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How Bad Is Foreign Influence In America's Nonprofit Universe?

How Bad Is Foreign Influence In America's Nonprofit Universe? In February, the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing titled "Foreign Influence in American Nonprofits: Unmask...

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US kills Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua leader in military strike, Trump says

Héctor Guerrero, the leader of the Venezuelan drug trafficking gang Tren de Aragua, was killed in a U.S. military strike, President Donald Trump announced Friday.“At my direction, the United States...

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Algae resurfaces in reflecting pool after multimillion-dollar fixes

The newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool seems unable to escape an old scourge: algae blooming in the shallow water.Thin layers of algae floated on the World War II Memorial side of the...

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A deal with Iran is near but not final, senior US official says

A preliminary deal with Iran to end more than three months of war is close but not done, according to a senior administration official, who pegged the odds of success at 80 to 85 percent.The reason...

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Trump’s inexperienced federal prosecutors are running into trouble in court

At least a dozen times since the beginning of his second term, President Donald Trump has picked someone who has never prosecuted a case in federal court to lead an office full of federal prosecuto...

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From Davos to the G7: Mark Carney’s middle-power moment

When Mark Carney arrived in Davos in January and warned that “middle powers” risked ending up “on the menu” of the “hegemons,” he sounded like a Canadian prime minister on the hunt for a foreign po...

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Justice Department approves Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros.

The Justice Department's Antitrust Division has signed off on Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, according to two people familiar. The approval clears a major regulat...

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Trump keeps extending the Iran war. Republicans are losing patience.

Republicans keep lengthening President Donald Trump’s leash on Iran.First, they hoped he would stick to his initial four- to six-week timeline for the war. Then, they gave him 60 days; then, until ...

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Trump grouses about 'weak and pathetic' Iran, dismisses 'leaked' deal

President Donald Trump accused Iran of leaking inaccurate terms of a proposed peace deal Friday morning, less than a day after walking back threats of a massive bombing campaign and takeover of Ira...

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Judge extends block on Trump’s ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’

A federal judge has extended a block on President Donald Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” but signaled she will drop the matter if the administration more definitively disavows the project.At a h...

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US military escorting growing number of oil tankers through Hormuz, Energy secretary says

HOUSTON — The U.S. military is escorting ships carrying approximately 7 million barrels a day of crude oil and fuel products through the Strait of Hormuz, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Friday....

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Graham Platner Signals a Problem for Democrats, and the Rest of Us

The "progressive" wing of the Democratic Party is on a roll, winning nominations and elections. Left-wing leaders are taking earned victory ...

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Thank You for Your Attention to This Birthday

Donald Trump is old. The president turns 80 on Sunday, becoming the second man to mark that milestone birthday in office. The other, of course, was his predecessor, Joe Biden. Neither particularly ...

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LA Dems are nursing a post-Spencer Pratt hangover

LOS ANGELES — “Naked Zombies.” “Super meth.” “Coilers.” Spencer Pratt may be out of the Los Angeles mayor’s race after progressive Nithya Raman passed him for second place behind Mayor Karen Bass. ...

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Trump Started a Plan to Eradicate HIV. He Never Finished It.

In 2019, midway through his marathon and frequently combative State of the Union address, President Donald Trump made a promise that garnered him a rare bipartisan standing ovation. “Together,” he ...

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The US Government Broke FIFA — And Then Made It Stronger Than Ever

In June 2018, the architects of the United Bid gathered for the last time in London, which a month earlier had become the base for their campaign to sell the world on the first-ever World Cup share...

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Hunter Biden defends Graham Platner on Newsom podcast

Hunter Biden thinks Graham Platner is getting a raw deal.The former president’s son defended Platner’s besieged Senate candidacy during an appearance on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast, acco...

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Chuck Schumer is ready for redemption

Chuck Schumer has served as a punching bag for angry Democrats for more than a year — taking flak on everything from his 2026 recruiting to his handling of government funding talks.But with about f...

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Gulf leaders called Trump to stop him from attacking Iran. It worked, for now.

Soon after President Donald Trump posted Thursday morning that he would hit Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT,” leaders from Gulf and South Asian countries called the president in a last-ditch effort to chan...

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The small-town voters deciding the UK’s future are demanding change, our focus group found

ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, England — Voters in perhaps the most consequential special election ever held in Britain are angry, and they really want someone to feel their pain.That’s the clear verdict fr...

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Prosecutors ‘on pins and needles’ awaiting Jay Clayton’s replacement

With Jay Clayton’s nomination to become director of national intelligence, the Manhattan federal prosecutors he has overseen for the past year are bracing for what’s next.Clayton, who came to the p...

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