How an internet outage caused mass disruption across America
21 Oct 2025
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A massive outage of Amazon Web Services downed hundreds of popular websites and apps around the worl...
Inside Trump’s military action in the Caribbean
20 Oct 2025
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In the Caribbean, U.S. forces struck a seventh boat alleged to have been involved in illegal drug-tr...
The dirty secret behind the hobby costing young men thousands of dollars
18 Oct 2025
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From Apple News In Conversation: Sports betting has exploded in the U.S.: The Supreme Court gav...
Why both parties are holding out as the shutdown drags on
17 Oct 2025
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As the government shutdown continues, Republicans and Democrats both say the American public is on t...
How the Supreme Court could reshape the electoral landscape
16 Oct 2025
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Justices heard arguments Wednesday over a case concerning a key provision of the Voting Rights Act r...
Why Trump is bailing out Argentina for $20 billion
15 Oct 2025
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President Trump met with President Javier Milei of Argentina at the White House to discuss the detai...
What’s next in the Israel-Hamas peace plan?
14 Oct 2025
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The first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire is underway as Israeli hostages and Palestinian prison...
All 20 living hostages in Gaza freed by Hamas as peace plan holds
13 Oct 2025
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The 20 living hostages still held in Gaza by Hamas were released after two years in captivity. Presi...
What happens when MAHA and public-health experts talk to one another?
11 Oct 2025
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From Apple News In Conversation: The rise of the Make America Healthy Again movement reflects a larg...
What the skyrocketing price of gold reveals about the economy
10 Oct 2025
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President Trump said hostages could be released early as Monday, as details about how the peace deal...
Hamas agrees to release the hostages. What to know.
09 Oct 2025
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Hamas has agreed to release the hostages in Gaza after accepting the first phase of Trump’s ce...
What the government shutdown could mean for your next flight
08 Oct 2025
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Flight delays are starting to pile up as air-traffic controllers call off sick during the shutdown. ...
Why the Gaza ceasefire talks feel different this time around
07 Oct 2025
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Negotiations in Egypt between Hamas and Israel are ongoing. Foreign Policy reports that despite hope...
How the fight over Trump’s use of federal troops just escalated
06 Oct 2025
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The Trump administration is deploying federal troops into Chicago, claiming ongoing lawlessness. Ill...
Schools blocked ChatGPT. Now they embrace it. What changed?
04 Oct 2025
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From Apple News In Conversation: In just a few years, U.S. school districts have gone from bloc...
How a deadly attack unfolded on Yom Kippur
03 Oct 2025
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At least two are dead after an attacker rammed a car into a crowd of worshippers at a synagogue in M...
One day in, where does the shutdown stand?
02 Oct 2025
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As the government shutdown continues into Day 2, a breakthrough on a funding bill remains elusive. R...
Government shutdown officially begins. What to know.
01 Oct 2025
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The government is officially shut down after Congress failed to pass a spending agreement before las...
Behind Trump’s winning streak at the Supreme Court
30 Sep 2025
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Trump and Netanyahu presented a proposal to end the war in Gaza. The Washington Post’s Michael...
The shutdown deadline is looming. Here’s what could happen.
29 Sep 2025
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Congressional leaders on both sides say they won’t budge as a government shutdown looms. Polit...
What we get wrong about political violence in the U.S.
27 Sep 2025
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From Apple News In Conversation: Earlier this month, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fat...
How pressure from Trump led to James Comey’s indictment
26 Sep 2025
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Former FBI Director James Comey faces federal charges of obstruction and making a false statement. N...
A shooter opened fire at an ICE facility. What to know.
25 Sep 2025
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A gunman killed a detainee and wounded two others at an ICE detention facility in Dallas. The Dallas...
Jimmy Kimmel returns to late-night TV. Here’s what he said.
24 Sep 2025
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Jimmy Kimmel returned to the airwaves almost a week after ABC suspended him for comments about the d...
The weak evidence behind Trump’s autism announcement
23 Sep 2025
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Trump announced two significant regulatory changes surrounding autism. The Washington Post’s D...
Why an attorney tasked with prosecuting Trump’s critics resigned
22 Sep 2025
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Over the weekend Trump urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute some of his political enemies, ...
Inside Disney’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel
19 Sep 2025
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The Wall Street Journal goes inside Disney’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel. Congress faces anot...
What the Fed’s interest-rate cut means for you and the economy
18 Sep 2025
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The Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday and signaled that additional cuts could come lat...
The suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing is charged. What we’ve learned.
17 Sep 2025
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The man accused of killing Charlie Kirk appeared in court for the first time Tuesday. NPR reports th...
The new GOP plan for D.C. crime: charging kids as adults
16 Sep 2025
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The House is set to vote on bills that would impose harsher penalties on people under 18 in D.C. The...
What’s at stake in a crucial week for the Federal Reserve
15 Sep 2025
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The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates this week. The Wall Street Journal’s Nic...
What to know about the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing
12 Sep 2025
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Authorities have arrested a suspect in the shooting of Charlie Kirk. CBS News has more, while Politi...
How Charlie Kirk transformed the American conservative movement
11 Sep 2025
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The conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk died after being shot in the neck at an event in Utah. NBC N...
Child care is incredibly expensive. This state just made it free.
10 Sep 2025
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New Mexico will become the first state in the country to offer its residents free universal childcar...
ICE is escalating operations in Chicago. What to know.
09 Sep 2025
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Federal authorities began increased immigration-enforcement operations in Chicago, targeting people ...
Why ICE raided a company that invests billions in the U.S.
08 Sep 2025
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Hyundai has invested billions in American manufacturing. Now the immigration arrests of hundreds of ...
Was Trump’s strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat legal?
05 Sep 2025
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U.S. warships killed 11 people on a suspected Venezuelan smuggling craft on Tuesday. Secretary of St...
RFK Jr. tore up vaccine policy. Now for a Senate showdown.
04 Sep 2025
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Vaccine policy is changing at a rapid rate as Florida and some Western states take drastically diffe...
The new Epstein files don’t reveal much. What’s next in the case?
03 Sep 2025
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Congress is back from summer recess with a list of big priorities — and some come with tight d...
How an earthquake devastated Afghanistan
02 Sep 2025
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The latest from Afghanistan after a catastrophic earthquake struck the eastern part of the country. ...
Hurricane forecasting improved after Katrina. That could change.
29 Aug 2025
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NPR’s Alejandra Borunda joins to talk about scientific advances in hurricane forecasting since...
Inside the CDC’s night of chaos as its director is fired
28 Aug 2025
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The White House says it has fired the CDC director, less than a month after she was confirmed. Now o...
The tariff on cheap packages all online shoppers should know about
27 Aug 2025
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The little-known de minimis tariff exemption is ending. Bloomberg unpacks the effect it could have o...
How Trump has flipped the meaning of civil rights
26 Aug 2025
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Laura Meckler, national education reporter with the Washington Post, joins to break down how the Dep...
It’s been two weeks of federal control in D.C. Here’s what’s changed in the city.
25 Aug 2025
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The Washington Post’s Jenny Gathright joins to discuss the latest on Trump’s crime crack...
The surprising reason many fossil-fuel companies support EPA rules
22 Aug 2025
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The federal government might give up its ability to regulate climate law — and businesses are conc...
Stuck in their homes, stuck in their jobs: why Americans feel frozen
21 Aug 2025
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Nobody is buying homes. Nobody is changing jobs. Wall Street Journal reporter Konrad Putzier explore...
How much money is Trump making off the presidency?
20 Aug 2025
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New Yorker staff writer David D. Kirkpatrick spent months tallying up the dizzying amount of cash Tr...
Inside sports’ escalating stalking problem
19 Aug 2025
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Stalking has become an unsettling part of the elite-sports landscape. The Athletic’s Carson Ke...
Why Zelenskyy is bringing backup to the White House
18 Aug 2025
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Politico’s Paul McLeary joins to talk about what’s next as President Trump meets with Uk...
The three leaders who will decide Ukraine’s fate
15 Aug 2025
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Reuters White House correspondent Steve Holland discusses the high-stakes meeting between President ...
Why economists are worried about Trump’s pick to oversee jobs data
14 Aug 2025
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Three out of 10 people have trouble falling and staying asleep. Jennifer Senior, staff writer for Th...
How Trump’s use of the military breaks with past presidents
13 Aug 2025
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The National Guard was deployed into Washington, D.C. Vera Bergengruen from the Wall Street Journal ...
Trump seizes control of D.C. police. Here’s what that means.
12 Aug 2025
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Trump deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C. Brian Mann from NPR explains how the president...
Billions of dollars are going to ICE. What will it do with the money?
11 Aug 2025
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Caitlin Dickerson with the Atlantic reports on how Congress has allocated an unprecedented sum of mo...
Israel is planning a major escalation of the war in Gaza. What to know.
08 Aug 2025
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Benjamin Netanyahu wants to take control of all of Gaza. Alexander Cornwell with Reuters unpacks wha...
Trump’s tariffs are raising billions. Where is that money going?
07 Aug 2025
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Tariffs for nearly 70 countries are implemented today. CNN’s Elisabeth Buchwald explains where all...
The hidden culprit behind your rising electricity bills
06 Aug 2025
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More universities are beginning to engage with the Trump administration on settlements and other agr...
How Trump’s Texas power grab could change voting nationwide
05 Aug 2025
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The Texas governor is in a political showdown with Democrats. Lawmakers have fled the state to derai...
How Trump firing a data chief threatens jobs-stats credibility
04 Aug 2025
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Trump fired a key official after she delivered some bad news about jobs numbers. Courtenay Brown wit...
How Trump is using tariffs to help a political ally
01 Aug 2025
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Trump unveiled a new set of tariffs across the globe as his deadline arrived. Manuela Andreoni from ...
Why we don’t actually know much about Trump’s trade deals
31 Jul 2025
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As President Trump touts trade deals ahead his Friday tariff deadline, Politico’s Daniel Desrocher...
Tsunami waves reach U.S. after Russian earthquake. What to know.
30 Jul 2025
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One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off Russia’s east coast, setting off tsu...
Inside the IRS’s plans to share highly confidential taxpayer data with ICE
29 Jul 2025
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According to a ProPublica report, the IRS is building a system that would share taxpayer data with I...
What millions of student-loan borrowers need to know this week
28 Jul 2025
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Photos of emaciated, starving Palestinians have drawn international condemnation of Israel’s b...
What the numbers reveal about Trump’s mass-deportation plan
25 Jul 2025
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The Guardian looks at how Trump’s goal to deport 1 million people in his first year in office ...
Three new developments in the Epstein saga to know about
24 Jul 2025
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Trump was briefed in May that his name was among many cited in the files relating to the Jeffrey Eps...
The unspoken threat in Trump’s Wall Street Journal lawsuit
23 Jul 2025
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Trump sued the Wall Street Journal over its report that he wrote a birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein....
They wrote Project 2025. Now they’re dictating some U.S. policy.
22 Jul 2025
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Six months in, how have the Trump administration’s actions aligned with Project 2025’s plan?...
Six months in, how do Americans grade Trump?
21 Jul 2025
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Six months into Trump’s second term in office, a CNN poll finds that a majority of Americans d...
Why some of Trump’s big Supreme Court wins remain a mystery
18 Jul 2025
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The House approved Trump’s plans to claw back $8 billion in approved funding for foreign aid. ...
From Elmo to emergency alerts: The impact of public media cuts
17 Jul 2025
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The Senate just passed a bill that would cut more than $1.1 billion in previously allocated federal ...
Why Congress might claw back money it already approved
16 Jul 2025
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The Senate voted to advance legislation that would claw back over $9 billion dollars for foreign aid...
Bugs, heat, broken toilets: life inside “Alligator Alcatraz”
15 Jul 2025
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New reporting from the Miami Herald reveals that a significant portion of detainees held at an immig...
How the Secret Service failed to prevent the Trump shooting
14 Jul 2025
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It’s one year since the assassination attempt against Trump, and a damning Senate committee re...
ICE agents are hiding their faces during raids. Is that legal?
11 Jul 2025
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Trump is expected to visit Texas today, amid longer-term questions over the future of FEMA. Zack Col...
Trump’s birthright citizenship ban was blocked again. What to know.
10 Jul 2025
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A federal judge issued a new, temporary nationwide block on Trump’s birthright citizenship ban. To...
Trump promised 90 tariff deals in 90 days. We’ve got two. What happened?
09 Jul 2025
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Trump extended his deadline for countries to make tariff deals, and sent a host of letters threateni...
Stories of survival and loss after the Texas floods
08 Jul 2025
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The death toll from the Texas floods climbed above 100, as stories of tragedy and heroics continue ...
Tragedy in Texas: how flash flooding devastated a county
07 Jul 2025
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Catastrophic flooding in Texas killed at least 80 people, and more rainfall is expected. The Texas T...
What to know about the government’s new database to track citizens
02 Jul 2025
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The Trump administration is building a national citizenship-data system. NPR’s Jude Joffe-Bloc...
Inside the GOP’s unprecedented move to claim tax-cut extensions are free
01 Jul 2025
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Senate Republicans are racing to get their sprawling bill to the House. The Wall Street Journal&rsqu...
How Medicaid work requirements have failed before
30 Jun 2025
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Republicans are grappling with their big tax-and-spending bill, which the independent Congressional ...
Tough, principled, and kind — the legacy of a slain Minnesota lawmaker
27 Jun 2025
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Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman — along with her husband, Mark, and their golden r...
Why it’s been so hot in June, and when to bring the kids inside
26 Jun 2025
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Israel tasked private contractors with distributing aid in Gaza. Nabih Bulos with the Los Angeles Ti...
How a 33-year-old progressive pulled off a huge political victory in New York
25 Jun 2025
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The Iran-Israel ceasefire is tentatively holding, as questions emerge over the scale of Iran’s...
Trump accuses Israel and Iran of violating ceasefire
24 Jun 2025
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Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, but has now accused both countries of violating...
Three big questions after the U.S. strikes on Iran
23 Jun 2025
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Following the U.S.’s strikes on nuclear sites in Iran, there are major questions in the days ahead...
How lawmakers are responding to rising political threats
18 Jun 2025
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In a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines, the Supreme Court determined a Tennessee state law banning ...
What Iranians and Israelis think about their warring leaders
17 Jun 2025
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As Iran and Israel trade missiles, The Economist explores how citizens might respond to their leader...
Suspect found as Minnesota mourns killing of “irreplaceable” politician
16 Jun 2025
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The suspect has been found in the Minnesota killings of a lawmaker and her husband. The Minnesota St...
What to know about Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear program
13 Jun 2025
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CBS reports on Israel’s strikes on nuclear sites in Iran. Bloomberg has more details of the A...
The damage that “less lethal” police weapons can really do
12 Jun 2025
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What to know about a fatal Boeing crash in India that killed more than 200 people.As protests contin...
Inside the White House’s detention strategy
11 Jun 2025
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An L.A. curfew was implemented amid protests against ICE raids there. Elizabeth Findell from the Wal...
RFK Jr. ousts his entire vaccine advisory group
10 Jun 2025
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent Marines into Los Angeles, and California’s governor sued Trump...
What to know about the L.A. protests over immigration raids
09 Jun 2025
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It was a weekend of unrest in L.A. as protesters demonstrating against immigration raids and ICE age...
What to know about Trump and Musk’s epic breakup
06 Jun 2025
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Trump and Elon Musk attacked each other on social media in an extraordinary public fight. Politico h...
How Trump’s travel ban expands on his first-term efforts
Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:00:00 GMT
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Trump announced a new travel ban. The Wall Street Journal breaks it down. As Canada’s wildfire...
How Trump’s travel ban expands on his first-term efforts
05 Jun 2025
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Trump announced a new travel ban. The Wall Street Journal breaks it down. As Canada’s wildfire...
Musk rages at GOP as he returns to an uncertain business empire
Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:00 GMT
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Elon Musk attacks “abomination” GOP bill. As he leaves government, he returns to an unce...