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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 Trump and Russian President Putin in Alaska — an...

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 The Atlantic, explains why many commonly recommended...

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 explains the unprecedented ways the Trump administ...

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 is using emergency powers to take control of the ...

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 money to immigration enforcement, and how they might...

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 what that means.  The Trump administration is pu...

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 money is going. Republicans are under pressur...

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 agreements. Liam Knox of Bloomberg News joins to disc...

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 derail a redistricting vote that would could hand the G...

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 with Axios explains what that means for the credibili...

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 Reuters explains why he hopes higher duties on Bra...

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 Desrochers reports that a lot of the details remain murky.W...

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 tsunami warnings in the U.S., Japan, and elsewhere. R...

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 ICE. Investigative reporter William Turton explains...

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 blockade of aid to Gaza. NBC reports. Over the week...

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 stands, six months into his term. The paper’...

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 Epstein case, according to reports from the Wall Stre...

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. It’s an unprecedented move for a sitting presid...

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? The Atlantic’s David Graham joins the show ...

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 disapprove of the administration’s deportatio...

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. Experts told NPR the administration has provided l...

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 funds for public media. The Wall Street Journal re...

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 and public media that both chambers of Congress, ...

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 immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglade...

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 report just described the event as a “preventa...

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 Colman from Politico takes us through them. The presi...

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. Tom Hals of Reuters told us about the plaintiffs’ ...

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 threatening new measures. Brian Schwartz at the Wall Street...

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 to emerge. Keri Heath at the Austin American-State...

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 Tribune has the latest. Congressional Republicans p...

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-Block joins to discuss her exclusive reporting behind ...

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’s Richard Rubin joins to explain the financial m...

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 Budget Office estimates will add $3.3 trillion to ...

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 retriever, Gilbert — will lie in the Minnesota st...

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 Times explains how those sites have descended into c...

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 nuclear setbacks. Reuters reports. Megan Messerly...

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 it. Reuters has the latest. What to know about Ne...

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. CNN reports on the members of Congress who were ...

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 gender-affirming care for transgender minors is co...

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 leaders’ actions. The suspect in the Minnesota kil...

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 Star Tribune has the details. Israel and Iran intens...

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 Air India crash — and the remarkable story of the...

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 continue in L.A. and elsewhere over immigration raids, R...

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 Wall Street Journal looks at the marching orders from...

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. CalMatters’s Nigel Duara has been followin...

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 agents collided. President Trump sent in the National...

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 has the blow-by-blow. Afghanistan has a complex set...

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 wildfires continue to rage, dangerous air is sweeping acro...

Musk rages at GOP as he returns to an uncertain business empire

04 Jun 2025

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Elon Musk attacks “abomination” GOP bill. As he leaves government, he returns to an uncertain future for Tesla, as the Wall Street Journal...

Inside the unlikely alliance to make childbirth free in the U.S.

03 Jun 2025

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There is unlikely bipartisan support in Congress around an effort to make childbirth free in America. Vox’s Rachel Cohen discusses the plan and ...

Marchers for Israeli hostages attacked in Colorado. Here’s what to know.

02 Jun 2025

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A man in Colorado has been arrested after setting fire to people marching for the release of Israeli hostages. The FBI are treating it as a terror att...

Elon Musk’s legacy on the federal workforce

30 May 2025

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Elon Musk has left the government building, but DOGE remains. The Washington Post’s William Wan reports on what he learned speaking to federal-g...

Why a court just struck down Trump’s sweeping tariffs

29 May 2025

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A court struck down the bulk of Trump’s tariffs, in a major setback to his economic agenda. Bloomberg has the latest. Harvard has its university...

The deals pushing the Trump family’s wealth to new heights

28 May 2025

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Trump’s family empire is dramatically expanding its wealth during his presidency. Bloomberg News’s Max Abelson joins to discuss the deals ...

Trump says Putin has gone “CRAZY.” What next for the war in Ukraine?

27 May 2025

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Trump said in a social-media post that Putin has “gone absolutely CRAZY,” after Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine. Reuters reports. Police in Ne...

Explaining Trump’s latest move against Harvard

23 May 2025

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The Trump administration revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students. Reuters breaks down the impact of the move. Trum...

Update: Two Israeli Embassy staffers were killed in D.C. What to know.

22 May 2025

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Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy were shot and killed outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., last night. The man a...

A brain-dead pregnant woman is being kept alive, raising ethical questions

21 May 2025

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A pregnant woman in Georgia is being kept alive as a hospital navigates the state’s abortion laws. The family is speaking out. The Guardian has ...

The GOP’s tug-of-war over spending cuts

20 May 2025

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Mark Chiusano writes for New York magazine about a mother who took her sons to a routine ICE check-in. They were scheduled for deportation and she has...

Joe Biden has prostate cancer. Here is what we know.

19 May 2025

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Former President Joe Biden announced that he has prostate cancer. CNN has the latest news and reaction. Israel agreed to allow a basic amount of aid i...

The winners and losers of the GOP tax bill

16 May 2025

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A look at where things are on the GOP’s tax bill, and who stands to benefit and lose. Tax-policy reporter Richard Rubin with the Wall Street Journal...

What the Supreme Court's birthright-citizenship case is really about

15 May 2025

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A case before the Supreme Court about birthright citizenship could have larger ramifications for the limits of judicial power. Maureen Groppe with USA...

Why “self-defense” insurance is becoming big business

14 May 2025

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The Trump administration is resettling white South Africans in the U.S. The Washington Post’s Teo Armus has the story. With ceasefire talks set ...

Property, golf, and crypto: the Trump family strikes deals in the Middle East

13 May 2025

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President Trump is making the first extended foreign trip of his term in the Middle East. The Wall Street Journal’s Eliot Brown discusses how pa...

The U.S. and China agree to cut tariffs for 90 days. What to know.

12 May 2025

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The U.S. and China reached an agreement to temporarily lower tariffs on each other’s products. After another radar outage affecting Newark airport,...

Any day now, an old Soviet spacecraft will crash-land on Earth

09 May 2025

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It’s a busy month for college graduations. USA Today’s Rachel Barber joins to discuss what graduates are looking for in the job market and...

People are noticing “recession signs” everywhere. What does the data say?

08 May 2025

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Fed Chair Jerome Powell held interest rates steady on Wednesday, and said the economic path ahead is unclear. The Washington Post reports on how econo...

The 90 seconds that shook air-traffic controllers

07 May 2025

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The Wall Street Journal’s Andrew Tangel discusses a troubling recent communication loss for air-traffic controllers, and how it has served as a ...

How RFK Jr. has overhauled U.S. health care

06 May 2025

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Aria Bendix, health reporter for NBC News, discusses the impact of cuts and changes at the Department of Health and Human Services. The Washington Pos...

The reason Americans aren’t having more babies

05 May 2025

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The Trump administration wants a baby boom, but many of its policies are making it harder for American families to expand. Vox's Rachel Cohen explains...

How Democrats are trying to win back voters

02 May 2025

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The Democratic Party is strategizing over how to respond to Trump. Perry Bacon Jr. with the Washington Post walks us through how that’s going. M...

Why Nike is a cautionary tale when it comes to tariffs

01 May 2025

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Kamala Harris delivered her first speech since leaving the White House. The Washington Post has the details. Trump wants to use tariffs to boost ...

DOGE set out to save trillions. Here are the results.

30 Apr 2025

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A look at the first 100 days of DOGE. Wired’s Makena Kelly has the details.  Israel has prevented almost all aid from reaching Gaza for clo...

How voters feel about Trump’s first 100 days

29 Apr 2025

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Reuters speaks to voters about their views on Trump’s second term so far. The Wall Street Journal’s Nick Timiraos discusses the state of t...

How public opinion has shifted in Trump’s first 100 days

28 Apr 2025

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CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten joins to discuss recent polling and why Trump’s honeymoon period didn’t last long. NPR reports that 114...

An alarm bell for American democracy

25 Apr 2025

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In a recent pulse-check on the health of our democracy by Bright Line Watch, hundreds of scholars warned that the U.S. is heading swiftly toward autho...

Their travel generates billions for the U.S. They’re rethinking their plans.

24 Apr 2025

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Travel to the United States is a multibillion-dollar industry. The Washington Post examines how and why it is decreasing.  Pope Francis kept up a...

Why it’s time to delete yourself from the internet

23 Apr 2025

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The Wall Street Journal’s  personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen shares why it might be a good idea to delete certain personal data about yourself...

Will the Supreme Court allow Trump to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell?

22 Apr 2025

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A number of agencies, like the Federal Reserve, operate independently from the party ruling Washington. The Wall Street Journal’s Greg Ip explai...

The pope’s legacy, plus a second Signal chat with war plans

21 Apr 2025

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Pope Francis, who attempted to modernize the Vatican, has died. He was 88 years old. We remember his legacy with Reuters correspondent Joshua  McElw...

The foreign leader helping Trump defy the Supreme Court

18 Apr 2025

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Vera Bergengruen, national-security reporter at the Wall Street Journal, joins to discuss Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, his plans for his country...

What to know about RFK Jr.’s plan to research autism

17 Apr 2025

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making research into autism one of his major initiatives. NBC’s Brandy Zadrozny explains how he’...

Why Harvard is leading the higher-ed fight against Trump

16 Apr 2025

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Bloomberg News reports on Harvard University’s pushback to demands from the Trump administration and the resulting retribution. CNN examines how...

Trump is considering sending U.S. citizens to El Salvador

15 Apr 2025

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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said he will not help return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S. after Garcia was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. ...

The legal fight that could reshape social media

14 Apr 2025

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The government says Meta broke the law when it acquired Instagram and WhatsApp. The trial starts today. The Verge’s Lauren Feiner details the ca...

What is the market mayhem all for?

11 Apr 2025

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At the end of a chaotic week for the markets, we ask Bloomberg reporter Shawn Donnan what it’s all been for. Plus, the Supreme Court says the Tr...

China hits back at U.S. tariffs

10 Apr 2025

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A look at China’s targeted response to Trump’s tariffs. Lingling Wei with the Wall Street Journal has the details.  The IRS and the D...

The infighting inside the White House over tariffs

09 Apr 2025

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Tensions are rising within the White House as a result of inconsistent messaging on the policy goals for tariffs. Bloomberg’s Justin Sink detail...

How tariffs could transform the auto industry

08 Apr 2025

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Michigan’s auto industry is at the forefront of the economic turmoil brought on by the Trump administration’s tariffs. The Wall Street Jou...

As Trump’s tariffs take hold, how much pain can Americans handle?

07 Apr 2025

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The Trump administration is defending sweeping tariffs that sent markets careening. Shawn Donnan of Bloomberg News discusses what might happen next. T...

Markets plummet, a House revolt, and other big Washington news

04 Apr 2025

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President Trump’s tariffs have caused U.S. markets to plummet. How to prepare for a potential recession, and how the tariffs might have an outsized ...

How an “administrative error” sent a man to a Salvadoran prison

03 Apr 2025

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A Maryland father was mistakenly sent to a Salvadoran prison. The administration called it an “administrative error.” Nick Miroff of The A...

What new election results tell us about how attitudes are shifting

02 Apr 2025

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Americans are feeling uneasy about the economy. Business Insider’s Emily Stewart describes why. New election results from Wisconsin and Florida ...

Tips to protect the data on your phone at airports

01 Apr 2025

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been denying people entry into the country after searching their phones. Gaby Del Valle from The Verge details ...

How Trump’s DEI crackdown is impacting women in science

31 Mar 2025

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The Trump administration’s drive to dismantle inclusion policies is undercutting federal funding for scientific-research grants. The 19th looks ...

Inside the fallout of a stunning national-security leak

28 Mar 2025

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Politico’s Dasha Burns joins to discuss the political blowback after the leak of a Trump administration group chat on Signal that included war p...

How Social Security is changing

27 Mar 2025

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The Washington Post’s Todd Frankel joins to talk about how Elon Musk and Trump’s claims of rampant fraud and waste at the Social Security ...

On the ground in El Salvador with the men deported there by the U.S.

26 Mar 2025

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Earlier this month Venezuelans were designated as gang members by the U.S. with little to no due process, deported to El Salvador, and imprisoned. Pho...

Top Trump officials leaked war plans to a journalist by mistake

25 Mar 2025

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Trump officials inadvertently added a journalist to a text thread discussing sensitive military plans, The Atlantic reports. It all took place over a ...

What dismantling the Education Department means for students

24 Mar 2025

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Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Department of Education could hurt rural and low-income schools. Axios reports that states that voted f...