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President Donald Trump visits with family of Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes at Super Bowl LIX

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President Donald Trump on Sunday became the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl when arrived at the Caesars Superdome roughly an hour before the Kansas City Chiefs were set to face the Philadelphia Eagles.

President Trump went down to the field as the teams were going through pregame workouts. He shook hands with some people on the ...Read more

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Johnson: Budget blueprint not ready for prime time

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Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that tentative plans for a House Budget Committee markup this week may now be postponed as Republican lawmakers continue to struggle to reach an agreement on the framework for a massive reconciliation package containing much of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda.

House leaders had been hoping to work ...Read more

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Donald Trump arrives at Superdome and is first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl

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President Donald Trump on Sunday became the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl when arrived at the Caesars Superdome roughly an hour before the Kansas City Chiefs were set to face the Philadelphia Eagles.

President Trump went down to the field as the teams were going through pregame workouts. He shook hands with some people on the ...Read more

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Trump interview before Super Bowl: Takeaways on Chiefs vs. Eagles, Musk, DOGE, more

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President Donald Trump said he will direct Elon Musk, one his most controversial advisers, to search for waste, fraud and abuse in the Education and Defense departments.

Trump said the orders could come within 24 hours of his interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier, which aired a few hours before the Super Bowl on Sunday.

Trump will be the ...Read more

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Trump suggests Musk found 'irregularities' in effort at Treasury

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President Donald Trump suggested that Elon Musk’s government efficiency team has found irregularities while examining data at the U.S. Treasury Department, and intimated that may lead the U.S. to disregard some payments.

“There could be a problem, we’ve been reading about that, with Treasuries,” Trump told reporters Sunday on Air Force ...Read more

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Trump plans to unveil 25% steel, aluminum tariffs on Monday

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President Donald Trump said he will announce on Monday 25% tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum.

Trump, speaking to reporters Sunday on Air Force One, said the tariffs will apply to the metal imports from all countries. He didn’t specify when the duties would take effect.

The president also said he would announce reciprocal tariffs ...Read more

Sam Nujoma personified Namibia’s struggle for freedom

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Sam Nujoma was an outstanding Namibian leader who personified more than anybody else the country’s liberation struggle history and independence. His death at the age of 95 marks the end of an era. But his legacy will live on.

Together with Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, he was central in the foundation of the national liberation movement, ...Read more

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High approval rating for Trump in first month, CBS poll shows

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More than half of U.S. adults say they approve of the job President Donald Trump is doing in his first month in office, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll published Sunday.

The poll, conducted Wednesday through Friday of last week, showed Trump had a 53% approval rating. The poll of 2,175 adults had a margin of error of 2.5 percentage points. ...Read more

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Trump's rush to unleash executive power hits a judicial wall

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Judges are putting the brakes on some of the most dramatic moves of President Donald Trump’s first three weeks in office, slowing actions targeted at migrants, federal workers, government spending and transgender Americans.

According to a Bloomberg News analysis, more than 40 lawsuits have been filed challenging the barrage of activity by the...Read more

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A pivotal senator says he extracted vaccine concessions from RFK Jr. How will that play out?

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In the days leading up to a pivotal vote on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to become America's top heath official, all eyes were focused on Sen. Bill Cassidy. And the pivotal issue for the Louisiana Republican was Kennedy's skepticism toward vaccines.

Cassidy chairs the Senate committee that oversees the Department of Health and Human ...Read more

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Trump amends CBS '60 Minutes' lawsuit and demands $20 billion

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President Donald Trump has amended his lawsuit against CBS, demanding $20 billion and again claiming the network deceptively edited a "60 Minutes" interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris in an effort to prop up her election chances.

In the new court filing late Friday, Trump demanded twice the amount in damages than he originally ...Read more

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Trump's approval ratings: What the latest polls show

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BALTIMORE — Nearly three weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump appears to be retaining the support that led to his return to power.

FiveThirtyEight polling averages show Trump, who never earned positive marks during his first term or subsequent presidential campaigns, has considerably narrowed the gap in his favorability rating ...Read more

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'It's a circus': Trump unleashes chaos at key US science agency

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WASHINGTON — The email arrived in U.S. government workers’ inboxes just after 1 a.m. East Coast time on Friday, with the subject line “IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION - URGENT ACTION.”

The message went to some staff members at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, the scientific agency best known for providing daily ...Read more

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Migrants welcomed under Biden fearful as Trump targets legal immigration programs

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WASHINGTON — Maria Eugenia Torres Ramirez never sought to reside in the United States illegally. A political activist from Venezuela who fiercely opposes President Nicolas Maduro, she approached border agents in Del Rio, Texas, in 2021 and asked for asylum, saying she feared for her life.

Torres Ramirez, 37, fled Venezuela with her two young...Read more

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Can Trump persuade North Korea to return to the negotiating table?

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During a recent interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, President Donald Trump stated that he would reach out to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un again in his second term to mitigate security threats.

This was not the first time Trump expressed his intention to reopen diplomacy with North Korea since taking office. On his first day in office,...Read more

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Trump's Gaza plan echoes decades-old Israeli calls to expel Palestianians

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On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza, was received warmly by President Donald Trump at the White House.

Netanyahu, a longtime backer of Trump, beamed with satisfaction as the two men met with reporters and ...Read more

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Trump sued by Democrat states over Musk access to Treasury data

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NEW YORK — A group of 19 mostly Democrat-led states sued President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for granting Elon Musk unprecedented access to personal data on millions of Americans.

Trump and Bessent violated federal law by allowing Musk’s newly established efficiency team access to Treasury Department information, ...Read more

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Trump revokes Biden's access to intelligence reports, saying the same was done to him 4 years ago

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he is revoking former President Joe Biden’s access to intelligence briefings.

Trump announced the move Friday shortly after arriving at his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, from the White House. He said he was “immediately revoking” Biden’s security clearances and halt the reports known as the ...Read more

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Rubio makes nice on first trip abroad but keeps an eye on Trump

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WASHINGTON — In his first overseas stop as the top U.S. diplomat, Marco Rubio went to Panama and secured an agreement for the U.S. Navy to travel freely through the Panama Canal. It was a win sure to please President Donald Trump, whose threats to take back the waterway had dominated the first weeks of his second term.

Then came a State ...Read more

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California governor signs 2 'Trump-proofing' bills a day after returning from DC trip

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom continues to try to have it both ways.

On Friday, a day removed from his trip to Washington where he made a show of deference to President Donald Trump, Newsom signed into law two bills meant to curtail the Trump administration’s agenda from taking hold in California.

Newsom traveled to the...Read more

 

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