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Trump's picks for Pentagon team spark GOP debate on security

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WASHINGTON — Leading Republican senators are expressing serious concerns about what they consider the isolationist bent of President Donald Trump’s emerging Pentagon team.

Elbridge Colby, whom Trump has tapped to be the Pentagon’s policy chief, believes the U.S. military needs to focus on China and substantially reduce its forces in ...Read more

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'It's like a cult': Democrats aren't laughing at GOP bills honoring Trump

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WASHINGTON — A series of legislative proposals introduced by House Republicans, seemingly aimed at currying favor with President Donald Trump, would almost be funny, according to their Democratic colleagues, if they didn’t hint at a darker reality.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., introduced a bill to put Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore. ...Read more

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Trump administration sues Illinois, Cook County and Chicago over sanctuary immigration laws

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – President Donald Trump’s administration went to court Thursday to challenge sanctuary policies in the state of Illinois, Cook County and the city of Chicago that limit the powers of state and local police to assist federal law enforcement on immigration-related matters.

“The challenged provisions of Illinois, Chicago, ...Read more

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Trump will seek to end carried interest, expand SALT in tax bill

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President Donald Trump outlined his tax priorities in a meeting with Republican lawmakers, including a call to end the carried interest tax break used by private equity fund managers and expand the state and local tax deduction.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump laid out those measures and other provisions ...Read more

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Trump's picks for Pentagon team spark GOP debate on security

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WASHINGTON — Leading Republican senators are expressing serious concerns about what they consider the isolationist bent of President Donald Trump’s emerging Pentagon team.

Elbridge Colby, whom Trump has tapped to be the Pentagon’s policy chief, believes the U.S. military needs to focus on China and substantially reduce its forces in ...Read more

Federal correctional officers driven to ask Congress for a raise

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WASHINGTON — T.J. Gamble, a federal correctional officer, started a more than 10-hour road trip to Washington this weekend fresh off a grueling work schedule: He’d worked 16-hour shifts for 16 consecutive days.

Gamble, who works at a federal prison in a rural part of southeastern Michigan, was headed to Capitol Hill as part of a larger ...Read more

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Editorial: Trump is hurting people who know how to lower egg prices

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The avian flu pandemic ravaging poultry farms across the country, raising the price of eggs and wings is an act of nature, but the human response to it reveals the value of a non-political group whose funding, already restricted by the Trump administration, remains in jeopardy: scientific researchers funded through the National Institutes of ...Read more

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Editorial: Trump shouldn't push his luck on tariffs

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So far, President Donald Trump's tariff brinkmanship has worked out well for him. He forced Colombia to bend to his will on repatriating its migrants and brought the leaders of Canada and Mexico rushing back to the table to talk border security.

But what happens should his luck run out? The game Trump is playing could turn American consumers ...Read more

Trump’s offshore wind energy freeze: What states lose if the executive order remains in place

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A single wind turbine spinning off the U.S. Northeast coast today can power thousands of homes – without the pollution that comes from fossil fuel power plants. A dozen of those turbines together can produce enough electricity for an entire community.

The opportunity to tap into such a powerful source of locally produced clean ...Read more

How populist leaders like Trump use ‘common sense’ as an ideological weapon to undermine facts

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It’s “the revolution of common sense,” President Donald Trump announced in his second inaugural address.

And so it is. The latest installment of that assertion came in his Jan. 30, 2025, press conference about the Potomac plane crash. When asked how he had concluded that diversity policies were responsible for a crash that was ...Read more

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POINT: Trump didn't return abortion to the states -- It was already there

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Now that Donald Trump has been elected, the attacks on abortion rights will accelerate. Without resorting to a national ban on abortion, Trump can use executive authority to take a series of decisive actions that can repeal federal regulations that still provide some protections for abortion rights.

Trump has claimed responsibility for creating...Read more

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Commentary: Congress should use its power against Trump

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On Jan. 27, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo ordering all federal agencies to “temporarily pause” provision of all federal financial assistance to assess compliance with the wave of executive orders issued in President Donald Trump’s first weeks in office.

The vaguely worded order unleashed mayhem, as ...Read more

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Editorial: Trump's tariff tantrum -- Risking so much with Mexico and Canada to achieve very little

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President Donald Trump’s reckless weekend threat of sabotaging trade in North America and spiking inflation with instant 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports severely spooked investors, but did manage to get him some promises of tougher interdiction of people and drugs at the southern and northern borders. It’s a dangerous way to deal...Read more

Trump pledges to investigate California high-speed rail. Is it actually over budget?

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump took dead aim at California’s high-speed rail project Tuesday, promising to lead an investigation into the beleaguered project under construction in Fresno and the central San Joaquin Valley.

“The train that’s being built between Los Angeles and San Francisco is the worst managed project I ...Read more

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COUNTERPOINT: The state(s) of abortion in America

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President Donald Trump says that abortion policy should be left to the states, which, of course, means that if you’re in the wrong ZIP code, you’re out of luck.

That’s why it was so crucial for the Supreme Court to uphold the constitutional right to abortion in all 50 states in the Roe v. Wade decision and why it was so shocking when the ...Read more

Palestinians have long resisted resettlement – Trump’s plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza won’t change that

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President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. should “take over” Gaza, displace its current population and turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East” is unsettling – in both a literal and, to Palestinians, a very personal sense.

The remarks, which followed earlier comments in which the president expressed a...Read more

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Rubio says he'll skip G-20 meeting in South Africa over land law

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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he won’t attend a Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg later this month, citing among his reasons South Africa’s new land-expropriation law, which has been assailed by President Donald Trump.

“South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘...Read more

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Trump signs executive order to block transgender athletes from women's sports

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order aimed at preventing transgender women from participating in women’s sports.

“You’ve been waiting a long time for this. So have I,” the president told invited guests during a signing ceremony at the White House, adding that any entity deemed in violation of his ...Read more

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At Philly's '50501' protest a promise to resist the new Trump administration

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PHILADELPHIA — Some 200 people gathered in front of City Hall at noon Wednesday as part of a plan organized through social media to hold 50 anti-Trump protests across 50 states in one day.

Dubbed the "50501" protests on Reddit and other social media platforms, the concept inspired organizers to make fliers and create events for their cities ...Read more

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Protesters march at Minnesota state Capitol to push back against Trump administration

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Organizer Brielle Lee Barrett was overcome with emotion as she looked out at roughly 500 flag-waving protesters who braved the cold Wednesday in St. Paul and chanted in opposition of new President Donald Trump.

“It’s hard to know whether to cry or jump or scream, but it’s incredible and it’s just amazing to see all these people come ...Read more

 

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