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How Trump tamed the '9th Circus': Legal challenges to White House are moving east

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More than 18,000 Californians have been born since President Donald Trump signed his executive order to end birthright citizenship last month — among them, about 9,000 children of immigrants.

Yet, when the American Civil Liberties Union sued to stop the Jan. 20 order, it didn't file in San Francisco, where its lawyers are based and where half...Read more

Trump says he will announce reciprocal tariffs next week

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President Donald Trump said he plans to unveil reciprocal tariffs next week in a major escalation of his trade war with U.S. economic partners.

Trump made the announcement during a meeting with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday but did not identify which countries would be hit.

The push for reciprocal tariffs has long ...Read more

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Trump's second Cabinet: Who's already been confirmed, nominations still pending

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President Donald Trump’s second-term Cabinet will look much different from the traditional slate of business executives and Bush-era officials who served in the last Republican administration.

Trump’s picks to head executive branch agencies reflect his populist approach to power, as nominees like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard have...Read more

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Editorial: Gaza is not ours to occupy

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President Donald Trump has proposed America occupy Gaza and forcefully resettle two million Palestinians in other nations. It is frequently a mystery how serious Trump is.

If he is serious, he ignores the long-term price the U.S. pays for inserting itself into other nations, especially those in decades-long conflicts. In Afghanistan, for ...Read more

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Editorial: Trump's Gaza nonsense -- Crazy scheme harms real steps for Mideast peace

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President Donald Trump’s fanciful plan for Gaza will not happen; still his wacky vision actually undermines legitimate efforts to improve relations in the Mideast, with Israel’s Arab partners like Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia looking for the exits.

Listening to everything that Trump spun Tuesday during three different public appearances, ...Read more

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Iran's Khamenei pours scorn on Trump's nuclear-deal overture

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said it wouldn’t be smart, wise or honorable to start fresh negotiations with the U.S. after President Donald Trump said he wanted a new nuclear deal.

“Negotiating with the U.S. won’t solve any of the country’s problems,” Khamenei said in a speech shown on Iranian state TV on Friday, ...Read more

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Trump reboots AI policy

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​WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is sending the country’s artificial intelligence policy back to the drawing board, scrapping Biden-era protections such as those against biased algorithms in a move that some say will let AI proliferate unchecked.

A Trump executive order from January calls for a new AI action plan “free from ...Read more

Why Americans need well-informed national security decisions – not politicized intelligence analysis

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The United States’ security depends on leaders who make well-informed decisions, including matters ranging from diplomatic relations around the world to economic relations, threats to the U.S., up to the deployment of military force. The nation’s intelligence community – 18 federal agencies, some military and others civilian – has the...Read more

Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional conflict

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Maps are ubiquitous – on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and name territories and boundaries, others show different voting blocs in elections, and GPS devices help drivers navigate to their destination.

But no matter the purpose, all maps have something in common: They ...Read more

Why does Trump want to abolish the Education Department? An anthropologist who studies MAGA explains 4 reasons

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“And one other thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education.”

President Donald Trump made this promise in a Sept. 13, 2023, campaign statement. Since then, he has frequently repeated his pledge to close the U.S. Department of Education.

Project 2025, the conservative ...Read more

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The MAHA movement in Congress: Who and what to watch

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WASHINGTON — In the span of one year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. closed out his independent presidential campaign, endorsed President Donald Trump and now faces a clear path to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

His trajectory to one of the most influential Cabinet positions in the Trump administration was buoyed in large part by ...Read more

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Donald Trump's cowboy diplomacy in the Western Hemisphere is succeeding, but has risks

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Donald Trump has a special affinity for William McKinley, the former American president who was struck down by an assassin’s bullet in 1901, ending his second term before it really began. Trump has called his distant predecessor a “great but highly underrated” chief executive who made the United States wealthy by slapping tariffs on ...Read more

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Trump is right to end federal diversity programs

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Recently, I had the chance to catch up with a friend from Los Angeles. She’s a political liberal and cast her vote for Kamala Harris last fall. As we talked, I discovered she shared common ground with the MAGA crowd: My friend was outraged by what she said “diversity, equity and inclusion” initiatives have done to the entertainment ...Read more

Is DOGE a cybersecurity threat? A security expert explains the dangers of violating protocols and regulations that protect government computer systems

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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), President Donald Trump’s special commission tasked with slashing federal spending, continues to disrupt Washington and the federal bureaucracy. According to published reports, its teams are dropping into federal agencies with a practically unlimited mandate to reform the federal government in ...Read more

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Judge in Seattle accuses Trump of trying to change the Constitution

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A federal judge in Seattle has once again blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to rescind birthright citizenship — the guarantee embedded in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution that every person born in the U.S. is an American citizen.

Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour was withering Thursday in his criticism of President ...Read more

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U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber reintroduces bill that would open copper nickel mining near Minnesota's Boundary Waters

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican control in Washington could open the way for copper nickel mining efforts near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

GOP Rep. Pete Stauber, who represents northeastern Minnesota, has again introduced a bill that would reinstate mineral leases in the Superior National Forest. With Republicans controlling the ...Read more

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Trump fires head of Federal Election Commission, but she won't leave

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WASHINGTON — The chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission posted a letter from President Donald Trump informing her that she’d been fired, but she’s refusing to leave.

“Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner & Chair,” Ellen Weintraub, a frequent critic of Trump, wrote on the social media ...Read more

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Democrats, seeking answers on cuts, turned away at EPA

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WASHINGTON — Democratic members of Congress on Thursday unsuccessfully tried to meet with EPA officials over frozen funds and proposed cuts, warning that Elon Musk’s promised reductions could undermine the agency’s ability to safeguard the nation’s air and water.

The group, which included Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass, and Reps. Paul ...Read more

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Democrats push back against data-grab by 'unelected puppet master' Elon Musk

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Democratic congressional leaders Thursday unveiled a bill aimed at pushing back against what they called improper snooping by aides to billionaire Elon Musk, who’s been enlisted by President Donald Trump to slash the federal budget.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the new Taxpayer Data Protection Act would bar Musk’s team at the ...Read more

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Todd and Julie Chrisley will ask Trump to pardon them, family attorney says

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ATLANTA — Former reality television stars and Atlanta multimillionaires Todd and Julie Chrisley will ask President Donald Trump for a pardon to end their time in federal prison, their attorney says. Jay Surgent, part of the couple’s defense team, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that their petition for a pardon will be filed “without ...Read more

 

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