Politics

Fog of war clouds global rate cut outlook

President Donald Trump is demanding that the Federal Reserve immediately lower borrowing costs. But the war in the Middle East has now made any interest rate cuts much less likely in 2026 — not jus...

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Why Donald Trump is losing the war at home

No US president in living memory has gone to war with less public support than Donald Trump has for the war in Iran. Even Barack Obama’s much-maligned Libyan intervention began with 60% of American...

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Republicans hope Mullin will turn the page at DHS from Noem. Democrats aren’t buying it.

Republicans lawmakers are hoping that Sen. Markwayne Mullin will rescue the Department of Homeland Security from tumult they felt under outgoing Secretary Kristi Noem — and looking for assurances o...

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Trump presses allies for Hormuz pledges, but not specifics

The White House is pleading with allies to help secure the Strait of Hormuz — and privately assuring them that President Donald Trump is fine with high-level statements — as it pushes to calm finan...

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DOGE Didn’t Cut Government Waste. It Was Government Waste.

Look, I get it. Government waste is real. Bureaucratic bloat is real. The desire to have a federal government that spends taxpayer money wisely and operates without unnecessary friction? That’s a p...

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Trump Quietly Tries to Free FBI Informant Who Lied About Bidens

He worked with Russia and Republicans to build a web of lies that could incriminate President Joe Biden. Now he’s being rewarded.Alexander Smirnov’s various deceptions about Biden and his family—wh...

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‘WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE’: Trump rages after allies ignore his pleas for help in Iran

President Donald Trump on Tuesday fumed at longtime American allies he says aren’t doing enough to help the U.S. and Israel in their war against Iran, now arguing that their assistance was never ne...

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One reason Trump won’t give up on Putin peace deal — China

President Donald Trump has often frustrated European allies with his overt entreaties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and harsh words for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.But behind the ...

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MORNING GLORY: What will Donald Trump's legacy be as a wartime president?

Every American alive today has been living in wartime. Every president since December 7, 1941, has been a wartime president. All of them. They can, and should, be judged by how they have waged war,...

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Netflix’s Chief Opens Up About Trump, YouTube and Europe

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos arrives in Brussels on Tuesday with a clear message for EU regulators ahead of a looming review of Europe’s streaming rules: Don’t overcomplicate them. In an exclusive i...

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AIPAC faces its biggest test this year in Illinois

CHICAGO — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is making a nearly $22 million bet in Illinois that its money, if not its policy views, can still hold sway in Democratic politics.In three of...

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‘They hold the cards now’: Trump allies fear Iran is slipping beyond the president’s control

When the U.S. started firing Tomahawk missiles at Iran late last month, many of President Donald Trump’s allies hoped it would be a quick, surgical operation, similar to last year’s strike against ...

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5 things to watch in Tuesday's Illinois primaries

The Illinois primaries have seen gobs of spending, both in the highly-watched Senate race and further down the ballot in competitive open House seats.Groups affiliated with the American Israel Publ...

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The Decay of American Journalism in a Disinformation Age

As a historian, I often have the opportunity to teach classes that speak to my research interests. I teach variety of courses on U.S. political history and immigration studies—a subject in li...

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The ‘Big Black Scar’

Photographs by Philip CheungAt Coronado National Memorial in Arizona, the demolition crews blowing up national-park land tend to announce explosions at least a day in advance, as a warning for hike...

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Trump’s top counterterrorism aide resigns, citing Iran war

Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced Tuesday he was resigning over the war in Iran — a stunning defection that shows how President Donald Trump’s decision to st...

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Brendan Carr’s ‘equal time’ curveball crashes the midterms

The midterm elections that could upend the final years of Donald Trump’s presidency face a new complication — his Federal Communications Commission chair.Brendan Carr’s attempt to resurrect enforce...

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BBC asks judge to toss Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit

The British Broadcasting Corp. is urging a federal judge to throw out a libel lawsuit Donald Trump filed last year accusing the network of airing a documentary that distorted his remarks on Jan. 6,...

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Wiles announces cancer diagnosis, plans to stay in job

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has early stage breast cancer, President Donald Trump announced on Monday afternoon.Wiles, 68, a longstanding fixture of Trump’s orbit, has been his chief of ...

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Jesse Jackson’s family withdraws posthumous endorsement in Illinois Senate primary

The family of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson walked back a posthumous endorsement of Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton’s Senate campaign on Monday, after the family said Jackson’s endorsements for Tu...

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Federal judge puts RFK Jr.’s new vaccine schedule, advisers on ice

A federal judge Monday granted public health groups’ request to stay Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s appointments to a federal advisory panel on vaccines while their challenge to vaccine p...

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