Politics

Zelenskyy says Ukraine won’t cede territory to Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday his country will not make territorial concessions to Russia as the Trump administration looks to broker a peace deal between the two countries.Ze...

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HUD temporarily pauses homelessness funding overhaul just ahead of court hearing

The Department of Housing and Urban Development on Monday temporarily revoked a controversial policy change that would significantly cut permanent housing funding for people experiencing homelessne...

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US to allow powerful AI chip sales to China, Trump says

President Donald Trump said Monday that he authorized Nvidia to sell its powerful H200 artificial-intelligence chip in China in exchange for taking 25 percent of the revenue — a major win for the U...

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Inside the Warner Bros. lobbying bonanza

Lobbying armies are being amassed in real time as the media giants vying to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery — Netflix and Paramount Skydance — game out the Washington landscape in pursuit of their ...

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Why Senate Republicans aren't uniting behind a health care plan

Senate Republicans have no shortage of health care plans. The challenge is getting all 53 of them to rally behind one.Three days before a high-profile vote on a Democratic proposal to extend expiri...

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Trump threatens to raise tariffs on Mexico over Rio Grande water deliveries

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to impose a 5 percent tariff on Mexico, accusing the country of violating a decades-old treaty that grants U.S. farmers access to water from the Rio Gran...

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Newsom’s favorability rating surges in California

One year after Donald Trump’s return to the White House demoralized California Democrats, Gavin Newsom and allies are riding anti-Trump sentiment to a polling rebound.A new survey from the Public P...

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Could the Stock Market Crash From Trump’s Deregulation? An SEC Official Is Worried.

Wall Street is undergoing a deregulatory renaissance courtesy of President Donald Trump. And for Caroline Crenshaw, a commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission, it all feels a little t...

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Trump thrashes European leaders in wide-ranging interview: ‘I think they’re weak’

President Donald Trump denounced Europe as a “decaying” group of nations led by “weak” people in an interview with POLITICO, belittling the traditional U.S. allies for failing to control migration...

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Full transcript: POLITICO's interview with President Donald Trump

This is a full, unedited transcript of POLITICO’s interview with President Donald Trump conducted at the White House on Dec. 8. Dasha Burns: Mr. President, thank you so much for joining the conver...

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The Most Influential Man in Europe Thinks Europe is Full of Losers

Let’s deal with one matter right up top. For the past decade we've asked POLITICO’s top European journalists and influentials to make an end-of-year judgment about who they regard as the continent’...

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Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban

Rahm Emanuel, who is mulling a presidential run, is pushing for the United States to follow Australia's lead in banning children under 16 from most social media. Alarmed by the addictive nature of ...

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Bring Back the Neocons

What comes after Donald Trump? What compelling social vision can replace MAGA’s offerings and reverse the tide of global populism? In considering these questions, I find myself returning to an unli...

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7 takeaways from POLITICO’s interview with President Trump

President Donald Trump is closing out his first year in office, feeling bullish about how he has reshaped the economy and the world even as allies abroad and supporters at home raise increasing con...

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YIMBY group threatens suit over Newsom's duplex ban in LA wildfire recovery

Gov. Gavin Newsom quelled a rebellion among Pacific Palisades homeowners over the summer when he blocked the building of duplexes in the wildfire-scarred community.Now, he’s facing the squeeze from...

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GOP takes aim at campaign finance limits in big Supreme Court test

Republicans are hoping to secure another landmark Supreme Court win undoing campaign finance limits.The court will hear a case Tuesday that could upend how campaigns and party-affiliated groups coo...

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‘Dishonors the decades-long bipartisan commitment’: Democrats slam Trump for his European takedown

President Donald Trump’s comments expressing skepticism about the leadership of Ukraine and its European allies aren’t sitting well with top Democrats, who on Tuesday ripped the president for his h...

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Judge OKs public release of Ghislaine Maxwell documents

NEW YORK — A federal judge on Tuesday granted the Justice Department’s request to publicly unseal grand jury material from the Ghislaine Maxwell case, but ordered the Manhattan U.S. attorney to per...

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Brad Lander set to challenge Rep. Dan Goldman from the left

NEW YORK — Brooklyn progressive Brad Lander is planning to launch his bid for Congress as soon as Wednesday, challenging Rep. Dan Goldman from the political left in a district that went big for Zoh...

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San Francisco supervisors push to keep ICE off city turf

SAN FRANCISCO — A city supervisor will unveil legislation today that would prohibit the Trump administration from commandeering San Francisco property to stage federal immigration raids — the first...

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Bill Cassidy is ready to cut a deal on Obamacare

Sen. Bill Cassidy said he is open to a compromise with Democrats to temporarily extend the enhanced Obamacare subsidies – especially if it includes elements of his own plan – until conservative re...

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