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Trump’s Attack on Israel’s President Touches a Nerve

President Trump called Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, “disgraceful” for not pardoning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pressing the point to reporters at the White House and saying, “The people of Israel should really shame him.” The blunt intervention into Israeli domestic affairs and its insulting tone provoked a rare open

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Europe Today Looks Different From the One Trump’s Team Describes

There is an Afghan grocery store on the blocks outside the main train station in Munich. Halal food counters are sprinkled amid the cathedral spires and beer halls. Nearly one of every three residents you meet in town is not German. It’s a decent approximation of what many European

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Gail Slater Leaves as Justice Dept. Antitrust Chief

Gail Slater said on Thursday she was leaving the Justice Department’s top antitrust post, departing after roughly a year in the job. In a post on X she wrote she was leaving with “great sadness and abiding hope,” and added, “It was indeed the honor of a lifetime to

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Crypto super PAC targets Texas Democrat Al Green

A crypto-backed super PAC plans to spend $1.5 million against Representative Al Green of Texas in next month’s Democratic primary. Green, an 11-term member whose Houston-area district was upended by redistricting, sits on the House Financial Services Committee and is running against Representative Christian Menefee, who won a

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Ohio State Professor Placed on Leave After Altercation With Filmmaker

Ohio State University has put an assistant professor on administrative leave after the faculty member physically clashed with a documentarian who tried to ask follow-up questions of former university president E. Gordon Gee. The professor, Luke M. Perez, is part of the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and

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Trump nominee for top diplomatic post faces scrutiny over ‘white supremacist’ views

Donald Trump’s nominee Jeremy Carl will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday for the post of assistant secretary of state for international organisations, a role that manages relations with the United Nations and its agencies. Carl, from Montana, served as deputy assistant secretary of the interior

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Vitalik Buterin Proposes Crypto-Driven Political Reform for Russia-Ukraine War

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin condemned Russia’s invasion as "criminal aggression" and suggested applying crypto-inspired governance principles to reshape the country’s politics. His remarks, published ahead of the fourth anniversary of the invasion on February 24, 2026, linked blockchain concepts to the long-term security of Europe and

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Anthropic Invests $20 Million in Super PAC to Counter OpenAI

Anthropic said on Thursday it is putting $20 million into a new super PAC operation that will oppose super PACs backed by OpenAI’s leaders and investors. The donation kicks off a new conflict between the rivals with this year’s midterm elections as the battleground, centered on whether to

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Giant Super PACs Clash Over A.I. Safety

Big A.I. companies have long said they welcome regulation, but a new fight in Washington suggests their public positions are now aligning with partisan muscle. Anthropic announced it would put $20 million into Public First Action, a super PAC set to push for tighter A.I. safety rules and

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Mia Mottley wins third term as BLP takes all seats

Mia Mottley has won a third election victory as the Barbados Labour Party swept all 30 seats in the House of Assembly, unseating opposition leader Ralph Thorne and winning support across the island. “Our mission first and foremost is to stop poor people from being poor and to remove injustice

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Former U.S. envoys and commanders say NATO is vital to American security

Eight former American ambassadors to NATO and eight former American supreme commanders in Europe issued a joint letter calling the alliance “the cornerstone of United States national security” and “vital” to preserving American global interests. The bipartisan group, who served under every president from 1997 until last year, argued that

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States Decouple from Trump Tax Cuts, Drawing GOP Backlash

State income taxes often reflect federal policies, but several jurisdictions have moved to keep the latest Republican changes out of their codes. Even before Congress passed a broad tax cut last July, Colorado excluded a new deduction for overtime pay from its income tax; Delaware barred new federal business breaks;

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Immigration Officials to Testify Before Senate Homeland Security Panel

The heads of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are set to appear before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Thursday. The hearing comes two days after the officials repeatedly declined to answer questions from House members about the fatal shootings

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Trump and the Death of Shared Morality in America

David Brooks, ending a 22-year run as a New York Times columnist, joined Robert Siegel and E.J. Dionne Jr. for a final conversation about President Trump’s recent disruptions and Brooks’s own parting reflections. Dionne warned that Trump is attempting to reshape fundamental American institutions, pointing to actions

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Father of activist Anna Kwok convicted under Hong Kong national security law

A Hong Kong court found Kwok Yin-sang, 68, guilty under Article 23 for attempting to deal with funds or other financial assets belonging to an absconder after trying to end his daughter’s education savings insurance and withdraw HK$88,609. He is the first person charged under the homegrown

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You call it a shitshow — I say it's unforgivable

It was the day after the night before: on Monday Keir Starmer looked as if he was on his last political legs, Anas Sarwar called for his resignation at lunchtime, and by evening the troops had rallied and the prime minister had survived until the Gorton and Denton byelection. On

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Modi Faces Blowback Over Trade Deal With Trump to Lower Tariffs

President Trump’s social media post ending the extraordinary 50 percent tariff on most Indian goods drew a public thank-you from Prime Minister Narendra Modi: “Big thanks to President Trump on behalf of the 1.4 billion people of India for this wonderful announcement.” The deal trimmed the main tariff

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Iran Marks Revolution Amid U.S. Warships and Domestic Crackdown

Iran’s government marked the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution with mass rallies across the country, staging a show of defiance as precarious nuclear negotiations with Washington risked sparking another regional war. The commemorations unfolded under the shadow of a fleet of warships sent by President Trump to Persian

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What We Know About the El Paso Airspace Shutdown

At 11:30 p.m. local time the Federal Aviation Administration halted all flights to and from El Paso International Airport for 10 days, citing “special security reasons.” The restriction covered a 10-mile area around El Paso and the neighboring community of Santa Teresa, N.M., but did not apply

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Congress defies Trump on tariffs amid his ongoing spat with Canada

The House voted 219 to 211 to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, passing a resolution from Rep. Gregory Meeks to rescind levies imposed under a national-emergency declaration. Six Republicans joined Democrats in the rebuke; one Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, opposed the measure. The resolution now

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Four States Sue Over Cuts to Public Health Funding

Four states led by Democrats sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, seeking to block deep cuts in federal public health funds that had already been allocated. The Department of Health and Human Services told Congress it planned to pull back roughly $600 million allocated to California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota.

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US House backs bid to block Canada tariffs in rebuke of Trump

The US House on Wednesday voted 219 to 211 to rescind tariffs that Donald Trump imposed on Canada last year, a rare bipartisan rebuke of the White House’s trade policy. Six Republicans — Don Bacon, Thomas Massie, Brian Fitzpatrick, Kevin Kiley, Dan Newhouse and Jeff Hurd — joined all Democrats except

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U.K. Police Weigh Formal Investigation of Andrew Over Epstein Files

Thames Valley Police said they had spoken with the Crown Prosecution Service as they consider whether to open a formal investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor over allegations he shared confidential information with Jeffrey Epstein while serving as a British trade envoy. Assistant Chief Constable Oliver Wright said the discussions form part

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Trump Orders Pentagon to Buy Electricity From Coal Plants

President Trump signed an executive order directing the Defense Department to increase purchases of electricity from coal-burning power plants and instructed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to enter into long-term contracts to power military installations. “We’re going to be buying a lot of coal through the military now,” Mr. Trump

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States weigh bills to allow plug-in solar systems

Legislators in 24 states are considering bills to allow small plug-in solar systems that connect directly into a wall socket. Utah became the first state after a unanimous vote last year; these systems retail for about $2,000 and produce enough electricity to power a laptop or a small refrigerator.