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Republicans need Susan Collins to win reelection. Trump keeps going after her.

Donald Trump said Thursday a Republican senator who is crucial to the party’s chances of keeping the Senate this year should “never be elected to office again.” Susan Collins has seen it before.Tru...

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How ICE Lost Its Guardrails

If the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties was still functioning as it did before Donald Trump returned to the presidency, Julie Plavsic and her former col...

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Behind Trump’s diatribe against defense contractors

Donald Trump's broadside against the defense industry might sound like a populist cry targeting wealthy CEOs.But the president's tirade was actually building for months, according to industry execu...

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Colombia’s Petro to visit White House in February

President Donald Trump will host Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the White House in early February, he announced Friday on Truth Social, marking an abrupt detente in the relationship between t...

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With Greenland push, Trump once again thinks he's got the cards

When NATO members agreed last summer to increase defense spending, they lavished praise on Donald Trump for forcing the issue, believing that flattery would go a long way to keeping the president c...

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Venezuela is ‘uninvestible’ for now, Exxon CEO tells Trump in White House meeting

The head of U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil on Friday told President Donald Trump that Venezuela is “uninvestible” under current conditions, saying major changes were needed before his company would ret...

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Mamdani, a day later, weighs in after NYPD shoots two

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani remarked for the first time Friday on a pair of shootings at the hands of NYPD officers — nearly 12 hours after the dramatic incidents unfolded.At around 11 p.m. Thu...

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To Emulate Zohran, Rebuild Left Institutions

Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York has inspired the Left far beyond the city. But in Canada, as elsewhere, trying to replicate his style without rebuilding the institutions and political cadre that m...

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Oregon to investigate CBP shooting in Portland amid turmoil over immigration crackdown

Oregon authorities are launching a probe into the Thursday shooting of two people in Portland by Customs and Border Patrol agents, state Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced in a post on X in th...

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DAVID MARCUS: How Trump's team of former rivals is saving America

Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are the central and most popular members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet...

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With Maduro gone and Venezuela’s oil cut off, Cuba is isolated and vulnerable

Raúl Castro (left) and Nicolás Maduro during a 2014 summit on Ebola in Havana. Cubadebate / Flickr, CC BY “And when he woke up, the oil was still there…” The Dinosaur is a one-sentence story,...

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Trump’s Venezuela strike hands GOP a midterms messaging test

President Donald Trump’s allies are gung ho on the administration’s Venezuela operation despite criticism from some in their own party, but they acknowledge that the White House’s latest foreign po...

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We Learned Something Fascinating About Trump’s Foreign Policy This Week

The U.S. attack on Venezuela was a shocking moment that reminded the world of a key fact about Trump 2.0: The administration’s foreign policy bears little resemblance to that of President Donald Tr...

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Bruce Blakeman’s campaign hits turbulence from the right

ALBANY, New York — The Empire State’s conservative base is up in arms with Republican Bruce Blakeman’s campaign for governor, troubled by his self-described “pro-choice” abortion stance and skeptic...

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Trump and the Dangers of Spheres of Influence

The military raid ordered by President Donald Trump to capture and extract Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro represents the starkest expression yet of his administration’s intent to re...

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‘The housing crisis isn’t inevitable’: NYC planning chief Dan Garodnick reflects on four tumultuous, eventful years

NEW YORK — Dan Garodnick is leaving city government after four years heading the Department of City Planning, a stretch that saw sweeping reforms to modernize land use rules in wide swaths of the c...

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Erika Kirk and Marjorie Taylor Greene are playing with the same archetype

Erika Kirk speaks during the memorial service for her husband, political activist Charlie Kirk, at State Farm Stadium on September 21, 2025, in Glendale, Arizona. As President Donald ...

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10 Friday AM Reads

My end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • Even Permabears Have Portfolios. Where Jeremy Grantham Sees Value Now. The veteran investor and co-founder of GMO likes quality stocks, international valu...

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Trump claims he canceled 2nd wave of strikes against Venezuela

President Donald Trump said early Friday morning that he canceled a planned second strike on Venezuela, praising the South American country’s new government for its prisoner releases and collaborat...

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Donald Trump can’t count on Congress to have his back any more

A cadre of congressional Republicans dealt President Donald Trump significant defeats Thursday — a series of rebukes that demonstrate how his iron grip on Capitol Hill has weakened at the start of ...

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For Gavin Newsom, selling California may be harder than selling himself

Gavin Newsom’s presidential hopes may hinge not only on how he sells his own image, but, as he implicitly made clear on Thursday, whether he can remake his home state’s as well. The latter may be t...

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