of U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil on Friday told President Donald Trump that Venezuela is “uninvestible” under current conditions, saying major changes were needed before his company would ret...
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NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani remarked for the first time Friday on a pair of shootings at the hands of NYPD officers — nearly 12 hours after the dramatic incidents unfolded.At around 11 p.m. Thu...
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Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York has inspired the Left far beyond the city. But in Canada, as elsewhere, trying to replicate his style without rebuilding the institutions and political cadre that m...
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Oregon authorities are launching a probe into the Thursday shooting of two people in Portland by Customs and Border Patrol agents, state Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced in a post on X in th...
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Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are the central and most popular members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet...
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Raúl Castro (left) and Nicolás Maduro during a 2014 summit on Ebola in Havana. Cubadebate / Flickr, CC BY “And when he woke up, the oil was still there…” The Dinosaur is a one-sentence story,...
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President Donald Trump said early Friday morning that he canceled a planned second strike on Venezuela, praising the South American country’s new government for its prisoner releases and collaborat...
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A cadre of congressional Republicans dealt President Donald Trump significant defeats Thursday — a series of rebukes that demonstrate how his iron grip on Capitol Hill has weakened at the start of ...
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Gavin Newsom’s presidential hopes may hinge not only on how he sells his own image, but, as he implicitly made clear on Thursday, whether he can remake his home state’s as well. The latter may be t...
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Republicans in competitive seats see a grave threat to their reelections in skyrocketing insurance premiums.That was apparent Thursday in the defection of seventeen in the House who voted for Democ...
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Two people were shot by Customs and Border Protection agents Thursday in Portland, Oregon, amid heightened tensions after a woman in Minneapolis was shot to death by a U.S. Immigration officer unde...
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NEW YORK — New York City police officers shot and killed a man inside a Brooklyn hospital Thursday night in a dramatic scene that could present an early test for Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic ...
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President Donald Trump said Thursday that the world’s largest oil companies had pledged to spend $100 billion to fulfill his promise of reviving Venezuela’s flagging oil sector, even as the White H...