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Chicago Transit Authority sues to restore billions in federal funding

The Chicago Transit Authority sued the Trump administration on Friday to claw back billions in federal funding that the White House froze amid a lengthy federal shutdown last year.Blasting the Whit...

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Trump Wants to ‘Take Cuba.’ That Won’t Be Easy

Cuba is on fire as protesters torch alpine heaps of garbage whilepots and pans rattle in Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Matanzas and smaller municipalities from the east coast to the western tip of the ...

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Trump threatens to send ICE to airports amid DHS standoff

President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to send federal immigration agents to airports across the country on Monday if Democrats don’t agree to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdow...

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Why Democrats are betting big on a buck hunter

DES MOINES — Rob Sand got a hero’s welcome at a state deer hunting expo at the Iowa Events Center on a recent March weekend.The state’s lone Democratic statewide elected official, and Democrats’ ho...

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Robert Mueller, former FBI director who led Trump investigation, dies at 81

Robert Mueller, the special counsel whose investigation of President Donald Trump kept America transfixed for two years, died Friday night, according to a family statement provided to the Associate...

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'This is about attention': Mike Lee's MAGA crusade is driving his colleagues crazy

Among online activists and in some corners of the Republican Party, Mike Lee is being heralded as a MAGA champion willing to pressure his own party to embrace hardball tactics or risk political sui...

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You can bet on climate disasters. Business is booming.

Will Iran's main oil terminal get bombed this month? Will climate activist Greta Thunberg be arrested before July? Will the U.S. get pummeled by a Category 5 hurricane this year?You can place bets ...

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US pauses sanctions on some of Iran’s oil as gas prices surge

Sanctions on some Iranian oil will be temporarily lifted to allow the sale of shipments already in transit, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Friday.The partial pause on sanctions is inten...

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Opinion | My Time with Jürgen Habermas, Europe's 'Last Intellectual'

My first meeting with Jürgen Habermas, who died last week at the age of 96, was inauspicious.It was the summer of 1992, and I had just arrived in Frankfurt am Main after three, somewhat plodding, y...

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Confrontation between billionaire CEO and Lutnick hints at trouble with huge data center project

A confrontation between a Dallas billionaire and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at a Silicon Valley conference has exposed simmering tensions over an effort to secure financing for a sprawling c...

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Federal judge reverses Pentagon press restrictions

The Trump administration violated the Constitution when it sought to restrict press access to the Pentagon and limit what reporters could cover, a federal judge ruled Friday.U.S. District Judge Pau...

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Hochul proposes weakening New York’s climate law

ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul is backing measures that would weaken the strict deadlines for implementing New York’s landmark climate law and make the targets easier to meet.Hochul has forma...

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‘Hormuz has to reopen’: Why the oil industry can’t help Trump tame rising gasoline prices

President Donald Trump promised to “drill, baby, drill,” but as the war in Iran stretches into its fourth week, he's having a difficult time persuading U.S. oil and gas producers to expand producti...

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An Unlikely Recipient for the Twain Prize

You could measure the on-and-off feud between President Trump and the comedian Bill Maher in weeks, years, or decades. Last month, Trump called Maher a “highly overrated LIGHTWEIGHT” in a lengthy T...

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Federal prosecutors subpoenaed records related to former NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson and his top aide

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors sent a grand jury subpoena to the New York City Council last summer seeking records associated with former Council Speaker Corey Johnson — a request the Manhattan U.S...

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Meet the Kurdish guerillas hoping America will support them blazing a path to Tehran

ZAGROS MOUNTAINS, Iraq — About 5 kilometers from Iran, aircraft roar overhead. Are the planes American, Israeli, Iranian? The Kurdish fighter shrugged and urged haste. The final stretch to his mili...

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The states where higher gas prices could shape the midterms

President Donald Trump stood in front of Congress less than a month ago and boasted about low gas prices. Now he’s presiding over a 30 percent price spike that’s put his party on the defensive.Gaso...

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How biotech giant Bayer landed a win that made MAHA furious

Bayer executives had warned for years that the company was on the brink of pulling its weedkiller Roundup from the U.S. market.But when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in May released the fi...

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Pete Buttigieg’s 2026 project

MIDLAND, Michigan — Pete Buttigieg is known for going everywhere to get his message out in the media. In 2026, he’s taking that strategy offline, too, traveling virtually everywhere.A source close ...

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Why the Senate Is Debating a Doomed Elections Bill

The United States has launched a war in Iran. Soaring gas prices are pounding an economy that many Americans already considered unaffordable. And the federal department responsible for protecting t...

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Democrats Are Exorcising the Ghost of Iraq

The speech that arguably won Barack Obama the presidency was delivered six years before he ran for the White House and four years before he reached Congress. In October 2002, Obama, then a state se...

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