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Carney claims win on NATO defense spending, but Canada still ranks last

Prime Minister Mark Carney took a victory lap Thursday after Canada finally hit NATO’s 2 percent defense spending target, even as new alliance figures show Ottawa at the bottom of the pack.Defense ...

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Fourth Labor Department staffer leaves amid investigation of Chavez-DeRemer

A Labor Department staffer said she was abruptly fired by the Trump administration this week after meeting with the in-house watchdog investigating Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.Melissa Robey...

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Elon Musk Should Let Nikita Bier Fix Revenue Sharing on X

Nikita Bier is head of product at X. He has always struck me as a reasonable person looking for ways to improve the user experience on the p...

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After a year of Trump’s Washington, private sector prepares for some Democratic power

The private sector and their army of lobbyists are preparing for Democrats to seize some control away from President Donald Trump next year.Major industries, such as technology and pharmaceuticals,...

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Critics Have a New Way to Describe the Trump Administration

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Top Trump Official Asks What the Big Deal Is if ICE Goes to the Polls

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche advocated for sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to polling places, in the clearest proof yet that the Trump administration plans to use the ove...

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Fed, DOJ clash over Powell probe — as government says it has no evidence of misconduct

The Federal Reserve is formally opposing the Justice Department’s effort to reinstate its subpoenas to the central bank, amid revelations that the government itself acknowledged it has no evidence ...

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Far from Hormuz, a second Middle East strait enters the crosshairs

It’s not just Hormuz. There’s a second strait in the Middle East vital to global energy markets that Iran is threatening to close if President Donald Trump fails to wind down the Iran war.The world...

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Trump-backed Utah redistricting repeal fails to make ballot

A Republican-led initiative to repeal an anti-gerrymandering law in Utah will fail to make November’s ballot, despite garnering support from President Donald Trump, Turning Point Action and a host ...

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Social media trials usher in Big Tech's latest moment of reckoning

Social media giants spent more than a decade assuring lawmakers, regulators, judges and the public that their platforms are safe for kids, despite years of accusations that the tech platforms knowi...

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Trump reveals Iran’s ‘present’: 10 oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz

President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed, for the first time, why he has faith that Iran is willing to negotiate a peace deal, even as missiles continue to fly across the region.Iran, he said, a...

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Judge pushes Trump admin to let Venezuela pay for Maduro’s legal fees

NEW YORK — The judge overseeing the criminal prosecution of Nicolás Maduro on Thursday suggested the government of Venezuela should be allowed to pay the deposed leader’s legal fees despite U.S. sa...

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More budget pain is in store for Mamdani

NEW YORK — As a candidate and then as mayor, Zohran Mamdani has portrayed himself as a much-needed salve for New York City’s working class. Now, that stance threatens to cost him at a time when the...

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‘Freaked people out’: Iran war could crimp Gulf allies’ US investments

President Donald Trump is counting on money from the Gulf Arab States to power his economic golden age. But as the war with Iran nears its fifth week and the regional economy enters a free fall, hu...

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MORNING GLORY: There’s a war going on in the Middle East. Have you heard?

The United States has allies in this battle with Iran, though you’d be hard-pressed to prove it from coverage in mainstream media. Israel has lost 18 of its citizens, our Gulf allies at least 20. A...

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America's $39 trillion debt bomb could be more painful than you think

The United States just crossed a staggering milestone: $39 trillion in national debt.Let that sink in. That’s not a typo. That’s not a projection. That’s the real number. And here’s the headline. M...

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‘If The United States Wants To Retire ... Others Will Have To Take Over’

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former secretary-general of NATO, has a soft spot for America.“Since childhood, I have admired the U.S.,” he told me recently on a video call.Yet when we spoke, Rasmussen...

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The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is evident in anti-immigration efforts today

The idea of overpopulation has been used to argue against immigration. Pandagolik/iStock/Getty Images PlusPaul Ehrlich opened his 1968 book “The Population Bomb” with a scene recounting returning t...

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Newsom: Social media verdict should be ‘moment of reckoning’ for Big Tech

SACRAMENTO, California — Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that jurors’ ruling against Meta and YouTube in a landmark Los Angeles social media addiction trial is a “moment of reckoning” for California’s ...

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‘I just want to go home’: Despair settles over the Capitol as DHS deal hopes evaporate

Finger-pointing, profanity, even “poppycock.”An overwhelming sense of frustration and despair has overtaken Congress as lawmakers try to clinch a deal to end a nearly six-week shutdown of the Depar...

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Democrats hope GOP health care cuts will put Alaska, and the Senate, in play

If Democrats retake the Senate in this year’s elections, Alaska’s high health care costs could be the reason.Democrats face a tough map as they look to win the four seats they need to claim the maj...

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