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Deal or ‘meh’ deal? Climate summit ends on a deflating note

BELÉM, Brazil — Almost 200 countries gathered in Brazil acknowledged Saturday that their efforts to stop calamitous global warming were off pace — but geopolitical headwinds and fossil-fuel-produci...

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‘A world turned upside down’: MAGA faithful grapple with Trump’s Mamdani lovefest, MTG’s downfall

Donald Trump has long claimed that he — and he alone — dictates the future of the MAGA movement. And a topsy-turvey Friday will put that to the test.A weekend wellness check on the MAGA coalition: ...

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Manhattan US attorney gets first big test ahead of Epstein files drop

The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan is facing his first major test: how to handle a baldly political directive to investigate President Donald Trump’s foes in a case that has dogged his adminis...

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Rubio’s political future could hinge on Venezuela campaign

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hoping the Trump administration's pressure campaign against Venezuela breaks strongman Nicolás Maduro's will to stay in power.But if the effort goes sideways, it c...

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The analyst who once predicted the ‘end of capitalism’ sees Zohran Mamdani as a ‘day of reckoning coming in’—and corporates only have themselves to blame

Albert Edwards, the long-standing strategist at Société Générale known for offering the “alternative view” within the institution, believes the recent political successes of figures like Zohran Mam...

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The Shutdown Is Over, but Its Damage Is Not

The longest-ever government shutdown ended on November 12, but Deairra Tracey is still scared.The disabled mother of three from Perth Amboy, New Jersey, had to visit food banks and skip meals so th...

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The President Is Losing Control of Himself

Presidents often lose control over their agenda, or the policy process, or pieces of legislation. Sometimes, they even lose control of their party. But Donald Trump seems to have lost control over ...

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Trump, Mamdani make love — not war

A high-stakes White House meeting between President Donald Trump and mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani turned into a lovefest — with both men heaping populist praise on each other for pursuing ways to add...

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Haiti qualified for the World Cup. But the Trump administration says its fans aren’t welcome.

The Trump administration will not grant any special exceptions for Haitian soccer fans hoping to travel to the U.S. to follow their team at next year’s FIFA World Cup, according to the State Depart...

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Texas asks Supreme Court to reinstate congressional map that could give GOP 5 more seats

Texas officials are asking the Supreme Court for an urgent ruling to revive the state’s newly-drawn congressional map expected to net five additional Republican seats.The emergency appeal filed Fri...

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Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns from Congress after clash with Trump

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the MAGA loyalist who rose to prominence for her ardent support of President Donald Trump, announced she is resigning from Congress after her public feud with the presi...

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DOJ makes a new attempt to unseal Epstein grand jury records

The Justice Department renewed its effort Friday to publicly release grand jury records related to the criminal prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime ally and co-conspirator Ghislaine Ma...

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Trump and Mamdani’s Strange First Meeting

Today’s White House meeting between New York’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, and President Donald Trump suggests that maybe, just maybe, the U.S. government won’t go to war with its largest city. Th...

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The White House has asked for the resignation of a top aide to FDA chief

The White House on Thursday emailed HHS leadership asking for the resignation of a top aide to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary whom he had sought to promote, according to two administration officials...

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‘The Ukrainians will have to accept’: Why Trump officials think now is their best chance for a deal

The Trump administration believes the moment to pressure Ukraine into a peace agreement is at hand, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy particularly weak at home and plagued by a corruption scandal ...

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What’s in the Epstein files? And when will you see them?

Get ready to read the Epstein files.President Donald Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law this week, starting the 30-day clock for the administration to publicly release informa...

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New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor

Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey is floating the possibility that the state withholds federal tax dollars in protest of the Trump administration.The comments from Sherrill — made on comedian...

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Death in the Time of Trump

Here’s yet another indication that Washington has been turned upside down in recent years: I saw Rachel Maddow at Dick Cheney’s funeral and didn’t give it a second thought. She was sitting with Ant...

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The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming

Janos Pasztor was conflicted. Sitting in his home office in a village just outside Geneva, he stared into the screen of his computer, where a bizarre Zoom call was taking place. It was Jan. 31, 202...

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Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind

On a Thursday afternoon in early June, 12 staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency packed up their clothes and bedding from the sixth-floor of the Government Services Administration he...

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Are Sports the Most Valuable Commodity in the World?

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Are sports the most valuable commodity in the world? On this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel is joined by Pablo Torre for an examination...

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