Politics

The dollar is sinking. Trump thinks it’s great.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has no problem with the sharp decline in the dollar that’s been triggered by convulsions in global bond markets and growing skepticism about the U.S.’s rel...

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How a Democratic heavyweight is using AI in the midterms

A Democratic opposition research powerhouse is putting massive troves of its work product online ahead of the midterms. And it’s using artificial intelligence to help everyone from campaigns to pod...

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So long, Paris: US officially leaves landmark climate pact

The United States is officially out of the Paris Agreement, making it the only country to quit the historic climate pact — twice. The move to leave the agreement, set in motion by President Donald ...

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Work on Gateway tunnel project linking New York and New Jersey to pause next month without federal dollars

Construction on the nation’s largest public works project will pause in early February unless the Trump administration releases money it has held up since last fall, according to a person close to ...

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Carney pushes back on Trump team over Davos speech

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is standing by his Davos speech, which has irked President Donald Trump and rattled Canada–U.S. trade talks.Carney rejected the Trump administration’s claim that...

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Trump impeachment whistleblower Alexander Vindman launches Democratic Senate campaign in Florida

MIAMI — Democrat Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council aide who helped trigger President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, announced his Senate campaign in Florida on Tuesday to c...

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Trump moves to take over Los Angeles wildfire recovery from local and state authorities

LOS ANGELES — President Trump is pushing to take over wildfire recovery in Los Angeles.Trump signed an executive order Friday, clearing the way for the federal government to strip authority from th...

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Gun rights groups blast Trump over Minnesota response

The killing of Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minnesota has led to a rare rebuke of top Trump administration officials by leading 2nd Amendment advocates.Multiple national gun-rights ...

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17 Experts on How the World Moves on From America

Greenland is safe, for now. But it’s no overstatement to say the rest of the world has come to see the United States in a new light, even after President Donald Trump backed down from his threats t...

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MORNING GLORY: Canada is a small power biting the hand that protects it

Our very nice neighbor and ally to our north, Canada, has 42 million people and a GDP of 2.4 trillion, but doesn’t even spend 2% of that GDP on defense. Its new prime minister, Mark Carney, promise...

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Republicans think RFK Jr. can help them in the midterms. Democrats worry that’s true.

Republicans have embraced HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s healthy food crusade, hoping it will boost their prospects in the midterms.Some Democrats fear it might work.The health secretary was...

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What Trump’s Iowa visit reveals about the GOP midterm fight

President Donald Trump is returning to one of his most reliable political proving grounds: Iowa.Only this time, the trip comes less as a victory lap than an attempt to reinvigorate voters in territ...

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The booby trap Eric Adams set for Zohran Mamdani

NEW YORK — Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams, channeling his inner Kevin McCallister, rigged City Hall in the waning days of his term with a maze of governmental booby traps primed to stymie hi...

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Minnesota judge summons ICE leader to court, threatens contempt sanctions

Minnesota’s chief federal judge has ordered the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Todd Lyons, to appear in his courtroom Friday and threatened to hold him in contempt for what he says ha...

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Democrats Should Stand With Minneapolis Right Now—Literally

Donald Trump’s assault on Minneapolis will be a landmark event in American politics. It could even prove to be MAGA’s Waterloo. Everywhere right now, there’s evidence that Americans who aren’t Demo...

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Social media giants face landmark youth addiction trial in California

SACRAMENTO, California — A trial kicking off this week in Los Angeles will weigh one of the most fraught questions of the digital age: whether social media giants are responsible for harming childr...

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Hamas ‘doesn’t have a choice’ and must disarm, Trump administration says

The U.S. on Monday suggested it could take military action to force Hamas to disarm or allow Israel to do so before it moves forward with rebuilding the Gaza Strip.Following the release of the rema...

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Trump threatens to increase tariffs on South Korea

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to increase tariffs on South Korea, accusing the country of not living up to the trade agreement it struck with the White House in July.In a post on Trut...

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Klobuchar delays governor campaign launch as Border Patrol killing upends Minnesota

Amy Klobuchar planned to officially launch her gubernatorial campaign on Monday, but has delayed it in the wake of the fatal shooting of a protester by immigration agents in Minneapolis over the we...

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No off-ramp in sight for DHS-fueled shutdown

Washington is charging toward a partial government shutdown over President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda even as senators and the White House scramble to find an elusive off-ramp.De...

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Noem in the hot seat after Minneapolis shooting

White House allies are increasingly blaming one person for the chaotic fallout of the Trump administration’s crackdown in Minneapolis: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.The thrusts of the cri...

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