Politics

Netflix’s Chief Opens Up About Trump, YouTube and Europe

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos arrives in Brussels on Tuesday with a clear message for EU regulators ahead of a looming review of Europe’s streaming rules: Don’t overcomplicate them. In an exclusive i...

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AIPAC faces its biggest test this year in Illinois

CHICAGO — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is making a nearly $22 million bet in Illinois that its money, if not its policy views, can still hold sway in Democratic politics.In three of...

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‘They hold the cards now’: Trump allies fear Iran is slipping beyond the president’s control

When the U.S. started firing Tomahawk missiles at Iran late last month, many of President Donald Trump’s allies hoped it would be a quick, surgical operation, similar to last year’s strike against ...

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5 things to watch in Tuesday's Illinois primaries

The Illinois primaries have seen gobs of spending, both in the highly-watched Senate race and further down the ballot in competitive open House seats.Groups affiliated with the American Israel Publ...

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The Decay of American Journalism in a Disinformation Age

As a historian, I often have the opportunity to teach classes that speak to my research interests. I teach variety of courses on U.S. political history and immigration studies—a subject in li...

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The ‘Big Black Scar’

Photographs by Philip CheungAt Coronado National Memorial in Arizona, the demolition crews blowing up national-park land tend to announce explosions at least a day in advance, as a warning for hike...

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Trump’s top counterterrorism aide resigns, citing Iran war

Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced Tuesday he was resigning over the war in Iran — a stunning defection that shows how President Donald Trump’s decision to st...

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Brendan Carr’s ‘equal time’ curveball crashes the midterms

The midterm elections that could upend the final years of Donald Trump’s presidency face a new complication — his Federal Communications Commission chair.Brendan Carr’s attempt to resurrect enforce...

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BBC asks judge to toss Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit

The British Broadcasting Corp. is urging a federal judge to throw out a libel lawsuit Donald Trump filed last year accusing the network of airing a documentary that distorted his remarks on Jan. 6,...

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Wiles announces cancer diagnosis, plans to stay in job

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has early stage breast cancer, President Donald Trump announced on Monday afternoon.Wiles, 68, a longstanding fixture of Trump’s orbit, has been his chief of ...

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Jesse Jackson’s family withdraws posthumous endorsement in Illinois Senate primary

The family of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson walked back a posthumous endorsement of Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton’s Senate campaign on Monday, after the family said Jackson’s endorsements for Tu...

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Federal judge puts RFK Jr.’s new vaccine schedule, advisers on ice

A federal judge Monday granted public health groups’ request to stay Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s appointments to a federal advisory panel on vaccines while their challenge to vaccine p...

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Vance backs Trump on Iran — but defends past skepticism

Vice President JD Vance defended President Donald Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran on Monday, accusing the media of trying to drive a wedge between the president and vice president, a longti...

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How Chinese EVs could cruise into the American market

Americans will soon catch a glimpse of something North American politicians once tried to keep far away: cheap Chinese electric vehicles.As Canada begins importing the EVs, U.S. residents in border...

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'The guy’s a piece of s - - t': SBF’s pardon push falls flat in Congress

Cryptocurrency supporters in Washington have spent the last four years working to rinse the stench of Sam Bankman-Fried off of legislative efforts that could legitimize digital assets. Now, as the ...

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‘Few signs suggest that riders are coming back’

‘The death of Bay Area public transportation’The Washington Post editorial boardIt “looks like the Bay Area Rapid Transit system is headed for a financial death sp...

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What Happens Now to Kristi Noem’s Warehouse Jails?

By the time President Trump ousted Kristi Noem from the Department of Homeland Security earlier this month, her team had already embarked on a spending spree that included far more than the new lux...

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A president under siege lashes out at the checks on his power

President Donald Trump is increasingly at the mercy of forces he unleashed but can’t control — so he’s taking aim at the umpires.Gas prices surging. Unemployment climbing. War with Iran threatening...

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‘We’re going to have a problem’: Republicans want Trump to move on from 2020

President Donald Trump is bringing back 2020. Many Republicans wish he wouldn't.Conversations with nearly a dozen GOP state and county chairs and strategists reveal a party largely eager to move on...

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‘I think she will be loyal’: Jeffrey Epstein’s role in Peter Attia’s rise

NEW YORK — Years before celebrity doctor Peter Attia became known as a longevity influencer with millions of followers, he sought Jeffrey Epstein’s help getting a new medical practice off the groun...

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This New Jersey Republican isn’t afraid to push back against Trump. Is that enough?

When President Donald Trump threatened funding for the massive Gateway tunnel project between New York and New Jersey, vulnerable Republicans expressed their dissatisfaction — but largely stayed aw...

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