Politics

Trump’s War on Drugs is Also About Regime Change

The first time President Donald Trump tried to push Nicolas Maduro out of power, he wasn’t coy about it. He accused the Venezuelan dictator of stealing an election, stripped U.S. recognition from M...

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HHS rehiring some people fired through reduction-in-force efforts

Some of the Department of Health and Human Services employees fired through reduction-in-force notices Friday are being rehired, according to two people familiar with the details.The two people, an...

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Pentagon will pay military troops, Trump says

President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that he will direct Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to “use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th” as the government shutdown nea...

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Circuit Court walks back judge’s block on Trump’s National Guard call-up in Chicago

A federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily lifted a judge's order blocking White House efforts to federalize National Guard troops for use in Chicago, but left her block on their deployment in...

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7 times politicians imploded in TV interviews

California Democrat Katie Porter’s disastrous interview with a local California TV reporter could be the defining moment of her gubernatorial campaign — but she’s obviously not the only politician ...

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Johnson says Democrats are to blame for looming lapse in military pay

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Saturday cast blame on Democrats for a looming lapse in military pay as the shutdown impasse persists, pointing to seven failed votes in the Senate t...

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The Turning Point for Israel and Hamas

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Trump directs Hegseth to use 'all available funds' to pay military workers amid shutdown

President Trump on Saturday directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use move all of the department's "available funds" to go toward paying military servicemembers during the government...

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Behind Trump’s Tylenol warning: A lack of data on how drugs affect pregnant women

The uproar over the Trump administration’s efforts to discourage pregnant women from taking Tylenol is highlighting a bigger problem: There has never been adequate data on the safety and effectiven...

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Oregon’s 2020 drug policy didn’t treat ‘root causes’ of use, attorney general says

Oregon’s short-lived attempt to decriminalize drug possession in 2020 failed due to an inadequate rollout, Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said.In 2020, Oregon adopted Measure 110, which decr...

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Here’s another winner of the Israel peace deal: Qatar’s lobbying machine

The Israel-Hamas peace deal wasn’t just a landmark moment for President Donald Trump — it was also a momentous achievement for Qatar and its army of lobbyists in Washington.For years, its K Street ...

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MIT’s resistance gives boost to academics' efforts to defy Trump

University leaders who have struggled to counter the Trump administration’s monthslong campaign to rewrite higher education just caught the biggest break academia has had all year.Massachusetts Ins...

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China’s rare earth gambit reveals the next phase of its economic warfare

Beijing shattered a fragile trade truce with Washington this week, announcing sweeping restrictions on exports that contain even trace amounts of Chinese rare earth.An irate President Donald Trump ...

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Israel, amid Gaza ceasefire, kills at least 1 in overnight strikes on Lebanon

The Israeli military launched airstrikes on Lebanon overnight targeting Hezbollah and killing at least one person. The attack on the village of Msayleh also destroyed a highway tha...

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‘It’s Never Been This Bad’

Since immigration-enforcement agents began their descent on Chicago, acting with seemingly unprecedented speed and ferocity, Evelyn Vargas and her colleagues at Organized Communities Against Deport...

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‘Slap in the face’: Marc Benioff’s Trump turn stuns San Francisco

Tech billionaire Marc Benioff’s new show of support for Donald Trump and call for National Guard troops to patrol San Francisco’s streets has shaken local Democrats who long regarded the Salesforce...

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Mass firings hit CDC

Dozens of CDC employees were notified late Friday night that they were being terminated, according to several former and current CDC officials and employees.The agency’s Washington office was termi...

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Midwestern Democrats go it alone in redistricting fight

Democrats are pushing ahead with last-ditch efforts to stymie Republican mid-decade redistricting in Missouri and Ohio, although they face unclear paths to blocking the potential gerrymanders amid ...

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How Silicon Valley Swung Right — And Why It Won’t Swing Back

How did Silicon Valley leaders go from heaping praise on Barack Obama to going all in on Donald Trump?To hear characters like venture capital firm a16z’s Marc Andreessen tell it, much of their curr...

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Spanish official brushes off Trump’s NATO expulsion remarks: ‘We are not worried’

Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles on Friday said the nation is “not worried” about removal from the NATO alliance, despite quips from President Trump about the country being the l...

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Why Democrats Think They’re Winning the Shutdown Fight

With the government shutdown well into its second week, President Donald Trump’s strategy to break Senate Democrats has become clear: Maximize the pain of the closure to force them into retreat. Hi...

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